Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals in the NYC Metro

“Full-cycle B2B seller who says he has never relied on inbound and has consistently self-sourced deals through outbound prospecting. He highlights being the top salesperson at both companies he worked for and cites a 3-month, $150k one-off project sale equal to 10% of annual quota, involving senior research, IT, legal, and procurement stakeholders.”

“Senior healthcare sales leader with large-scale ownership in Medicare, Medicaid, and managed long-term care, including leadership of a 165-person team and a $4M budget at VNSNY CHOICE. Stands out for driving compliant growth in heavily regulated government programs, more than doubling targets through cross-referral and incentive programs, and leading expansion across 23 New York counties.”

Leo Almada

Screened

Director-level Finance & HR Operations leader specializing in governance, HRIS, and e-commerce finance

New York, NY11y exp

“Currently at Magnum managing a small global team (NY/London/Paris) and leading analytics operations, including financial reporting for a Shopify-based ecommerce platform. Partnered directly with a newly appointed CFO and COO during a significant org change involving elimination of three global director roles, coached the COO through difficult conversations, and supported a senior promotion that included navigating an H-1B visa process.”

“Chief of Staff/operator who joined venture-backed startup Blockless at the pre-seed stage and built the operating system from scratch while acting as the founder’s right hand. Combines startup execution, fundraising support, and deep Web3/DeFi domain fluency, including helping close a $3.5M seed round ahead of schedule with clean diligence materials.”

“Operations-focused advisor/consultant for early-stage and growing companies, with repeated experience scaling processes and people. Has driven measurable improvements in SaaS partnerships by implementing partner scoring, onboarding, and accountability systems, and reduced churn for an outsourced IT provider by clarifying roles and responsibilities without adding headcount. Known for mentoring founders through data-backed, Socratic questioning to unlock tough decisions like reallocating spend away from underperforming partners.”

“Repeat founding-team contributor with hands-on experience helping startups build prototypes and MVPs that support fundraising. Currently developing an enterprise AI governance engine to make AI agent decisions deterministic under user-defined policies, with an MVP and investor feedback process planned.”

michael brown

Screened

Executive CEO specializing in tech-enabled services, robotics, and M&A-driven scale

New York, NY27y exp

“Entrepreneurial operator with a background in platform acquisitions, tuck-ins, turnarounds, and robotics commercialization. At Skyline Robotics, they were part of a company that raised $25M and are now exploring a Physical AI startup focused on autonomous property management for the UHNW market, with a planned Hamptons POC and manufacturer-backed deployment strategy.”

“Talent acquisition leader who has owned the full TA function (and in some roles the broader people/HR function) at companies including Pryon, partnering closely with presidents/CPOs on strategy. Known for data-driven executive influence (e.g., preventing a costly location-restriction policy) and for streamlining late-stage hiring by redesigning CEO/President interview and equity-conversation processes to reduce senior-candidate backlog.”

“Chief of Staff and public-sector leader who has stood up new functions from scratch—hiring 26 people and building governance/processes across 8 locations—while navigating high-stakes regulatory stakeholders. In industry, implemented OKRs and performance systems (Leapsome) and led change communications to improve executive productivity and cross-team accountability.”

“Engineering/product leader in early-stage environments who has repeatedly driven major pivots and scaling efforts: pandemic-era refactor at NameCoach and multi-community expansion at Nolodex (now ~20 communities). Comfortable going from executive roadmap/stakeholder alignment to hands-on implementation (e.g., webhooks), and has led architecture shifts (monolith-to-distributed, Heroku-to-AWS) while managing outsourced/offshore teams through organizational friction.”