Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals in Texas

“Startup operator with 8 years of experience who helped grow the business from limited initial capital into a much larger ARR. Somewhat familiar with the VC/accelerator landscape and strongly motivated to pursue entrepreneurship, with a clear framework for evaluating new venture ideas.”

Ketan Verma

Screened

Junior Applied AI Engineer specializing in data pipelines and ML systems

College Station, TX2y exp

“Built an end-to-end wafer-data anomaly detection and reporting system at Samsung using PySpark, Random Forest models, SQL, and Grafana to help engineers track faults and take corrective action. Also has strong UX prototyping and validation practices in Figma plus hands-on front-end/full-stack experience (HTML/CSS/TypeScript), including a student project recognized as best design out of 25 teams, and early-stage startup experience pivoting a product based on user interviews into a real-time in-context feedback overlay.”

Elizabeth Angle

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Executive Recruiter specializing in Accounting & Finance and recruiting operations

Fort Worth, TX14y exp

“Talent/recruiting operations leader who built and managed an 8–10 person recruiting team and created training, onboarding, and standardized processes to support high-volume staffing for new and existing branches across the US. Known for improving recruiter–branch manager communication and implementing structured timelines/checklists to keep office openings on track; experienced with Bullhorn (including Textkernel) dashboards and team enablement.”

“Talent/Recruiting Operations leader who has managed small TA ops teams and redesigned hiring workflows to speed decisions and improve quality. Drove measurable outcomes (time-to-hire cut to 38 days; first-year turnover down 6%) and has led cross-functional ATS implementations (Taleo, Greenhouse) while supporting fast, high-volume creative hiring with strong process and documentation.”

“Repeat founder/operator who has raised over $1M across three companies and has hands-on experience advising fundraising, including helping a biotech company secure a $500K+ accelerator round through IndieBio. Brings a strong point of view on early-stage investing, founder quality, and startup traction metrics, with a clear intention to build or lead a company rather than join one long-term.”

“Entrepreneur in debt settlement and consumer lending who expects future funding needs and is oriented toward PE/VC rather than debt until revenues stabilize. Previously left Mosaic to found and scale a process improvement/performance management/tech stack consulting business, using conference speaking and relationship-based selling to win clients and then hiring staff/contractors to expand delivery.”

“LLM/agent builder who shipped a live consumer AI-agent app (kalpa.chat) that visualizes complex reasoning as interactive graphs and abstracts multi-provider model usage via a unified wallet. Professionally has applied LangChain/LangGraph to IVR parsing and to scaling a football video-generation pipeline at DAZN, including shipping a VAR-specific retrieval/order fix via SQL after iterating with a non-technical PM.”

“Experienced contractor-side capture and program leader with a decade supporting a drone program and navigating highly structured government and prime-contractor funding environments. Brings a disciplined, compliance-heavy approach to business development and is especially drawn to smaller, mission-focused companies where the purpose is clearly defined.”