Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals in California

“VP of New Product Development at Axiom Cloud who built and scaled a "Virtual Battery" product that used supermarket frozen inventory as thermal energy storage—personally prototyped core control/safety logic in Python and led the engineering buildout through deployment and operations. Combines real-world industrial controls and edge deployment experience (LonWorks/Modbus, Docker/CI/CD) with an MS in CS focused on robotics, perception, and ML, including ROS 2 and YOLO-based perception.”

“Operations leader with Amazon experience owning a founder-level initiative during national supply chain Regionalization, building and scaling a "Stack-to-Light" operating mechanism to standardize non-sortable FC execution with instrumentation and balanced-scorecard metrics. Later joined Revivn to stabilize an underperforming operation by developing frontline leaders and aligning ops with finance and GTM through clear KPIs and operating cadence.”

“Two-decade CEO/EVP Product operator with multiple founder-level and public-company turnarounds, known for implementing an AOP-driven execution cadence and rigorous decision documentation. Delivered outsized outcomes including 5x trade show performance gains, major reliability improvements (DOA down to ~1–2%), and an 18-month transformation of a shrinking product into the company’s highest-growth/highest-margin line that remained an industry leader for a decade.”

“Entrepreneur building an early-stage community food-sharing, network-effects platform positioned as an alternative to restaurant-centric delivery models (e.g., DoorDash/Uber Eats) by enabling homeowners to act as micro-entrepreneurs. Has been piloting a local community program for nearly a year and uses experiments and customer feedback to validate hypotheses and assess scalability.”

“Growth and brand marketing leader across web3/creator economy products, including film.io (decentralized filmmaking) and the 2021 launch of the DC Comics Digital Collectible Marketplace. Known for data-driven audience segmentation and integrated multi-channel campaigns (email, Twitter/X, influencers, events) that delivered outsized earned media and large-scale user onboarding, with rigorous cohort-based revenue tracking.”

“VP-level fashion merchandising leader (Men's at Fashion Nova; also experience at "Protein One") with deep expertise in fabric-led assortment strategy, OTB/line planning, and factory cost engineering. Demonstrated outsized impact on margin, lead times, and retention (e.g., +600 bps GM, lead time 120->35 days, retention +22%) and has executed celebrity collaborations with structured royalties and co-sponsored marketing activations.”

“Operations/people-ops leader focused on early-stage, growth, and turnaround environments, with hands-on experience implementing UKG (HRIS) and Lever (ATS) to scale without adding headcount. At Niagen Bioscience, drove a 25% improvement in time-to-fill and cut administrative workload by 30% in 6 months, led a company-wide optimization initiative to reduce silos, and coached a VP of Finance into a successful CFO transition that included restructuring the finance org and upgrading key talent.”

“Mobile-tech entrepreneur building AppQ (mobile.appq.ai), an agentic mobile SDK that optimizes mobile UX in real time to improve Day 1/Day 7 retention by adjusting levers like ad frequency, difficulty, messaging, and artwork. Previously co-founded an SDK-led mobile ad network (invented push notification ads), scaled to 300K+ SDK integrations, and grew revenue from $7M in 10 months to $50M the following year before exiting in 2020.”

“Technology leader with experience owning enterprise roadmaps and executing large-scale platform standardization during rapid M&A—most notably driving a tech roadmap across a 37-company portfolio at Regent, tackling technical debt and security gaps via unified cloud-native architecture, IAM/logging, CI/CD, and a global SRE model. Previously scaled an Adobe engineering org from 8 to 40+ across four regions, implementing clear org design, KPIs, and an extreme-ownership culture to support 24/7 operations and enterprise needs.”