Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals in Illinois

Sakid Ahmed

Screened

Executive Telecom & Wireless Connectivity Leader (GM/VP Engineering)

Chicago, IL29y exp

“Operator with experience in a private equity-backed business that was carved out of a larger company and later taken public. Brings a startup-builder mindset from within larger-company environments, with emphasis on P&L ownership, go-to-market strategy, product strategy, and evaluating ideas through product-market fit and scalable market demand.”

Tree Archibeque

Screened

Executive Sales Leader specializing in SaaS and B2B revenue growth

Chicago, IL11y exp

“Sales leader with a track record of building outbound organizations from scratch and scaling them aggressively across B2B environments. At Comcast, they grew an outbound team from 8 to 80 and helped drive 35% division revenue growth; at OnDeck, they built the outbound channel from the first hire to 65 reps and $22M revenue in 18 months. They also bring hands-on experience closing complex multi-stakeholder security/IoT deals and coaching managers through data-driven pipeline discipline.”

“Founding Principal Engineer/Head of Engineering at Amberflo (Seed $5M Homebrew; Series A Norwest) who built and shipped an AI Gateway + real-time LLM cost metering/pricing MVP end-to-end (control plane/data plane, AWS infra, CI/CD). Known for extremely fast MVP cycles (often 1–2 weeks), scaling teams (50–60 hires), and driving major pivots (usage-based billing to FinOps) by repurposing an existing metering/pricing platform; based in Chicago and has led a Silicon Valley startup remotely with frequent Bay Area travel.”

“Former CTO at Enodo who led development of programmatic parsers to extract unstructured data from real-estate financial documents (rent rolls and T12s), validating with users via prototypes before productionizing. Emphasizes accuracy-driven engineering and scalable test-suite growth based on real user samples, and has experience scoping complex product ideas (e.g., browser-based narrative editor) down to an MVP.”

“Creative director/designer spanning high-polish marketing brand work and enterprise innovation: built a full podcast brand ecosystem and a cinematic historical visualization using Google Veo 3. Also led an AR/VR-assisted remote troubleshooting initiative at TriMas (HoloLens-style workflows), delivering a 40% MTTR reduction and cutting expert travel by 50%+ while standardizing reusable interaction components for global teams.”

“Senior engineering leader with a rare blend of principal-level technical depth and large-scale people management, spanning identity/auth modernization, platform architecture, and cloud integration work. At Paylocity, they helped transform a legacy .NET/SQL environment into a more modular, microservices-oriented platform and dramatically reduced deployment times, while also leading teams as large as 80+.”

Ariana Bavarian

Screened

Executive Operations Leader specializing in M&A integration and marketing/tech transformation

Chicago, IL20y exp

“Operations-focused leader who joined a consulting firm immediately after consolidating 5 companies via M&A and built standardized time tracking plus utilization analytics that became a core executive-management tool. Experienced in change management and cross-functional redesign of business systems, including simplifying an over-engineered Salesforce CRM to improve sales adoption and pipeline data integrity.”

“Senior enterprise architecture and engineering leader (Sr. Director / Principal Architect) who has owned enterprise IT strategy and governance for a $100M budget and partnered directly with C-suite stakeholders. Led a cruise-industry employee/crew digital transformation, scaling to 10 agile teams (~70 people) using SAFe/TOGAF and making architecture decisions optimized for low-connectivity environments (local database to avoid internet authentication).”

“Performance marketer with experience owning $50K+/month budgets across Google Search, Bing, Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, and email for lead-gen and e-commerce. Demonstrated measurable efficiency gains (cut CPL in half from $150 to $75) through GA4-driven optimization and structured creative/landing page testing, and has a track record of quickly diagnosing channel issues (e.g., Performance Max) and reallocating spend to restore ROAS/conversion growth.”

Cia Hang

Screened

Executive IT and Operations leader specializing in digital transformation and security

Chicago, IL13y exp

“Candidate is very familiar with the venture capital and broader investment landscape, but is not interested in founding a company. They have worked with several TPG-backed or TPG-owned organizations, helping drive business scaling, cost reduction, and execution against investor governance requirements.”