Vetted Business Development Professionals

Edward Robinson-Adams

Screened

Executive cybersecurity and AI leader, CEO/co-founder specializing in enterprise SaaS and strategy

Boston, MA35y exp

“Operator who took a seed-funded university spin-off in cybersecurity from zero revenue and heavy losses to profitability and industry leadership, while building the full internal ops stack (HR/payroll/benefits/401k) and the initial GTM engine (Salesforce/HubSpot, SPIN + MEDPICC). Personally led fundraising across 30+ VC pitches, raising $11.2M total and delivering $98M returned to investors to date, with additional upside from a subsequent spin-off.”

Manvee Bansal

Screened

Mid-level Financial Analyst specializing in financial modeling and cost automation

Silicon Valley, CA4y exp

“Startup founder who co-founded Boogy, an LLM-based professional matchmaking product that scaled to 37k+ users in under 7 months by shifting GTM from individual onboarding to accelerator/VC partnerships (driving 5x engagement). After Boogy was acquired, joined Dossy as co-founder, hiring global growth interns and running LinkedIn-led GTM while fundraising.”

“Execution-oriented operator with experience spanning Credit Suisse digital assets leadership, Citi Wealth GenAI initiatives, and advisory work for founders and executives. Stands out for bridging strategy, governance, and hands-on execution across highly regulated financial services and emerging-growth environments, especially in blockchain and AI.”

Jason VanLue

Screened

Executive product and design leader specializing in AI-native SaaS and EdTech

St. Augustine, FL18y exp

“Design-led product executive who helped build Code School from concept into a category-defining learn-by-doing education platform acquired by Pluralsight, and later scaled EPD to 40+ while driving $60M ARR. Now leading AI-native product development in nonprofit fundraising, with a clear philosophy that AI should amplify human relationships rather than replace them.”

“Consumer brand operator and turnaround leader who has repeatedly joined businesses at inflection points and driven rapid, measurable growth. Built BULLDOG Gin from an early-stage startup into a brand acquired by CAMPARI, then led global brand and innovation work inside a major multinational, and later reversed steep decline at BridgePort Brewing through strategy, renovation, innovation, and PR.”

“Operations leader with 8 years of experience spanning healthcare, consumer products, and financial services, now serving as a strategic operational partner to senior leadership at Point72. Stands out for redesigning complex cross-functional processes, including cutting associate integration cycle time by 4 weeks and building governance frameworks that reduced compliance risk across HR, Legal, Recruiting, and Immigration.”

“Recruiting leader who builds structured, competency-based hiring systems and can also personally run Senior Director-to-C-Suite searches. Notable for scaling a full hiring season to 175+ teacher hires and for leading a high-stakes CEO succession search, advising a board to define a new leadership vision and landing a CEO who remains successful four years later.”

“Senior Membership Manager at Chief who operated in a player/coach leadership role across US/UK teams. Partnered with CRO and RevOps to shift the business from a city-by-city model to a national GTM, scaling membership from 3,400 to 20,000+ and lifting conversion 10% through revamped workflows, enablement, and data-driven KPI dashboards.”

Joseph Herbst

Screened

Executive Technology Leader specializing in IoT, PoE building automation, and semiconductors

Portland, OR35y exp

“Engineering/exec leader (CEO experience) who built a lighting controls and building automation platform from scratch, choosing an Ethernet/PoE and Node.js web-centric architecture that anticipated market shifts and later became an industry pattern. Known for rigorous vendor QA (test-to-failure) and for delivering high-profile deployments (e.g., Black Desert Resort, Resorts World Villa 66) while leading globally distributed engineering teams.”

Mohammad Husain

Screened

Mid-level Performance Marketing & User Research Specialist in E-commerce growth

Shanghai, China6y exp

“Growth and creator/affiliate partnerships operator with Temu experience scaling gamified in-app referral/retention loops (Fishland, Lucky Flip). Built relationships with top, sometimes “black-hat,” affiliates via Discord/Reddit, extracted and systematized winning tactics through A/B/multivariate testing, then scaled them through paid channels. Also brings a personal creator network from a student-founded business plus Instagram/TikTok pages totaling 1M+ followers to ramp campaigns quickly and drive strong ROAS.”

Kevin Scharf

Screened

Senior Project Management & Compliance Professional in Aerospace & Defense

Englewood, CO8y exp

“Internal audit/GRC professional who partners closely with engineering on access controls, change management, and remediation—often translating "technically compliant" states into realistic threat scenarios and business impact. Has driven measurable reductions in privileged-access exposure through least-privilege resets and recurring reviews, and has hands-on experience troubleshooting real-world deployment/integration issues (including in a manufacturing environment) using logs/metrics and strong escalation documentation.”

Francois Odienne

Screened

Director of Engineering specializing in SaaS platforms, AI-first product development, and telecom

Moorpark, CA28y exp

“Technology leader with venture-backed company experience at LogicMonitor, where they aligned engineering strategy with business growth and long-term platform scalability. Demonstrates strong familiarity with the VC/studio/accelerator ecosystem and a thoughtful founder mindset centered on validating real problems, innovative solutions, and execution capacity.”

“Senior public sector sales leader who ran EMEA for a public safety technology company spanning intelligence, software, analytics, and SaaS. He combines full regional ownership—P&L, GTM, channel strategy, hiring, and executive relationships—with standout results including 185% revenue growth, 300% headcount growth, and 300%+ channel growth.”

Raymon Bledsoe

Screened

Executive sales leader specializing in EdTech, SaaS, and real estate solutions

Dallas, TX10y exp

“Public-sector sales leader in K-12 education currently leading an inside sales team at Edmentum across a large Midwest territory. Brings a disciplined, metrics-driven approach to district acquisition, expansion, forecasting, and manager coaching, with early-year performance at 110% of Q1 goal and clear experience navigating complex multi-stakeholder school district deals.”

“Sales executive and former President/COO who spent eight years transforming a privately held company to make it sale-ready, ultimately delivering 50% revenue growth and a successful exit. Brings hands-on experience building sales structure from the ground up, leading an 8-rep team, expanding into healthcare and Fortune 500 accounts, and aligning revenue growth with bottom-line improvement.”

“Product/UX leader with deep agency and enterprise experience, including leading a major Synchrony domain consolidation and flexible design system build that withstood a mid-project brand refresh. Blends strategic design leadership with practical AI usage—using Gemini for research synthesis and building a synthetic user testing engine—while maintaining a strong human-centered, ethics-driven perspective on technology.”

“Entrepreneurial operator with experience building two bootstrapped ventures, spanning both operations-heavy business execution and creative production. Through Kellogg MBA work and current exposure at Equiseed, they combine startup ecosystem knowledge with a highly practical, customer- and unit-economics-driven approach to founding.”

“Operations and manufacturing leader with experience acting as an internal CEO to build a new business inside IDEX Corp from a $15M budget, owning P&L and a 3-year plan through product launch. At Planet Innovation, used Lean/DMAIC-style value stream mapping to 4x production throughput (400 to ~1600 units/month), exceeding a customer’s 1200/month scaling target. Strong in building teams and operational systems (product development, quality, supply chain) and coaching non-ops founders using structured frameworks.”

“Operations leader managing a Northeastern US/Canada region with day-to-day responsibility for 17 facilities while also running multiple country-wide programs (goal/KPI and performance review for 130+ ops leaders, cleanliness across 90+ sites, and cost reduction). Previously led a PMO org reporting to a VP of Engineering and implemented a quarterly prioritization/resource allocation system across 200+ projects for a 500+ engineer organization.”

“Consultant focused on senior/C-suite effectiveness and cross-functional execution, including implementing a Team of Teams approach. Has led large-scale planning and alignment efforts (e.g., annual planning across 150 employees at a top quant hedge fund) and supported executive productivity through CEO calendar analytics, SOPs, and operating cadences. Experience spans highly regulated/public-company contexts and enterprise software global sales strategy.”

“Customer Success Manager with enterprise experience managing the Walgreens contract at EarnIn end-to-end, coordinating executives/legal/HR/marketing and technical teams through benefits-platform integration, adoption, and renewal. Delivered 85% annual retention (despite store closures) and maintained a positive NPS, supported by usage monitoring, benchmarking, and monthly executive reporting. Also drove expansion at Unison by rolling out new insurance products to homeowners using savings/ROI-based positioning.”

Chandler Reiter

Screened

Director of Sports & Entertainment specializing in sponsorships, partnerships, and venue experiences

New York, NY8y exp

“Business development and partnerships leader with sports/gaming experience who helped deploy Low6’s free-to-play gamification platform across 20+ NCAA schools through a LEARFIELD deal, acting as the cross-functional liaison from tech implementation through marketing and prizing. Currently building the Sports & Entertainment division at drive21 (experiential graphic design), owning both the go-to-market pitch and post-sale partnership execution while operating closely with founders/executives.”

“Enterprise sales leader focused on identity, fraud, compliance, and digital trust solutions in highly regulated markets, including public sector. Stands out for repeatedly building new verticals and scaling revenue—most notably growing a gaming business from $0 to $25M and a healthcare business from $40M to $100M—while applying rigorous MEDDIC/MEDDPICC discipline and hands-on team leadership.”

“Commercial leader in life sciences, diagnostics, and scientific tools who has repeatedly built revenue from early-stage scale, including growing NimbleGen from under $1M to $25M and helping position it for a $300M sale to Roche Diagnostics. Brings deep experience selling complex clinical software and instruments into hospitals, labs, pharma/biotech, academia, and government, with a strong reputation for building teams, operating cadence, and cross-functional alignment.”