Vetted Chief Technology Officers

“Entrepreneurial defense-industry operator with 13 years of experience and a clear thesis around automating the tedious DoD capture, pricing, and bidding process with AI. Previously built a design and engineering team around a Bluetooth MLB scoreboard product ('Liveboard') and has firsthand exposure to VCs and the Boston startup ecosystem.”

“Engineering/product leader in early-stage environments who has repeatedly driven major pivots and scaling efforts: pandemic-era refactor at NameCoach and multi-community expansion at Nolodex (now ~20 communities). Comfortable going from executive roadmap/stakeholder alignment to hands-on implementation (e.g., webhooks), and has led architecture shifts (monolith-to-distributed, Heroku-to-AWS) while managing outsourced/offshore teams through organizational friction.”

“CTO-level leader who drove a major post-buyout transformation at NPact—modernizing engineering (CI/CD, QA, observability), moving products toward SaaS/cloud, and scaling the org from ~20 to ~70 while maintaining 97% retention. Uses instrumentation and workflow analytics (including Atlassian-derived data) to improve delivery, citing an ~80% reduction in feature/bug churn through better scoping and requirements. Comfortable with board-level ROI decisions and customer/fundraising conversations, translating technical tradeoffs into clear business outcomes.”

Michael Asadoorian

Screened

Executive CTO specializing in cloud-native SaaS, multi-cloud infrastructure, and AI/ML

Los Angeles, CA28y exp

“Hands-on infrastructure and engineering leader (Director of Global Infrastructure / CTO) who has run double-digit multi-million dollar data center expansion and cloud migration programs and scaled teams rapidly (including offshore/nearshore). Strong AWS and microservices background (Lambda/SQS/SES), with experience balancing deep technical architecture work alongside investor/VC communications and fundraising-related responsibilities.”

“Aspiring founder with strong entrepreneurial motivation, explicitly preferring control, speed, and minimal bureaucracy over joining an existing company. They have not yet started a business, but have begun researching and networking within the VC/accelerator ecosystem and use AI tools to quickly assess market opportunities.”

Michael Knott

Screened

Executive CTO specializing in AI, FinTech, robotics, and regulated platforms

Singapore, Singapore20y exp

“CTO/co-founder who spent the last 6 years running a Singapore venture studio (Undercurrent Capital), performing technical and business due diligence and leading ventures from ideation through growth. Notably built a MAS-regulated bond issuance platform (Cache) for a commodities brokerage, integrating onboarding, back-office, margin calls, and regulated money flows, attracting $120M USD in the first month.”