Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals

Nathan Cohen

Screened

Director-level People & Platform Leader specializing in global org scaling and enterprise systems

13y exp

“Former Director of Product turned Head of People at Endeavor, blending product/analytics rigor with HR leadership. Managed globally dispersed teams across 30+ countries and helped standardize leadership expectations for managing directors across 40+ offices through competency alignment and structured evaluations.”

colton childrey

Screened

Senior QA Leader specializing in AAA games, XR platforms, and backend systems

Los Angeles, CA7y exp

“Game/interactive software QA professional with experience spanning AAA titles (Activision Black Ops 3; Halo 4/Forge) and VR at Meta (The World Beyond). Notable for modernizing QA operations at Lego BrickLink Studio by implementing Testmo and dramatically increasing test coverage and user satisfaction, plus quickly diagnosing and unblocking a critical public-launch issue caused by misconfigured gatekeeper flags.”

Khori Whittaker

Screened

Executive Venture Builder & Operator specializing in 0-to-1 launches and governance

Remote, Global15y exp

“Solo founder running a venture studio (Mongoose) building AI-personalized products (e.g., faith-based daily devotional, meal planning, and a platform aimed at helping retiring SMB owners sell businesses). Previously at InsideTrack, leveraged a Department of Labor grant program to break into the community college market and secured major contracts ($5M and $3M) by helping institutions craft winning grant applications.”

Mariana Quintanilha

Screened

Executive Brand & Integrated Marketing Leader specializing in GTM and growth strategy

Los Angeles, CA18y exp

“VP-level marketing leader in proptech/real estate marketplaces who blends brand strategy with performance rigor. Repositioned RentSpree with a full narrative/IA and cross-channel messaging overhaul driving +32% conversions and major signup growth, and built an internal AI copy assistant to scale on-brand content across teams. At QuintoAndar, created the company’s first 360 mass media acquisition engine, delivering significant lifts in direct traffic, visits, and contracts while implementing CAC guardrails and MMM-style measurement.”

“Commercially driven founder/operator with hands-on fundraising experience across angels, family offices, SPVs, VC, and PE-backed brands. Helped MATE.bike raise a $10M Series A and supported K-Way's US market development, while currently building a startup with up to $3.9M in soft commitments.”

Chris Przybyszewski

Screened

Executive entrepreneur specializing in biotech, medtech, and fundraising

“Serial entrepreneur who has founded five companies, achieved one acquisition with another pending, and raised $150M across biotech, medtech, and mobile tech ventures. Brings rare end-to-end startup formation experience spanning EIR and accelerator mentorship, board and executive leadership, and sophisticated capital strategy across both dilutive and nondilutive funding.”

“Healthcare-focused operator/investor with multiple emerging startup ideas, including a patented fish oil formulation backed by a published NEJM clinical trial and a fermentation-based functional ingredients company restart. Brings a patient-first mindset, experience leading companies in incubator settings, and a distinctly investor-driven lens on commercialization, fundraising, and cap table strategy.”

Clifton Gilley

Screened

Executive product leader specializing in product management and Agile transformation

Remote, USA25y exp

“Veteran product leader with roughly 20 years of experience spanning legal tech, higher education, and enterprise software, including early AI/ML applications in e-discovery at massive scale. Unusually combines product leadership with a background in law, psychology, and sociology, giving him strong domain empathy and a human-centered approach to UX, AI, and organizational transformation.”

Eric Lesser

Screened

Principal real estate and corporate attorney specializing in transactions and governance

New York, NY37y exp

“Seasoned New York real estate attorney with practice dating back to 1991, including decades of independently running a firm's real estate function and handling deals from inception through closing. Brings broad transactional experience across residential, commercial, mixed-use, office, warehouse, and light industrial properties, with particular strength in 1031 exchanges, leasing, financing negotiations, and managing difficult client dynamics to get transactions over the finish line.”

Olivier Meyer

Screened

Executive product leader specializing in AI-enabled B2B SaaS platforms

Herndon, VA31y exp

“Product leader with experience both scaling enterprise platforms and building product organizations from zero. At PerformYard, they introduced AI across HR/performance workflows, built the first PM, design, and QA teams, and applied deep BI/analytics expertise to unblock a stalled reporting product. They also led technically complex platform work at VBrick, including a WebRTC-based peer-to-peer distribution capability for large-scale enterprise video delivery.”

“Unity VR/MR developer with multiple shipped Meta Quest projects, including a multi-user mixed-reality co-creation experience featuring real-time connection logic and shader-driven mesh generation for performance. Also builds AI-powered interactive applications, recently creating a video interview simulator using OpenAI API, HeyGen real-time avatars, and AWS audio/agent tooling while managing end-to-end latency challenges.”

“HR/operations leader with experience since 2003 advising and working directly for owners across multiple organizations, including building scalable HR infrastructure during a major growth phase at Bosch. Known for using market data and benchmarking to drive compensation changes that improved employee quality, and for designing scalable compliance programs (e.g., I-9 remediation with ongoing training and annual reviews). Recently launched an independent consulting practice and leverages structured communication and AI meeting assistants to manage part-time advisory engagements.”

“Operations-focused leader with experience spanning client delivery, sales operations, and longer-term customer success initiatives at a reputation analytics firm and at Penta. Known for implementing systems (ClickUp, Salesforce/HubSpot, marketing tech) and rigorous reporting rhythms that improve executive visibility, accountability, and data-driven resource allocation; also supported an acquisition by preparing confidential financial documentation and contracts.”

“Operations and revenue-ops leader with higher-education experience who built a team and the full operating/marketing/sales infrastructure from scratch, getting to revenue in under a year and beating projections by year 2. Deep hands-on Salesforce CRM implementation and automation (lead-to-opportunity conversion, round-robin assignment, dashboards) paired with data-driven brand/market research and executive mentoring.”

“Enterprise Architecture leader with insurance domain experience (Farmers Insurance) who drove a multi-phase roadmap to modernize a siloed CRM landscape—migrating from legacy Siebel to Salesforce Financial Services Cloud with Customer 360, MDM, and omnichannel capabilities. Also led a high-impact architecture decision to implement offline billing to reduce customer-facing downtime, including complex SAP/on-prem-to-cloud integration and transaction sync.”

ABHIJOY SARKAR

Screened

Senior AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, agentic systems, and MLOps

San Francisco Bay Area, CA8y exp

“Built and shipped PromptGuard, a production middleware proxy that secures GenAI RAG/agent systems against prompt injection and unsafe tool use using risk scoring, graded policy actions, and least-privilege tool gating. Also replaced LangChain abstractions with a custom state-machine runner for a production voice agent to reduce latency and improve traceability, and delivered a clinic call assistant by converting front-desk/doctor requirements into scenario-based guardrails and measurable evals.”

Jignesh Desai

Screened

Director of Software Engineering specializing in fraud detection and payments platforms

San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA26y exp

“Engineering manager/player-coach who focuses on laying technical foundations and improving team execution: kickstarted Visa standard UI library adoption, standardized API exception handling, and introduced a test automation framework that enabled a shift from quarterly to monthly releases. Led a phased latency/throughput initiative that doubled throughput, and owned a production incident caused by a dependency’s expired certificate, driving monitoring and certificate-expiry notification improvements across dependent systems.”

Colleen Quinn

Screened

Executive People Operations leader specializing in global, remote-first startups

12y exp

“NYC-based HR Business Partner with deep startup experience supporting product, design, and analytics orgs. Known for building competency matrices and career pathing frameworks that stabilized teams and improved retention during rapid growth, and for partnering with senior leadership through multiple RIFs using a transparency-first communication and support approach.”

“Finance and private markets professional with experience at Wells Fargo and US Bank who has built a founder-adjacent sourcing skill set through deal origination, CFO outreach, and co-investment evaluation. Stands out for translating cold outreach into financing conversations and for using a structured investment lens across capital structure, unit economics, and market opportunity.”

“Engineering leader who has operated effectively in both a VC-backed startup and SAP, combining director-level org leadership with day-to-day technical depth. Notable for re-architecting integrations that produced a 3x revenue gain, leading a 90-engineer matrixed organization, and staying hands-on in GenAI, infrastructure, and full-stack problem solving.”

“Revenue and GTM leader with cross-industry experience spanning cafes/e-commerce, fintech, SaaS, and energy. Has repeatedly built or rebuilt commercial functions from scratch, including a 300% EBITDA improvement at Second Cup, international sales leadership at Trulioo, and an $800k ARR enterprise win with Public Storage at Storable.”

“Current COO who rebuilds and scales operational backbones end-to-end—data architecture, workflows, dashboards, and operating cadence—creating real-time visibility into pipeline, cycle times, and revenue forecasting. Known as a cross-functional integrator (hiring, GTM, finance, investors) who drives tough tradeoffs and turns ambiguity into durable operating systems.”

“Early-stage GTM and revenue-operations builder who helped Seculert (cybersecurity breach detection) scale beyond founder-led sales as US employee #3, standing up TAM/ICP targeting, first SDR/AE hires, Salesforce, and lead scoring/qualification systems. Experienced mentoring founders/executives with lightweight, stage-appropriate operating cadences and playbooks to create repeatable pipeline and scalable execution.”

“Chief of Staff at the Kufel Group with a strong operator + investment/portfolio orientation, leading OKR rollout, real-time portfolio reporting, and AI workflow adoption in parallel. Built AI-enabled executive productivity systems (meeting transcription/summaries, prep briefs, scheduling optimization) and measured impact via an Executive Effectiveness Dashboard, citing a 40% drop in urgent escalations and 13% portfolio performance improvement.”