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Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals in California
Pre-screened and vetted in California.
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Sarie Lovell
Executive Asset Management & Operating Partner specializing in energy and infrastructure
Chenhao Zhu
Mid-level AI Solutions Architect & Product Leader specializing in enterprise GenAI systems
John Craig
Executive GTM & Customer Success leader specializing in AI, robotics, and enterprise SaaS
Ali Rezafard
Director of Engineering specializing in cybersecurity SaaS platforms and cloud-scale backend systems
“Director of Engineering at Proofpoint for 8 years, leading architecture and integration of Java microservices within a detection platform. Demonstrates pragmatic delivery leadership—incurring short-term cost to meet launch deadlines, then systematically paying down technical debt and optimizing AWS spend—plus a disciplined, long-horizon approach to backward-compatible API/schema evolution across many dependent services.”
Dimple Joseph
Director of Engineering specializing in cloud-native SaaS, e-commerce search, and AI personalization
“Engineering leader (12+ years Director, 17 years lead) focused on developer productivity and platform/framework work across Oracle, PlayStation, Workday, and CafePress. Notable for building distributed teams from scratch and delivering high-impact platform architecture—e.g., re-architected PlayStation’s upload pipeline to support 500GB–5TB submissions using browser-to-AWS chunked uploads with SNS/SQS and deduplication/resume support.”
Frank Goodman
Executive Engineering & Product Leader specializing in Cloud/SaaS observability and security
“Product/technology leader with deep security and cloud infrastructure expertise who drove a major shift from hardware-based networking/security appliances to cloud-native capabilities, growing cloud revenue from $0 to $400M in 4.5 years. Led an innovative eBPF-based approach (“precryption”) to enable lightweight cloud TLS interception/decryption, and has hands-on coding interest (recent Rust work on a personal cybersecurity identity/trust platform).”
Bhavik Vasha
Director of Global Operations specializing in manufacturing, supply chain, and digital transformation
“Led an end-to-end regional sourcing strategy at AMAT for consumables and high-value critical parts, including risk/mitigation planning, cross-functional execution, and executive-level reporting. Successfully influenced internal business unit leaders to shift procurement away from captive suppliers by validating and improving regional supplier capability and reliability, while building a repeatable playbook for the team.”
Shady Ashkar
Executive Technology & Engineering Leader specializing in SaaS, FinTech and HealthTech
“Engineering leader (Octane) who drove business-aligned technology roadmaps and scaled a fully distributed engineering org from 35 to 150 in 9 months using a rigorous ownership model (OARP). Led a greenfield architecture for a new vertical (AWS Lambda/ECS, Python/JS/React) that delivered an MVP in 3 months while cutting per-service cloud OPEX from ~$300+ to ~$20/month, with 15+ years of remote-first leadership experience.”
Kalyan Kakati
Director of Engineering specializing in capital markets risk, trading systems, and AI/ML platforms
Gautam Priya
Executive Technology Leader (CTO/Principal Engineer) specializing in cloud-native platforms and AI
Jonathan Lee
Executive Business Operations & Strategy Leader in AI SaaS, Commerce, and Corporate Development
Carl Martin
Executive Product Development & Operations leader in life sciences and diagnostics
pierre Laurent
Executive business and technology leader specializing in growth strategy and digital transformation
pardha akalamkam
Executive Software Engineering Leader specializing in digital transformation and omnichannel commerce
Jake Jakubowski
Director of Operations & Engineering specializing in advanced manufacturing and EV production
Daniel Benyamin
Executive AI & Data Product Leader specializing in Generative AI video and AdTech
Roger Obando
Executive Technology Leader (CTO/Fractional CTO) specializing in SaaS, cloud architecture, and startups
Mahsa Shateri
Director of Enterprise Analytics specializing in AI/ML for healthcare and insurance
Joey Mclachlan
Executive Operations Leader specializing in mobility, logistics, and tech scale-ups
Chris Morell
Executive Marketing Leader (Fractional CMO) specializing in growth, paid media, and brand
Nischal Belthan
Executive Product & Technical Services Leader specializing in AI, Crypto, and FinTech
Jonathan Hwang
Executive Engineering Leader (CTO/VP) specializing in platform scaling and video streaming
Woody Kassin
Executive operator and finance leader specializing in growth, M&A, and capital raising
“Operations/finance leader who built the internal infrastructure for a personal care company to sell into 35,000 retail stores, spanning contract manufacturing, warehousing/3PL, banking credit facilities, HR policies, marketing ops, and accounting systems (Great Plains, QuickBooks Online). Currently supports a music/entertainment organization, mentoring non-business creatives on business and finance while driving profitability and growth.”