Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals in the San Diego Metro

“Entrepreneur building an AI-driven small molecule biotech startup who has already raised $5M from major venture capital investors. Brings 3 years of fundraising experience and a thoughtful approach to aligning investors with different risk profiles across financing stages, paired with strong conviction around founding high-risk, high-upside companies.”

Cornelius O'Donnell

Screened

Director-level Engineering & Program Leader specializing in AI product platforms

San Diego, CA25y exp

“Technical Program Manager and one of three internal "founders" of HP’s Hardware-as-a-Service home printer subscription initiative, spanning DTC shipping, simplified setup, ink replenishment, and warranty coverage. Led roadmap definition/execution, scaled delivery rapidly to 15+ scrum teams (including vendors) with SAFe-like coordination and shared engineering standards, and drove key architecture trade-offs (building an interim subscription management service) to accelerate time-to-market by about a year.”

“Product leader with experience at Amazon and Temenos, focused on AI-powered consumer experiences at scale. They led critical Alexa+ launches, including the first Suno music-generation integration on Alexa, combining strong UX instincts, LLM quality frameworks, and partner negotiation to unblock launches and drive major engagement gains. They also bring people leadership and a thoughtful human-in-the-loop perspective on AI, especially across multilingual and culturally nuanced markets.”

“Operations/finance leader with experience building the operational backbone for fast-growing firms, including setting up recordkeeping, internal controls, and brokerage-specific clearing firm decisions. Helped scale an entity from ~$30M to nearly ~$300M and later modernized consulting-firm expense operations by implementing Concur integrated with ERP, with a hands-on approach to systems selection and change management.”

“Climate-tech founder with multiple EV infrastructure ventures, including Electriflow Finance and ChargeNet Stations. Has already raised $300k, signed a $1M term sheet, and piloted an AI-driven, app-less EV fleet charging platform with 36 fleets in Southern California.”

“Pre-seed founder (pre-product) building a new enterprise control layer for AI-enabled organizations focused on governed autonomy and decision-cycle compression; thesis formalized in their book "The Decision Velocity Era." Former CEO of Evaluation Solutions who built an internal proprietary operating system, proved it in live operations, commercialized it as SaaS, and enabled growth to $120M+ in contracted revenue.”

“Hands-on engineering leader who has scaled teams quickly (hired 20 engineers in 4 months) and led major architecture shifts including monolith-to-microservices and serverless, async AI-driven medical data ingestion/search. Also drove a versioned-inventory redesign with auditability and rollback that reduced operational errors by 22%, and demonstrates strong incident response with clear stakeholder communication.”

Maxwell Crystal

Screened

Executive B2B sales leader specializing in Enterprise SaaS and ABM

San Diego, CA14y exp

“7+ years at Madison Logic with a clear progression from top-performing enterprise AE to team lead to sales manager. Built the team from scratch to 7 reps against a $12M annual quota, delivered 115% of goal, and combines hands-on coaching, data-driven sales process design, and executive-level forecasting with private equity stakeholders.”

Ramtin Kazemi

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Django, AWS, and AI/ML

San Diego, California1y exp

“Full-stack engineer who built and owned an AI-powered personal statement editor in Next.js (App Router + TypeScript), including dynamic routing, server-side data fetching, and typed API route handlers. Post-launch, they handled production monitoring/debugging and shipped reliability/performance upgrades (rate limiting, retries, rollback, DB indexing), and report a 40% latency reduction using Suspense/streaming and React concurrency patterns. Also implemented a durable Temporal-orchestrated AI document workflow with robust retry/idempotency strategies.”

“Senior engineering executive with 8+ years leading large-scale SaaS modernization across AI, compliance, ecommerce, streaming, IoT, and travel. Has led a 150+ global engineering org, modernized seven cloud-native platforms for a $400M business, and consolidated travel systems processing $1B+ annually while staying hands-on in architecture, incident response, and AI integration.”

“Product leader with experience rebuilding teams and platforms in both healthcare and AI-enabled SaaS environments. Most notably rebuilt Uniform Teeth’s product organization, EMR, and patient app after a restructuring, contributing to major clinical efficiency gains and the company’s acquisition by Impress in 2022. Brings a strong human-in-the-loop AI philosophy, plus experience leading PMs, design, and engineering through high-change environments.”

John Abraham

Screened

Executive Credit Risk Leader specializing in underwriting and lending portfolio management

San Diego, USA21y exp

“Operations leader with deep fintech/lending startup experience (OnDeck Capital, 1st Merchant Funding, ForwardLine, Founders First) building end-to-end underwriting-to-portfolio operations, compliance, and supporting functions like sales/marketing. Known for scaling teams and automating repeatable work—citing growth from ~$3MM to ~$20MM in 2 years—while implementing systems like Salesforce/QuickSight and helping build proprietary funding and portfolio management software. Also provides structured part-time advisory support with clear scope/cadence, including helping set up a global finance company based in Argentina.”

Gary Zimble

Screened

Executive COO specializing in healthcare operations, IT, and multi-site transformation

San Diego, CA32y exp

“Candidate indicated they have an active business plan and are working with an investor to raise capital, suggesting entrepreneurial experience and exposure to fundraising. The interview ended early after the candidate declined to discuss current startup details.”

“General Manager of Animoto and longtime product leader who has led zero-to-one builds and major rebuilds across video, insurance, automotive, and web products. Most notably, they transformed Animoto’s product into a more flexible creation platform, driving 80% higher conversion, doubling LTV, tripling NPS, and cutting video creation time from roughly 100 hours to 20. They also bring practical AI product experience and a clear human-centered philosophy shaped by tutoring and family ties to education.”