Vetted Budgeting Professionals

“Product/technology leader with deep security and cloud infrastructure expertise who drove a major shift from hardware-based networking/security appliances to cloud-native capabilities, growing cloud revenue from $0 to $400M in 4.5 years. Led an innovative eBPF-based approach (“precryption”) to enable lightweight cloud TLS interception/decryption, and has hands-on coding interest (recent Rust work on a personal cybersecurity identity/trust platform).”

“Advisor to early-stage companies (including an AI-driven market research startup) focused on building disciplined marketing/business development operations—audience targeting, content/social planning, and structured client follow-up. Former JPMorgan Chase leader who combined government relations, community relations, employee communications, and media efforts to improve local-market reputation and maximize reuse of activities across audiences. Acts as a "gray-haired" founder advisor; recently guided pricing decisions that led to higher revenues.”

“Enterprise technology executive (CRO/GM/CEO) with 27+ years as a P&L owner across major global services providers (IBM, Unisys, Virtusa, Cognizant). Recently led a metrics-driven turnaround as CEO of Mastech Infotrellis after integrating three acquisitions and rebuilding GTM. Now exploring an AI Governance/Compliance/Risk-focused venture, potentially via acquiring and reorienting an existing governance business toward AI.”

“Early strategic partner recruited by the CEO to help launch and scale Curio Wellness, a vertically integrated medical cannabis/wellness company, from inception to $150M+ in annual revenue. Built scalable governance and operating systems (three-tier governance, P&L ownership, balanced scorecard, KPI dashboards integrated across ERP/CRM/POS) and coached founders/executives to professionalize leadership and execution, including an 18-month plan that doubled revenue while reducing executive turnover.”

“Operations-focused executive and management consultant who has led operational buildouts across sectors: first CEO at a founder-led company, COO of a large nonprofit food bank, and co-founder of a 501(c)(3) that has run for over a decade serving thousands of at-risk children. Brings a structured, metrics-informed approach (process mapping, financial alignment, benchmarking, SWOT) and coaches leaders to connect vision and strategy to scalable operational execution.”

“Performance marketer with hands-on ownership of a high-spend ($50K+/month+) financial services account running integrated campaigns across paid search, paid social, and programmatic (Google/Microsoft, Meta, TikTok, DV360, The Trade Desk, Amazon Ads, and more). Experienced driving new account openings against cost-per-open targets through audience/creative testing, sequential messaging and influencer-led upper funnel, and rigorous tracking/measurement in a highly regulated environment.”

“IFC professional who helped build a supply chain decarbonization fund, running multiple workstreams spanning TA program design, MRV framework build-out, gender inclusion, supplier pipeline development, investor engagement, and engineering partner coordination. Known for critical-path prioritization and executive-ready operating systems (decision trackers, weekly one-page briefs, risk logs) that keep complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives aligned and moving quickly.”

“Operations/finance leader who built the internal infrastructure for a personal care company to sell into 35,000 retail stores, spanning contract manufacturing, warehousing/3PL, banking credit facilities, HR policies, marketing ops, and accounting systems (Great Plains, QuickBooks Online). Currently supports a music/entertainment organization, mentoring non-business creatives on business and finance while driving profitability and growth.”

“Operations/program leader who partnered closely with a COO to drive transformation initiatives (compliance workflow automation and budgeting redesign), implementing governance cadences and executive dashboards to improve alignment and decision speed. Managed a $120MM operating budget and successfully delivered regulator-mandated resolution planning under tight timelines, while maintaining strict discretion during restructuring work involving sensitive HR data.”

“Operations/program support professional with experience at Meta and a ~25-person sports/partnerships agency (Innovative Partnerships Group). Known for quickly diagnosing bottlenecks and implementing lightweight systems (e.g., Airtable recruiting dashboard with 150 applicants; monthly vendor accrual process bridging engineering, vendors, and FP&A) to improve executive visibility and operational throughput.”

“Serial entrepreneur and former CEO who founded a startup ~15 years ago, raised $13M, scaled it to a multi-million-dollar tech business with tens of employees, and led it through acquisition. Currently exploring an AI-first "vibe engineering" / factory operations platform to address skilled labor shortages in low-tech engineering and rising demand from data center and physical infrastructure buildouts, with early customer discovery indicating strong willingness to pay.”

“Architect/engineering leader who built a multi-tenant AI platform end-to-end, including a secure FastAPI orchestrator (JWT, RBAC, tenant isolation, auditing) and an extensible MCP tool-routing layer, then productionized it via fully containerized microservices (Docker, Postgres/pgvector, Redis). Also has strong governance and compliance experience (ARB with security/privacy/SOX) and has owned high-severity incidents through mitigation and RCA/RCCA, plus prior high-volume payments/accounting data pipeline design with audit-grade integrity checks.”