Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals in the Los Angeles Metro

David Kroes

Screened

Executive HR & People Leader specializing in culture transformation, talent, and organizational development

Los Angeles, USA20y exp

“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.”

Eidin Khial

Screened

Executive Merchandising Leader specializing in fashion buying and e-commerce growth

Encino, CA10y exp

“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.”

Luke Ryan

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Executive media CEO specializing in franchise strategy, entertainment, gaming, and AI

Los Angeles, CA23y exp

“Entrepreneurial entertainment executive who built a unique company combining best-in-class content strategy and data analytics, scaling it to $4.5M average annual revenue ($5.5M peak) without outside capital at launch. Has hands-on experience leading M&A and capital raises, including interactions with Sequoia, and stands out for building new business models and premium service offerings in traditionally risk-averse environments.”

“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.”

Thomas Majchrowski

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Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in SaaS, AI platforms, and M&A integration

Irvine, CA22y exp

“Entrepreneurial builder who created a SaaS system for insurance sales and developed in-house sales/marketing platforms, prioritizing a robust backend that drove over $500k in immediate sales before expanding features. Emphasizes lean, high-impact execution with strong focus on optimization, barrier management, and contingency planning.”

Alexander Goldberg

Screened

Executive Technology & Product Leader specializing in AI/AR SaaS and cybersecurity

Los Angeles, CA30y exp

“Engineering/technology leader with mission-critical experience at JPL NASA on the Mars Curiosity Rover, delivering an AI-driven navigation system designed for zero tolerance for mistakes and reportedly operating with no failures for 15+ years. Also led a monolith-to-microservices, cloud-native migration that improved scalability by 300% and cut deployments from days to hours, and is comfortable switching between executive fundraising/stakeholder communication and deep technical leadership.”

Harold Lehon

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Executive Business Strategy & Operations Leader in Medical Devices, Manufacturing, and Technology

North Hollywood, CA25y exp

“CEO/operator with strong private-equity-facing transformation experience who led post-acquisition integration and cross-functional execution to deliver $4M in annual savings. Built a KPI-driven strategic planning and operating cadence that helped scale CCW from $14M to $50M over 5 years, with external recognition including Inc 5000 (2023) and a 2023 Stevie Award for innovation.”

Mariana Quintanilha

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Executive Brand & Integrated Marketing Leader specializing in GTM and growth strategy

Los Angeles, CA18y exp

“VP-level marketing leader in proptech/real estate marketplaces who blends brand strategy with performance rigor. Repositioned RentSpree with a full narrative/IA and cross-channel messaging overhaul driving +32% conversions and major signup growth, and built an internal AI copy assistant to scale on-brand content across teams. At QuintoAndar, created the company’s first 360 mass media acquisition engine, delivering significant lifts in direct traffic, visits, and contracts while implementing CAC guardrails and MMM-style measurement.”

colton childrey

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Senior QA Leader specializing in AAA games, XR platforms, and backend systems

Los Angeles, CA7y exp

“Game/interactive software QA professional with experience spanning AAA titles (Activision Black Ops 3; Halo 4/Forge) and VR at Meta (The World Beyond). Notable for modernizing QA operations at Lego BrickLink Studio by implementing Testmo and dramatically increasing test coverage and user satisfaction, plus quickly diagnosing and unblocking a critical public-launch issue caused by misconfigured gatekeeper flags.”

“Enterprise Architecture leader with insurance domain experience (Farmers Insurance) who drove a multi-phase roadmap to modernize a siloed CRM landscape—migrating from legacy Siebel to Salesforce Financial Services Cloud with Customer 360, MDM, and omnichannel capabilities. Also led a high-impact architecture decision to implement offline billing to reduce customer-facing downtime, including complex SAP/on-prem-to-cloud integration and transaction sync.”

“Finance and private markets professional with experience at Wells Fargo and US Bank who has built a founder-adjacent sourcing skill set through deal origination, CFO outreach, and co-investment evaluation. Stands out for translating cold outreach into financing conversations and for using a structured investment lens across capital structure, unit economics, and market opportunity.”

“Engineering leader who has operated effectively in both a VC-backed startup and SAP, combining director-level org leadership with day-to-day technical depth. Notable for re-architecting integrations that produced a 3x revenue gain, leading a 90-engineer matrixed organization, and staying hands-on in GenAI, infrastructure, and full-stack problem solving.”

Vivek Shrivastava

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Director-level Technology Leader specializing in data platforms, AI, and media/AdTech transformation

Los Angeles, California24y exp

“Technology leader who built a unified platform for Fox live sports production operations starting in 2019, delivering an initial operational system on an ~18-month timeline while simultaneously scaling an in-house engineering team from a service-provider partnership. Led a security architecture for external vendors/partners using a separate Okta instance with zero-trust and passwordless authentication, and drove adoption through strong change management, documentation, and agile execution.”

“Exploring entrepreneurship with two concepts: a K-beauty skincare line tailored to the Indian market and darker complexions, and a tech-enabled services business helping legacy companies adopt AI safely. Has early-career experience working with Battery Ventures as an investor in the startup Fasturn and a point of view on deeper VC/studio operational partnership models.”

“Engineering leader with a mix of people management, consulting, and hands-on architecture experience across streaming media and digital product delivery. He has built remote teams, created engineering operating models from scratch, and led pragmatic turnarounds of underperforming teams and ETL/integration systems under tight deadlines.”