Vetted General Managers in California

“Retail sourcing leader (currently a General Manager) with 11 years at a South Korea-based retailer and 20+ years in non-food product sourcing. Experienced owning end-to-end sourcing from supplier discovery and commercial negotiation through mass production, audits (BV/UL), and on-time delivery to distribution centers, with strong trade compliance/landed-cost focus (HTS, COO, FTA, tariffs/duties).”

Shady Alzayat

Screened

Executive full-stack engineering leader specializing in AI, cloud, and digital platforms

San Francisco, CA23y exp

“Serial entrepreneur building appetier.com, an agentic restaurant marketing and ecommerce automation platform for restaurants. Previously raised for Atlas Mental Health and brings thoughtful fundraising perspective centered on investor alignment, GTM partnership, and vertical SaaS/SMB infrastructure expertise.”

“Senior operations leader with hands-on experience removing major scale blockers in high-volume operations, including building a scalable end-to-end chain-of-custody workflow validated through time studies, throughput testing, and client-facing demonstrations. Partners directly with sales from site walks through RFPs to win enterprise clients against far larger incumbents, and drives market-level gross margin improvement through P&L-driven metric selection and controllable levers like overtime.”

“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.”