Vetted Founders

“Chief of Staff at Molecular Affinities and former Investor Relations & Operations manager at JCAM Investments, with hands-on experience supporting capital raising while simultaneously tightening operations (website, investor onboarding, back office). Strong operator who implements and drives adoption of systems like HubSpot, Asana, and Slack to improve executive productivity and team accountability.”

“Exited Founder-CEO with deep-tech experience who raised capital and built a venture around making end-to-end encryption with cloud-level performance and data sovereignty feasible. Demonstrated first-principles technical rigor (network/TCP analysis) to prove scientific feasibility, then progressed from proof of concept to prototype and eventual exit, with a strong bias toward ultra-lean, customer-paid MVPs.”

Paul Tran

Screened

Executive Technology Leader specializing in SaaS, federal consulting, and digital transformation

Tysons Corner, VA31y exp

“Former CEO of GravyWork with hands-on experience building an org-wide strategic plan and modernization roadmap for a growing company. Uses Michael Gerber’s innovation/orchestration/quantification framework and structured as-is/gap/to-be analysis to drive cost reduction, automation/outsourcing decisions, and leadership alignment through change.”

Michael Cusden

Screened

Director-level B2B Growth Marketing leader specializing in demand gen, ABM, and marketing ops

Toronto, Canada11y exp

“Marketing/partnerships professional with hands-on creator experience as a blogger and micro-influencer, bringing a creator-side lens to brand deals and trust-first sponsorships. Has led partner-led ABM GTM and acquisition loops (webinars + email nurtures) targeting Canadian SMB cloud/cybersecurity upgrades, driving the highest MQL pipeline of the year at lower cost than paid and scaling the motion across partners.”

Antoine Andre

Screened

Senior Account Executive specializing in AI/SaaS and technical B2B sales

Sacramento, CA17y exp

“Founding recruiter/seller at Remax who built the entire outbound engine from zero—cadences, CRM workflows, automations, Chrome extensions, discovery framework, and ROI templates—without SDRs, inbound, or an existing playbook. Combines consultative selling with technical process-building, and turned a cold-sourced broker into a 5-person team producing $14M in annual volume while reducing meeting conversion timelines by 40%.”

“Founding-style SDR candidate with recent experience at an AI accounts receivable startup, prospecting into finance and operations leaders across mid-market and enterprise accounts. Stands out for combining intent signals, verified data, and highly specific operational messaging to win meetings with senior stakeholders like the CFO of Coca-Cola MENA, and for articulating a clear framework to build outbound pipeline from scratch.”

“Backend engineer who has built end-to-end data and platform systems across domains: a Scala/Java media data warehouse with a custom query language and Elasticsearch search, plus production security patterns (RBAC, RLS, audit trails) including a telehealth platform. Also demonstrated strong operational rigor by using feature-flagged side-by-side migrations and by catching ecommerce checkout edge cases that were dropping revenue.”

“Beauty category/program manager with experience running end-to-end brand campaigns across subscription/assortment and eCommerce, including line planning, inventory pacing, and demand generation. Has negotiated directly with a global beauty conglomerate using pricing tests and scale-based proposals, sustaining the partnership through regular reporting/insights and helping drive onboarding of additional brands.”

Tommy Hendricks

Screened

Senior Account Director specializing in TV, digital, and out-of-home advertising sales

Rochester, NY44y exp

“Former college basketball coach/player and college administrator who owns and runs an AAU/youth basketball organization in Western NY, impacting 200+ kids and families over ~20 years. Combines hands-on scouting and officiating at exposure events with a current career in sports media/advertising sales, producing content tied to major events (Final Four, NBA, Olympics, NFL).”

“Commercial and sales-focused candidate with nontraditional SDR experience who emphasizes proactive partner management, disciplined outbound systems, and consultative messaging. They cite driving 40% net sales revenue growth and doubling advertising income through strong follow-through, trust-building, and helping partners clearly understand value.”

“Serial founder/engineer who has raised capital for two prior startups and is now building a mental awareness venture. Drove rapid early traction for Fashom after an organic YouTube unboxing sparked demand, then scaled using influencer-led growth with no paid ads for ~2 years, achieving ~150% YoY growth and staying profitable through COVID.”

“Founder who built and operated a marketing agency (Six Degrees) end-to-end, setting up legal/infrastructure foundations and implementing SOPs, KPIs, and repeatable operating rhythms. Emphasizes operational excellence, predictable delivery, and prioritization based on customer impact, revenue risk, and compliance/safety.”

“LLM/agent builder who shipped a live consumer AI-agent app (kalpa.chat) that visualizes complex reasoning as interactive graphs and abstracts multi-provider model usage via a unified wallet. Professionally has applied LangChain/LangGraph to IVR parsing and to scaling a football video-generation pipeline at DAZN, including shipping a VAR-specific retrieval/order fix via SQL after iterating with a non-technical PM.”

“Product designer/front-end builder in EdTech who bridges UX and engineering by moving quickly from Figma into coded interactive prototypes, then shipping production UI directly with engineers. Recently owned a major assessment-builder redesign at Progress Learning and independently built K-12 Compare, a neutral vendor comparison product informed by seven years of firsthand EdTech procurement experience.”

“Audio/music editor working across longform narrative video and theatrical production, focused on shaping emotional beats through precise timing (delayed builds/drops, extended transitions) and cohesive mixing. Uses Audacity and Ableton/DAWs with EQ, compression, automation, crossfades, and noise reduction, and works closely with editor/producer direction to iterate quickly (typical ~1 week turnaround).”

“Built ReflectlyAI, an AI-powered interview coach, implementing a low-latency Python/Flask backend with modular LLM/Whisper services, retries/fallbacks, caching/batching, and async/background processing. Demonstrates strong PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy performance tuning (EXPLAIN ANALYZE, composite indexes, selectinload) and multi-tenant isolation patterns (tenant-scoped schemas, tenant_id middleware), reporting ~50% response-time reduction.”

“Serial CEO, startup operator, and capital raiser who says he has raised over $1B and led 5 high-growth tech-enabled businesses to successful exits. He combines fundraising, venture-building, regulatory problem-solving, and brand creation—highlighted by scaling Ventete, mentoring for a decade in venture networks, partnering at TIFIN, and helping create proprietary financial structures that processed $12.5B in deal flow.”

Philip Akin

Screened

Executive CEO Coach and Growth Strategist specializing in marketing, franchising, and operations

Cedar Falls, Iowa44y exp

“Operator-turned-CEO coach who founded and scaled a laundry services business from a $500 start into an international, multi-location chain. Led high-stakes retail merger integration and rapid store expansion at Advance Auto Parts (600→1,200 stores in ~9 months; 2,500+ additional openings over 5 years) and developed an OGSI operations framework adopted by dozens of companies.”

Laurie Myers

Screened

Executive Biopharma Operator specializing in drug development, commercialization, and board leadership

Kansas City, MO38y exp

“Pharma marketing and go-to-market professional with ~8 years building launch strategies, including experience on the Lovenox marketing team during a major hospital-to-outpatient injectable launch. Demonstrates strong reimbursement expertise (J-code strategy) and hands-on field research with pharmacists across states to enable outpatient reimbursement adoption.”

“Growth and partnerships operator with 10+ years in digital marketing across Web3, gaming/creator ecosystems, and B2B SaaS. Has executed exchange listings (KuCoin/Bybit/MEXC) and community-led campaigns (AMAs, guild partnerships), plus international GTM (Nigeria) that drove ~$100k traded volume in month one and rapid social growth to 100k X followers.”

Alexander Churchill

Screened

Executive Talent Acquisition & Workforce Operations Leader specializing in global hiring

San Francisco / Denver, US23y exp

“Talent/Recruiting Operations leader who ran a 450–600 person multi-region org (USA/MX/Colombia) with end-to-end ownership of SLAs, capacity planning, funnel metrics, ATS/CRM, compliance, bench, and renewals. Known for high-impact operational redesigns—revamped sales comp to lift EBIT and built a CX function that improved renewals by 10% in 12 months (~$7M). Also drove a Slack-first AI workflow strategy that cut complex RFP turnaround from weeks to minutes.”