Vetted Sales & Business Development Professionals in the Los Angeles Metro

“Serial entrepreneur and 5x founder with 20+ years spanning VC-backed startups and large public companies, including multiple successful fundraises and exits. Currently evaluating new ventures in AI-driven health and purpose-driven smart glasses, with a thoughtful founder lens on asymmetric impact, mission alignment, and structural advantage.”

Mazhar Haq

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior AWS Cloud Architect and Technical Leader specializing in security, migrations, and cost governance

Santa Monica, CA26y exp

“Infrastructure/platform engineer with strong AWS and hybrid on-prem networking depth, spanning Kubernetes platform engineering (IaC, autoscaling, GitOps, observability) and large-scale VMware operations. Managed thousands of VMs across 56 US military bases/airports and has resolved real production hybrid incidents involving BGP/Direct Connect route advertisement and prefix-limit constraints.”

“Technology/IT leader with experience spanning healthcare software (Medicaid/Medicare) and large-scale media production IT. At O'Neil Digital Solutions, drove a configuration-first standardized platform that cut client onboarding from months to weeks and helped position the org to double its client base. At 20th Century Fox Television, led a major security and cloud-network standardization initiative post-Sony hack, enabling secure worldwide production at scale (~50 productions/year).”

“Dynamics 365 Project Operations/Field Service implementer focused on operational execution—built foundational task tracking and expedited field-service scheduling with improved visibility, alerts, and billing/sales record traceability. Uses interviews plus pilot/testing to refine UI and business processes for adoption, and applies A/B testing techniques to both marketing emails and D365 form experiences while partnering with the D365 product team to address bugs and usability.”

“Retail buyer/category manager with experience rebuilding underperforming programs end-to-end through data-driven assortment strategy, supplier selection, and product/value engineering. Led a pet beds turnaround (70% sell-through in week one; category mix from ~20% to ~35% and primary IMU driver) and previously drove a licensed sports vendor at Amazon from a $550K projection to $1.7M by re-framing assortment planning around turn and product-type insights.”

“Candidate has hands-on experience delivering production data and AI systems, including an AWS-based real-time data platform for a financial client at Deloitte and a production RAG workflow that cut manual search time by 40%. They stand out for combining strong data engineering depth with practical LLM governance, incident debugging, and stakeholder management across business and risk/compliance teams.”

Monae Martin

Screened

Mid-level Business Development & Account Manager specializing in partnerships, GTM, and sports hospitality

Los Angeles, CA5y exp

“Growth-creative marketer in a club/sports-style environment focused on premium offerings, running structured creative experiments across multiple clubs/markets. Demonstrated measurable performance gains (≈20% lower CPA, ≈12% higher ROAS) by shifting from brand-led to value-forward messaging and translating channel-level performance insights into modular, rapid-iteration creative systems.”