Vetted Cross-Functional Leadership Professionals

Timothy Washington

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Product Manager specializing in AI-powered products and responsible AI

Cranbury, NJ18y exp

“Mission-driven product and program leader who built WhatsApp’s talent inclusion infrastructure from scratch and later applied AI at Google to scale inclusive product evaluation across 25+ teams, including Gemini. Brings a rare mix of product systems thinking, human-centered AI judgment, and lived experience growing up in public housing that deeply informs their focus on equity, access, and accountable technology.”

Christopher McLean

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Executive engineering leader specializing in security, privacy, and high-scale infrastructure

Brookline, MA18y exp

“Veteran operator from top-tier tech companies including PayPal, LinkedIn, Stripe, Facebook, and Merge, now seeking the right startup idea to found. Brings hands-on angel investing experience across 5 startups in the EU and US plus additional exposure through X-Stripe Angels, giving them both operator and investor perspective.”

“18-year Google veteran who managed and grew top customer investments, including Rocket Mortgage’s Google Search program—scaling spend from ~$60M/year to $170M/year. Led adoption of ROAS bidding and broad match through rigorous experimentation and forecasting, driving an additional $14.5M spend in 1H 2024 despite a challenging mortgage market.”

“C-level operator and advisor who has led operational transformations at growing companies from ~$100M revenue to multi-billion scale. Focuses on working backwards from a north star to build KPI/decision-owner mechanisms, P&L-linked accountability, and agile org structures—citing outcomes like +500 bps market share gains, millions saved in people costs, and EBITDA acceleration for a PE exit.”

Farabi Hassan

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Principal Product Leader specializing in AI-powered enterprise and marketplace platforms

Seattle, WA13y exp

“Product leader with experience at Zillow, Amazon, and Chewy, focused on high-scale ML and UX-driven product improvements. Has led end-to-end rebuilds and launches that delivered measurable business impact, including a 23% conversion lift in lead routing, 40%+ reduction in delivery-related customer contacts, and 10%+ ecommerce conversion gains.”

“Senior engineering/technology leader with experience driving board-backed, multi-year platform transformations in retail commerce (American Eagle) and scaling ML/product delivery platforms at Amazon Alexa. Known for data-driven build-vs-buy decisions, org scaling (6→80), and measurable outcomes including 98.5%→99.9% uptime, 234 experiments generating ~$200M revenue lift, and increasing delivery velocity from 1.5 to 30 features/week while transitioning to DNN/large-model architectures.”

Jon Cross

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Executive Operations & Product Leader specializing in Ads, customer experience, and go-to-market

Saratoga, CA21y exp

“COO of Greenopia (pre-seed, pre-revenue) who has built the company’s operational foundation over the past 18 months—supporting fundraising, SEC/crowdfunding setup, and coordinating app and self-serve business onboarding/assessment systems. Brings a metrics-driven operating approach (OKRs, balancing metrics/unit economics) and has advised other startups (e.g., sports betting) to refocus effort on the highest-value customer segments.”

Alok Kumar

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Director-level Product Management leader specializing in cybersecurity, cloud, and AI governance

Atlanta, GA24y exp

“Senior product leader with substantial end-to-end build experience across Microsoft, Amazon, NCR, and a current AI startup. Particularly notable for creating a machine-readable compliance platform at Microsoft, shipping AI-enabled support workflows, and combining enterprise-scale product rigor with a human-centered view of personalized AI.”

“Senior product leader with experience spanning Amazon Audible, Capital One, and At-Bay, combining growth, AI, and workflow platform expertise. Notable for leading Audible's Channels build/rebuild, reshaping Capital One's Eno around real service outcomes, and redesigning an underwriting platform with flexible search and agentic alerts. Brings a strong human-centered view of AI informed by both consumer fintech and insurance automation.”

“Engineering leader with deep distributed-systems expertise who led Oracle's replacement of a legacy Fusion Applications authorization service with a cloud-native Go/Kubernetes RBAC platform delivering sub-10ms latency. Combines hands-on architecture depth with org-building experience, having grown a geo-distributed team from 4 to 26 and led managers, architects, and cross-functional delivery across Oracle and Microsoft environments.”

“Serial entrepreneur with multiple startups and demonstrated VC fundraising experience, including raising $125K for a current business plan and building investor relationships across several VC firms. Driven by tackling difficult problems and assessing opportunities through a lens of solution creativity and team execution, while prioritizing sustainable quality of life.”

“Consulting-style leader (McKinsey context) driving data- and AI-enabled transformations across healthcare, QSR, retail, and services. Has built AI-powered analytics tools for marketing ideation, led agile operating models with client-side counterparts and external coaches, and navigated highly sensitive competitive retail engagements by isolating teams and delegating pricing work to avoid conflicts.”