Vetted Cross-Functional Leadership Professionals

“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.”

“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.”

“Engineering lead/player-coach working on project management software, owning a high-impact scheduling algorithm rewrite focused on performance, maintainability, and documentation after prior team turnover caused regressions. Previously at EOX Vantage, helped an insurance client modernize monolithic workflows by scoping ambiguous requirements into a roadmap and shipping a day-one MVP before iterating with value-add features.”

Alejandro Morales

Screened

Director-level Talent Management leader specializing in enterprise performance, succession, and leadership development

Dallas, Texas19y exp

“Talent/Recruiting Operations leader with deep HR tech governance and process architecture experience, including architecting a Workday Talent Review deployment and building standardized succession/bench-strength data models. Known for driving measurable adoption (Quarterly Conversations from 16% to 85%) and creating legally defensible, high-volume selection workflows through validated assessments (American Airlines), while leading teams across US and Mexico.”

Chirayu Arya

Screened

Senior Marketing Manager specializing in GTM, product marketing, and growth for SaaS and consumer tech

Austin, TX4y exp

“Growth-creative marketer/designer who owns end-to-end experimentation across web and paid social/search. Led Enso Home’s site redesign and creative refreshes that materially improved lead gen (28% leads, -22% CPA, higher ROAS) and directed SCALIS product/video assets that supported an email-driven pipeline impact of $1.47M.”

“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.”

“Automotive software and OTA/infotainment platform leader who has repeatedly built new lines of business as an intrapreneur—most recently taking an infotainment app marketplace from concept to production in <7 months with $3M seed funding and delivering ~$200M ROI while scaling the team from 0 to 90. Deep hands-on experience solving OTA fragmentation across ECUs/telematics and multiple OS/backends, with 18 patent processes submitted; exploring an AI-driven platform to automate OTA software qualification and cut release cycles from 9–18 months to ~2 weeks.”

“Growth creative/performance marketer currently at Walmart who led Walmart+ checkout announcement/enhancement campaigns end-to-end, combining user behavior analysis, customer feedback, and multi-variant A/B testing. Reported measurable funnel and revenue-adjacent lifts (faster checkout, nearly doubled first-time completion, +18% repeat visits, +$1.2 basket size) and uses Power BI plus platform analytics (Meta/TikTok/YouTube) to drive rapid, modular creative iteration with creators and editors.”

“CTO/enterprise architect who stays hands-on in code while leading strategy, stakeholder alignment, and team scaling. At Eastridge, established product and technology vision/roadmap, built product engineering/strategy functions, and helped launch products into global markets; most recently led GenAI product design including tech selection, infrastructure, scalability, and observability.”

Dylan Grassl

Screened

Senior Client Success & Events Leader specializing in media and live entertainment partnerships

Chicago, IL15y exp

“Sales development and event-sales professional currently at Yondr, blending inbound lead management with outbound prospecting to drive 8–10 meetings/week and ~50% inbound conversion. Helped lift department revenue 35% and built new sponsorship guidelines that secured strategic partnerships and referral-driven growth. Has experience supporting higher-value healthcare-sector deals ($125K–$750K) and managing longer sales cycles end-to-end.”

“CTO candidate with experience in multiple VC-backed startups, emphasizing timing and disciplined scaling of engineering orgs (people, product, process). Evaluates technology choices through a customer-value lens and proactively flags business/tech misalignment, with a pragmatic approach to venture viability using TAM, competitive landscape, and leading indicators.”

“Entrepreneur building a luxury rental car company startup with capital already raised, though undisclosed. Demonstrates a thoughtful founder mindset centered on vision, growth trajectory, due diligence, and market penetration, and is actively building connections in the VC/accelerator ecosystem.”

Aidan Anderson

Screened

Director-level engineering leader specializing in AI, security, and FinTech SaaS

California, USA12y exp

“Engineer and bootstrap founder who has worked across roughly five venture-backed startups from pre-seed through Series E. He combines hands-on startup execution with strong judgment around product-market fit, founder fit, and customer validation, while independently building profitable, self-owned micro SaaS ventures on the side.”

“HR leader who joined Polished as Head of HR days before the entire C-suite resigned, then partnered with new executives to restructure a $500M e-commerce organization using rapid internal promotions and manager development. More recently at Coforge, supported a North America population and used exit-interview and compensation data to address call-center turnover in Charleston, WV, alongside deep experience running sensitive ER investigations.”

“Recently left United and is independently building software prototypes, with a strong interest in AI-native company creation. Brings Fortune 5 exposure to acquisitions and early involvement in a corporate venture initiative (Redventure), giving them some perspective on how startups and larger enterprises intersect.”

“UC Berkeley CS–trained hands-on engineering leader with executive experience spanning fundraising and board/customer communication. Led architecture and roadmap for AI-driven fintech platforms (including portfolio data, market signals, document processing, and Bitcoin trading), scaling global orgs (~100 people) and driving modular API-based designs that improved reliability, onboarding speed, and customer retention.”

“Talent Ops/TA leader who has managed a 15-person combined recruiting + operations team and owned major HR tech initiatives, including end-to-end CRM implementations (Phenom People, GEM) and ATS/HRIS compensation-field integrations (PeopleSoft to Taleo). Known for measurable process improvements—cut time-to-fill from 100 to 65 days, increased offer acceptance by 20%, and boosted referrals by 30%—and for building analytics dashboards to pinpoint funnel bottlenecks and hiring manager responsiveness.”

Beth Hunsickerparker

Screened

Executive Marketing Leader specializing in consumer-centric growth and brand transformation

Colorado, USA25y exp

“Operations-focused executive leader with experience spanning Fortune 500 and early-stage startups, known for building marketing and cross-functional operating systems from scratch. At Quinn Foods, introduced alignment frameworks (Four Helpful Lists, RASTI) and SOP rigor that helped achieve 5.5 ROAS and a 41% lift in household penetration; at Zoox, redesigned product development workflow and stage-gates, supporting 30% growth.”

Ekta Rani

Screened

Mid-level Customer Success Manager specializing in enterprise SaaS and digital banking adoption

6y exp

“Customer Success/CSM leader with Freshworks enterprise experience owning complex accounts end-to-end (onboarding, adoption, renewal, and expansion). Demonstrated impact through quantified outcomes (e.g., +20% resolution speed, +15% CSAT, +25% handling-time improvement) and strong cross-functional execution on high-stakes integrations (Freshdesk–Salesforce) plus product influence via PRDs/user stories (Shopify integration improvements).”

“Development manager focused on developer productivity and platform enablement in a polyglot microservices environment. Drove ~50% productivity gains by evaluating and rolling out AI coding copilots with team training and cross-team demos, and designed a Disaster Recovery framework adopted by 50+ microservice teams. Also led edge-focused Python runtime optimization and relies on heavy test automation to safely execute large refactors during major platform upgrades.”

“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.”

“Former CTO/CTPO with hands-on experience supporting co-founders through pre-seed to Series B fundraising, including investor technical due diligence and architecture deep-dives. In a logistics company, led a customer-interview-driven effort applying AI and workflow tools that cut customer busywork by ~30% in the first iteration, and has experience planning delivery with onshore/offshore teams (LATAM/India).”

“Chief of Staff to a President with deep experience driving cross-functional strategic initiatives and executive operating cadence in a commercial banking environment. Delivered a $25M contribution initiative, built governance and reporting systems (including Salesforce leaderboards), and stood up a PM function that cut the project portfolio by >50% and doubled throughput; also supported org design work during a merger with high discretion.”