Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals

“Talent leader with ~20 years reporting directly to CEOs/COOs and advising seed-to-Series C startups and venture studio portfolios on 0-to-1 hiring. Built recruiting infrastructure from scratch at FightCamp (cut time-to-hire to ~35 days with ~98% acceptance) and has proven hands-on executive search impact, including taking over and closing a Chief Product Officer search in ~45 days.”

“Hands-on engineering leader with 22 years in marine vessel monitoring/control who spans embedded electronics/software through cloud services. Built end-to-end telemetry platforms (sensors to cloud to web UI/API) and led a shift from low-level implementations to web-native technologies to accelerate delivery and broaden the hiring pool, while also scaling teams with a strong culture of openness and accountability.”

“Operations leader/advisor with experience helping an early-stage tech company scale from ~100 to ~250 employees by redesigning operating processes, implementing RACI-based accountability, and introducing automation and real-time dashboards. Notably improved the sales-to-onboarding handoff to create a more consistent client experience and accelerate onboarding, supporting referral-driven growth while coaching founders/executives to embrace simplicity as a speed lever.”

“Operations and governance/risk consultant with experience across retail, beauty, construction, and consulting, drawing on prior work at MetLife, Fidelity, and BB&T. Known for replacing manual, spreadsheet-driven compliance/operations with centralized governance dashboards and scalable frameworks, and for mentoring early-stage founders using RACI, financial controls, and AI/automation to scale deliberately.”

“Operations leader with repeated experience integrating acquired firms into a larger platform, running top-to-bottom operational reviews and driving transitions to new policies, procedures, and systems using structured project management (ClickUp/monday.com). Known for building accountability cadences and coaching leaders—often shifting KPI visibility and leadership approach to improve consistency across revenue, billability, A/R, and other core metrics.”

“COO experience at an early-stage technology company (CyberAlliance) focused on building scalable operating systems: SMART goal-setting by function, KPI-based performance management, monthly business reviews, and a structured stage-gate product introduction process. Also has hands-on experience rapidly adapting support operations to meet new customer 24x7 monitoring requirements while planning for scale.”

“Entrepreneurial operator with experience creating business plans and securing venture capital to accelerate a go-to-market strategy. Demonstrates a structured approach to new ventures: framing opportunities, validating/de-risking via market/competitive/external analysis and financial modeling, then building governance, sponsorship, and an execution plan with the right team.”

“Candidate is not currently pursuing a startup or business plan and is not looking to found a company at this time, expressing a preference for joining an existing organization. They have limited familiarity with the VC/accelerator landscape but are specifically interested in learning how companies are evaluated and how investment decisions are made.”

“Early-stage founder building an engineering alpha product and planning a structured path to pilot and general availability. Active mentor in TechStars and MassChallenge with a strong VC network, emphasizing PMF, MVP-in-market feedback, and early sales while maintaining a sustainable approach to entrepreneurship.”

“Pre-seed founder (pre-product) building a new enterprise control layer for AI-enabled organizations focused on governed autonomy and decision-cycle compression; thesis formalized in their book "The Decision Velocity Era." Former CEO of Evaluation Solutions who built an internal proprietary operating system, proved it in live operations, commercialized it as SaaS, and enabled growth to $120M+ in contracted revenue.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-based PDF extraction pipeline for Medicaid policy documents by fine-tuning Gemini Flash 2.0 and deploying via Vertex AI, adding validation/guardrails to improve trust and reliability. Also built and scaled a SaaS platform (cnotes) for cable operators and regularly partners with customers and sales teams through interactive demos, rapid iteration, and real-time workflow debugging.”

“Operations leader/advisor with experience joining a Cedar Sinai Accelerator spinout (RAIOS) at an inflection point and rebuilding the company’s internal ops “connective tissue” across HR, finance, IT, product, and sales. Uses structured frameworks (RACI, OKRs/KPIs), rapid diagnostics, and tool centralization (Gusto, BILL, Brex) to create scalable, founder-friendly operating systems.”

“HR leader with cross-border (U.S. & Canada) experience who has supported technical and data orgs (engineering, product, analytics/BI) as an HRBP/HR Director. Partnered directly with C-suite leaders to refresh mission/vision/values using a data-backed proposal and led the rollout across processes, policies, and employee resources, alongside driving succession planning, talent reviews, and compliant reorganizations.”

“Product/technology executive who has repeatedly built and scaled engineering organizations from early-stage startups to large enterprises (including Temenos with ~2,000 developers). Led major platform modernizations (monolith-to-microservices) to enable SaaS, resilience, and faster delivery, and launched an innovation hub to build proprietary neural-network biometric algorithms for a payments product enabling "wave of the hand" transactions.”

“Operator who took a seed-funded university spin-off in cybersecurity from zero revenue and heavy losses to profitability and industry leadership, while building the full internal ops stack (HR/payroll/benefits/401k) and the initial GTM engine (Salesforce/HubSpot, SPIN + MEDPICC). Personally led fundraising across 30+ VC pitches, raising $11.2M total and delivering $98M returned to investors to date, with additional upside from a subsequent spin-off.”

“Startup product/enterprise-stack builder who helped take Ventric Health from R&D to a market-launched healthcare product in 2024, operating in a $34M-raised, revenue-generating model leveraging Medicare C reimbursement through providers. Previously drove adoption of an integrated K-12 digital learning platform distributed to 100+ institutions over two years, with reported improvements in test scores.”

“People/Org leader with hands-on experience managing teams across Europe and the US, often in post-merger consolidation environments. Has repeatedly built product/design/analytics teams from scratch using benchmarking, role templating, and budget/scenario planning with finance, and has led high-stakes change initiatives including reorgs, M&A integration, and RIF execution with structured global communications.”

“Recruiting leader who builds structured, competency-based hiring systems and can also personally run Senior Director-to-C-Suite searches. Notable for scaling a full hiring season to 175+ teacher hires and for leading a high-stakes CEO succession search, advising a board to define a new leadership vision and landing a CEO who remains successful four years later.”

“Talent/Recruiting Operations leader who has managed a 7-person team and owned end-to-end talent planning, succession planning, performance management, and broader HR operations. Known for redesigning intern recruiting/onboarding by partnering deeply with business units, resulting in stronger intern cohorts and higher engagement scores, and for leading ATS changes as the project manager while building Workday recruiting analytics dashboards with HRIS.”

“Operations-focused executive leader with experience spanning Fortune 500 and early-stage startups, known for building marketing and cross-functional operating systems from scratch. At Quinn Foods, introduced alignment frameworks (Four Helpful Lists, RASTI) and SOP rigor that helped achieve 5.5 ROAS and a 41% lift in household penetration; at Zoox, redesigned product development workflow and stage-gates, supporting 30% growth.”

“Engineering/exec leader (CEO experience) who built a lighting controls and building automation platform from scratch, choosing an Ethernet/PoE and Node.js web-centric architecture that anticipated market shifts and later became an industry pattern. Known for rigorous vendor QA (test-to-failure) and for delivering high-profile deployments (e.g., Black Desert Resort, Resorts World Villa 66) while leading globally distributed engineering teams.”

“Global operations/program leader from PSI who ran concurrent transformation initiatives across US/APAC/EMEA—AI-driven proctoring automation, vendor consolidation, and BI/exec dashboards—while overseeing delivery of millions of exams in 120+ countries. Known for KPI-based governance (RACI, steering cadences, shared dashboards) that drove measurable outcomes: +20% throughput, $5M annual cost reduction, and 30% reduction in executive meeting load with faster decision cycles.”

“Chief of Staff and head of a Global Central PMO who has led high-stakes, cross-functional initiatives spanning budgeting transformation, federal consent order deliverables, and audit process implementation. Drove a major operational automation effort—digitizing headcount tracking and requisition approvals for 10,000+ employees—delivering a reported 65% efficiency gain while maintaining strong executive alignment through concise dashboards and regular checkpoints.”

“Operations and general management leader with experience spanning Citibank (Regional VP), a startup COO/GM role, and industrial operations at Tatco. Has delivered high-impact operational and technology changes including a Paychex payroll migration for 150+ employees and an ERP/subscriber migration of 200,000+ records that improved marketing execution and sales enablement, while also managing executive alignment and sensitive workforce matters.”