Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals in the Los Angeles Metro

“Retail sourcing leader (currently a General Manager) with 11 years at a South Korea-based retailer and 20+ years in non-food product sourcing. Experienced owning end-to-end sourcing from supplier discovery and commercial negotiation through mass production, audits (BV/UL), and on-time delivery to distribution centers, with strong trade compliance/landed-cost focus (HTS, COO, FTA, tariffs/duties).”

“Finance professional with IPO, capital raising, and PE-adjacent transaction experience who is also building Lungkindred, a caregiver matching platform inspired by her own experience as a lung cancer caregiver. She has shown early founder traction by sourcing users through niche patient communities and converting them into onboarded matches while navigating trust in a highly sensitive healthcare context.”

“Entrepreneur/fintech product builder who raised a $100K pre-seed from ex-Google/Microsoft execs and built a real-time, direct-to-vendor bill pay micropayments platform. Previously helped scale Norton LifeLock to 1M users (2003) and also created Karma LA, a fraud-resistant, verified donation system (including VA veteran verification) aimed at improving trust and conversion in giving.”

“Backend engineer who has built end-to-end data and platform systems across domains: a Scala/Java media data warehouse with a custom query language and Elasticsearch search, plus production security patterns (RBAC, RLS, audit trails) including a telehealth platform. Also demonstrated strong operational rigor by using feature-flagged side-by-side migrations and by catching ecommerce checkout edge cases that were dropping revenue.”

Mo Arab

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Executive Technology Leader specializing in Cloud, Managed Services & AI/LLM integration

Los Angeles, CA25y exp

“Engineering/technology leader with experience at Evocative and through a merger with Hivelocity, aligning tech roadmaps to managed services growth. Led multi-region self-hosted cloud and automation initiatives that cut delivery time from days to hours/minutes and informed cost-saving infrastructure decisions (reported $500K OPEX savings). Known for scaling teams with pod ownership, agile/intake governance, and disciplined rollout practices that protect uptime and security.”

Serge Ahranovich

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Executive CTO / Platform Architect specializing in IoT, telematics, and EV charging infrastructure

Los Angeles, CA20y exp

“Founder of TimeTick (timetick.io), an AI-powered diagnostics platform for IoT combining device simulation, automated testing, and real-time monitoring—initially focused on EV charger diagnostics. Former VP of Engineering with a track record of building IoT systems from scratch and applying AI to detect protocol-failure patterns that drive downtime; currently supporting existing customers and converting pilots (with leads like Siemens and ABB) into paid subscriptions.”

“Full-stack engineer who built and shipped an AI-powered internal knowledge search system for APL Services, including document ingestion into a vector database, a Python backend, and a React/TypeScript chat-style UI with source citations for trust. Improved production reliability by migrating from Streamlit Cloud to GCP with containerization and scaling controls to eliminate cold-start friction; also co-led a Mensa chapter website redesign as Digital Communications Committee co-chair.”