Vetted Business Development Professionals

“Former Division I athlete with 30 years in basketball and 20 years building a career training and mentoring players, including multi-season youth coaching and recruiting. Brings a character-first recruiting philosophy shaped by mentorship from high-profile coaches/players and is eager to create on-camera/social content to help families navigate the recruiting process.”

“Growth/partnerships leader with experience across Hootsuite, SMART Technologies, and Spinify, building partner ecosystems and GTM programs tied directly to pipeline and revenue. Notably created agency partnerships that drove 21% of total revenue and ran a data-backed self-serve SMB experiment that produced an 18.4% lift in conversations.”

“Candidate brings an operator-to-founder profile with leadership experience in IT and Business Systems and a strong grasp of how ideas become venture-backable products. They speak fluently about startup evaluation criteria such as TAM, technical defensibility, speed to scale, and AI differentiation, and appear especially motivated by building solutions end-to-end in startup or venture studio environments.”

Gary Pulford

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Executive sales leader specializing in public sector SaaS, public safety, and SLED

Lafayette, CO26y exp

“National public sector sales leader with deep experience in public safety, broadband, and government modernization deals. Built organizations from the ground up, exceeded quota, maintained strong retention, and led complex partner-driven wins with Microsoft, AWS, and major public agencies including New Orleans, Atlanta, and Hawaii.”

Victoria Mehran

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Senior investment professional specializing in venture capital and startup ecosystems

Los Angeles, CA12y exp

“Venture capital and venture studio operator since 2019 with experience evaluating 75+ startups and helping raise capital across accelerator and venture-building environments. Currently developing Zenom, an AI-driven longevity and preventive healthcare platform combining biomarker analysis, genomics, and personalized wellness recommendations, with commercialization ambitions across MENA and Los Angeles.”

“Founder/product manager building an operational longevity nutrition startup with a 500k community, growing primarily through organic social content and rapid weekly funnel experiments. Has launched a detox bundle via a major partnership with Hurom (expected to drive ~$500k ARR) and is building a pipeline of partnerships plus planned corporate sales; preparing to raise $500k–$1M and applying to accelerators.”

“Program/operations leader with Booz Allen Hamilton experience turning around a near-canceled Millennium Challenge Account Indonesia procurement-training contract by implementing train-the-trainer, mentorship, and KPI/dashboard-driven execution. Currently supports the CFO organization at Berkeley Lab, translating high-level strategy into people/process/technology/governance plans with an executive operating cadence.”

“Public-sector-focused consultant with hands-on ownership of outbound/ABM, lead gen, and GTM strategy for early-stage and pre-launch products (including edtech). Built multi-channel campaigns spanning SEO/web copy, email, conferences, and direct outreach to state/district leaders, and created an Airtable onboarding system that cut prospect research time by 33%.”

“Sales/business development candidate with hands-on outbound experience targeting Amazon FBA sellers, combining cold calling and LinkedIn outreach with event-based lead generation at seller conferences. Uses AI tools (Notion, Gemini, ChatGPT) and company research to tailor scripts and messaging based on a prospect’s growth stage and needs, with a focus on SMEs seeking Amazon reimbursement services.”

“Business Development Officer (Sales Development) with SaaS experience across healthcare and financial industries, combining multi-channel outbound (calls/email/video/LinkedIn) with structured BANTR qualification. Reported strong activity-to-meeting conversion metrics and meeting-to-closed-won outcomes at Coface, and helped advance a complex 7-month deal (Okapi AI) from first touch to signature while maintaining rigorous Salesforce hygiene.”

David Shin

Screened

Executive Startup Operator specializing in GTM, partnerships, and venture-backed scaling

Remote10y exp

“Early-stage startup operator who served as Chief of Staff and VP of Partnership Operations at Getlabs, simultaneously driving capital raising, rebuilding the sales org, and optimizing customer success processes for revenue expansion. Strong in executive alignment and operating cadence design (OKR-driven communication, structured exec meetings, evergreen decision docs) while balancing hands-on operations with strategic capital planning.”

Emmett Ding

Screened

Senior Strategy & Operations professional specializing in climate tech commercialization and investing

New Brunswick, NJ8y exp

“Strategy consulting and business operations professional with climate-tech and climate VC experience (Avnos, Earth Foundry, Strategy&). Led cross-functional work to update a techno-economic analysis and produce a pilot proposal for direct air capture, contributing to a won engagement; also served as Chief of Staff to GPs, streamlining diligence, dealflow, CRM, and LP reporting to boost executive productivity.”

Benjamin Hudnut

Screened

Junior Live Events & Music Operations professional specializing in booking, touring, and community events

Los Angeles, CA4y exp

“Founder/director of the music and event production company Tuned In, personally driving outbound BD to book underground LA talent and produce 25 events, including a major Lunar New Year collaboration with Alice Longyu Gao. Also ran multi-channel voter/community outreach for the Frankie Carrillo campaign (door knocking, 1,000+ SMS) and built automation tools (Apple widget; AI image-to-CSV workflow at Live Nation) to improve operational efficiency.”

jitender Hooda

Screened

Executive Client Partner specializing in engineering and digital services

San Ramon, CA19y exp

“Founder building an agentic AI-based low-code platform for B2B enterprise applications, validated through enterprise client conversations and delivered via rapid paid MVP/POCs. Platform has seen production traction (6–7 apps, 1000+ daily users) and includes capabilities like QR scanning integrated with ERP/PLM systems. Experienced in business development and client relationships, with a pragmatic, ROI- and speed-focused approach to product and GTM under tight capital constraints.”

Sakid Ahmed

Screened

Executive Telecom & Wireless Connectivity Leader (GM/VP Engineering)

Chicago, IL29y exp

“Operator with experience in a private equity-backed business that was carved out of a larger company and later taken public. Brings a startup-builder mindset from within larger-company environments, with emphasis on P&L ownership, go-to-market strategy, product strategy, and evaluating ideas through product-market fit and scalable market demand.”

“Climate-tech founder with multiple EV infrastructure ventures, including Electriflow Finance and ChargeNet Stations. Has already raised $300k, signed a $1M term sheet, and piloted an AI-driven, app-less EV fleet charging platform with 36 fleets in Southern California.”

“Seasoned entrepreneur with decades of cross-functional business experience who initially expected a CTO role at an existing company rather than a founder track. Brings a distinctive mix of technical scalability thinking, complex integration awareness, education/multimedia production capability, and formal credentials including a PhD, security clearances, and AI and leadership certifications.”