Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals in the Los Angeles Metro

“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.”

Vivek Shrivastava

Screened

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.”

Richard Adams

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CEO/CTO) specializing in IoT, wireless audio, and connected devices

Los Angeles, California24y exp

“Repeat entrepreneur with multiple exits who emphasizes rigorous pre-build market research and customer discovery to validate product-market fit. Previously built Hygiene IQ for restaurant/hospitality markets and describes an end-to-end process from prototyping and MVP testing through supply chain. Currently has a pitch deck for an AI-enabled holistic companion for healthy aging (physical, mental, emotional, and social wellbeing).”

“Early hire at FullCycle who owned high-trust fund operations initiatives spanning tax (K-1) process redesign, investor communications, and executive support. Known for building scalable systems (including an executive communication framework adopted as a team best practice) and for driving complex logistics like getting a team to Davos while keeping core fund operations running.”

Jones Pavan

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in platform modernization and AI integration

Burbank, CA15y exp

“Engineering leader from Blackline who has repeatedly rescued and delivered high-visibility products by resetting roadmaps, tightening execution (better specs/estimation), and accelerating team velocity. Scaled a distributed org from ~20 to ~40 engineers by building a new India team with strong hiring rubrics and governance-as-code/SDLC consistency. Also modernized legacy systems into microservices (Kafka/Kubernetes/Apigee) and drove hackathon-to-production innovation using Google Vertex AI.”

Richard Bemis

Screened

Executive CIO/CTO/CDO specializing in data, AI/ML, and digital transformation

Long Beach, CA21y exp

“Founder building a healthcare provider data management startup who has progressed from problem identification to product architecture, patent filing, prototype development, beta customer outreach, and angel fundraising. They also have experience performing technical assessments for VCs and approach company-building with a structured focus on customer demand, risk mitigation, IP protection, and candid core-team formation.”

Jamie Lusk

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Executive Talent Acquisition & Executive Search Leader specializing in high-growth tech

Los Angeles, CA18y exp

“Talent leader with ~20 years reporting directly to CEOs/COOs and advising seed-to-Series C startups and venture studio portfolios on 0-to-1 hiring. Built recruiting infrastructure from scratch at FightCamp (cut time-to-hire to ~35 days with ~98% acceptance) and has proven hands-on executive search impact, including taking over and closing a Chief Product Officer search in ~45 days.”

Francois Odienne

Screened

Director of Engineering specializing in SaaS platforms, AI-first product development, and telecom

Moorpark, CA28y exp

“Technology leader with venture-backed company experience at LogicMonitor, where they aligned engineering strategy with business growth and long-term platform scalability. Demonstrates strong familiarity with the VC/studio/accelerator ecosystem and a thoughtful founder mindset centered on validating real problems, innovative solutions, and execution capacity.”

“Operations and manufacturing leader with experience acting as an internal CEO to build a new business inside IDEX Corp from a $15M budget, owning P&L and a 3-year plan through product launch. At Planet Innovation, used Lean/DMAIC-style value stream mapping to 4x production throughput (400 to ~1600 units/month), exceeding a customer’s 1200/month scaling target. Strong in building teams and operational systems (product development, quality, supply chain) and coaching non-ops founders using structured frameworks.”

“Full-stack engineer with startup experience who owned end-to-end features on Impact’s Hiring Solutions platform, including a hiring inbox spanning React UI and Postgres data models; the product helped drive 500+ jobs filled shortly after launch. Comfortable designing modern React/TypeScript + Node architectures (GraphQL, testing, migrations) and operating on AWS (RDS, EC2/Fargate, S3, Datadog, CircleCI). Also founded their own startup (Bibbr) and made early-stage stack/infrastructure decisions under high ambiguity.”