Vetted Directors

“Early-stage operator who has been with Narravance, Inc. since inception, building core internal functions (Legal, Compliance, HR) and designing COO/CFO capabilities. Hands-on experience with startup finance operations including cap table management in Carta, closing a SAFE, and creating/issuing a warrants program, alongside implementing a full policy/procedure framework and mentoring founders through high-stakes strategic tradeoffs.”

Thomas Douaihy

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive CIO/CDO/CTO specializing in digital transformation, data/AI, and cloud modernization

Florida/Missouri34y exp

“Operations/process improvement leader with executive experience at Nestlé Purina, applying Lean/value stream mapping to improve IT service response times and user satisfaction. Led the integration of Merrick Pet Food into Purina, addressing scaling constraints by redesigning outdated processes. Also served as a technology mentor to the Purina executive team/CEO to improve decision-making on technology investments.”

Andrew Chang

Screened

Executive operator and startup investor specializing in FinTech, crypto, and regulated blockchain

New York, NY22y exp

“Former COO of Paxos who joined near inception and helped scale the company to a $2.4B valuation, owning operations across nearly all functions and implementing core operating systems like OKRs and decision frameworks. Now advises and coaches early-stage founders through Lynx Collective (NYC startup community he founded), teaches a Startup Executive Bootcamp, serves as an NYU Stern adjunct professor, and sits on a public company board.”

“Former Managing Director of the LimeLife Fempire Fund with 4 years in corporate venture capital, where they built the fund, sourced deals, led diligence, and deployed $2MM into four women-owned early-stage consumer companies. Also brings nonprofit small business accelerator experience, giving them a strong operator-investor perspective on what startups need to grow.”

“Dell corporate strategy leader with 7 years spanning internal consulting, research, coaching, and enterprise-wide strategic initiatives. Has shaped board-level strategy for a $100B+ company, built a startup-focused GTM motion that scaled to several hundred million dollars in revenue, and is leading Dell's forward deployed engineers and internal AI strategy efforts.”

“Serial entrepreneur who has created several companies, brought them to market, raised as much as $15M, and achieved exits before moving on to new ideas. Combines an academic and institutional background spanning Harvard, MIT, Mass General Brigham, and the Department of War with two decades of consulting experience, and is especially motivated by building impactful technology.”

“25+ year professional exploring entrepreneurship; previously helped develop corporate venture capital at Siemens and AVEVA and ran end-to-end diligence through deal close, with heavy technical diligence on pre-seed/pre-revenue companies. Interested in building an AI-enabled hard lending/origination approach to reduce decision-to-close time and scale in a large lending market, and prefers VC studio/EIR models with paid roles rather than equity-only arrangements.”

“Engineering leader with a mix of large-scale platform experience at Microsoft and product/customer-facing work across GM, Panasonic, Acuity, and other environments. Stands out for combining people leadership with hands-on depth in accessibility, web performance at 120M+ MAU scale, and cross-functional delivery spanning enterprise permissions, e-commerce, AI, and automotive systems.”

“Technology-first venture builder with strong familiarity in the VC/accelerator landscape, specializing in greenfield innovation, M&A, and large-scale transformation/modernization. Described building a venture-funded retail banking greenfield startup to integrate lending-as-a-service for SME lending while meeting federal and local financial services compliance requirements.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based semantic search and summarization system for large legal/technical document sets, owning the full backend (embeddings, vector store, chunking, prompting) and driving a reported 40–60% reduction in manual review time. Experienced with LangChain/LlamaIndex plus Airflow/Temporal-style orchestration, and applies rigorous evaluation/monitoring (A/B tests, drift detection, staged rollouts) to keep agentic systems reliable. Also partnered with a supply-chain manager at TE Connectivity to deliver an AI inventory recommendation tool projected to drive millions in value.”

“Commercial GTM leader and former managing director with over a decade of experience building partner-led growth strategies and closing revenue-generating deals for major consumer brands. Has operated both as an advisor and an in-house GM, with hands-on ownership across market mapping, channel strategy, negotiations, and launch execution. Stands out for tying strategy directly to measurable business outcomes, including significant lift for Caesars and successful program development for JetBlue.”

David Proctor

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive Enterprise Architecture & AI Strategy Leader specializing in modernization and agentic AI platforms

Colorado Springs, CO25y exp

“Technically and operationally oriented builder with startup ideas of their own, including an AI services firm in the ideation stage. Stands out for a practical understanding of venture studios and accelerators, with fluency in founder-market fit, MVP validation, hiring, and investor readiness, and a measured approach to going all-in only on high-signal opportunities.”

“Senior multi-state sales leader with deep public-sector and partner-led go-to-market experience, overseeing a 14-person team across 9 southern states. Stands out for 8 straight years of plan attainment, 8,400+ new PODs in 2024, and a track record of using data, field coaching, and cross-functional influence to drive distribution growth, brand expansion, and complex sponsorship deals.”