Vetted Chief of Staffs in the NYC Metro

“French-born operator and former scholarship athlete who studied at Tulane, then built a career across sports organizations, consulting, startups, and climate/sustainability SaaS. She helped launch and scale Deepki’s New York presence from 2 to 16 people while growing the US business from 5% to 25% of global revenue, and has led complex sustainability onboarding programs for major real estate and investment clients.”

“Operations/program leader who ran the global IRG100 Leadership Program, coordinating cross-functional workstreams and major partners (WPP, Google, Ipsos, TCS) using centralized roadmaps and executive cadences; delivered increased enrollment and a 4.8/5 satisfaction score. Previously managed strategic and day-to-day production operations for major multi-country sports campaigns at DIRECTV Panamericana (FIFA World Cup, Olympics, NBA), building pipelines, budgets, and vendor relationships across Latin America.”

Emmett Ding

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Senior Strategy & Operations professional specializing in climate tech commercialization and investing

New Brunswick, NJ8y exp

“Strategy consulting and business operations professional with climate-tech and climate VC experience (Avnos, Earth Foundry, Strategy&). Led cross-functional work to update a techno-economic analysis and produce a pilot proposal for direct air capture, contributing to a won engagement; also served as Chief of Staff to GPs, streamlining diligence, dealflow, CRM, and LP reporting to boost executive productivity.”

“Chief of Staff at DataDome and Onna (founding-team experience) who built executive operating cadences, planning processes, and finance-backed dashboards to drive alignment across fast-scaling orgs (200+ global). Led major transformations including a single-product to multi-product platform shift (improving retention and enabling new market entry) and a sales-led to product-led (PLG) transition, and managed fundraising from Seed through Series B with outside counsel.”

“Chief of Staff and head of a Global Central PMO who has led high-stakes, cross-functional initiatives spanning budgeting transformation, federal consent order deliverables, and audit process implementation. Drove a major operational automation effort—digitizing headcount tracking and requisition approvals for 10,000+ employees—delivering a reported 65% efficiency gain while maintaining strong executive alignment through concise dashboards and regular checkpoints.”

“Entrepreneurial operator with experience building two bootstrapped ventures, spanning both operations-heavy business execution and creative production. Through Kellogg MBA work and current exposure at Equiseed, they combine startup ecosystem knowledge with a highly practical, customer- and unit-economics-driven approach to founding.”

“Strategic Chief of Staff with 15 years partnering directly with CEOs, founders, and senior leaders across creative, consulting, and brand-driven organizations. She has repeatedly been the first or central operator building executive infrastructure, leading cross-functional strategic initiatives, and turning ambiguity into scalable systems and business outcomes, including reviving major partnership opportunities at ESSENCE.”

“Operator-turned-strategic leader who grew from executive support and marketing at Yola into building Wix's first B2B sales enablement function, then advancing to Director and Chief of Staff to the EVP of Global Sales. Particularly compelling for high-growth environments: they combine executive-level strategic translation with hands-on systems building, including an AI-powered outbound initiative that drove 3x more meetings and a new-vertical pilot that hit 130% of target.”

“Former Army leader turned communications executive, startup founder, and public-sector operator who has repeatedly built functions from scratch in ambiguous, high-stakes environments. Unusually broad profile spanning global SaaS scale-up leadership, major construction and facilities operations, and NYC government executive management, with measurable impact including a 61% backlog reduction and oversight of 57 buildings plus $97M+ in budget.”

“Executive-operations/program leader who supports senior leadership through multiple concurrent, high-visibility initiatives (tech rollout, cost optimization, growth strategy). Known for creating portfolio dashboards, operating cadences, and decision logs that reduce initiative sprawl, accelerate executive decision-making, and keep cross-functional teams aligned while maintaining strict confidentiality during sensitive changes like leadership restructures.”