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.”

“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 Led the integration of Merrick Pet Food into Purina, addressing scaling constraints by redesigning outdated processes.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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Led an end-to-end regional sourcing strategy at AMAT for consumables and high-value critical parts, including risk/mitigation planning, cross-functional execution, and executive-level reporting. Successfully influenced internal business unit leaders to shift procurement away from captive suppliers by validating and improving regional supplier capability and reliability, while building a repeatable playbook for the team.”

“Real Estate & Construction professional at Analog Devices who built a cross-functional "single source of truth" system (Excel to Smartsheet) integrating tools like CoStar and Conga. Previously co-founded a Shanghai-based communications coaching consultancy serving eBay middle managers, handling incorporation, branding/marketing (including WeChat), office negotiation, and growth through increased class frequency and mentoring.”

“Technology/IT leader with experience spanning healthcare software (Medicaid/Medicare) and large-scale media production IT. At O'Neil Digital Solutions, drove a configuration-first standardized platform that cut client onboarding from months to weeks and helped position the org to double its client base. At 20th Century Fox Television, led a major security and cloud-network standardization initiative post-Sony hack, enabling secure worldwide production at scale (~50 productions/year).”

“Longform digital video editor with major entertainment brand experience (MTV, Comedy Central, AwesomenessTV), including an MTV YouTube show with 20M+ views. Comfortable leading multi-part series workflows and mentoring other editors, and experienced enhancing storytelling with motion-graphics-heavy edits (e.g., Comedy Central Snapchat series).”

“Angel investor (Bluegrass Angels) who advises early-stage companies on product and organizational design, with a background leading corporate back-office (finance/customer service) and supply chain. Proposed and implemented a Global Business Services/shared services unit at a large corporation, building the savings/ROI case and running quarterly progress reviews to ensure adoption and results.”