Vetted Budget Management Professionals

“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).”

“Recruiting Operations leader with 10 years across transportation, staffing, and tech, managing teams up to 40 in both remote-first and onsite settings. Known for rebuilding end-to-end recruiting workflows (interviewing, pay equity/salary transparency, onboarding automation) and delivering measurable outcomes including 140% revenue growth, plus strong ATS analytics and HRIS/LMS implementation experience (Workable, SmartRecruiters, Paycom, Litmos).”

“Operations and people-systems builder who has completed three 0-to-1 healthcare startups, standing up org design, governance, workflows, and core policies/cultural norms. Certified executive coach with hands-on experience implementing HRIS and compliance/compensation tooling (e.g., Navex, CompXL) and advising founders on scalable operating models and early leadership hires.”

Kristen Giovanis

Screened

Executive operator and board advisor specializing in scaling PE-backed and founder-led services firms

Minneapolis, MN30y exp

“Former CEO of a rapidly scaling, PE-backed company (ULG) who rebuilt the operating model and unified fragmented systems after acquisition-driven growth. Implemented EOS and led phased deployments of NetSuite, Salesforce, Monday.com, and Power BI to create a connected, data-driven organization, with strong change-management and executive coaching experience.”

Brandon Call

Screened

Executive Talent Acquisition & People Operations leader specializing in global recruiting and HR tech

20y exp

“Global Talent Acquisition/Recruiting Operations leader who has scaled and standardized end-to-end recruiting across regions and large teams (5–95), including major ATS/HCM implementations (Workday, Lever, Greenhouse, BambooHR). Known for rebuilding “Frankenstein” recruiting orgs into measurable operating models—cutting time-to-fill 28%, improving forecast accuracy to 5–10% variance, and boosting hiring manager satisfaction by 30+ points—while building offshore sourcing capability (South Africa delivering 55–60% of early funnel).”

Judy Garza

Screened

Director-level HR & Talent Acquisition leader specializing in workforce transformation and HR operations

Rockwall, TX23y exp

“Talent Acquisition/Recruiting Operations leader who owned end-to-end recruiting ops and served as the Workday TA implementation SME at DART, standardizing a fragmented hiring process into documented SOPs, dashboards, and SLAs that cut time-to-fill by 52% in one year. Previously led recruiting/resource/payroll teams supporting 10k+ independent catastrophe adjusters, building surge workflows and compliance checkpoints to staff disaster events within hours.”

Kevin Hand

Screened

Senior Game Designer and Producer specializing in 3D/VR interactive experiences

Chico, CA11y exp

“Lead game designer/producer who shipped a Fortnite TMNT-themed rogue-like dungeon crawler, owning progression, economy, and tuning. Improved retention measurably by replacing a linear points system with an exponential economy formula, increasing playtime by ~50%, and iterated quickly via playtests (mini-boss pacing, weapon drop-rate balance). Also built UE Blueprints for FPS animation montages and state transitions to address clunky movement feedback.”

Jordan Karp

Screened

Executive founder and political strategist specializing in FinTech and public affairs

New York, NY23y exp

“Entrepreneur with a background in electoral politics who is building a niche lending company for political campaigns and organizations, a space they describe as having no direct competitors. They also bring prior experience starting manufacturing and transportation businesses, giving them an unusual blend of political domain knowledge, finance fluency, and repeat-founder experience.”

Brian Matthews

Screened

Senior Program Manager specializing in FinTech SaaS

Boston, MA17y exp

“Seasoned Fintech SaaS program leader with 12 years of implementation experience, including 8 years owning an online banking platform across 40 clients. Has managed portfolios of 10 concurrent customized deployments, budgets up to $15M, and executive-facing recovery plans that turned delayed projects into early deliveries.”

mahmoud abboud

Screened

Executive project management leader specializing in core banking transformation

Houston, TX20y exp

“Senior implementation consultant in fintech focused on banking and credit union clients, with end-to-end ownership of Jack Henry LoanVantage implementations. Stands out for hands-on work across discovery, configuration, data migration, UAT, training, and go-live, including managing compliance-sensitive legacy migrations and complex operational cutovers.”

“Growth and operations leader with 12+ years spanning corporate, private equity, entrepreneurial, and consulting environments. They have led multi-brand and international GTM initiatives at scale, including managing $12M+ budgets, overseeing an 850+ associate sales organization, launching a 4-language digital contract program, and driving 30% consecutive annual growth plus $8M in incremental revenue.”

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.”

“Platform/infra engineer with deep Kubernetes (EKS) and VMware vSphere experience who has led a monolith-to-microservices transition for a credit lending decision platform. Built GitOps-driven Terraform delivery with strong governance, and used LaunchDarkly-based progressive rollouts plus Datadog observability to safely ship multiple times per day (reported ~6x throughput and 1/3 the bugfix tickets vs legacy). Also operates hybrid on-prem/AWS networking (firewall + Transit Gateway, BGP) and has handled high-stakes datacenter migrations (100TB Storage vMotion) under Sev1 conditions.”

Ashish Kapoor

Screened

Director of Digital Solutions & Principal Architect specializing in composable DXP and AI transformation

Greater Philadelphia Area, USA20y exp

“Enterprise digital transformation technologist with SaaS and AI platform experience who positions themselves as a technical bridge for VC/startup contexts—focused on technical due diligence (scalability, technical debt, AI readiness) and helping portfolio companies build enterprise-grade, scalable platforms with AI-driven product development approaches.”

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.”

“Video editor/producer experienced across marketing, social, corporate, and film work, with a structured longform YouTube workflow from raw footage through color, audio cleanup, and final graphics/music/SFX. Has B2B experience with MarketScale, producing videos on-site and editing content for client-facing marketing platforms, and has led/mentored other editors with a focus on visual alignment and QC.”