Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals in Texas

Jeff Cushler

Screened

Executive Technology & Product Leader specializing in Healthcare IT, SaaS, and Cloud Transformation

Austin, TX30y exp

“Startup product/enterprise-stack builder who helped take Ventric Health from R&D to a market-launched healthcare product in 2024, operating in a $34M-raised, revenue-generating model leveraging Medicare C reimbursement through providers. Previously drove adoption of an integrated K-12 digital learning platform distributed to 100+ institutions over two years, with reported improvements in test scores.”

“CTO-oriented engineering leader who emphasizes building and mentoring teams while aligning technology work to real business needs through close collaboration with product stakeholders. Also has entrepreneurial exposure, including an alcohol-related startup and prior experience securing funding.”

“Talent/Recruiting Operations leader who has managed a 7-person team and owned end-to-end talent planning, succession planning, performance management, and broader HR operations. Known for redesigning intern recruiting/onboarding by partnering deeply with business units, resulting in stronger intern cohorts and higher engagement scores, and for leading ATS changes as the project manager while building Workday recruiting analytics dashboards with HRIS.”

“Candidate is pursuing a CTO role and has helped multiple startups turn early technology concepts into concrete, real-world technical requirements. They cite a systems science and mathematics background, along with experience at JPMorgan Chase, and appear strongest in technical strategy, concept fleshing, and identifying strong people to help teams succeed.”

Ravi Ada

Screened

Executive CTO specializing in digital health platforms, cloud & AI, and FHIR/HL7 interoperability

Carrollton, TX22y exp

“Healthcare diagnostics/health tech founder building Casandra.ai, an API-driven lab test catalog and ordering platform designed to standardize fragmented test catalogs and integrate into provider workflows via FHIR. Bootstrapped and built a deploy-ready product, drawing on prior startup experience and accelerator participation (Health Box, DreamIt Ventures).”

“Multi-time founder (with exits) currently bootstrapping BrightVoice, an early-stage AI SaaS platform focused on improving law firm intake, client communication, and revenue workflows. Operates with a lean, capital-efficient approach centered on rapid validation and real customer traction, and is highly familiar with VC, venture studios, and accelerators.”

“Builder/technical leader who was brought into Finicity to turn a credit-improvement concept into a viable product—architected, staffed, and launched what became Experian Boost. Delivered a major North American product launch in ~6 months, scaling to ~50,000 new users per day at launch and solving complex ML classification and distributed processing/order-of-operations challenges on AWS.”

“CTO/AI executive with repeated 0-to-1 leadership and founder experience across banking software, cloud, and fintech. Most recently, as a fractional CAIO, built a 50+ person team and launched 3 products in 9 months generating $10M+ new revenue; previously founded Trilogy (200+ clients in 7 countries) and created cloud tech that helped drive a $35M acquisition by VMware.”