Vetted Budgeting Professionals

“Entrepreneurial film producer with 30+ years creating award-winning media who has raised capital for multiple feature-length projects and navigated film-finance realities (escrow funding timelines, investor commitment risk). Applies a business lens to ventures (market sizing, scalability, differentiation) and builds cost-effective GTM using Meta/Facebook ads backed by strong creative storytelling and a broad creative network.”

“Operations leader from a hospital environment who manages distributed, multi-shift teams and applies product/analytics thinking to workflows and patient-care services. Partnered with senior leadership on major safety and emergency-preparedness changes (lockdown and disaster protocols) and has experience operating in a rapidly scaling healthcare organization (noted expansion to 26 hospitals in a year).”

“Former college basketball coach and 12-year Division I recruiting coordinator who recently left Regis University to found Level Up Coaching, providing individual player development and recruiting guidance. Deeply connected in the Colorado club/high school ecosystem and experienced recruiting nationally, with strong on-camera and social content capabilities (including current skill-video work with Gold Crown Foundation and D1 analyst work at University of Wyoming).”

“Board-level operator/advisor with consumer and distribution experience who has led strategic planning and KPI-driven operational improvements for growth-stage businesses. Notable outcomes include a 25% operating income lift during Jones Soda’s geographic expansion and tripling sales at a distributor by expanding profitable routes, plus hands-on executive mentoring around acquisition due diligence and product launch turnarounds.”

“Director of Projects with experience owning HR operations processes from onboarding through exit and partnering with engineering to build/fix HRMS-related systems. Led cross-functional teams (engineering, QA, DevOps, operations, legal) to resolve data/tooling issues and improve operational rigor through Jira/Confluence documentation and multi-level code checks; also managed org-wide Jira licensing and user provisioning.”

“Former Division III college football coach with extensive experience supporting collegiate and professional athletes, including work with Under Armour athletes (e.g., Kelsey Plum, Steph Curry) and Baltimore Ravens player engagement. While not hockey-specific, they emphasize end-to-end athlete guidance (goal-setting, transparency, family support) plus social media/profile-building to increase athlete visibility.”

“HR leader/HRBP with global team management experience who has driven high-impact people operations initiatives across many functions (Sales through Engineering and Legal). Implemented a company’s first HRIS and ATS integration while scaling hiring (52 FTEs in <10 months), cutting operating costs 35% and improving retention. Also led year-long post-merger integration of culture and core people programs and managed multiple layoffs with strong compliance and zero legal claims.”

“Paid media performance marketer with agency experience owning a high-spend account for ArcPoint Labs, running multi-channel Google Ads (search/display) and Meta campaigns to drive medical testing appointments and sales. Reported lifting ROAS from ~2x to ~6–7x within ~18 months while supporting expansion from 30 to 60 U.S. locations, using disciplined attribution, constant A/B testing, and structured campaign health audits.”

“Founder who built and operated a marketing agency (Six Degrees) end-to-end, setting up legal/infrastructure foundations and implementing SOPs, KPIs, and repeatable operating rhythms. Emphasizes operational excellence, predictable delivery, and prioritization based on customer impact, revenue risk, and compliance/safety.”

“Currently at Magnum managing a small global team (NY/London/Paris) and leading analytics operations, including financial reporting for a Shopify-based ecommerce platform. Partnered directly with a newly appointed CFO and COO during a significant org change involving elimination of three global director roles, coached the COO through difficult conversations, and supported a senior promotion that included navigating an H-1B visa process.”

“Engineering/technology leader with experience at Evocative and through a merger with Hivelocity, aligning tech roadmaps to managed services growth. Led multi-region self-hosted cloud and automation initiatives that cut delivery time from days to hours/minutes and informed cost-saving infrastructure decisions (reported $500K OPEX savings). Known for scaling teams with pod ownership, agile/intake governance, and disciplined rollout practices that protect uptime and security.”

“Former COO turned President at United Infrastructure Group who helped scale the company from $80M to $450M in revenue (100 to 900 employees) while building an integrated operations/finance operating system using COINS, Power BI, and custom modules. Known for data-driven operational diagnostics (audited financials, project benchmarking) and for leading complex system integrations (including COINS + Tenna) to deliver real-time dashboards and measurable efficiency gains.”

“Senior Business Strategist (Robotproof) who effectively operated in a Chief-of-Staff-like capacity for both internal executives and Samsung’s President/CMO/Head of Strategy, running multi-workstream initiatives across strategy, marketing, and VR product/engineering. Built KPI/OKR dashboards and executive briefing rhythms to accelerate decisions and delivered an 8% sales lift via a targeted regional strategy pilot that included localized assets, an incentivized sales program, and a bespoke VR training tool.”

“People leader with experience at Ryan Specialty and Canon managing global, distributed teams and building cross-functional orgs. Has built a product design function (PM/UX/analytics) supporting internal platforms across regions and partnered with senior leaders on growth-driven organizational change using structured feedback loops to accelerate adoption.”

“Client Service Associate at GuidePoint (expert network) supporting hedge fund/client research by sourcing and vetting industry experts via warm calls and multi-channel outreach (LinkedIn, email, phone, text), then scheduling and connecting experts to clients. Previously interned at Aramark where he improved cross-team coordination by introducing structured communication (e.g., morning meetings) and uses AI/automation to speed up day-to-day workflow.”

“QA tester with a primary background in software/system testing who has supported console game testing on PS4 and Nintendo Switch, focusing on gameplay stability, UI behavior, save/load, and platform-mode performance differences. Has hands-on experience identifying a timing-specific PS freeze and supporting TRC/XR/LOT certification prep via checklist verification and blocker documentation, and uses AI to summarize regression logs for faster team decisions.”

“Founder who has raised $2.5MM from angel investors to build and operate smart beverage fountains in fitness studios that dispense user-personalized hydration. Former Pentair product manager (residential water purification) who identified an on-demand purified + additive-dosed beverage opportunity and chose to pursue it as a startup, using lean customer discovery, MVP prototyping, and pitch-competition-driven fundraising.”

“Unity VR developer with multiple shipped Meta Quest titles, including early hand-tracking projects where they stabilized an unstable SDK by inspecting source code and adapting their codebase. Built a largely solo Harry Potter-inspired VR game (Spell Bind) featuring voice-command spellcasting via Oculus Voice SDK plus hand-tracked wand interaction, which won the People's Choice Award at Gamebridge 2023.”

“Hands-on engineer focused on productionizing LLM-powered assistants: builds RAG pipelines with guardrails, response schemas, and citation-grounded outputs, then hardens them with explicit NFRs (latency, uptime, security, cost). Experienced diagnosing agentic/LLM workflow issues in real time using observability and stepwise isolation, and supports go-to-market via developer demos, workshops, and pre-sales technical evaluations in microservices/Spring Boot environments.”

“Global Head of Talent Acquisition–level leader who has managed a 20-person recruiting/sourcing org across North America, Latin America, Europe, and APAC. Personally owned VP/SVP/C-suite hiring for 13 years and drove a data-backed recruiting lifecycle overhaul (interview panels + backups) to address 180–200 day time-to-fill and candidate experience issues, partnering closely with HRBPs and the CFO on headcount and budget.”

“Marketing creative/design lead with a finance background who blends high-polish craft with scalable systems and automation. Led typography/visual narrative for an AI-developed short film using Firefly/Midjourney that won Gold at the NY Festivals AI Short Film Contest, and owned visual standards plus Flexitive-driven high-volume production workflows for Sherwin-Williams across digital/social/print.”

“HR leader with 16 years of experience running end-to-end people operations (recruiting ops, payroll, benefits, engagement, performance) and managing small recruiting/ops teams. Notably revamped a logistics hiring process to fill 60 roles in two months and drove ~20% turnover reduction, and led a multi-entity PeopleSoft HCM integration across a state college system with heavy compliance/security stakeholder coordination.”