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Vetted Chief Executive Officers in the Bay Area
Pre-screened and vetted in the Bay Area.
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.”
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.”
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.”
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 engineering leader specializing in AI/ML platforms and SaaS product development
Senior Engineering Leader specializing in AI/ML, LLM agents, and consumer platforms
Executive CEO and Board Director specializing in global SaaS, Cloud, and AI growth
Executive Procurement & Supply Chain Leader in Global Manufacturing and Healthcare
Anand Vallamsetla
Executive Engineering Leader & Systems Architect specializing in AI, cloud platforms, and FinTech
“Operator with 20+ years experience and a business degree who led the build and deployment of a Medicaid fraud investigation product for Texas HHSC OIG, cutting investigation time from ~2 years to 90 days. Has government go-to-market experience and has raised a friends-and-family round for an earlier startup concept; now pivoting toward a healthcare-focused venture after a cofounder with core tech could not continue.”
Executive Product & Engineering Leader specializing in Enterprise SaaS, AI/ML, and Mobile platforms
Executive sales and business development leader specializing in SaaS, telecom, fintech, and AI
Executive eCommerce & Consumer Tech Leader specializing in digital transformation and marketplace growth
Executive Technology & Product Leader specializing in AI/ML, Cloud Platforms, and SaaS
Director of Platform specializing in go-to-market and portfolio value creation
Executive technology leader specializing in IoT, AIoT, robotics, and SaaS
Mid-level AI Solutions Architect & Product Leader specializing in enterprise GenAI systems
Executive Business Operations & Strategy Leader in AI SaaS, Commerce, and Corporate Development
Executive business and technology leader specializing in growth strategy and digital transformation
Executive Product & Technical Services Leader specializing in AI, Crypto, and FinTech
Ofir Baharav
Executive Chairman/CEO specializing in hardware, SaaS, and industrial technology turnarounds
“Two-decade CEO/EVP Product operator with multiple founder-level and public-company turnarounds, known for implementing an AOP-driven execution cadence and rigorous decision documentation. Delivered outsized outcomes including 5x trade show performance gains, major reliability improvements (DOA down to ~1–2%), and an 18-month transformation of a shrinking product into the company’s highest-growth/highest-margin line that remained an industry leader for a decade.”
Inman Breaux
Executive SaaS & AdTech CEO specializing in AI attribution and mobile growth
“Mobile-tech entrepreneur building AppQ (mobile.appq.ai), an agentic mobile SDK that optimizes mobile UX in real time to improve Day 1/Day 7 retention by adjusting levers like ad frequency, difficulty, messaging, and artwork. Previously co-founded an SDK-led mobile ad network (invented push notification ads), scaled to 300K+ SDK integrations, and grew revenue from $7M in 10 months to $50M the following year before exiting in 2020.”
Neha Mishra
Director-level Business Development & Sales leader specializing in AI infrastructure and cloud partnerships
“Enterprise SaaS GTM leader who has built and run global SDR teams and outbound playbooks, opened new verticals (manufacturing/shippers), and driven complex multi-stakeholder deals through RFP/POC. Notable wins include breaking into Clorox from cold outreach to RFP/POC, closing $3M (~3x quota) at TiE Silicon Valley, and helping position WiseTech/Blume into Gartner Magic Quadrants while scaling pipeline via channels and a Google co-sell motion.”