Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals in the Los Angeles Metro

“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.”

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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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.”

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.”

“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.”

Assaf Igell

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Executive Product Growth & Marketing Leader specializing in B2B PLG and monetization

Los Angeles, CA14y exp

“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.”

Josh Rhoades

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Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in AI-enabled SaaS and regulated platforms

Los Angeles, CA30y exp

“Senior engineering leader with experience at Disney and BlackLine who drives business-aligned technology roadmaps through deep Product/Engineering partnership (two-in-a-box) and pragmatic prioritization frameworks. Has led major modernization initiatives—private-to-public cloud migration to GCP with multi-cloud evolution, data-layer performance improvements (Mongo/Redis, caching/query optimization), and tooling upgrades (VSS to GitHub)—while scaling teams with strong quality and accountability culture.”