Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals

Gabriel Aydin

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Director-level Musicologist and Educator specializing in Syriac and chant traditions

Montvale, NJ26y exp

“Music editor/mixer specializing in narrative longform and YouTube-focused audio post, with documented experience shaping a 2018 documentary on Syriac chant traditions through chant-based drones, dynamic builds, and tightly timed musical phrasing. Works in Pro Tools with a template- and stems-based workflow, and uses retention data plus producer notes to iteratively improve pacing and engagement.”

Ravi Ada

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Executive CTO specializing in digital health platforms, cloud & AI, and FHIR/HL7 interoperability

Carrollton, TX22y exp

“Healthcare diagnostics/health tech founder building Casandra.ai, an API-driven lab test catalog and ordering platform designed to standardize fragmented test catalogs and integrate into provider workflows via FHIR. Bootstrapped and built a deploy-ready product, drawing on prior startup experience and accelerator participation (Health Box, DreamIt Ventures).”

Joe Brannon

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Executive IT & PMO leader specializing in digital commerce and enterprise transformation

Baton Rouge, LA19y exp

“IT leader with hands-on M&A integration experience (including day-one readiness) across notable brands (e.g., Billabong, Marucci Sports) and product-focused organizations (Oakley). Brings broad IT domain expertise (AI, business systems, digital sales technologies) and has worked with multiple startups; interested in joining an existing startup to help it scale rather than founding a new company.”

Adam Safran

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Engineering Director specializing in platform modernization, microservices, and cloud reliability

Pleasant Hill, CA26y exp

“Former founder (ran a custom web development shop in Los Angeles) with extensive startup experience and a solid working understanding of the VC ecosystem. Helped build and scale a team at Turo from founding member to ~10 people, and is motivated by ownership, impact, and originating ideas—interested in the venture studio model and disciplined about rapid validation and execution.”

“Candidate founded a non-profit and developed unconventional funding mechanisms for it, including a book whose proceeds support the organization and a patented AI stack designed for licensing royalties. They also bring early startup experience and acquisition due-diligence exposure, and are specifically interested in contributing their technical and venture incubation background within an existing entrepreneurial company rather than founding a new one.”

“Current Riveron professional with prior startup experience at Quizlet who performs M&A security assessments for VC-backed acquisitions, while also co-founding a private company on the side. Particularly notable for attracting a16z investment interest but intentionally declining funding to preserve equity, board control, and product vision.”

“Full-stack web developer with experience owning products from client discovery through launch and post-launch iteration, including a complete freelance build for an interior design firm and a large-scale React/TypeScript migration during an internship at Gateway Ticketing Systems. Stands out for balancing strong visual design with performance and SEO, and for improving emergency-use UX in an MVP product through flow simplification and A/B testing.”

Joshua Sampson

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Executive digital marketing leader specializing in growth strategy for sports and consumer brands

Charlotte, NC9y exp

“Paid media specialist with D2C/eCommerce experience managing seven-figure budgets across Meta, Google, Amazon, TikTok, and OTT. They stand out for combining hands-on creative testing, channel reallocation, and executive-level strategy guidance—especially in messy situations like rebuilding account structure after a team departure or adjusting performance strategy during tariff-driven market disruption. Currently seeking contract/freelance work, with openness to full-time for the right fit.”

“Backend engineer with strong payments and high-stakes transaction experience, including owning an Apple Pay/Google Pay integration via Stripe end-to-end in production for 100,000+ users. Particularly compelling for teams that need someone who can balance speed, security, and reliability in checkout or other sensitive backend workflows, and who has hands-on incident ownership in production.”

Han Dong

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Executive growth marketing leader specializing in B2B SaaS and developer platforms

San Jose, CA19y exp

“Startup operator who launched and scaled Hyphenate as VP of Marketing and GM, creating a new category in white-label in-app chat for mobile apps. He owned messaging, acquisition, onboarding, and funnel design end-to-end, growing the business to 100+ customers, roughly $1M ARR, and a 16-person team while building a repeatable inbound and freemium growth engine.”

Chuks Onwuneme

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Executive technology leader specializing in Healthcare IT, AI, and regulated SaaS

Seattle, WA24y exp

“Founder who raised friends-and-family capital in 2024, used it to build an initial product and develop patent-backed IP, then pivoted from AI impersonation detection to authorization and trust infrastructure for agentic workflows. Demonstrates strong strategic thinking around infrastructure products, customer-driven repositioning, and venture-backed startup dynamics.”

“Entrepreneur building a bootstrapped AI-native manufacturing company that combines agentic AI, LLM-assisted CAD/CAM, and in-house CNC machining to speed up hardware iteration. Comes from an early-stage enterprise SaaS background and evaluates opportunities like an angel investor, with strong fluency in VC dynamics and founder-market-team fit.”

“Enterprise sales leader focused on identity, fraud, compliance, and digital trust solutions in highly regulated markets, including public sector. Stands out for repeatedly building new verticals and scaling revenue—most notably growing a gaming business from $0 to $25M and a healthcare business from $40M to $100M—while applying rigorous MEDDIC/MEDDPICC discipline and hands-on team leadership.”

Arpan Acharya

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Executive engineering leader specializing in AI, data platforms, and healthcare SaaS

Pittsburgh, PA21y exp

“Senior product and platform engineering leader with experience spanning startup-style incubation and large-scale enterprise transformation at Omnicell. Led architecture used by 400+ engineers, scaled a new data-focused team from 10 to 60, and drove an inventory optimization platform that helped secure the company’s first $100M+ multi-product contract.”

“Hands-on engineering leader who has scaled teams quickly (hired 20 engineers in 4 months) and led major architecture shifts including monolith-to-microservices and serverless, async AI-driven medical data ingestion/search. Also drove a versioned-inventory redesign with auditability and rollback that reduced operational errors by 22%, and demonstrates strong incident response with clear stakeholder communication.”

“AI product leader working at TAU Ventures Innovation Lab and previously at Verint and NYSHEX, with a track record of turning legacy and ambiguous AI opportunities into shippable, human-centered products. Notably led Verint’s evolution into a low-code AI orchestration platform with 20+ capabilities and measurable gains in CSAT, handle time, and recurring revenue, while consistently emphasizing trust, workflow fit, and human-in-the-loop design.”

Ben Ayed

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Executive product leader specializing in AI, security, and connected devices

Fremont, CA22y exp

“Product leader with hands-on experience building and scaling a production Voice AI Assistant for automotive dealerships, combining LLMs, speech technologies, workflow orchestration, and system integrations. Stands out for balancing AI capability with trust, UX, and operational ROI—shipping a system that answered over 90% of incoming calls while improving conversion, reducing workload, and augmenting rather than replacing human staff.”

Mark Parolisi

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Executive technology leader specializing in digital publishing and media platforms

Greater New York City Area, NY18y exp

“Engineering leader in digital media/news with 8 years leading globally distributed teams supporting 24+ consumer and internal web applications. Distinguishes himself as a hands-on player-coach who standardized tooling across teams, built an in-house authentication and entitlements platform, and led AI systems for newsroom draft generation and taxonomy workflows that improved efficiency and engagement.”

Scott Mangino

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Executive product leader specializing in SaaS and consumer mobile platforms

Denver, CO14y exp

“Product leader who blends strategy, UX, and hands-on building—designing in Figma, using Claude Code to prototype and push PRs, and partnering closely with engineering to ship faster. Led the Travel Noire app from content brand extension to AI-enabled travel companion, and independently built human-centered AI workflows for grassroots volunteer management. Particularly strong in trust-based, assistive AI products that amplify human relationships rather than replace them.”

Ilya Kravchenko

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Executive engineering leader specializing in AI-enabled SaaS and internet-scale platforms

Thousand Oaks, CA20y exp

“Engineering leader with a rare blend of SaaS, robotics, and AI systems experience, most recently leading a 21-engineer org under the CTO. They pair strong people/process leadership with hands-on architecture depth, driving dramatic delivery improvements while also building grounded LLM support tooling for warehouse operations where accuracy directly impacts physical execution and customer outcomes.”

“Former psychiatrist and educator turned product leader with a strong human-centered AI philosophy. Has led AI-native SaaS and mobile products, managed large cross-functional orgs, and brings distinctive edtech experience including reducing tutor rematch rates by 52% while protecting the tutor-student relationship.”

“Multi-time founder (with exits) currently bootstrapping BrightVoice, an early-stage AI SaaS platform focused on improving law firm intake, client communication, and revenue workflows. Operates with a lean, capital-efficient approach centered on rapid validation and real customer traction, and is highly familiar with VC, venture studios, and accelerators.”

“Revenue/GTM leader with ~10 years of experience scaling companies from early stage through IPO, with unusually deep cross-functional exposure across risk, finance, product/tech, and DevOps. At Catapult, helped drive a pivot from brick-and-mortar to e-commerce and landed major enterprise customers (Lenovo and Wayfair) by navigating complex system integrations and enterprise delivery expectations. Previously ran a family business (2004–2008) and is committed to founding a company.”

“Operator-turned-strategic leader who grew from executive support and marketing at Yola into building Wix's first B2B sales enablement function, then advancing to Director and Chief of Staff to the EVP of Global Sales. Particularly compelling for high-growth environments: they combine executive-level strategic translation with hands-on systems building, including an AI-powered outbound initiative that drove 3x more meetings and a new-vertical pilot that hit 130% of target.”