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Vetted Chief Executive Officers
Pre-screened and vetted.
Sarah Tomita
Executive COO/CFO and strategy advisor specializing in high-growth consumer and services businesses
“COO/CFO and startup co-founder (Gratia, Inc.) who has built operational infrastructure end-to-end across finance, contracts, resourcing, and talent management. Has scaled multiple early-stage businesses (<$20M revenue) and supported outcomes including a sale to a private equity-backed strategic buyer, with a pragmatic approach centered on clear processes, stakeholder alignment, and leveraging tools like QuickBooks, Bill.com, HubSpot, and Salesforce.”
Executive Product & Partnerships Leader specializing in Responsible Tech, Privacy, and Equity
Hassaan Khan
Executive Technology Leader specializing in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and AI/ML
“Engineering leader/player-coach who built and validated a preference-based recommendation engine using clustering, including generating test data to evaluate how clusters evolve over time. Has SRE/DevOps experience and has owned production incidents end-to-end (logging-driven RCA and refactoring patterns that failed at large data scale). Emphasizes quality and platform stability via unit, integration, and load testing, and has managed performance via regular 1:1s and PIPs.”
Executive Technology Leader specializing in GenAI, cloud infrastructure transformation, and enterprise modernization
Executive startup operator and attorney specializing in strategy, legal, and FinTech
Executive AI Founder & CEO specializing in LLM agents, data engineering, and regulated healthcare markets
Executive Product & Venture Studio Leader specializing in AI/ML, data platforms, and MarTech
Bill Eichen
Executive product and business leader specializing in AI, semiconductors, and growth strategy
“Candidate indicated they have a business plan or startup and referenced Gimmelfund.com, a VC fund in Palo Alto. They also stated they are very familiar with the venture capital, studio, and accelerator landscape, but provided limited detail during the screen.”
Angel Kelchev
Executive VC & Corporate Development leader specializing in M&A, partnerships, and growth investing
“Entrepreneur and investor applying for a venture studio CEO role; previously founded Centruida (custom software services in blockchain and computer vision), scaled to ~65–70 people, raised early capital, and exited to Logicr within ~2 years. Also co-founded Ayan Capital (venture fund) raising primarily from family offices/individuals, and runs a consulting business plus a nonprofit school.”
Nikolay Chirkov
Executive Engineering Leader (CTO/Head of Engineering) specializing in mobile AI inference
“Co-founded Aethernet Inc., a B2B IoT connectivity platform with a usage-based revenue model and direct sales motion to device manufacturers. Bootstrapped with founder capital and strict cost control, with angel interest pending technical validation; developed the product through multi-year architecture experiments to deliver measurable latency/reliability/scalability/cost advantages versus DevOps-heavy incumbents like AWS IoT Core.”
Executive AI researcher and founder specializing in generative and embodied AI
Executive general manager and CEO specializing in SaaS, e-commerce, and marketplaces
Executive Blockchain Analytics Founder/CEO specializing in institutional-grade data platforms
Executive CEO and ex-McKinsey Partner specializing in transformation, P&L leadership, and AI-driven growth
Executive revenue leader specializing in HR Tech, GTM, and future of work
Executive engineering leader specializing in AI/ML platforms and SaaS product development
Executive finance and operations leader specializing in corporate finance, FP&A, and compliance
Executive investment and fintech leader specializing in data analytics and wealth solutions
Executive Cybersecurity & Resilience Leader specializing in Payments and FinTech
Senior Engineering Leader specializing in AI/ML, LLM agents, and consumer platforms
Executive Product & Growth Leader specializing in identity verification, privacy, and GTM
Executive CEO and Board Director specializing in global SaaS, Cloud, and AI growth