Vetted Presidents

“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 leader/advisor experienced in bringing structure to early-stage/growing companies by connecting Vision-Mission-Strategy to execution via roadmaps, accountability, and KPI scorecards with defined operating cadences. Demonstrated measurable impact by redesigning sales compensation around margin by product/retailer, improving profitability by 4 points within six months, and has reported directly to founders/CEOs with sales and finance backgrounds.”

“Entrepreneur and senior executive who has raised capital and built a sophisticated, integrated agency platform spanning PR, design, exhibitions/live environments, and media placement; the business is currently in a sale process due to a major shareholder exiting the U.S. Strong premium-market positioning experience, leveraging C-suite access to validate opportunities and building human-centric, data-driven, AI-enabled service offerings across luxury/hospitality/culture/real estate/wellness.”

“Engineering leader and former CTO/Disney|ABC engineering manager who built white-label mobile app architecture that supported a branded app and successful exit, and later scaled Disney Channel brand app teams across iOS/Android/web and major OTT platforms. Led kid-safety architecture for DisneyNOW (“Junior mode” with PIN) and partnered with product/legal on COPPA compliance, emphasizing maintainable tech choices and strong execution processes.”

“Technical founder at Mightier, a clinically-validated mental health video game system for kids, where the company has raised $30M. Brings 25+ years of game development experience, has built zero-to-one titles with millions of players, and has scaled core functions from product/dev through QA, customer support, and even manufacturing for a physical-shipping business; currently leading an agentic coding transformation.”

“Hospitality entrepreneur who founded and launched Hotel Lucine, a hotel resort in Galveston, TX, raising approximately $30M and opening in 2023. Led the venture end-to-end—from business model and investor pitches to entity structuring, deal docs, design/construction (including acting as primary general contractor), and ongoing operations spanning service standards, finance/capital strategy, brand, and event bookings.”

“Entrepreneurial consultant who relocated to Boston to build a practice from scratch through intensive networking and pro-bono work, leading to being listed as a trusted provider in Leader Bank's CEO toolbox and generating qualified leads. Uses structured strategic frameworks (OODA, Porter's Five Forces, SWOT) to evaluate risk, resource lift, and enterprise/customer impact, with a strong ownership-and-accountability orientation.”

“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.”

“AWS intern who significantly evolved a Drift Audit Service backend (Control Tower/EventBridge context) to make drift findings more explainable and reduce false positives by adding a verification step in Lambda before event ingestion. Demonstrates strong API design fundamentals in Python/FastAPI (contracts, idempotency, security controls) and careful rollout practices (feature flags, canaries, phased deployments).”

“Talent acquisition leader who built and scaled the recruiting team at Houlihan Lokey, ultimately leading ~10–12 recruiters across campus and experienced hiring while partnering closely with HR on offers/comp. Also brings healthcare HR experience from Ketter Medical Center, working with external recruiters to hire physicians, nurses, and administrative staff, and has implemented process improvements tied to DEI/MBA engagement.”

“Entrepreneurial operator with a decade+ of experience running businesses (teams, P&Ls, partnership scaling) now building a free, AI-driven fitness/nutrition/mental health platform with a B2B2C monetization model. Plans to fund the venture by leveraging equity from a current business exit (sale/IPO) and to launch via influencer equity partnerships and local wellness business collaborations.”

“Robotics engineer with UC Berkeley ROAR autonomous racing experience focused on real-time mapping/localization: implemented DLIO in ROS 2 and built the supporting LiDAR/IMU/GPS synchronization, TF consistency, and GPS-aligned trajectory tooling needed for reliable 3D SLAM on a physical vehicle. Also independently integrated a heterogeneous quadruped robot system at Eli Lilly spanning embedded, PLC, safety radar, Raspberry Pi, and cloud voice interfaces.”

“Operations-focused executive and management consultant who has led operational buildouts across sectors: first CEO at a founder-led company, COO of a large nonprofit food bank, and co-founder of a 501(c)(3) that has run for over a decade serving thousands of at-risk children. Brings a structured, metrics-informed approach (process mapping, financial alignment, benchmarking, SWOT) and coaches leaders to connect vision and strategy to scalable operational execution.”