Vetted Chief Executive Officers in California

“Candidate is developing a plan to consolidate paving maintenance businesses into a nationwide residential brand centered on high quality and sustainability. They bring private equity and strategic partnership experience, plus direct segment knowledge and industry relationships, with a thesis around recycling materials without sacrificing quality or cost.”

“Product designer/hardware prototyper building Saccade (VR headset attachment for Apple Vision Pro) to enable earlier, lower-cost Alzheimer's detection via eye-tracking and on-device CV/ML; designed a custom biocompatible snap-on light-shield replacement with integrated cameras/PCB after Apple camera-data restrictions. Also has biomedical manufacturing experience (major fixture-driven throughput gains) and leads a 160-member Assistive Technology Club sponsored by Apple and Google.”

“Engineering/IT leader with 12+ years of people management and deep ERP ecosystem experience, including SAP S/4HANA and large-scale integrations (APIs/EDI/e-commerce). Managed an 11-person cross-functional team supporting multiple business domains and led process improvements like support-cycle/ticketing and documentation, plus regression test automation strategy driven by business-critical prioritization.”

Andrew Stock

Screened

Executive sales and operations leader specializing in solar, staffing, and growth strategy

Sacramento, CA24y exp

“Entrepreneurial operator with prior CEO experience leading a SaaS company in the solar space, including two years of venture fundraising, accelerator participation, and raising two small rounds of capital. Currently consulting for a startup with an option to become CEO, but is selectively seeking stronger opportunities based on sharp judgment around business model viability, founder quality, and market risk.”

“Paystand engineer/intern who built a multi-agent LLM orchestration system (with logging/feedback loops) that became part of the team workflow and reportedly cut development time ~70%. Partnered with sales/product on enterprise demos and implemented a dynamic RBAC system that helped drive adoption of an intern-built product to multiple enterprise clients, contributing to seven-figure ARR. Also founded and pitched a student-entrepreneur business management/payments project (HustleHub) and won a university startup competition.”

“Former founder with a successful exit who has since built multiple zero-to-one enterprise platforms across IoT, NLP, and healthcare AI, each cited as generating $1B+ in revenue. Also a Stanford and Alchemist Accelerator mentor, known for using ethnographic research to find product-market fit and for selling multi-million-dollar MVP business cases to C-level executives.”

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.”

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.”

“Silicon Valley operator with ~30 years of experience as a board member, advisor, VC, founder, and turnaround executive, claiming 50+ venture-backed turnarounds. Has driven outsized outcomes including a $1B Nokia spinout and a 9-figure Jaspersoft exit to TIBCO, and is known for pragmatic, people-and-financials-first operational diagnosis (including CRM forensics) and rapid team scaling via structured hiring pipelines.”

“Has prior experience working closely with venture capitalists and was instrumental in running a company started by a venture fund. Also has experience with an entertainment company and with companies going through acceleration/growth, and evaluates new ideas using flexible budgeting, financial projections, and operational due diligence.”

“Serial entrepreneur who recently sold a service business to facilitate a move; now looking to start or invest in a new company. Has a track record of executing multiple pest management acquisitions, turning underpriced offerings into high-paying recurring revenue, and improving margins through service-area overlap and headcount optimization.”