Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals

“Building a confidential startup in the software security space (no capital raised yet). Has been learning the VC/accelerator landscape through a network of founders and independent research, with a focus on investor readiness and relationship-driven access to VCs. Motivated to found due to repeated layoffs and late-stage hiring pauses, seeking more control while prioritizing family financial stability.”

William Elderton

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in FinTech, cloud platforms, and digital transformation

Austin, TX26y exp

“Seasoned operator with 30 years of experience at multiple startup companies, primarily in venture-backed environments, plus some exposure to private equity-backed firms. The candidate is highly familiar with the VC and accelerator ecosystem, though they clarified they were pursuing a CTO role rather than actively planning to found a startup.”

Jeremy Combs

Screened

Executive sales leader specializing in insurance, financial services, and healthcare

Phoenix, AZ10y exp

“Sales leader with experience spanning insurance, financial services, and medical devices, including ownership of a $200M revenue target and leadership of a 300-person national team. Stands out for combining operational rigor with customer-centered strategy—most notably creating an alternative carrier solution that protected 77,000 California policyholders while preserving revenue and jobs.”

“Engineering leader focused on large-scale enterprise SaaS and MDM platforms, with experience modernizing monoliths into microservices, improving reliability, and scaling systems to support 15M devices across AWS and Azure. Stands out for combining deep platform architecture work with strong org-building: managed teams up to 45 globally and built a 0-to-1 platform services team to 22 people in under a year.”

Rina Thakker

Screened

Executive Product & Technology Leader specializing in consumer digital platforms and media

Darien, CT21y exp

“CTO at Grand Slam Track (track & field league) for ~2 years, owning a broad technology portfolio across digital marketing tech, IT, broadcast technology, and athlete/data management systems. Entrepreneurial operator with repeated experience assessing product-market fit using user sentiment, demand data, demographic targeting, and A/B testing; familiar with VC mechanics and looking to deepen hands-on fundraising experience via a large network and board connections.”

“Built ZenDraft and brings an operator's lens to founder sourcing and evaluation. Demonstrated ability to run structured outbound, convert cold outreach into product-shaping conversations and pilot introductions, and manage an early-stage investment-style pipeline with clear decision frameworks.”

“Early-stage venture and talent operator with experience sourcing founders and leadership talent, including helping source Truemoringa into a pre-seed investment. Brings a relationship-first style, broad venture-network sourcing, and structured diligence processes spanning product, IP, legal, operations, and cap table review.”

Nilesh Dixit

Screened

Executive AI engineering leader specializing in agentic AI and enterprise platforms

San Francisco, CA24y exp

“Bay Area engineering leader and startup co-founder with a rare mix of deep hands-on architecture experience, large-scale people leadership, and cross-functional product ownership. He helped launch GE Digital's industrial IoT efforts, holds multiple patents in the space, has scaled teams to 60-70 people, and has led both enterprise platform modernization and AI startup product development.”

“Applied Scientist with legal-tech experience who builds production LLM systems. Created and deployed Quibo AI, a LangGraph-based multi-agent pipeline that turns large markdown/Jupyter inputs into polished blogs and social posts, overcoming context limits via ChromaDB + HyDE RAG. Also built a large-scale iterative code-evolution workflow using multi-model orchestration (GPT/Claude/Gemini) with testing, debugging loops, and evaluation/observability practices.”

“Software/cloud engineer with PwC experience deploying a nationwide Australian Government Salesforce labor licensing platform used by 200k+ professionals, emphasizing safe integration, CI/CD, and UAT-driven quality improvements (40% defect reduction). Also built a Python/FastAPI RAG system with the U.S. Army to convert CONOP documents into risk assessments, adding human-in-the-loop and provenance features to address operator trust concerns.”

“RevOps/strategy operator at Cognitiv reporting directly to the President, owning 30+ measurable outcomes across 8 corporate objectives. Known for building executive operating rhythms (Slack-driven weekly business pulse reporting) and driving cross-functional alignment across Sales, CS, Marketing, Product, and Finance. Delivered measurable growth impact (20% lift in auto growth progress in 8 weeks) by using red-teaming insights to reallocate marketing investment.”

Tonya Jackson

Screened

Executive Supply Chain & People Leader specializing in ESG, product delivery, and corporate governance

Lexington, KY40y exp

“Angel investor (Bluegrass Angels) who advises early-stage companies on product and organizational design, with a background leading corporate back-office (finance/customer service) and supply chain. Proposed and implemented a Global Business Services/shared services unit at a large corporation, building the savings/ROI case and running quarterly progress reviews to ensure adoption and results.”

Sumaya Shakir

Screened

Executive Technology Leader specializing in SaaS platforms, data ecosystems, and product engineering

24y exp

“Technology leader who drove end-to-end modernization at Dogtopia—building a proprietary SaaS POS/CRM and operations platform plus an AI-powered customer app—using OKR-driven roadmaps and Agile/DevOps delivery. Previously at GE, led a cloud-native AWS data fabric re-architecture with strong security/governance (RBAC, classification, encryption, lineage, virtualization), cutting processing time 60%+ and enabling AI workloads tied to $400M in business value.”

Inman Breaux

Screened

Executive SaaS & AdTech CEO specializing in AI attribution and mobile growth

San Francisco, CA17y exp

“Mobile-tech entrepreneur building AppQ (mobile.appq.ai), an agentic mobile SDK that optimizes mobile UX in real time to improve Day 1/Day 7 retention by adjusting levers like ad frequency, difficulty, messaging, and artwork. Previously co-founded an SDK-led mobile ad network (invented push notification ads), scaled to 300K+ SDK integrations, and grew revenue from $7M in 10 months to $50M the following year before exiting in 2020.”

Paiman Nodoushani

Screened

Executive CTO specializing in AI-powered transformation for enterprise SaaS

New York, NY35y exp

“Former Cisco professional who successfully pitched and got funding for adding virtualization to access routers to enable third-party application development, framing the opportunity with clear revenue upside and risk management. Highly interested in AI—especially agent-based development—and believes it lowers the barrier to building and shipping new products with small, high-caliber teams.”

“Solo technical founder building LabInsights, a healthcare middleware platform aimed at reducing missed follow-ups for abnormal lab results by layering AI-driven flagging, patient-friendly education, and prioritized care-team workflows on top of existing hospital systems. Currently validating in Bangalore with a former hospital CEO advisor, focusing on unit economics and securing LOIs/paid pilots; attracted to a venture studio to fill GTM, fundraising, and ops gaps.”

Steven Petermann

Screened

Director-level Sales Leader specializing in Enterprise SaaS and public sector GTM

Atlanta, GA16y exp

“Sales leader from Barracuda Networks with strong experience running Southeast-region SaaS business across Enterprise, Commercial, and especially SLED/public sector accounts. Stands out for bringing discipline to long-cycle government sales, improving forecast quality, and consistently delivering at or above plan while expanding into larger enterprise and public-sector opportunities.”

“Senior engineering leader from IBM who has built and scaled enterprise AI/GenAI platforms across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, combining executive-level org leadership with hands-on debugging of production distributed systems. Particularly compelling for Director/VP roles needing someone who can unify architecture, platform strategy, and engineering execution across multiple teams.”

Polat Akbiyik

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and trading systems

Remote4y exp

“Full-stack builder with strong product and AI systems ownership, spanning data infrastructure, React/TypeScript apps, and LLM-powered agents. Particularly notable for building a crypto analytics MVP with catalog-driven ETL, config-based charting, and AI-generated dashboards, plus an options-strategy agent and an ops automation tool that cut a 10-minute workflow down to 10 seconds.”

“Built and deployed a production AI/ML SRE copilot that uses RAG over real-time Splunk signals plus deployment/runbook data to generate grounded incident summaries and next steps, cutting time-to-contact by 30%. Treats the knowledge corpus like a production dataset (quality gates, semantic chunking, metadata enrichment) and runs golden-dataset automated evals to ensure reliability, while partnering closely with ops/support leaders through discovery sessions and metric-driven demos.”

“Technology leader with experience owning enterprise roadmaps and executing large-scale platform standardization during rapid M&A—most notably driving a tech roadmap across a 37-company portfolio at Regent, tackling technical debt and security gaps via unified cloud-native architecture, IAM/logging, CI/CD, and a global SRE model. Previously scaled an Adobe engineering org from 8 to 40+ across four regions, implementing clear org design, KPIs, and an extreme-ownership culture to support 24/7 operations and enterprise needs.”

Tom Dinwiddie

Screened

Executive IT Leader specializing in global SaaS, cloud transformation, and M&A integration

20y exp

“Technology executive/CTO-type leader with experience at ALLDATA defining and operationalizing an executive-prioritized roadmap, scaling distributed engineering teams (including expansion in Mexico and India), and modernizing products onto a containerized Google Cloud architecture. Highlights include 99.96% reliability, 38% maintenance cost reduction, and strong security/compliance posture (CyberArk, ISO27001, SOC2, SOX).”

Jesse Margareten

Screened

Executive Strategy & PMO Leader specializing in digital and business transformation

New York, NY7y exp

“VP of Strategy & Project Management with experience running ~10 parallel cross-functional initiatives, including spearheading a bank-wide DocuSign implementation across Legal/IT/Ops/Front Office. Previously at Google, built an executive dashboard for global public policy engagement and introduced a sentiment scoring system to improve leadership decision-making; strong in executive alignment, business case development, and high-cadence communications.”

“Entrepreneur building a bootstrapped AI-based personal agent (inspired by Claude desktop) aimed at making AI assistance accessible to non-technical users. Motivated by improving individuals' daily lives by helping them organize their day and offload simple, repeatable tasks; plans to explore VC/accelerator options but has not raised capital yet.”