Vetted Presidents

“Operations-focused advisor who has helped organizations scale through major transitions (including doubling headcount and moving from fully remote to hybrid) by implementing structured scheduling, space planning, and documented processes. Uses EOS/Level 10 to drive accountability and execution, and has mentored a young executive team through role definition, ownership transfers, and exit planning culminating in a $12M sale.”

Mahdiyya Oke

Screened

Mid-level AI product and operations leader specializing in 0-to-1 systems building

Cleveland, OH6y exp

“Founding operator turned AI product owner who has built systems from scratch in both physical and digital businesses. They helped launch an early-stage restaurant startup, owning everything from menu/vendor ops to payroll and infrastructure, then moved into leading enterprise AI chatbot initiatives and a two-sided marketplace product, showing unusual range across operations, product, and marketplace strategy.”

Ketan Verma

Screened

Junior Applied AI Engineer specializing in data pipelines and ML systems

College Station, TX2y exp

“Built an end-to-end wafer-data anomaly detection and reporting system at Samsung using PySpark, Random Forest models, SQL, and Grafana to help engineers track faults and take corrective action. Also has strong UX prototyping and validation practices in Figma plus hands-on front-end/full-stack experience (HTML/CSS/TypeScript), including a student project recognized as best design out of 25 teams, and early-stage startup experience pivoting a product based on user interviews into a real-time in-context feedback overlay.”

“Recent college graduate with early outbound experience as a student caller, where they stood out as a top performer by raising the highest donation amounts on many shifts. Their edge is a highly personal, relationship-first approach—moving beyond scripts to connect alumni memories and motivations to a compelling ask.”

Steven Lindstrom

Screened

Executive sales leader specializing in construction and restoration

Tampa, FL18y exp

“Sales leader with a long track record of rebuilding underperforming teams, channels, and offices across software and disaster restoration. At Syntellect, he revived a dormant indirect sales program and earned back-to-back President's Club honors; more recently at BluSky, he led the Tampa office turnaround by expanding into multifamily, hospitality, healthcare, and county partnerships, including hurricane-response work and a healthcare partner recognition as a Gold Standard vendor.”

“Senior PM/PM executive with 25+ years leading large-scale enterprise and public-sector technology programs, spanning custom .NET software, RPA/low-code delivery, and major infrastructure migrations. Notable highlights include a $1.3M Indiana retirement systems project, recovery work on a $90M IBM integration effort in Thailand, and a 7-part $3.3M mainframe/data center migration delivered within 5% of budget.”

“President/founder of Kazenet, an early-stage no-code, compliance-focused recurring-revenue SaaS platform with customers and ~$200K revenue YTD, currently preparing a seed raise targeting angels/seed investors. Also mentors founders at C10 (Kendall Square venture studio), bringing hands-on experience scaling revenue, teams, and new verticals across US and international markets.”

Richie Bavasso

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive healthcare venture builder specializing in MedTech, digital health, and AI diagnostics

North Charleston, SC32y exp

“Five-time entrepreneur with 25 years across startups, venture studios, and accelerators, including current advisory work with MassChallenge, VentureWell, Scottish Development International, and German Accelerator/Start 2 Group. Most recently helped lead a UK MedTech company through multiple raises totaling over £11M plus grants, while driving FDA clearance, MVP completion, and US customer launch in a tough fundraising market.”