Vetted Budgeting Professionals

“Previously supported capital raising at Space Ocean Corp by securing several thousand dollars in grant funding and building investor-readiness/outreach materials. Has early exposure to VC/studio/accelerator meetings and articulates nuanced differences in their incentives and time horizons. Interested in refining skills as an early-stage CTO and is highly committed to entrepreneurship.”

Christina Vogel

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive Chief of Staff and Operations Strategist specializing in enterprise SaaS and compliance

Newtown Square, PA22y exp

“Operations/executive-support leader with Chief of Staff compensation expectations who routinely managed multiple cross-functional initiatives, including large customer conferences and strategic customer escalations. Created scalable digital onboarding (rewrote customer comms, built self-serve implementation materials and product onboarding videos) that eliminated workflow bottlenecks and increased customer adoption by a few hundred percent while keeping executives aligned through concise status updates.”

“Operations/finance leader with experience building the operational backbone for fast-growing firms, including setting up recordkeeping, internal controls, and brokerage-specific clearing firm decisions. Helped scale an entity from ~$30M to nearly ~$300M and later modernized consulting-firm expense operations by implementing Concur integrated with ERP, with a hands-on approach to systems selection and change management.”

“People Business Partner Principal/Director at Guild focused on scaling HR infrastructure and organizational excellence. Led a major redesign of a 300-person team, improving efficiency and culture, and implemented Workday and Quinto to enable a new performance review cycle and pay-for-performance bonus plan while advising C-suite leaders on talent strategy and org design.”

“Chief of Staff / cross-functional operator with experience at HighRadius and Darwinbox, building executive operating rhythms (KPI dashboards, pipeline reviews, decision logs, intake/triage) and driving multi-country SE Asia expansion. Uses data-driven prioritization and unit economics (CAC, sales velocity) to align founders/CxOs on tough trade-offs, and has supported a GenAI product launch while managing enterprise escalations without derailing strategic timelines.”

“Apparel product developer/sourcing manager at Linkwear Limited who led high-risk, low-MOQ launches (down to 50 pcs/style) by reverse-engineering samples into tech packs, aggressively vetting/negotiating suppliers, and managing production through QC and shipping. Demonstrated trade-risk hedging (Section 301) via parallel sourcing and hands-on supplier recovery by traveling to Wuxi to resolve a mill bottleneck.”

“Investor/operator-style candidate with investment banking rigor who sources founders through both a 100+ person operator/investor network and internet-driven outbound workflows. They appear strongest in early-stage company sourcing and screening, with examples spanning AI infrastructure, travel tech, construction finance software, and media tech relationships that turned into real pipeline opportunities.”

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.”

Sean Cohen

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Executive medical device engineering leader specializing in digital health hardware platforms

Mountain View, CA7y exp

“Engineering and operations leader in connected healthcare/medical devices with senior experience at AliveCor and Sibel Health. He has owned everything from ultra-thin FDA-cleared ECG hardware architecture and firmware-risk decisions to supplier qualification, manufacturing system buildout, and make-vs-buy strategy across a portfolio of clinical sensing products. Strong differentiator: combines deep technical judgment with hands-on manufacturing scale-up, including taking KardiaMobile Card to mass production in under 18 months and driving Sibel to 98%+ yield with controlled production processes.”

“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.”

“Health insurance and benefits leader with 15 years in regulated healthcare environments who has evolved from payer product roles into hands-on internal product building. Most notably, they self-taught AI tools and built a staffing and analytics platform for a 100-client, $50M+ practice, while also bringing deep ACA, Medicare, and Part D strategy experience including executive-level regulatory analysis.”

“Cloud-focused engineer experienced deploying and stabilizing complex production systems that span APIs, infrastructure, and automated workflows, with a strong observability and safe-release mindset (feature flags/canaries/rollbacks). Has hands-on, customer-facing incident leadership, including executing DR regional failover during an AWS us-east-1 outage to maintain service and reportedly save a client ~$10M.”

“Operations leader and consultant with deep experience scaling a PE-backed services business: as COO at Access Information Management, introduced KPI-driven management, industry-specific software/client portal, and incentive compensation to lift margins from 25% to 40%+ and help grow the company from ~$2M to $100M+ EBITDA. Later advised executive teams in Australia using open-book management and a rigorous accountability/metrics cadence to drive improved results.”