Vetted Budget Management Professionals

“Entrepreneurial builder who created a SaaS system for insurance sales and developed in-house sales/marketing platforms, prioritizing a robust backend that drove over $500k in immediate sales before expanding features. Emphasizes lean, high-impact execution with strong focus on optimization, barrier management, and contingency planning.”

“Influencer/creator marketing specialist with experience at Balmoral Marketing running end-to-end creator partnerships for FreshCo in Ontario, including sourcing, negotiating usage rights and deliverables, and measuring performance via reach/engagement/views and sentiment. Leverages an established creator network to move quickly (e.g., 2-week lead time) and uses paid channels (Meta, programmatic, Google) plus A/B testing and Google Analytics to optimize CTR and engagement.”

“Engineering leader who drove TiVo IPTV’s client-facing API modernization from a monolith to AWS-based microservices (API Gateway, Lambda, EKS, Kafka, DynamoDB/RDS), including phased/blue-green production routing of millions of calls. Emphasizes org scaling through skill-based hiring, mentorship, and a you-build-you-run ownership culture, while balancing technical leadership with executive stakeholder communication and budgeting.”

“Engineering/technology leader with experience at GE, Owl Cyber Defense, and Team Cymru, focused on translating VOC and business strategy into iterative product/technology roadmaps. Led delivery of a Continuous Threat Exposure Management/asset discovery capability integrated with threat intel, reaching GA in ~2 quarters and generating ~$300K in pre-GA orders. Has scaled engineering organizations significantly (to ~100 FTE) and driven big-data security architectures using Kafka and ClickHouse with data-driven cost/performance tradeoffs.”

“Business manager experienced in driving cross-functional budgeting, governance, and portfolio changes while maintaining executive alignment. Supported post-acquisition integration by improvising custom Excel dashboards and weekly executive reporting to track a 70-person global hiring push when systems access was delayed; the reporting approach became a reusable HR template.”

“Healthcare data platform builder with experience at Aetion delivering a rule-based EMR/EHR ingestion and validation framework that cut onboarding from 8–10 weeks to hours and unlocked $30M+ in revenue over ~3 years. Motivated to found an AI/agent-driven healthcare solution, with a specific interest in using PET scans, doctor notes, and treatment data with LLMs to help predict cancer progression and guide next-step treatments.”

“Music editor/mixer with a musician background who shapes longform storytelling through precise cue timing, genre-aware sourcing (including original artist tracks), and seamless restructuring/rescoring. Has edited documentary content on discrimination in the music industry and adjusted mixes/edits for institutional clients like Lincoln Center to improve clarity and engagement.”

“Engineering leader who has led 100+ engineers at Sainsbury’s Tech and previously scaled an org from 6 to 60+ at AND Digital. Drove a high-impact modernization of a pricing/decisioning platform serving 1,700 stores—moving from batch monolith to real-time Kafka-based event-driven microservices with MLOps, IaC (Terraform), and zero-trust—delivering £18m+ annual profit uplift and 10+ deploys/day.”

“At BuildZoom, led cross-functional alignment to launch a new product (Data Explorer) and grew it from $0 to $1.3M ARR in 12 months. Leverages analytics and BI tooling (HubSpot, Looker, Tableau, Sisense) to build executive dashboards and drive strategic decisions, including redesigning sales incentives to emphasize recurring revenue.”