Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals in Washington

“Senior engineering/technology leader with experience driving board-backed, multi-year platform transformations in retail commerce (American Eagle) and scaling ML/product delivery platforms at Amazon Alexa. Known for data-driven build-vs-buy decisions, org scaling (6→80), and measurable outcomes including 98.5%→99.9% uptime, 234 experiments generating ~$200M revenue lift, and increasing delivery velocity from 1.5 to 30 features/week while transitioning to DNN/large-model architectures.”

“Serial entrepreneur with multiple startups and demonstrated VC fundraising experience, including raising $125K for a current business plan and building investor relationships across several VC firms. Driven by tackling difficult problems and assessing opportunities through a lens of solution creativity and team execution, while prioritizing sustainable quality of life.”

“Engineering leader with experience across MSCI (Index business), Microsoft Teams (callings/meetings), and MSN Weather. Has led business-aligned roadmaps, scaled orgs (including an ~80-person Teams org during COVID demand surge), and delivered Azure-based, multi-region architectures achieving ~2000 RPS and 99.9% availability with improved RTO/RPO.”

“Operations and scaling leader who launched Management Events' Germany office from 0 to 10 employees and advised HQ on scaling into mature European markets (Germany/UK/France). Also has Intel and Microsoft experience taking local best practices global, including scaling the Microsoft Virtual Academy worldwide, plus recent executive mentoring via nonprofit board leadership (co-chair at United Planet).”

“Operations and consulting leader with ~30 years’ experience scaling and stabilizing creative/consulting organizations, including growing frog’s Seattle office from a 3-person seed team to nearly 60 and serving as interim MD at ustwo. Known for diagnosing friction across people/projects/P&L, implementing operating rhythms and stage-gated delivery systems, and driving profitability improvements through client rate-structure redesign and executive decision-making coaching.”

“AWS intern who significantly evolved a Drift Audit Service backend (Control Tower/EventBridge context) to make drift findings more explainable and reduce false positives by adding a verification step in Lambda before event ingestion. Demonstrates strong API design fundamentals in Python/FastAPI (contracts, idempotency, security controls) and careful rollout practices (feature flags, canaries, phased deployments).”

“Senior data/AI and platform leader with Walmart- and T-Mobile-scale architecture experience, including building real-time inventory + forecasting platforms (Kafka/Cassandra/Hadoop) and Azure IoT systems. Known for translating board-level business goals into roadmaps that deliver measurable impact (e.g., $50M savings and $250M profit in a year; +2% conversion via Customer 360) and for hands-on problem solving in ML/forecasting (feature reduction and LASSO).”

“Performance marketer with hands-on ownership of a high-spend ($50K+/month+) financial services account running integrated campaigns across paid search, paid social, and programmatic (Google/Microsoft, Meta, TikTok, DV360, The Trade Desk, Amazon Ads, and more). Experienced driving new account openings against cost-per-open targets through audience/creative testing, sequential messaging and influencer-led upper funnel, and rigorous tracking/measurement in a highly regulated environment.”

“Serial entrepreneur with decades in lead gen and CRM marketing and a track record of three exits/acquisitions. Founded Roost, a national MLS-driven real estate portal, leveraging SEO/SEM/email and a pilot-led, unit-economics approach (pricing, retention, CAC/LTV). Now exploring an AI-driven, end-to-end automation concept for SMB hyper-local marketing and execution.”

“Former CTO/CTPO with hands-on experience supporting co-founders through pre-seed to Series B fundraising, including investor technical due diligence and architecture deep-dives. In a logistics company, led a customer-interview-driven effort applying AI and workflow tools that cut customer busywork by ~30% in the first iteration, and has experience planning delivery with onshore/offshore teams (LATAM/India).”

“Embedded/software candidate who built an arcade-style game on a PSoC6 ARM microcontroller using FreeRTOS and custom peripheral/protocol drivers, ultimately completing the project as the sole developer. Also brings strong systems tooling exposure (Docker-heavy coursework, Kubernetes familiarity) plus internship experience at Accenture working with CI/CD-based validation and debugging in a client environment.”

“Candidate is not interested in entrepreneurship or founding a company and prefers working for others. Has limited familiarity with the VC/accelerator landscape, with indirect exposure through colleagues who pursued VC funding.”