Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals in Virginia

“Entrepreneurial healthcare operator currently serving as investor, co-founder, and COO of Mednevo, a startup combining AI with physician oversight rather than replacing doctors. Brings experience from 8 startups, prior capital raising, and a practical approach to healthcare AI trust, including doctor-controlled AI shutoff, HIPAA-minded compliance, and physician validation of LLM outputs.”

“Four-time founder with hands-on experience inside angel- and venture-backed executive teams, plus accelerator mentorship experience. Brings a practical, customer-validation-driven approach to company building, with strong insight into early-stage team dynamics and investor ecosystems.”

“Operations leader with experience scaling a fast-growing, startup-like government organization (tripled headcount in two years) by implementing OKRs, operating cadences, reporting structures, and decision/escalation frameworks. Has led complex process turnarounds (including a debt-collection overhaul with legal coordination and an appeals board) and advises executives on high-stakes public communications during critical-infrastructure cybersecurity incidents using data-driven decisioning.”

Jack Johnson

Screened

Executive security and risk leader specializing in national security, defense, and M&A advisory

McLean, VA43y exp

“Advisor to early-stage cybersecurity firm Nday Security, helping shape lean operations and go-to-market while deferring investors in favor of potential early acquisition. Previously appointed by the U.S. President as the first Chief Security Officer for the newly formed Department of Homeland Security, standing up operations and integrating 22 agencies under intense post-9/11 urgency.”

Vela Sivasankaran

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in cloud, telecom, and digital transformation

Virginia, USA16y exp

“Former founder of a financial services technology startup that is currently on hold for family reasons. Has hands-on startup fundraising exposure from employee roles, including presenting proof-of-concept demos to venture capital firms, and brings a strong focus on fraud prevention, safeguards, and regulatory compliance.”

“Aspiring founder building an AI governance and compliance startup for the finance industry, focused on agents that monitor data lakes/lakehouses to detect security vulnerabilities, PII exposure, and governance issues in real time. Has already formed an S-corp, has not raised capital yet, and approaches idea validation through Minimum Lovable Product testing with potential clients.”

“Operations/process leader with experience in SaaS and RPO environments, known for turning tribal knowledge into scalable, measurable systems. Has built documentation and knowledge-management standards for 90+ person teams, used data and change agents to drive adoption, and delivered major productivity gains (~300%) through training and automated reporting. Also led cross-functional process mapping and implemented partner onboarding workflows directly in Salesforce to improve SI partner enablement.”

“Backend engineer with strong payments and high-stakes transaction experience, including owning an Apple Pay/Google Pay integration via Stripe end-to-end in production for 100,000+ users. Particularly compelling for teams that need someone who can balance speed, security, and reliability in checkout or other sensitive backend workflows, and who has hands-on incident ownership in production.”

Kim Janney

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive PMO & Agile Transformation Leader specializing in enterprise delivery and release governance

Roanoke, VA21y exp

“Operations and agile enablement leader currently shaping internal operations at KlariVis (rapidly growing, founder-led company). Implemented Scrum, quarterly planning, cross-functional ways of working, executive dashboards, and org-wide training while also improving release management, bug prioritization, and go-to-market workflows; blends strategic structure with hands-on execution and change adoption through iterative feedback.”

Subhash Krishnamoorthy

Screened

Executive Technology Leader specializing in digital transformation, headless e-commerce, and cloud architecture

Chesterfield, VA25y exp

“Technology leader focused on business-aligned roadmaps and integration-heavy ecommerce platforms. Recently delivered an on-time launch for lutusooking.com (a premium Hamilton Beach brand) by coordinating UX/UI, component-based middleware, BigCommerce, Algolia search, personalization/recommendations, payments, and supply chain integrations, and later improved scalability via a Jitterbit iPaaS approach proven during Black Friday/Cyber Monday traffic.”

“Platform/infra engineer with deep Kubernetes (EKS) and VMware vSphere experience who has led a monolith-to-microservices transition for a credit lending decision platform. Built GitOps-driven Terraform delivery with strong governance, and used LaunchDarkly-based progressive rollouts plus Datadog observability to safely ship multiple times per day (reported ~6x throughput and 1/3 the bugfix tickets vs legacy). Also operates hybrid on-prem/AWS networking (firewall + Transit Gateway, BGP) and has handled high-stakes datacenter migrations (100TB Storage vMotion) under Sev1 conditions.”

“Serial healthcare entrepreneur who has founded three ventures across nuclear pharmacy and radiology/imaging, including building a nuclear pharmacy in a 500-mile underserved region and personally managing NRC regulatory compliance. Also built an early virtual radiology practice with remote radiologists and SaaS-only infrastructure, using a highly metrics-driven approach to opportunity assessment and capital formation via strategic partnerships.”

Paul Tran

Screened

Executive Technology Leader specializing in SaaS, federal consulting, and digital transformation

Tysons Corner, VA31y exp

“Former CEO of GravyWork with hands-on experience building an org-wide strategic plan and modernization roadmap for a growing company. Uses Michael Gerber’s innovation/orchestration/quantification framework and structured as-is/gap/to-be analysis to drive cost reduction, automation/outsourcing decisions, and leadership alignment through change.”