Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals in Texas

Charles Darling

Screened

Executive Founder and Venture Builder specializing in Healthcare, MedTech, and AI-driven commercialization

Houston, TX22y exp

“Medtech-focused venture builder with experience as a VC venture partner, family office investor, venture studio COO, and repeat founder (Techstars Boulder alum). Currently incubating two medtech deals with a VC fund, applying a rigorous diligence process spanning KOL interviews, regulatory/reimbursement strategy, manufacturing sourcing, GTM/competition analysis, and exit/acquirer milestone mapping before company formation or fundraising.”

William Elderton

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in FinTech, cloud platforms, and digital transformation

Austin, TX26y exp

“Seasoned operator with 30 years of experience at multiple startup companies, primarily in venture-backed environments, plus some exposure to private equity-backed firms. The candidate is highly familiar with the VC and accelerator ecosystem, though they clarified they were pursuing a CTO role rather than actively planning to found a startup.”

“Early-stage venture and talent operator with experience sourcing founders and leadership talent, including helping source Truemoringa into a pre-seed investment. Brings a relationship-first style, broad venture-network sourcing, and structured diligence processes spanning product, IP, legal, operations, and cap table review.”

“Entrepreneur building a bootstrapped AI-based personal agent (inspired by Claude desktop) aimed at making AI assistance accessible to non-technical users. Motivated by improving individuals' daily lives by helping them organize their day and offload simple, repeatable tasks; plans to explore VC/accelerator options but has not raised capital yet.”

“Bootstrapped founder of ByteThirst, a launched browser extension and CLI that monitors and estimates the environmental cost of LLM usage. They are targeting a niche climate-tech/AI space with support for 14 platforms, a freemium subscription model, and a first-mover thesis backed by market research, market sizing, and profit projections.”

“Engineering leader who has led 100+ engineers at Sainsbury’s Tech and previously scaled an org from 6 to 60+ at AND Digital. Drove a high-impact modernization of a pricing/decisioning platform serving 1,700 stores—moving from batch monolith to real-time Kafka-based event-driven microservices with MLOps, IaC (Terraform), and zero-trust—delivering £18m+ annual profit uplift and 10+ deploys/day.”

“Operations leader with manufacturing-heavy experience across Greene Tweed, Chem-Trend, and Ketjen, known for building operational structure (org design + KPI flow-down) and translating shop-floor realities into measurable financial outcomes. Has delivered significant profitability gains (20% site profitability; 15% product profitability) through Lean methods, process documentation, SIOP/production planning improvements, and cross-functional alignment with Sales/CCO.”

“CFO for PE-owned Catalyze Holdings (distributed generation solar + battery storage for C&I) brought in to professionalize a founder-led startup into an IPO-ready organization. Implemented IPO-readiness governance plus Procore and NetSuite (on time/on budget), established KPI and stage-gate operating rhythms, and drove change management that improved process clarity and reduced G&A spend.”

Eboni Mallett

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive HR Leader specializing in talent management, total rewards, and DEIB

Houston, TX18y exp

“HR/People Operations leader with experience standing up core HR infrastructure at startups, including implementing ADP Workforce Now and Lever plus workforce planning and recruiting strategy frameworks. Known for pragmatic operational diagnostics (interviews/SOP review), change management, and measurable impact—e.g., creating budget discipline for a graduate development program and driving $100K+ in savings while improving goal alignment, development planning, and recruiting efficiency.”

“Seasoned IT professional services and business transformation executive (currently global Head of Business Transformation Management at Fujitsu) who has built scalable sales-to-delivery operating models for growing boutique firms. Uses data-driven process/task mining plus stakeholder-led prioritization to deliver measurable outcomes, including a 30% manufacturing cycle-time improvement and 80+ SAP S/4HANA improvement recommendations implemented via a phased roadmap.”

Bassam Amrou

Screened

Director-level Digital Solutions & IT Transformation Leader specializing in enterprise innovation

Plano, TX12y exp

“Entrepreneurial operator with experience creating business plans and securing venture capital to accelerate a go-to-market strategy. Demonstrates a structured approach to new ventures: framing opportunities, validating/de-risking via market/competitive/external analysis and financial modeling, then building governance, sponsorship, and an execution plan with the right team.”

“CTO candidate with experience in multiple VC-backed startups, emphasizing timing and disciplined scaling of engineering orgs (people, product, process). Evaluates technology choices through a customer-value lens and proactively flags business/tech misalignment, with a pragmatic approach to venture viability using TAM, competitive landscape, and leading indicators.”