Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals

“Product leader with a rare mix of healthcare, HR tech, mobile, and AI experience. They rebuilt UPMC's member app for 3M members while pioneering a product-based funding model inside a large enterprise, and later drove 80%+ revenue growth at JazzHR by reshaping marketplace UX for SMB buyers. Their AI work is notably human-centered, with explicit fairness, compliance, and approval guardrails.”

Harry Hollines

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Executive strategy and corporate development leader specializing in AI-native operations and M&A

14y exp

“Two-decade executive operator who has repeatedly served as the CEO’s right hand inside PE-backed, VC-backed, and growth-stage companies, spanning corporate development, operations, fundraising, and strategy. Particularly differentiated by combining end-to-end M&A execution—including a 6-acquisition roll-up and a $25M PE exit—with AI-native platform building, most recently launching a nationally used proprietary diagnostics platform and a new entrepreneurship business line at the Latino Leadership Institute.”

“Insurtech R&D leader turned CTO with 25+ years across telecom, DoD, automotive, and commercial insurance. Built patented AI-driven insurance document ingestion (>95% accuracy with 1–3 samples) and led Azure-based backend/service development while managing up to 15 engineers at a commercial P&C MGA that reached a ~$60M book of business (~30 loss ratio) before run-off due to paper issues. Known for hands-on discovery (including field inspections) and rapid MVP delivery, including a risk-inspection iPad app that auto-generated draft reports.”

“Global talent acquisition/executive search leader from FIS Global who managed a distributed recruiting org and partnered closely with HRBPs and C-suite leaders. Has driven enterprise-wide recruiting lifecycle improvements (including onboarding programs to reduce attrition) and engaged in strategic initiatives like an AI council tied to product roadmap decisions.”

“Operations leader who built holding-company infrastructure from the ground up for Fairwood Brands, a national collection of design-build landscaping companies—spanning finance/accounting, HR, safety, fleet, and corporate admin. Emphasizes data-driven visibility into financial/operational performance and pricing discipline to materially improve profitability and enable scalable growth, while mentoring founders and leadership teams through change.”

“Operations leader specializing in building scalable internal systems for startups, from being Spoonflower’s first ops hire (5th employee) to launching its first international Berlin/EMEA office from scratch. At bookingkit, drove measurable operational improvements by implementing a customized OKR framework (+18% goal achievement) and deploying automation/AI tools like Contractbook and kapa.ai to eliminate manual work and save engineering time.”

“Operations and back-office scaling leader from Diversified Restaurant Group who helped design a 3–5 year strategy/structure/culture plan to support growth from ~$280M to $1B revenue. Experienced bringing core functions (finance, HR, payroll, risk) in-house and leading a major Workday HCM implementation, including securing C-suite buy-in for a ~$1M investment and running a collaborative RFP/workflow-mapping process.”

“Senior technology/executive leader with 30+ years building and scaling mission-critical platforms across blockchain, cloud, cybersecurity, and fintech, including leading 100+ person global teams and managing $100M P&Ls. Founded Pharus (2022) after driving Web2-to-Web3/DeFi/metaverse initiatives at SDK Co, using a first-principles, PoC-driven approach to deliver secure, compliance-aware transformations (GDPR/NYDFS) and multi-million-dollar optimizations, with a focus on quantum-resistant Web3 and ethical AI governance.”

Michell Graham

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Executive Operations & Commercial Leader in Renewable Energy and Service Delivery

Houston, TX21y exp

“Operations leader with deep experience scaling early-stage energy companies, including helping take Sunnova through an IPO and currently building Radial Power’s project development and accounting frameworks. Known for creating standardized, repeatable workflows (interconnections/community solar) and service operating models (centralized dispatch + local field service) that reduce cost, backlog, and time-to-NTP while enabling rapid growth.”

“Houston-based football advisor, current high school coach, and former college athlete/coach with 30+ years in sports management. He has negotiated six-figure NIL collective deals and brand sponsorships, sources athletes through direct outreach and deep football relationships, and supports families across recruiting, transfer portal, scouting, and long-term athlete development.”

“Engineering leader with 11 years at Nokia/Janus International scaling an engineering organization from 3 to roughly 50 people, plus recent startup experience building an AI-powered virtual property manager platform. Particularly compelling for roles needing a rare mix of hands-on architecture depth, people leadership, and cross-functional execution across backend, web, mobile, QA, and even hardware-integrated products.”

“Senior engineering leader with a rare blend of principal-level technical depth and large-scale people management, spanning identity/auth modernization, platform architecture, and cloud integration work. At Paylocity, they helped transform a legacy .NET/SQL environment into a more modular, microservices-oriented platform and dramatically reduced deployment times, while also leading teams as large as 80+.”

“Healthcare product leader with substantial experience in clinical software, medical devices, analytics, and AI/ML-enabled workflows. They have led a cloud analytics platform for hospital systems, managed a machine-learning insulin dosing product in a safety-critical environment, and driven UX modernization of clinician-facing applications while coordinating deeply across engineering, QA, data science, DevOps, and customer success.”

“Built Taskline end-to-end as a solo founder: an AI-native operations platform for tradespeople with web and mobile apps, AI receptionists, invoicing, scheduling, and payments. Particularly interesting for teams seeking a zero-to-one full-stack builder who can turn LLM/agent capabilities into practical, low-friction products for non-technical users.”

Emily MacPherson

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Senior finance and business operations leader specializing in technology financial management

San Francisco, CA14y exp

“Finance leader with roots in telecom and utilities who evolved from FP&A and product analysis into strategic technology business management. They have built cost transparency and total-cost-of-ownership capabilities for large-scale agile product transformations, delivering $41M in expense impact and helping reprioritize $200M+ in capital investments.”

Praveenkumar Angadi

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Director-level telecom sales and solutions leader specializing in AI and 5G

Austin, TX23y exp

“Heads an innovation center at Wipro Technologies and has built go-to-market motions for enterprise private 5G solutions in partnership with Google Cloud, Verizon, and AT&T. Brings a distinctive blend of strategy, partner orchestration, and enterprise deal execution across manufacturing and automotive customers, with experience tailoring tiered offerings and using digital twins to drive pipeline.”

Maxwell Crystal

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Executive B2B sales leader specializing in Enterprise SaaS and ABM

San Diego, CA14y exp

“7+ years at Madison Logic with a clear progression from top-performing enterprise AE to team lead to sales manager. Built the team from scratch to 7 reps against a $12M annual quota, delivered 115% of goal, and combines hands-on coaching, data-driven sales process design, and executive-level forecasting with private equity stakeholders.”

“Senior technology leader and hands-on builder spanning enterprise architecture and product/engineering leadership across healthcare and entertainment. Has led high-impact cloud and security architecture decisions (including establishing a private cloud to address scalability/security at massive scale) and scaled orgs 300% using pod-based team structures. Currently building an AI-supported hydroponics/vertical farming IoT framework (ESP32 + Azure) and a musician collaboration platform (React + Neo4j + AWS).”

“Hands-on HR/operations executive (CHRO profile) with experience modernizing internal operations by leading an ADP-to-UKG payroll/HRIS migration that expanded capabilities across recruiting, onboarding, and benefits. Strong in vendor evaluation, change management, and de-risking implementations via parallel payroll runs, executive sponsorship, and field-focused training; also mentors leadership teams on operations and P&L-driven execution.”

“Technically oriented operator with experience driving a strategic migration to Microsoft Azure to modernize a company toward microservices and CI/CD, improving scalability and positioning for long-term optimization. Evaluates product ideas through an operational lens (efficiency, decision support, process optimization) and emphasizes building viable products with paying customers while maintaining revenue resilience.”

Tuukka Luolamo

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Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in AI, cloud, and distributed platforms

Remote14y exp

“Engineering leader who stays hands-on in high-leverage technical areas (architecture, scalability, reliability) while operating at an executive level. Led StagePilot’s shift from a tightly coupled legacy system to a cloud-native, event-driven real-time platform proven at 1M+ concurrent users, and previously scaled multiple SRE teams at McGraw-Hill with SLOs, on-call, and blameless ops practices.”

Paul Roberto

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Executive CPA/MBA specializing in small business and franchise accounting & tax

Cleveland, Ohio29y exp

“Founder of an accounting and consulting firm who scaled operations organically and through acquisition, building internal structure with employee handbooks, SOPs, and integrated time-tracking/billing plus project management systems. Acts as a fractional CFO/financial partner to small business owners, using variance and operational-metric analysis to drive decisions around process improvements, acquisitions, company sales, contracts, and benefits. Strong in change management and pragmatic tooling—replacing spreadsheet-based workflows with standardized systems and templates that improve consistency and training.”

Ramtin Kazemi

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Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Django, AWS, and AI/ML

San Diego, California1y exp

“Full-stack engineer who built and owned an AI-powered personal statement editor in Next.js (App Router + TypeScript), including dynamic routing, server-side data fetching, and typed API route handlers. Post-launch, they handled production monitoring/debugging and shipped reliability/performance upgrades (rate limiting, retries, rollback, DB indexing), and report a 40% latency reduction using Suspense/streaming and React concurrency patterns. Also implemented a durable Temporal-orchestrated AI document workflow with robust retry/idempotency strategies.”

Mukundan Sridharan

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Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in IoT sensing, AI/ML, and RF/embedded systems

Rockville, MD22y exp

“Currently a startup CTO who thrives on building new technology stacks and rapidly turning technical ideas into products. Interested in partnering with a CEO/business team to commercialize embedded/edge concepts such as multi-sensor drone localization (video/audio/RF with SDR), low-cost solar+battery power nodes networked via LoRa, and an Amazon Sidewalk/LoRa connectivity device with cloud management.”