Vetted Budget Management Professionals

“Former Division I athlete with 30 years in basketball and 20 years building a career training and mentoring players, including multi-season youth coaching and recruiting. Brings a character-first recruiting philosophy shaped by mentorship from high-profile coaches/players and is eager to create on-camera/social content to help families navigate the recruiting process.”

Eboni Mallett

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive HR Leader specializing in talent management, total rewards, and DEIB

Houston, TX18y exp

“HR/People Operations leader with experience standing up core HR infrastructure at startups, including implementing ADP Workforce Now and Lever plus workforce planning and recruiting strategy frameworks. Known for pragmatic operational diagnostics (interviews/SOP review), change management, and measurable impact—e.g., creating budget discipline for a graduate development program and driving $100K+ in savings while improving goal alignment, development planning, and recruiting efficiency.”

“Candidate brings an operator-to-founder profile with leadership experience in IT and Business Systems and a strong grasp of how ideas become venture-backable products. They speak fluently about startup evaluation criteria such as TAM, technical defensibility, speed to scale, and AI differentiation, and appear especially motivated by building solutions end-to-end in startup or venture studio environments.”

“MBA-trained project manager with experience spanning retail, commercial real estate, payroll operations, and government compliance. Has served as an owner's representative at CBRE, managed contractor hiring and training at Gusto during peak volume, and now coordinates a complex Department of Defense healthcare initiative involving 40+ stakeholders and significant change management.”

Janine Casale

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Director-level operations leader specializing in franchise and enterprise transformation

Parsippany, NJ29y exp

“Operations and business transformation leader with experience spanning franchise advisory and large-scale enterprise execution, most recently as Senior Director of Operations Solutions & Engagement at Wyndham Hotels & Resorts. Stands out for building structure in ambiguous environments, leading cross-functional initiatives across operations, legal, technology, sourcing, and brand teams, and using analytics tools like Power BI and Salesforce to turn fragmented processes into scalable, insight-driven systems.”

“Supply chain/sourcing professional focused on semiconductor tooling NPI ramp-ups, owning vendor selection through production and delivery. Demonstrates strong cost and trade-risk mitigation (e.g., avoided 25% Section 301 tariff via HTS/landed-cost analysis) and measurable supplier performance turnarounds (OTD improved to 95%) using SAP MRP, shortage analysis, and structured supplier governance.”

“Paid media specialist with hands-on ownership of high-spend digital audio, including a $75K/month Progressive campaign run in Spotify (trafficked via Megaphone and Google Ad Manager). Demonstrates a structured full-funnel approach across Meta/TikTok/Google and a rigorous testing and incrementality mindset (marginal CPA/ROAS, saturation signals, new-user contribution, branded search lift) to guide optimization and scaling.”

“Program/operations leader with Booz Allen Hamilton experience turning around a near-canceled Millennium Challenge Account Indonesia procurement-training contract by implementing train-the-trainer, mentorship, and KPI/dashboard-driven execution. Currently supports the CFO organization at Berkeley Lab, translating high-level strategy into people/process/technology/governance plans with an executive operating cadence.”

“HR Business Partner with experience supporting technology/product/design and R&D organizations at Samsung, including global team leadership and large-scale org redesign. Drove >50% org growth in 2 years while enabling Samsung Semiconductor’s first full-chip launch outside Korea (delivered ahead of deadline). Built agile-inspired HR programs like the 'Speak Easy' leadership integration initiative (Johari Window), earning 8.3/10 feedback from 150 leaders and contributing to a 5-point attrition reduction.”

“HRBP with experience supporting distributed teams across the US and partnering closely with Product, Analytics, and Sales leadership on performance management, employee relations, and lifecycle changes. Notably drove a parental leave policy update for revenue-generating teams by analyzing operational impact, defining clearer parameters, and securing SVP Talent buy-in, and has led leaders through restructuring and role realignment with transparent change communications.”

“Operations/process leader with experience in SaaS and RPO environments, known for turning tribal knowledge into scalable, measurable systems. Has built documentation and knowledge-management standards for 90+ person teams, used data and change agents to drive adoption, and delivered major productivity gains (~300%) through training and automated reporting. Also led cross-functional process mapping and implemented partner onboarding workflows directly in Salesforce to improve SI partner enablement.”

“Automotive embedded product leader (player-coach/product-functional engineering) who helped ship a cybersecurity gateway ECU into production, owning architecture decisions, critical module reviews, and delivery. Demonstrated hands-on security/diagnostics expertise (ADA, RSA) and production defect ownership, plus experience tailoring quality-gate processes to speed variant delivery without sacrificing quality.”

“Entrepreneurial builder using Claude Code to rapidly prototype multiple product ideas and validate them with target users via social channels. Created and launched NotePulse (a lower-priced Notionlytics alternative), acquiring a dozen early users through Reddit-driven discovery and light paid experiments, with a strong emphasis on MVP scoping and product polish.”

Benjamin Hudnut

Screened

Junior Live Events & Music Operations professional specializing in booking, touring, and community events

Los Angeles, CA4y exp

“Founder/director of the music and event production company Tuned In, personally driving outbound BD to book underground LA talent and produce 25 events, including a major Lunar New Year collaboration with Alice Longyu Gao. Also ran multi-channel voter/community outreach for the Frankie Carrillo campaign (door knocking, 1,000+ SMS) and built automation tools (Apple widget; AI image-to-CSV workflow at Live Nation) to improve operational efficiency.”

jitender Hooda

Screened

Executive Client Partner specializing in engineering and digital services

San Ramon, CA19y exp

“Founder building an agentic AI-based low-code platform for B2B enterprise applications, validated through enterprise client conversations and delivered via rapid paid MVP/POCs. Platform has seen production traction (6–7 apps, 1000+ daily users) and includes capabilities like QR scanning integrated with ERP/PLM systems. Experienced in business development and client relationships, with a pragmatic, ROI- and speed-focused approach to product and GTM under tight capital constraints.”

“Candidate is not currently pursuing a startup and has no familiarity with the VC/accelerator ecosystem, but shows a thoughtful founder mindset centered on building from scratch, evaluating user impact and implementation feasibility, and avoiding financially reckless entrepreneurship.”

Sakid Ahmed

Screened

Executive Telecom & Wireless Connectivity Leader (GM/VP Engineering)

Chicago, IL29y exp

“Operator with experience in a private equity-backed business that was carved out of a larger company and later taken public. Brings a startup-builder mindset from within larger-company environments, with emphasis on P&L ownership, go-to-market strategy, product strategy, and evaluating ideas through product-market fit and scalable market demand.”

“Performance marketer with hands-on ownership of SGD 60K-80K/month multi-channel accounts across Google, Bing, Meta, and TikTok. Demonstrates strong full-funnel thinking, disciplined experimentation, and practical optimization instincts—especially around CPL, lead quality, creative fatigue, and budget shifting between social and search to restore efficiency.”

“Senior engineering leader with VP-level scope who combines hands-on technical depth with large-scale org leadership. He led modernization of a legacy automotive ERP platform and architected OEM integration systems, while also scaling teams aggressively and translating enterprise customer needs into practical product and engineering plans.”

“Seasoned enterprise program/project leader with 12+ years delivering complex technology initiatives in highly regulated federal, healthcare, and financial services environments. Stands out for managing portfolios of 6-7 concurrent modernization and operational transformation efforts, with strong governance, executive communication, and cross-functional coordination across engineering, security, and operations.”

“Seasoned project/program leader with 24 years of experience managing multiple concurrent enterprise software, infrastructure, and operational initiatives, often with portfolios exceeding $30M. Brings end-to-end ownership, strong governance discipline, and hands-on vendor and executive stakeholder management, including crisis-response leadership during a conflict-related facilities and systems security initiative.”

Kerri Heinen

Screened

Principal Product Owner specializing in healthcare IT and med-tech

Mounds View, MN17y exp

“Product leader with experience modernizing legacy customer-facing platforms and delivering AI-enabled healthcare capabilities, including an algorithm to classify true cardiac arrhythmias for clinicians. Brings a structured, cross-functional approach to roadmap decisions, user engagement, and team development across engineering, UX, and Scrum teams.”

“Product design leader who has operated as both design head and product owner across retail, supply chain, and global trade platforms. Notable for turning design research into business strategy shifts, leading AI/ML workflow products with measurable adoption gains, and scaling globally distributed design teams while tying UX decisions directly to ROI.”

“CTO/enterprise architect who stays hands-on in code while leading strategy, stakeholder alignment, and team scaling. At Eastridge, established product and technology vision/roadmap, built product engineering/strategy functions, and helped launch products into global markets; most recently led GenAI product design including tech selection, infrastructure, scalability, and observability.”