Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals in New York

“Longtime early-stage startup operator (since 1998) now running a solo consulting practice focused on SaaS infrastructure and platform strategy. Former angel investor in a medical information SaaS company that went public, with a strong focus on making prototype/demo systems enterprise-ready through efficiency, reliability, and performance improvements, and a nuanced view of how AI/LLMs may change engineering team models.”

“Senior Program Manager and Chief of Staff at Google who led large-scale cross-functional transformation work, including centralizing program management across a 14,000-person global technical org. Known for building rigorous governance, executive communication cadences, and single-source-of-truth dashboards, while also optimizing executive time and managing sensitive, high-stakes information.”

“Recruiting leader with experience managing teams from 5 to 55 and staying hands-on in senior/executive searches. Partnered closely with HRBPs and a CFO at PDT, including designing compensation structures for a junior-talent program and helping build out the CFO’s organization over 6 years. Known for implementing a shorter, structured, data-driven interview process that improved hiring speed and enabled teams to become fully staffed and more proactive in hiring.”

“Consulting-style leader (McKinsey context) driving data- and AI-enabled transformations across healthcare, QSR, retail, and services. Has built AI-powered analytics tools for marketing ideation, led agile operating models with client-side counterparts and external coaches, and navigated highly sensitive competitive retail engagements by isolating teams and delegating pricing work to avoid conflicts.”

“Technology leader from Franklin Templeton who modernized wealth management tech by launching client-facing digital web/mobile experiences via a phased data-warehouse-to-real-time strategy, while aligning internal CRM visibility for front office teams. Scaled an engineering org from 15 to ~250 (15 teams) and drove a shift from waterfall to Agile with microservices/micro-frontends and Jira-based transparency to improve delivery velocity.”

“Chief of Staff / PMO leader at CAIS who built a firm-wide product & technology roadmap and delivery governance from the ground up, partnering directly with the executive committee to define OKRs and prioritization. Led cross-functional GTM readiness tracking and delivered major platform modernization (monolith to microservices) plus trade lifecycle automation in the alternative assets/independent financial advisor space, while also instituting financial discipline and vendor negotiations that saved millions.”

“Senior Program Manager / HR Chief of Staff (Global Industrial) specializing in cross-functional risk remediation, HR systems implementations, and M&A compliance. Delivered measurable outcomes including closing 18 payroll audit findings in 16 weeks, rolling out SAP SuccessFactors performance management to 2,000+ employees with major adoption gains, and remediating 600 I-9s in 6 weeks to avoid ~$3M in exposure; experienced operating with high confidentiality across large-scale M&A.”

“Fintech product builder focused on AI-native opportunities; recently helped their company operationalize LLMs in customer service and bank ops by creating systems to continuously improve prompts and evaluations. Also drove growth by identifying hooks in a major American retailer distribution channel and integrating into the retailer’s payment flows to become a key part of the user funnel.”

“Entrepreneur and senior executive who has raised capital and built a sophisticated, integrated agency platform spanning PR, design, exhibitions/live environments, and media placement; the business is currently in a sale process due to a major shareholder exiting the U.S. Strong premium-market positioning experience, leveraging C-suite access to validate opportunities and building human-centric, data-driven, AI-enabled service offerings across luxury/hospitality/culture/real estate/wellness.”

“Former COO of Paxos who joined near inception and helped scale the company to a $2.4B valuation, owning operations across nearly all functions and implementing core operating systems like OKRs and decision frameworks. Now advises and coaches early-stage founders through Lynx Collective (NYC startup community he founded), teaches a Startup Executive Bootcamp, serves as an NYU Stern adjunct professor, and sits on a public company board.”

“Senior executive-operations leader who has run CEO-office functions at BNY (Head of the CEO Office) and supported scaling leadership teams at Public as Chief of Staff to Co-CEOs/Head of People. Known for building operating cadences (MBRs, offsites), creating decision-driving templates, and executing high-stakes weeks combining board governance, CEO travel/client engagements, and external communications with strong discretion.”

“Operations and clinical-development advisor currently supporting two early-stage biotech companies (vaccines and kidney transplant therapeutics). Brings 20 years of vaccine/clinical development experience from Sanofi and Pfizer, and has directly guided a CEO by connecting them with key clinical scientists and regulatory experts to support IND strategy and clinical advancement decisions.”

“Chief of Staff to the COO of firmwide engineering at Goldman Sachs, serving as lead strategist for a COO/CIO-sponsored program to drive operational excellence and scalability via AI/automation. Ran discovery across divisions, built governance/OKR systems, negotiated budget commitments with divisional leaders, and coordinated firmwide CFO alignment while preparing Board-level materials for executives.”