Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals

“Engineering leader (ActiveCampaign, Yalo) with a track record of scaling both systems and orgs: grew an engineering team from 90+ to 200+ (30+ scrum teams) while re-architecting a marketing automation platform from batch to near real-time. Led major infrastructure shifts (RabbitMQ to Kafka, multi-region redundancy) and reports outcomes including 600%+ throughput gains, 99.99% uptime, and business growth from ~80K to 185K customers with revenue surpassing $200M over ~3 years.”

Scott D'Andrea

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Executive Business Manager / COO Chief of Staff in global investment banking

New York, NY25y exp

“Business Manager/Chief of Staff with 20+ years in investment banking (Barclays, HSBC) leading cross-functional governance across IT, Ops, Finance, Compliance, and Risk. Notably helped launch and operationalize a new TRS on leveraged loans trading desk at Barclays, including building a bespoke trade-booking system and scaling the business from $0 to >$20B AUM, later becoming the largest TRS desk globally.”

Alexander Schaab

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Executive Technology & Product Leader specializing in ADAS and software-defined vehicles

Cupertino, CA14y exp

“Automotive technology leader who has driven ADAS/autonomous driving (L2++ to L4) and AI-assistance roadmaps for Mercedes and Volkswagen Group. In current role, built a software-defined vehicle organization from a handful of people to ~150 supporting VW, Porsche, and Audi, while setting scalable architecture foundations across brands and vehicle classes.”

Kaushik Mukherjee

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Executive technology leader specializing in search, ads, and data/AI platforms

Bangalore, India

“Engineering/technology leader with payments (UPI) scale experience who built fraud and growth systems for tens of millions of daily transactions while keeping CAC and cost guardrails. Scaled an engineering org from 12 to 155 in a year using platform + pod structures, and institutionalized canary deployments with auto-rollback (cutting degradations ~75%) while leveraging GenAI for code and test automation.”

Tina Bai

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Executive operator-founder specializing in GTM, revenue strategy, and AI-native commercial operations

New York, NY10y exp

“Operator with Deloitte consulting experience supporting PE/VC-backed portfolio companies and current experience inside a VC-funded Series C scale-up. Building a bootstrapped D2C women’s telehealth brand (Petty Pills) with two initial SKUs, deployed tech stack, and white-labeled clinical/compliance infrastructure, leveraging AI tooling to keep operations lean while focusing on full-time operator roles.”

“Startup operator with experience across more than 12 startups, focused on taking early-stage companies to the next level from a growth and development standpoint. Highly familiar with the venture capital, studio, and accelerator ecosystem, and motivated by fast execution, cross-functional ownership, and building alongside strong teams.”

Jean-Marc Chanoine

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Executive sales leader specializing in Enterprise SaaS and AI go-to-market

New York, NY15y exp

“Self-funded aspiring founder with a few million dollars available to launch a consumer health product startup centered on oxymetazoline nasal spray and AI-driven marketing. He claims deep familiarity with venture/accelerator ecosystems, was accepted by Fractal, and serves as an advisor at Berkeley SkyDeck, suggesting strong startup-network access and ecosystem fluency.”

“Senior engineering leader with a rare blend of deep platform/infrastructure expertise and large-scale people leadership, spanning hands-on cloud-native architecture through management of globally distributed organizations of up to roughly 180 engineers. Particularly strong in Kubernetes platform modernization, reliability engineering, and scaling high-throughput SaaS systems while aligning platform investments to customer and business outcomes.”

“Engineering/data platform leader from FLYR (airline ML forecasting and automated pricing) who built scalable ingestion/ETL and a canonical data model to onboard airlines with highly heterogeneous source systems. Created a golden-metrics layer for airline KPIs and implemented monitoring/backfill capabilities, cutting onboarding time by 50%+ while improving SLA performance and controlling cloud/ML training costs through stronger data quality gates.”

“Operations/finance transformation leader with experience in large healthcare organizations (e.g., PacifiCare and KP), brought in to stabilize and modernize operating cadence during high-change periods. Known for applying lean/agile methods (value-stream mapping, 2-week sprints, kanban, RACI) to build KPI single-sources-of-truth and scalable analytics operating models, delivering 40%+ cycle-time/rework reductions and improved forecasting/decision velocity.”

“Portfolio manager and investment/product leader in sustainable equities who drives cross-functional delivery across CIO office, research, client communications, marketing, and compliance. Notably built a thematic product framework and compliance-approved pitch materials that cut bespoke strategy turnaround from 1–3 months to 1 week and improved mandate win-rate from 10% to ~33%.”

“Founder building a digital transformation startup that combines execution, GCC/center-of-excellence setup to fund transformation via labor arbitrage savings, and an AI/data analytics platform with live dashboards. Previously delivered multiple Fortune 500 transformations and created fraud-detection value by reusing in-vehicle cybersecurity data to identify warranty and odometer rollback fraud; currently raising capital through executive/board networks and Silicon Valley investors.”

“Operator focused on scaling and growing organizations, with experience in PE/VC-backed environments. Familiar with PE/VC and accelerator/studio models and how to apply them to create business agility and rapid experimentation while preserving innovation as companies scale.”

“Game UI engineer with shipped experience on Paladins (Unreal Engine 3/C++), including an in-game store with automated grid-based recommendation layout and an inventory UI built for PC/PlayStation/Xbox/Switch. Emphasizes production readiness through clean separation of UI/data, strong documentation for engineering and content workflows, and memory-conscious UI patterns (pooled entries/paged navigation) for constrained platforms like Switch.”

Philip Kearney

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Executive engineering leader specializing in embedded systems, IoT, and wireless networking

San Francisco Bay Area, CA34y exp

“Former Apple employee who worked with Steve Jobs in the early 2000s and is now looking to join startups as a CTO partner to non-technical founders. Brings a thoughtful, skeptical lens on VC-backed startup execution, emphasizing technical feasibility, real product-market fit, and mission-driven teams solving meaningful problems.”

“Engineering leader with a mix of large-scale platform experience at Microsoft and product/customer-facing work across GM, Panasonic, Acuity, and other environments. Stands out for combining people leadership with hands-on depth in accessibility, web performance at 120M+ MAU scale, and cross-functional delivery spanning enterprise permissions, e-commerce, AI, and automotive systems.”

Eric Holden

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Senior technology and operations leader specializing in digital transformation

Manhattan, NY14y exp

“Strategy and operations leader with cross-sector experience in tech, finance, government, and logistics, known for building and scaling transformation and automation programs from the ground up. Their track record includes $4M in annual automation savings/revenue, $5M+ in first-year savings for financial institutions through KYC/AML workflow automation, and a new logistics service launch that expanded to multiple cities and generated $15M in revenue.”

“Seasoned business leader with decades of leadership experience (including Fortune 50/500) and prior Silicon Valley startup exposure, now pursuing entrepreneurship. Building “Datascension,” a gamified, story/episode-based career coaching platform that includes hands-on tasks (e.g., SQL queries, Python scripts) plus a participation-based credit/currency system and certification/badging, informed by feedback from recruiters and coaching/recruiting firms.”

“Serial game publishing builder who has helped raise $300M+ across multiple rounds for four publishers. Deeply embedded in the SF/LA VC ecosystem and actively advises clients through pitch rounds, emphasizing data-driven narratives, timing, and investor relationship-building in highly scrutinized markets.”