Vetted Presidents

“Entrepreneur and operations/IT advisor who helps early-stage companies scale efficiently through automation (CRM lead capture, invoicing, collections) and pragmatic process design. Built a year-long data standardization solution converting broker inputs from 60+ formats, enabling better sales forecasting and market projections. Also advises founders on go-to-market fundamentals and creative fundraising strategies, including forming paid customer consortia to co-develop products.”

Bryan Blake

Screened

Senior Football Coach specializing in player development and defensive strategy

San Francisco, CA31y exp

“Longtime football recruiting advisor who has spent decades promoting players to four-year coaches and helping families make fit-first decisions around recruiting and NIL. Stands out for practical, candid guidance on level-of-play fit, multi-sport development, and finding scholarship paths for athletes who may be overlooked in traditional evaluations.”

“Data-driven growth and partnerships professional with experience leading an analytics/reporting vendor rollout end-to-end (vendor selection via stakeholder interviews and PoC, then negotiating scope/pricing/support and tracking adoption/efficiency/accuracy KPIs). At PC Financial, built regression and segmentation models to optimize multi-channel targeting (in-app/email/push), driving +15% campaign engagement and +10% PC Optimum offer loads, and ran behavior-triggered lifecycle experiments that lifted upsell conversion by 20%.”

Joseph Rubino

Screened

Senior Hockey Referee and Sports Operations professional specializing in hockey officiating and analytics

Hauppauge, NY14y exp

“Lifelong competitive hockey participant who transitioned into a hockey career, including multiple roles with the New York Islanders, stat tracking for Clear Sight Analytics, and 10 years of officiating—currently skating full-time as a USHL referee. Brings a data-informed evaluation approach and broad relationships across youth, junior, college, and pro hockey, with direct exposure to D1/NHL development pathways.”

“Sales candidate with SDR-to-AE progression who combines very high outbound activity levels (roughly 500 emails and 200+ calls per day) with consultative demos and objection handling. Reported generating about $197.98K in pipeline and uses a practical, data-informed approach to building pipeline from scratch by leveraging existing customer relationships, referrals, and vertical engagement signals.”

Firas Ferjen

Screened

Mid-level Game Developer specializing in Unity, VR, and Web3 games

Qatar6y exp

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer focused on AI-heavy game systems across basketball simulation, boxing VR, and multiplayer titles. Particularly notable for building cloud-simulated player decision systems and an LLM-powered live commentary pipeline that cut OpenAI API usage by about 32%, while also contributing to a project that was signed by Kwalee and later supported by $1.78M in investment.”

Mike Costa-Merle

Screened

Executive Fractional GM & Advisor specializing in venture studios, SaaS, and live events

New York, NY21y exp

“Fractional executive (CEO/COO/CRO) who specializes in taking startups from concept to market across entertainment, tech/SaaS, hospitality, and healthcare. Reports scaling an entertainment marketing venture to $15M ARR within two years, using data-driven market analysis, customer discovery, and rapid team buildout, and leverages AI tools to accelerate GTM and investor readiness.”

“Former varsity basketball player (recruited by multiple D2 and some D1 programs; all-tournament at a University of Minnesota camp in 1978) who later coached his three sons through Chicago Bulls Academy and Midwest tournaments. For the past ~25 years he has worked as a baseball pitching instructor, leveraging measurable-based talent evaluation and relationships with 100+ colleges to help athletes navigate recruiting; comfortable scouting in person and online and willing to create on-camera social content for families.”

“Built and deployed a Unity-based, NSF-funded medical interaction system for the University of Houston MRI Lab, combining speech recognition, LLaMA-based function calling, and real-time simulation controls. Particularly strong in taking experimental AI systems from discovery through stabilization, with measurable impact including roughly 50% faster task completion than traditional point-and-click workflows.”