Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals in Ohio

“Former corporate retail leader (25 years) who recently launched a boutique consultancy and has already advised ~12 early-stage founders. Specializes in installing disciplined but lightweight operating systems across merchandising, inventory planning, and wholesale readiness—driving outcomes like +53% YTD growth for a D2C/wholesale apparel brand and rebuilding a NYC candy brand’s margin structure ahead of major wholesaler launches in 2026.”

“Operations and revenue-ops leader with higher-education experience who built a team and the full operating/marketing/sales infrastructure from scratch, getting to revenue in under a year and beating projections by year 2. Deep hands-on Salesforce CRM implementation and automation (lead-to-opportunity conversion, round-robin assignment, dashboards) paired with data-driven brand/market research and executive mentoring.”

“Operations leader who built holding-company infrastructure from the ground up for Fairwood Brands, a national collection of design-build landscaping companies—spanning finance/accounting, HR, safety, fleet, and corporate admin. Emphasizes data-driven visibility into financial/operational performance and pricing discipline to materially improve profitability and enable scalable growth, while mentoring founders and leadership teams through change.”

Paul Roberto

Screened

Executive CPA/MBA specializing in small business and franchise accounting & tax

Cleveland, Ohio29y exp

“Founder of an accounting and consulting firm who scaled operations organically and through acquisition, building internal structure with employee handbooks, SOPs, and integrated time-tracking/billing plus project management systems. Acts as a fractional CFO/financial partner to small business owners, using variance and operational-metric analysis to drive decisions around process improvements, acquisitions, company sales, contracts, and benefits. Strong in change management and pragmatic tooling—replacing spreadsheet-based workflows with standardized systems and templates that improve consistency and training.”

“Operations leader experienced in scaling and professionalizing founder-led and early-stage/growth manufacturing organizations (Keyline USA, Novagard, Process Technology). Known for implementing structured operating systems (RACI, S&OP, balanced scorecard, lean daily management) and ERP-enabled visibility (SAP HANA), delivering quantified improvements in throughput, inventory, capacity, and EBITDA while driving cultural adoption through pragmatic change management.”

“Built ReflectlyAI, an AI-powered interview coach, implementing a low-latency Python/Flask backend with modular LLM/Whisper services, retries/fallbacks, caching/batching, and async/background processing. Demonstrates strong PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy performance tuning (EXPLAIN ANALYZE, composite indexes, selectinload) and multi-tenant isolation patterns (tenant-scoped schemas, tenant_id middleware), reporting ~50% response-time reduction.”

“Startup-focused tech leader with 20+ years of experience who has led engineering teams across multiple startups and pitched inside VC firms. Currently building infrastructure for managing physical wealth—creating a canonical data layer that integrates with wealth management systems to account for precious metals and other tangible assets—and is prepared to raise capital to align with the right partners.”

“Entrepreneur and operations/IT advisor who helps early-stage companies scale efficiently through automation (CRM lead capture, invoicing, collections) and pragmatic process design. Built a year-long data standardization solution converting broker inputs from 60+ formats, enabling better sales forecasting and market projections. Also advises founders on go-to-market fundamentals and creative fundraising strategies, including forming paid customer consortia to co-develop products.”