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Vetted Consultants in the Bay Area
Pre-screened and vetted in the Bay Area.
John Clarke
Executive Finance & Strategy Leader specializing in Big Tech and capital allocation
“Operations/finance leader who joined Google during a rapid growth phase (circa 2007–2008) and built foundational analytics and governance systems across revenue, partnerships, and global marketing finance. Known for shifting organizations from qualitative/"feel" decisions to metrics-driven quota setting, deal evaluation (including cannibalization and margin thresholds), and ROI-based marketing budgeting while aligning senior stakeholders like CFO and CMO.”
Principal Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud platforms
Director-level Product & Business Leader specializing in AI-driven consumer and global growth
Director-level Strategy & Operations leader specializing in marketplaces, AI, and SaaS growth
Director-level Software Engineering Manager specializing in cloud platforms and consumer products
Senior Strategy & Product Leader specializing in B2B technology growth
Senior Strategy & Operations Manager specializing in AI and enterprise go-to-market
Philip Kearney
Executive engineering leader specializing in embedded systems, IoT, and wireless networking
“Former Apple employee who worked with Steve Jobs in the early 2000s and is now looking to join startups as a CTO partner to non-technical founders. Brings a thoughtful, skeptical lens on VC-backed startup execution, emphasizing technical feasibility, real product-market fit, and mission-driven teams solving meaningful problems.”
Melanie Fawcett
Executive product and customer success leader specializing in AI/ML platforms
“Product leader who founded the Product Analytics domain at DataRobot and drove discovery for an MLOps platform later recognized by Gartner. Stands out for combining deep customer research with hands-on NLP analysis to shape roadmap priorities, then translating that into a shipped product that drove retention and upsell.”
Executive engineering leader specializing in capital markets, risk systems, and FinTech
Executive GTM & Customer Success leader specializing in AI, robotics, and enterprise SaaS
Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in SaaS platforms, cloud architecture, and SRE
Deepa Karunakaran
Senior Customer Success & Cloud Migration Leader specializing in AWS data and analytics
“AWS enterprise customer leader supporting the Apple Maps account, focused on large-scale migrations from on-prem (e.g., Cloudera) to AWS EMR/EBS. Known for deep troubleshooting and cross-functional execution (Grafana-driven autoscaling fixes, Graviton capacity/ICE mitigation) and for tying roadmap alignment to commercial outcomes, including a cited $30M incremental ARR expansion.”
Senior Salesforce SME specializing in Service/Sales Cloud, Experience Cloud, and DevOps
Principal AI Platform Architect specializing in agentic AI and enterprise LLM infrastructure
Cassandra Sullivan
Intern Data Scientist specializing in generative AI and forecasting
“ML/NLP practitioner working across healthcare and business/finance use cases: currently fine-tuning a domain-specific Llama 3.1 model for safe reasoning over EHRs/clinical notes using RAG + RL/DPO and RAGAS-based evaluation. Has built UMLS-driven entity normalization pipelines with quantified quality gains and developed embedding/vector-DB systems (FAISS) for semantic matching and forecasting/recommendation applications at Aurora AI and Banxico.”
Julie Rice
Director-level Lab Operations & Facilities Leader specializing in life sciences startups
“Independent biotech operations consultant and former biotech operations director who specializes in standing up startup lab operations end-to-end—facility buildouts, equipment procurement, and workflow/SOP implementation. Known for building clear operating rhythms (SMART/RACI, dashboards in MS Project/Smartsheet) and driving cross-functional execution; previously centralized R&D procurement at Abbvie/Pharmacyclics to cut PO processing time by 40%.”
Senior Backend Engineer specializing in distributed systems and AI platforms
Junior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud-native platforms
Executive growth marketing leader specializing in startups, SaaS, and local services
Junior full-stack and product professional specializing in software, consulting, and AI
Senior Performance Marketing & Paid Media Leader specializing in paid social and acquisition
Megan Gwynne
Executive product leader specializing in e-commerce, marketplaces, and growth
“Senior product leader with experience spanning luxury e-commerce and consumer education, including leading personalization and AI-driven shopping experiences at The RealReal and serving as Chief Product Officer/strategic product consultant at OMGYES. Stands out for combining ML-powered product strategy, strong UX judgment, and cross-functional leadership to deliver measurable business impact, including conversion and revenue gains at scale.”