Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals

Paul Boehms

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive COO/CFO specializing in operational excellence, finance transformation, and M&A integration

Grand Rapids and Detroit, MI25y exp

“COO/operator with 12 years in law firm environments who founded an HR consulting startup under Clark Hill PLC, building the full go-to-market, pricing, and standardized service delivery playbooks (including a payroll-percentage fractional HR retainer model). Lean Six Sigma Black Belt with proven results in both manufacturing (raising rooftop AC output from 20 to 50 units/week) and professional services (cut ~1 week from invoicing to improve cash flow). Also runs financial operations for a fast-growing nonprofit sports club (600+ participants).”

“C-level operator and advisor who has led operational transformations at growing companies from ~$100M revenue to multi-billion scale. Focuses on working backwards from a north star to build KPI/decision-owner mechanisms, P&L-linked accountability, and agile org structures—citing outcomes like +500 bps market share gains, millions saved in people costs, and EBITDA acceleration for a PE exit.”

Bill Eichen

Screened

Executive product and business leader specializing in AI, semiconductors, and growth strategy

Palo Alto, CA23y exp

“Candidate indicated they have a business plan or startup and referenced Gimmelfund.com, a VC fund in Palo Alto. They also stated they are very familiar with the venture capital, studio, and accelerator landscape, but provided limited detail during the screen.”

Jesse Olson

Screened

Executive AI technology leader specializing in agentic AI and enterprise transformation

22y exp

“Candidate is exploring a startup in the autonomous agentic AI space and is approaching it with a disciplined founder mindset. They are evaluating market opportunity, competition, customer pain, ROI, technical feasibility, and MVP options while already speaking with potential customers across verticals to validate needs and buying processes.”

“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.”

Monica SilvaGutierrez

Screened

Executive Operations & Chief of Staff leader specializing in org change, People Ops, and operational excellence

New York, NY18y exp

“Senior Program Manager and Chief of Staff at Google who led large-scale cross-functional transformation work, including centralizing program management across a 14,000-person global technical org. Known for building rigorous governance, executive communication cadences, and single-source-of-truth dashboards, while also optimizing executive time and managing sensitive, high-stakes information.”

“Senior engineering leader with deep hands-on architecture experience across fintech and enterprise software. At DriveWealth, he led a major backend replatform for a brokerage platform handling 10M+ trades per day, combining event-driven design, Kinesis/Kafka, and regulatory-grade accuracy; at TIBCO, he built a Kubernetes-based API management product from near scratch into a successful revenue-generating offering.”

Alok Kumar

Screened

Director-level Product Management leader specializing in cybersecurity, cloud, and AI governance

Atlanta, GA24y exp

“Senior product leader with substantial end-to-end build experience across Microsoft, Amazon, NCR, and a current AI startup. Particularly notable for creating a machine-readable compliance platform at Microsoft, shipping AI-enabled support workflows, and combining enterprise-scale product rigor with a human-centered view of personalized AI.”

SHIVA SANDY

Screened

Executive CTO/CIO specializing in FinTech, cloud transformation, and cybersecurity

Walnut Creek, CA27y exp

“Banking/credit-union technology executive (CTO/CTIO) who has led modernization and product delivery through major change, including a post-merger roadmap that helped grow a credit union from $600M to $1.5B in 3 years. Hands-on leader who drove cloud microservices/API architecture, introduced CI/CD, and accelerated releases from quarterly to weekly while scaling teams and operating effectively with distributed/remote orgs.”

“Senior Microsoft engineering leader who has led globally distributed orgs of up to 250 engineers while staying deeply technical in large-scale platform architecture, reliability, and AI systems. Notable work includes modernizing Teams infrastructure serving massive global scale and incubating an internal AI pair-programmer/knowledge-graph platform over 650M lines of code, plus helping launch foundational Copilot search and retrieval APIs.”

“Entrepreneur building an AI-driven small molecule biotech startup who has already raised $5M from major venture capital investors. Brings 3 years of fundraising experience and a thoughtful approach to aligning investors with different risk profiles across financing stages, paired with strong conviction around founding high-risk, high-upside companies.”

“Co-founded Aethernet Inc., a B2B IoT connectivity platform with a usage-based revenue model and direct sales motion to device manufacturers. Bootstrapped with founder capital and strict cost control, with angel interest pending technical validation; developed the product through multi-year architecture experiments to deliver measurable latency/reliability/scalability/cost advantages versus DevOps-heavy incumbents like AWS IoT Core.”

“Candidate brings experience across both startups and big tech, along with direct exposure to pitching ideas to several VCs. They show a practical founder mindset centered on rapid prototyping, customer feedback, retention, and building AI/agent-driven products with strong product-market fit potential.”

“Engineering leader with deep distributed-systems expertise who led Oracle's replacement of a legacy Fusion Applications authorization service with a cloud-native Go/Kubernetes RBAC platform delivering sub-10ms latency. Combines hands-on architecture depth with org-building experience, having grown a geo-distributed team from 4 to 26 and led managers, architects, and cross-functional delivery across Oracle and Microsoft environments.”