Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals in Washington

“Has experience in several VC-backed companies and is motivated by early-stage company building—especially the fast pace of early engineering and cross-functional "wearing many hats" as a startup grows. Some exposure to investors through prior roles, though has not fundraised directly; familiar with VC and has read about accelerators like Y Combinator.”

Alex Lange

Screened

Executive Strategy & Technology Leader specializing in PropTech, digital marketing, and venture innovation

Bellevue, WA36y exp

“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).”

“Startup-oriented product/technology leader targeting CTO roles, with experience evaluating and scoping high-impact product expansions. At Crelate, helped assess and shape a contract timekeeping/invoicing initiative that expanded TAM by hundreds of millions and increased ACV 2-3x, contributing to successful market traction and the company’s path to Series C.”

Waldorff Villacres

Screened

Healthcare technology executive and architect with 20+ years leading enterprise platforms and digital transformation.

Seattle, Washington, USA21y exp

“Healthcare-focused founder in the R&D stage building an EHR and clinical staffing startup centered on value-based care. They have already tested the concept with the market, are engaging Medicaid/Medicare leaders and industry conferences like ViVE and HIMSS, and are focused on early-signal detection to improve patient outcomes while lowering utilization costs.”

Martin Wells

Screened

Executive AI & Technology leader specializing in AI, streaming, and gaming platforms

Seattle / Tacoma, WA18y exp

“Worked at an accelerator and served as an Entrepreneur in Residence, providing CTO and general founder support to startups. Although not pursuing entrepreneurship personally, they bring direct exposure to early-stage company building and accelerator ecosystems.”

“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.”

Kent Hargrave

Screened

Executive Healthcare IT Leader specializing in enterprise strategy, cybersecurity, and clinical systems

Seattle, WA32y exp

“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.”

Frank Carrabba

Screened

Executive Software Engineering Leader specializing in SaaS product delivery and global SDLC

Seattle, WA35y exp

“Engineering leader with experience at Replenium, Savo Group, Radnet, and MatricOne, focused on business-aligned roadmaps and transparent, servant-style leadership. Notable for scaling teams quickly (18→36 in 6 months) and resolving high-impact performance incidents by leveraging DevOps data (reframed a suspected memory leak as a memory spike). Has led pragmatic build-vs-buy architecture decisions (waiting for a Microsoft transaction server) and uses Agile/CI/CD practices to drive consistent delivery.”

“Entrepreneur and technical architect who built and ran an MSP with over 200 clients, and previously architected systems for a company as it scaled from 50 to 500 employees. Also consulted for another fast-growing company on architecture and cloud migration, bringing a practical operator's perspective on scaling businesses and evaluating ideas based on real problem-solving.”

“Serial entrepreneur with 30+ years of professional software engineering experience who co-founded Food Truck Stars, initially a food-truck search engine and later pivoted into a catering marketplace to overcome adoption barriers. Validated the model by prototyping at car enthusiast events across the U.S. and turning a profit, using hands-on customer discovery with low-tech, time-constrained operators.”

“NYC-based Head of Operations with 12 years at Banyan, LLC supporting a CEO across a complex umbrella (hedge fund/broker-dealer, fundraising initiatives, recruiting, and even personal assets like four apple orchards). Known for high-discretion executive support, rigorous inbox/action-item systems, and building lightweight tools (trackers/visuals and a temporary web splash page) to accelerate alignment and fundraising outcomes.”