Vetted Budgeting Professionals

“Cybersecurity entrepreneur building a solution focused on emerging AI-driven security risks, aimed at helping mid-sized companies defend against advanced threat actors without needing large internal teams. Has a business plan, has raised capital, and is currently entering a seed VC round while doing fractional CTO/interim work to cover advisor and corporate legal costs amid upcoming EU cybersecurity/resilience policy changes.”

“Commercial GTM leader and former managing director with over a decade of experience building partner-led growth strategies and closing revenue-generating deals for major consumer brands. Has operated both as an advisor and an in-house GM, with hands-on ownership across market mapping, channel strategy, negotiations, and launch execution. Stands out for tying strategy directly to measurable business outcomes, including significant lift for Caesars and successful program development for JetBlue.”

“Seasoned healthcare entrepreneur with 30+ years spanning large companies, startups, and self-founded ventures, now building a vascular implant device company around owned IP. Brings 20 years of cardiovascular focus, experience raising capital, and a pragmatic commercialization strategy centered on strategic partnerships, prototype development, and preclinical validation for a large reimbursed unmet-need market.”

“Engineering leader (12+ years Director, 17 years lead) focused on developer productivity and platform/framework work across Oracle, PlayStation, Workday, and CafePress. Notable for building distributed teams from scratch and delivering high-impact platform architecture—e.g., re-architected PlayStation’s upload pipeline to support 500GB–5TB submissions using browser-to-AWS chunked uploads with SNS/SQS and deduplication/resume support.”

Paul Hartwick

Screened

Executive Communications & Marketing Leader specializing in corporate reputation and crisis comms

New York, NY20y exp

“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.”

Frank Goodman

Screened

Executive Engineering & Product Leader specializing in Cloud/SaaS observability and security

San Jose, CA31y exp

“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).”

“Product leader with experience at Amazon and Shift4 who specializes in untangling complex legacy financial systems and turning them into scalable, config-driven platforms. Notably rebuilt Shift4's fee logic into a single source of truth that cut engineering effort by 35% and later exposed it through an AI-powered support experience for merchants and internal teams. Also brings hands-on people management, having created a detailed leveling and career-development framework for engineers.”

“Product leader with 8+ years across AI, platform, data, and customer-facing products, including personalization, discovery, loyalty, digital ordering, and conversational AI. Notable wins include launching an AI recommendation engine for Baskin Robbins that lifted conversion 20% and AOV 12%, and improving Apple discovery feature adoption by 25% through phased delivery under complex data-quality constraints.”

“Operations and platform leader with full P&L ownership who has run global, multi-site organizations and built operating infrastructure across systems, shared services, integration, and real estate. Particularly compelling for VP Platform Operations roles because they combine turnaround execution, cross-border acquisition integration, and hands-on systems modernization—while also having built a Bloomberg business from $0 to $8M in year one.”

“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.”

“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.”

Michael Bruno

Screened

Executive HR & Talent Strategy Leader specializing in global organizations and executive search

Sea Girt, New Jersey45y exp

“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.”