Vetted Consultants

“Chief of Staff and public-sector leader who has stood up new functions from scratch—hiring 26 people and building governance/processes across 8 locations—while navigating high-stakes regulatory stakeholders. In industry, implemented OKRs and performance systems (Leapsome) and led change communications to improve executive productivity and cross-team accountability.”

“Operator/consultant who built and ran an executive coaching and business consulting practice working directly with founders and operators on decision-making, operational structure, and performance. Has tested multiple business concepts (consulting/productized services and a consumer product) without raising external capital, and is now intentionally transitioning from advising to full end-to-end ownership of a venture with a strong bias toward rapid validation and execution.”

Aviral Pal

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Principal investor and startup advisor specializing in venture capital and M&A

Global11y exp

“Entrepreneurial investor/operator who built a sector-agnostic HoldCo and secured LP commitments. Brings hands-on experience across venture capital, studios, and accelerators in roles spanning co-director, partner, venture partner, and advisor, with a focus on evaluating profitable consumer tech and consumer retail businesses, including AI-enabled opportunities.”

Samuel Lee

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Executive Sales Leader specializing in Enterprise SaaS GTM and global revenue growth

Hoboken, NJ14y exp

“Revenue/sales operations and GTM builder for early-stage startups who designs repeatable sales processes (CRM pipeline stages, MEDDPICC, Challenger Sales) and operating cadences (OKRs) to improve conversion and forecasting. Also mentors product/technical founders—e.g., through the Canadian Technology Accelerator—helping a fintech founder establish segmentation, metrics, and an outbound motion that produced early recurring revenue and investor readiness.”

Connor Gore-Rodney

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Senior VR Developer specializing in real-time simulation and training

London, United Kingdom7y exp

“Unity developer with shipped Meta Quest experience (including Meta Quest for Business) and a recently released Steam demo for a self-built simulation game, Skyfields: Gooey Garden. Built system-heavy gameplay including procedural creature generation and a genetics/breeding mutation system, and has hands-on experience with multiplayer/networking stacks (Photon, Unity Netcode, Relay) while using sprint-based user feedback loops to drive iteration.”

Vladimir Novick

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Executive CTO and Software Architect specializing in AI systems and cloud platforms

Israel, Israel22y exp

“Startup-minded technical founder currently running Novicklabs and building Itervox.dev, an AI agent orchestration platform for developer teams. Previously served as CTO at EventLoop and shows strong insight into multi-agent tooling, observability, security, and the open-source-to-cloud path for developer infrastructure products.”

“Founder-operator with investor experience who has built a seed-stage company to live usage, meaningful DAUs, a large waitlist, and roughly $1.2M raised. Has operated on both sides of the startup ecosystem—as a Techstars founder raising from firms and as a VC deploying capital—and brings a rigorous, user-first approach to evaluating and scaling new ventures.”

Kenneth Spenard

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Executive Business Owner specializing in operations, finance, and growth strategy

Scarborough, Maine32y exp

“Operator/owner with hands-on experience acquiring and optimizing a moving & storage business, including selecting and implementing a CRM/CSM system that doubled the sales sign rate (33% to 67%) and streamlined estimating. Strong in KPI/cash-flow-driven operational improvement, warehouse/storage workflow design, and mentoring founders/executives by reverse-engineering goals into executable plans; previously co-built and sold a scaffold company after 13 years.”

Renaud THIERRY

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Senior Unity 3D Developer specializing in mobile games and AR applications

Grenoble, France11y exp

“Unity developer who improved the feel and usability of a text-heavy game by implementing satisfying UI scrolling and adding keyboard-based navigation, earning positive feedback from both the dev team and users. Also has professional client/server experience (REST) and contributed to a Unity industrial application for AI-managed smart-home/domotics control, leveraging Agile/Jira and AI coding assistants to boost delivery.”

“Hospitality operator who has opened and started multiple restaurant and bar concepts, with a structured approach from concept/brand story and mission creation through to operational execution. Emphasizes repeatable standards, margin discipline (inventory, portioning, labor), and coaching founders/executives to build scalable, replicable operations.”