Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals in the Los Angeles Metro

Britney Russ

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Executive product leader specializing in consumer technology and EdTech

Los Angeles, CA13y exp

“Senior product leader from Codecademy who has spent roughly a decade building and mentoring cross-functional organizations while leading major strategic pivots in education. Most notably, they repositioned Codecademy toward a new learner segment and launched an AI-native learning platform that tripled signup rates, while also creating new revenue streams like live learning and accessible AI workshops.”

“Engineering leader who built and scaled a distributed team (Serbia + US) to deliver an internal multi-tenant Kubernetes-based PaaS, moving a large org from manual ops-driven deployments to automated CI/CD with >99.97% uptime and 100% service adoption. Known for culture change (blameless post-mortems, clear intake via ticketing) and security-first platform practices (tenant isolation, Falco) supporting SOC2 compliance; also operates at exec level with stakeholder communication and fundraising.”

“Engineering leader and hands-on architect from Sony Pictures Entertainment who has led large-scale platform modernization, digital supply chain delivery, and multiple GenAI/RAG initiatives in media and rights-management domains. Notable for combining people leadership with deep AWS/LLM architecture work, including a 1M+ record GenAI title search system and AI-driven contract insights that reportedly helped unlock a 20% revenue increase.”

william chen

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Executive game technology leader specializing in product innovation and live-service platforms

Los Angeles, CA27y exp

“Serial entrepreneur with multiple successful exits who has previously raised several rounds and worked with accelerators. Currently building an AI-powered life simulation universe with prompt-based creation and a self-evolving persistent world, backed by completed market research and an MVP in development.”

“Investor/sourcer from Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital focused on vertical SaaS, with a structured system for high-volume founder outreach (30–50/week) and thesis-driven messaging. Has originated cold outbound conversations (e.g., Elevate, Rockbot) and owned end-to-end diligence work including SaaS metric analysis, operating model building, and internal decision memos/partner updates.”

Andrew Rosenblatt

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Executive CIO specializing in AI-driven healthcare transformation and M&A integration

Culver City, CA16y exp

“Healthcare technology veteran with 21 years in the space who is now building Explain My Labs, a pre-seed startup with an alpha product already in friends-and-family testing. They bring hands-on startup preparation experience, including a pitch deck, investor meetings, and a clear thesis around a market gap in solutions that serve both patients and users.”

Tricia Biggio

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Executive media and creative-tech leader specializing in entertainment and AI storytelling

Los Angeles, CA18y exp

“Former co-founder/CEO of a venture-backed media-tech startup who spent 6 years raising capital, leading through market shifts, and building with major investor backing. She brings strong relationships across venture studios and senior executives in media, entertainment, consumer products, startups, and AI, and led her last company into Amazon's AWS GENAI accelerator as one of 15 selected in North America.”

Rich Espinoza

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Executive sales leader specializing in media distribution and enterprise revenue growth

Los Angeles, CA30y exp

“Senior media sales and distribution executive with 25+ years at NBCUniversal and Sony Pictures Television, leading national account strategy across U.S. broadcast groups, affiliates, and platform distributors. Most notably helped lead Seinfeld renewal negotiations that generated more than $300M in licensing revenue, while also steering distribution strategy through the industry's shift from linear TV to streaming, FAST, and AVOD.”

“Serial game publishing builder who has helped raise $300M+ across multiple rounds for four publishers. Deeply embedded in the SF/LA VC ecosystem and actively advises clients through pitch rounds, emphasizing data-driven narratives, timing, and investor relationship-building in highly scrutinized markets.”

Christopher Bun

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Executive AI/ML technology leader specializing in healthcare, biotech, and legal AI

Irvine, CA17y exp

“Repeat founder and startup advisor with experience spanning academic, health tech, legal tech, sports, and gaming. Has participated in fundraising and due diligence and has built companies, engineering teams, and software platforms from scratch, with a strong product-design-first approach to product-market fit and market selection.”

“Engineering leader and player-coach with a long tenure leading 5 teams/17 engineers, combining organizational leadership with hands-on SQL, architecture, and production incident work. Particularly notable for shipping AI-powered lead engagement systems like an intelligent voice agent, while also driving operational improvements such as release cadence standardization, team restructures, database migrations, and major rules-engine performance gains.”

Daniel Benyamin

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Executive AI and product leader specializing in media, advertising, and data platforms

Los Angeles, CA28y exp

“Serial entrepreneur in marketing and advertising who has founded four companies, most of them venture-backed. Has raised pre-seed and other venture funding multiple times, mentored at Techstars, and brings a strong investor network plus firsthand experience across the VC, accelerator, and launchpad ecosystem.”

“Engineering leader who built and delivered an IoT smart-spaces platform for the self-storage and smart-living domains, translating customer requirements into architecture, capability maps, and a multi-milestone roadmap. Personally stood up missing AI/ML capabilities (including churn prediction) using Databricks (Delta Lake/MLflow), enabling follow-on features like energy optimization and security/anomaly detection. Scaled an org from 20 to 80+ with disciplined Agile planning (Jira Advanced Roadmaps/Confluence) and strong executive/customer-facing leadership during high-stakes customer commitments.”

Shady Ashkar

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Executive Technology & Engineering Leader specializing in SaaS, FinTech and HealthTech

Orange County, CA30y exp

“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.”