Vetted Budget Management Professionals

“Candidate is not pursuing a startup and is actively seeking employment, but brings several years of experience from a late-stage, well-funded startup. They show some familiarity with startup culture, especially the urgency, energy, and focus on creating value and demonstrating progress in real time.”

“Product leader with deep edtech experience who helped take Honor Education from an incomplete early product at zero users/zero revenue to general availability and a $38M Series A. Combines zero-to-one product building, AI feature delivery, LMS integration strategy, and team leadership, with a clear philosophy around human-centered AI that supports educators and learners rather than replacing them.”

“Implementation/project leader with experience spanning Confluent, Cerner/VA, and Elovate/Madani Traffic Management, managing complex cross-functional portfolios and building governance in ambiguous environments. Stands out for aligning resources across technical and operational teams, creating executive-ready reporting in Power BI, and delivering measurable savings, including reducing losses by $50K per month.”

“Merchandising and buying leader with experience at Rue Gilt, Zappos, and Fisker, owning end-to-end category strategy, OTB, and vendor negotiations across multi-channel e-commerce. Known for structuring high-impact vendor deals (tiered cost breaks, exclusivity, vendor-funded markdowns) and using SKU-level analytics to drive outsized results, including 15% sales growth/8% margin improvement on a $55M category and 80% YoY profit growth from partnership agreements.”

“Paid media/inbound marketer with experience managing high monthly ad spend in EMEA and Spain, including a regulated online betting environment. Built a content-led acquisition approach (YouTube/blog audience building) paired with remarketing and conversion campaigns, optimizing to CPL and lead quality while collaborating with CRM and external teams.”

“Hands-on architect/executive who built a virtual sales platform from scratch with real-time video delivery and autoscaling global video nodes, while also operating at the stakeholder/roadmap level. Previously scaled IT as Arbonne grew from ~$11M to $1B in annual sales and led large digital transformation efforts including a 70-person team for princesshouse.com; also advises startups (e.g., SocialBud) on product expansion and roadmaps.”

“Lifecycle/CRM marketer with 14 years of cross-functional experience, leveraging SQL-driven segmentation and structured A/B/multivariate testing to optimize engagement and conversions. Has led coordinated national/regional launches for a hardware product and tracks impact through CRM campaign codes tied to closed sales.”

“Engineering/technology leader (CTO-style) with experience scaling orgs and running distributed teams across four continents for over a decade. Led a high-stakes modernization of a securities trading platform at Wedbush—migrating from monolith to microservices on AWS with zero-downtime constraints—driving 45% execution performance improvement and enabling 25% market share growth. Emphasizes business-aligned roadmaps, build-vs-buy rigor, and scalable engineering practices/culture.”

Rahul Setia

Screened

Director-level Growth Marketing leader specializing in full-funnel acquisition and lifecycle optimization

Calgary, AB11y exp

“Growth and partnerships professional with experience across fintech (SMB loans) and edtech (ByteLearn), combining SEO-led content ecosystems and performance marketing experimentation with rigorous lead-quality verification. Has closed white-label partnerships in the dental industry and built creator/referral incentive programs, consistently tying initiatives to funnel metrics like leads, MQL/SQL, activations, LTV, and ROAS.”

Gustavo Lander

Screened

Mid-level Marketing & Data Analyst specializing in BI, sales planning, and process automation

Madrid, Spain6y exp

“Partnership and growth professional with experience closing 5+ sponsorship/partnership deals for a flagship conference (LPN Congress & Expo) through cold outreach and tailored packages, then measuring ROI via post-event lead/sales tracking. Also brings CPG and B2B marketing experience from Mondelez and agriNews, including data-driven in-store GTM diagnostics and iterative lead-gen funnel optimization (landing page + social + email).”

Jon Davis

Screened

Executive business leader specializing in operations, growth, and M&A

Kalamazoo, MI23y exp

“Former CEO of Davis Oil who led an operational and cultural reset in a multi-location business—rebuilding org structure, KPI reporting, SOPs, and accountability systems. Now consults and advises leaders (especially family businesses) who lack formal operations backgrounds, using a systems-focused “diagnose before design” approach grounded in frontline discovery.”

“Implementation/CS professional with enterprise account ownership in fintech/payments and ERP-integrated workflows (NetSuite, QuickBooks), including complex hybrid AP/mass pay setups and bidirectional sync challenges. Partners closely with Product/Engineering on integration plans and sandbox validation, and has driven expansion by upselling REST API automation beyond initial iFrame/ERP scope.”

“Candidate participated in Launch Factory's venture studio selection process, which introduced them to a formalized startup methodology, and then went on to found and recently exit their own business. They are highly motivated to keep building companies, with a clear emphasis on creating products that serve a community and validating market need through product-market fit.”

Cia Hang

Screened

Executive IT and Operations leader specializing in digital transformation and security

Chicago, IL13y exp

“Candidate is very familiar with the venture capital and broader investment landscape, but is not interested in founding a company. They have worked with several TPG-backed or TPG-owned organizations, helping drive business scaling, cost reduction, and execution against investor governance requirements.”

Mark Peters

Screened

Executive sales leader specializing in MedTech, medical devices, and mission-critical communications

New Jersey, USA15y exp

“Senior public sector sales leader with repeated success building and scaling national SLED, Federal, and DoD organizations through hybrid direct and channel models. Has owned up to $200M+ in annual revenue, secured major state contract wins in New Jersey, drove post-bankruptcy growth at 3-5x market rates in the AED space, and helped create acquisition-driving commercial momentum.”

“Product leader with experience modernizing and merging complex B2B platforms in industrial, facilities, and logistics contexts. Notably led the integration of Smartbin and WasteForce into a single Contelligent platform with no customer attrition, and has shipped AI-informed IoT products that made building optimization more accessible to non-analytical users.”

“Performance marketer focused on scaling high-spend ecommerce paid media, with hands-on ownership of a ~$150K/month Google Ads account for Solawave. Known for disciplined account restructuring, feed optimization, and controlled testing across Google/Meta/TikTok—driving ROAS improvement from ~2.2 to ~5 in under three months while keeping spend predictable and scalable.”

“Growth/demand gen marketer with strong partnership negotiation experience (notably renegotiating a G2 deal into a 3-year agreement) and a track record of measurable pipeline and ARR impact. Leverages buyer-intent data (G2/Gartner), competitor intelligence, ABM/LinkedIn, and product-led in-app triggers to drive lead growth, conversion improvements, and enterprise upgrades.”

Nicholas Picarelli

Screened

Senior Procurement Manager specializing in hospitality FF&E/OS&E sourcing

Los Angeles, CA8y exp

“Procurement/sourcing professional with experience at Avantstay, owning end-to-end sourcing for furnishing new properties under tight go-live deadlines. Demonstrated trade/tariff cost mitigation by shifting a Canada-based linen supply flow to bulk US warehousing, and built cross-functional SOPs and vendor KPIs to improve operational execution despite lacking an ERP.”

“Sales professional with experience building outbound motions in both life sciences and field-services environments. Stands out for turning lab-level wins at Fred Hutch into an institutional sale through multi-threading and champion-led expansion, and for helping Roadside Response grow from no revenue to $5M+ in under 3 years by refining ICP and compliance-driven messaging.”

JOSHUA DAVIS

Screened

Director-level Digital Marketing leader specializing in SEO, PPC, and growth strategy

Kansas City, MO13y exp

“Digital marketer with 12+ years of hands-on SEO and PPC experience managing accounts across many industries rather than a single niche. He has owned sizable multi-platform budgets across Google, Meta, Microsoft, and TikTok, and stands out for a disciplined testing methodology tied to CPA/ROAS improvement, including a cited e-commerce win reducing CPA from 65 to 40 and recovering stalled performance within two weeks.”

“Senior project/program leader with 20+ years delivering enterprise cloud, data, infrastructure, and operational software implementations in highly regulated environments. Has progressed from project execution into multi-stream modernization leadership, managing concurrent portfolios, executive steering committees, and governance-heavy transformations at organizations including Harvard and UniFirst.”

“Engineering/product leader who builds business-aligned technology roadmaps and scales pod-based orgs with strong delivery discipline (OKRs, CI/CD, QA automation). Led a SaaS supply-chain application adopted by Fortune 100 customers, citing ~$4M MRR and ~87% gross profit, and has hands-on experience standardizing LLM + cloud/MLOps architectures with security/compliance guardrails. Also created the PISEK methodology and used it to run distributed innovation sprints (e.g., an AI ETA predictor moved from pilot to production).”