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.”

Uday Dorawala

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in SaaS platforms, data, and cloud modernization

Raleigh, NC25y exp

“Former founder with an acquired venture who later led R&D at McClatchy and joined multiple startups. Identified a major client need and built a mobile app platform using ML and AR for home builders, driving adoption by dozens of customers and $1M+ ARR. Strong hands-on builder who can architect MVPs, iterate quickly with A/B testing and user feedback, and scale early engineering teams and culture.”

“Commercially minded candidate with exposure to private equity firms as sales targets and experience building partnerships around venture-backed company ecosystems. They appear more inclined to join an existing company than found one, bringing a metrics-driven, process-oriented approach and creative execution style with a strong focus on clear growth paths and capital stability.”

“Commercial and sales-focused candidate with nontraditional SDR experience who emphasizes proactive partner management, disciplined outbound systems, and consultative messaging. They cite driving 40% net sales revenue growth and doubling advertising income through strong follow-through, trust-building, and helping partners clearly understand value.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

Frank Carrabba

Screened

Executive Software Engineering Leader specializing in SaaS product delivery and global SDLC

Seattle, WA35y exp

“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.”

Leo Almada

Screened

Director-level Finance & HR Operations leader specializing in governance, HRIS, and e-commerce finance

New York, NY11y exp

“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.”

John Boyle

Screened

Executive Construction & Infrastructure Leader specializing in heavy civil design-build and transportation

Palo Alto, CA18y exp

“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.”

Larry Tuck

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CTO/VP) specializing in Healthcare IT, Security & Enterprise Integrations

Palmer, AK19y exp

“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.”

Mo Arab

Screened

Executive Technology Leader specializing in Cloud, Managed Services & AI/LLM integration

Los Angeles, CA25y exp

“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.”

Tyler Stroud

Screened

Executive Engineering Leader specializing in AdTech and scalable cloud platforms

Miami, FL15y exp

“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.”

“Outbound-focused SaaS seller with a track record of creating pipeline in ambiguous/early-stage environments and closing complex deals. Notably sourced a New Zealand opportunity via LinkedIn, convinced the account to reopen a closed RFP, ran demos/POC, and closed a $1.8M deal over ~7 months; also experienced in security/legal redlines and multi-stakeholder consensus building (including winning over a resistant VP of IT).”

Colleen Gray

Screened

Executive healthcare and medtech CEO specializing in capital raising and medical device commercialization

San Francisco, CA18y exp

“Registered investment banker at US Capital Global with roughly 20 years of fundraising experience across startups and growth companies. He has served as both operator and founder/C-suite leader, raising more than $275M+ for ventures including StorageWay and $27M for medtech startup TracPatch Health, with particular depth in healthcare, investor strategy, diligence, and board-level execution.”

Stephan Thomas

Screened

Executive growth strategist specializing in technology, M&A, and digital manufacturing

San Francisco, CA25y exp

“Repeat founder who has co-founded two companies and sold the most recent one three years ago. Currently exploring a fintech-style debt management tool for SMBs focused on covenant monitoring, reporting, and forecasting, and is still in customer discovery with a mock demo and landing page. Brings a thoughtful, customer-first approach to evaluating startup ideas and a solid understanding of how venture studios support companies from 0 to 1.”

“Product designer/front-end builder in EdTech who bridges UX and engineering by moving quickly from Figma into coded interactive prototypes, then shipping production UI directly with engineers. Recently owned a major assessment-builder redesign at Progress Learning and independently built K-12 Compare, a neutral vendor comparison product informed by seven years of firsthand EdTech procurement experience.”

“Seasoned startup operator with 20 years of experience working with startups and small businesses, especially in early-stage environments. Familiar with the VC/accelerator ecosystem and has participated in board meetings with investors, bringing an execution-focused, problem-solving mindset to entrepreneurial opportunities.”

“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.”

“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.”

Serge Ahranovich

Screened

Executive CTO / Platform Architect specializing in IoT, telematics, and EV charging infrastructure

Los Angeles, CA20y exp

“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.”

Tyler Hurd

Screened

Executive Product & Operations Leader specializing in IoT hardware and water/hydration technology

Milwaukee, WI16y exp

“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.”

Patrick Seeman

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist and Game Tech Leader specializing in ML, healthcare analytics, and Unity

Manila, Philippines5y exp

“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.”