Vetted Chief Executive Officers

“Operations and scaling leader who launched Management Events' Germany office from 0 to 10 employees and advised HQ on scaling into mature European markets (Germany/UK/France). Also has Intel and Microsoft experience taking local best practices global, including scaling the Microsoft Virtual Academy worldwide, plus recent executive mentoring via nonprofit board leadership (co-chair at United Planet).”

“Former investment banker who built an AI hiring tech platform to automate early-stage undergraduate screening for investment banks, validated via discovery calls with heads of HR and tailored workflows to bank-specific recruiting needs. Strong 0-to-1 operator with a disciplined approach to problem selection, moat analysis, and lean go-to-market execution.”

“Engineering/technology leader with payments (UPI) scale experience who built fraud and growth systems for tens of millions of daily transactions while keeping CAC and cost guardrails. Scaled an engineering org from 12 to 155 in a year using platform + pod structures, and institutionalized canary deployments with auto-rollback (cutting degradations ~75%) while leveraging GenAI for code and test automation.”

“Operator with founder/COO/CEO experience in professional services, managed services, and cloud services (Adjoined Consulting, Virtustream, Lemongrass). Known for instrumenting businesses with real-time pipeline/backlog-to-resource planning systems and for building sales organizations end-to-end, including bookings-based comp plans that drove ~40% CAGR. As VC-backed non-founder CEO, scaled Lemongrass from ~$25M to ~$100M run-rate and applied AI to de-risk SOW/costing and to improve service desk efficiency and gross margin.”

“Enterprise technology executive (CRO/GM/CEO) with 27+ years as a P&L owner across major global services providers (IBM, Unisys, Virtusa, Cognizant). Recently led a metrics-driven turnaround as CEO of Mastech Infotrellis after integrating three acquisitions and rebuilding GTM. Now exploring an AI Governance/Compliance/Risk-focused venture, potentially via acquiring and reorienting an existing governance business toward AI.”

“Early strategic partner recruited by the CEO to help launch and scale Curio Wellness, a vertically integrated medical cannabis/wellness company, from inception to $150M+ in annual revenue. Built scalable governance and operating systems (three-tier governance, P&L ownership, balanced scorecard, KPI dashboards integrated across ERP/CRM/POS) and coached founders/executives to professionalize leadership and execution, including an 18-month plan that doubled revenue while reducing executive turnover.”

“Operations-focused executive and management consultant who has led operational buildouts across sectors: first CEO at a founder-led company, COO of a large nonprofit food bank, and co-founder of a 501(c)(3) that has run for over a decade serving thousands of at-risk children. Brings a structured, metrics-informed approach (process mapping, financial alignment, benchmarking, SWOT) and coaches leaders to connect vision and strategy to scalable operational execution.”