Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals

“Industrial design + mechanical engineering product developer with 15 years in venture-backed startups and venture studios, including CTO-level leadership and a recent equity exit. Now building a sustainability/recycling technology venture with a prototype and patent counsel engaged, currently in the City of Austin Circular Economy Accelerator and aiming to secure a municipal waste-management pilot partner at an upcoming pitch event.”

“Candidate indicated they have an existing startup but have not raised capital. They expressed strong concerns about AI-enabled social engineering and ended the screening due to perceived irrelevance of the startup-focused questions to the job.”

“Backend/cloud engineer who built an AWS serverless IoT system that computes Bluetooth beacon locations from telemetry using heavy scientific Python (NumPy/SciPy/pandas) packaged as Dockerized Lambda, integrated with Java microservices and scheduled batch orchestration. Has deep AWS delivery experience (CI/CD with Code* tools, CloudFormation, cost controls) and has led high-severity incident response including CloudTrail forensics and infrastructure recovery after a compromised-keys crypto-mining attack.”

“Founder who built and operated a marketing agency (Six Degrees) end-to-end, setting up legal/infrastructure foundations and implementing SOPs, KPIs, and repeatable operating rhythms. Emphasizes operational excellence, predictable delivery, and prioritization based on customer impact, revenue risk, and compliance/safety.”

“Operations-focused leader with multi-property experience who turns vague complaints (labor spend vs. service quality) into repeatable operating systems. Known for aligning finance, ops, revenue, and HR around shared metrics, running pilots before scaling, and improving labor efficiency/staffing predictability without harming guest experience.”

“Currently at Magnum managing a small global team (NY/London/Paris) and leading analytics operations, including financial reporting for a Shopify-based ecommerce platform. Partnered directly with a newly appointed CFO and COO during a significant org change involving elimination of three global director roles, coached the COO through difficult conversations, and supported a senior promotion that included navigating an H-1B visa process.”

“LLM/agent builder who shipped a live consumer AI-agent app (kalpa.chat) that visualizes complex reasoning as interactive graphs and abstracts multi-provider model usage via a unified wallet. Professionally has applied LangChain/LangGraph to IVR parsing and to scaling a football video-generation pipeline at DAZN, including shipping a VAR-specific retrieval/order fix via SQL after iterating with a non-technical PM.”

“Engineering leader with experience at Replenium, Savo Group, Radnet, and MatricOne, focused on business-aligned roadmaps and transparent, servant-style leadership. Notable for scaling teams quickly (18→36 in 6 months) and resolving high-impact performance incidents by leveraging DevOps data (reframed a suspected memory leak as a memory spike). Has led pragmatic build-vs-buy architecture decisions (waiting for a Microsoft transaction server) and uses Agile/CI/CD practices to drive consistent delivery.”

“Engineering/technology leader with experience at Evocative and through a merger with Hivelocity, aligning tech roadmaps to managed services growth. Led multi-region self-hosted cloud and automation initiatives that cut delivery time from days to hours/minutes and informed cost-saving infrastructure decisions (reported $500K OPEX savings). Known for scaling teams with pod ownership, agile/intake governance, and disciplined rollout practices that protect uptime and security.”

“Former COO turned President at United Infrastructure Group who helped scale the company from $80M to $450M in revenue (100 to 900 employees) while building an integrated operations/finance operating system using COINS, Power BI, and custom modules. Known for data-driven operational diagnostics (audited financials, project benchmarking) and for leading complex system integrations (including COINS + Tenna) to deliver real-time dashboards and measurable efficiency gains.”

“Engineering leader with experience in small, bootstrapped startups and exposure to VC environments, currently pursuing CTO-level opportunities. Thrives in fast-iterating, high-uncertainty settings and emphasizes data-driven clarity plus strong problem/market validation when evaluating new ventures.”

“Built ReflectlyAI, an AI-powered interview coach, implementing a low-latency Python/Flask backend with modular LLM/Whisper services, retries/fallbacks, caching/batching, and async/background processing. Demonstrates strong PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy performance tuning (EXPLAIN ANALYZE, composite indexes, selectinload) and multi-tenant isolation patterns (tenant-scoped schemas, tenant_id middleware), reporting ~50% response-time reduction.”

“Founder of TimeTick (timetick.io), an AI-powered diagnostics platform for IoT combining device simulation, automated testing, and real-time monitoring—initially focused on EV charger diagnostics. Former VP of Engineering with a track record of building IoT systems from scratch and applying AI to detect protocol-failure patterns that drive downtime; currently supporting existing customers and converting pilots (with leads like Siemens and ABB) into paid subscriptions.”

“Data scientist at Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute who led a production automation to convert unstructured (and sometimes image-based) pathology reports into structured data for government reporting. Built an on-prem LangGraph + Ollama pipeline with OCR (Tesseract), spell-checking, confidence scoring, and human-audited guardrails to mitigate hallucinations and improve reliability under PHI constraints.”

“Startup and early-internet product leader with repeated experience building in new companies and executing pivots. Helped transform a web-based calendar business into a CMS + RBAC platform that became best-in-breed for US K-12 organizations within about three years, emphasizing ROI-driven prototyping and market validation to conserve resources.”

“Founder who has raised $2.5MM from angel investors to build and operate smart beverage fountains in fitness studios that dispense user-personalized hydration. Former Pentair product manager (residential water purification) who identified an on-demand purified + additive-dosed beverage opportunity and chose to pursue it as a startup, using lean customer discovery, MVP prototyping, and pitch-competition-driven fundraising.”

“College basketball recruiter and operations leader with 10+ years in collegiate athletics and 5+ years as Director of Operations for the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League. Has managed NCAA-certified live recruiting events and helped scale EYBL programming to 206 high school teams while expanding into Junior EYBL, overseeing Midwest and Southwest regions. Also brings sales/IT recruiting experience plus strong video and on-camera content creation that has supported recruit signings and fundraising outcomes.”

“Pharma marketing and go-to-market professional with ~8 years building launch strategies, including experience on the Lovenox marketing team during a major hospital-to-outpatient injectable launch. Demonstrates strong reimbursement expertise (J-code strategy) and hands-on field research with pharmacists across states to enable outpatient reimbursement adoption.”

“Operations-focused advisor/consultant for early-stage and growing companies, with repeated experience scaling processes and people. Has driven measurable improvements in SaaS partnerships by implementing partner scoring, onboarding, and accountability systems, and reduced churn for an outsourced IT provider by clarifying roles and responsibilities without adding headcount. Known for mentoring founders through data-backed, Socratic questioning to unlock tough decisions like reallocating spend away from underperforming partners.”

“Full-stack engineer who built and shipped an AI-powered internal knowledge search system for APL Services, including document ingestion into a vector database, a Python backend, and a React/TypeScript chat-style UI with source citations for trust. Improved production reliability by migrating from Streamlit Cloud to GCP with containerization and scaling controls to eliminate cold-start friction; also co-led a Mensa chapter website redesign as Digital Communications Committee co-chair.”

“Operator-turned-CEO coach who founded and scaled a laundry services business from a $500 start into an international, multi-location chain. Led high-stakes retail merger integration and rapid store expansion at Advance Auto Parts (600→1,200 stores in ~9 months; 2,500+ additional openings over 5 years) and developed an OGSI operations framework adopted by dozens of companies.”

“Data/ML and product leader with large-scale consumer and enterprise experience (including Walmart) who blends hands-on prototyping with executive stakeholder alignment. Has delivered measurable outcomes across personalization, semantic search/knowledge graphs, and fraud/security architecture, and has scaled organizations rapidly (30→180 in 12 months) by upskilling and building modern data/ML engineering capabilities.”

“Growth and partnerships operator with 10+ years in digital marketing across Web3, gaming/creator ecosystems, and B2B SaaS. Has executed exchange listings (KuCoin/Bybit/MEXC) and community-led campaigns (AMAs, guild partnerships), plus international GTM (Nigeria) that drove ~$100k traded volume in month one and rapid social growth to 100k X followers.”