Vetted Cross-Functional Leadership Professionals

“Startup strategy and operations leader with outsized ownership at XP Health during a hypergrowth phase, helping scale the business from $6M to $35M ARR in roughly a year. Particularly compelling for roles needing a high-trust cross-functional operator who can tackle messy, unowned problems, from pricing and deal desk to program redesigns that improve both margin and customer experience.”

“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.”

“Strategic sales leader in education technology currently at Top Hat, owning multimillion-dollar revenue across higher education enterprise accounts in the U.S. and Canada. Stands out for building structured account-planning and pipeline disciplines that drove repeatable target overperformance, plus closing complex public-education deals including a school partnership that grew from $40K to about $12M and a county-wide rollout reaching 9,000+ students.”

Andy Trus

Screened

Senior Product Leader specializing in EdTech and AI-powered learning products

Apex, NC17y exp

“EdTech product leader with deep experience across K-12 and higher education, spanning $100M-scale platform strategy, 0-to-1 learning products, and AI-enabled assessment workflows. Particularly compelling for roles at the intersection of AI and education: they built an LLM-based content QA tool that saved $2.75M and articulate a nuanced philosophy around using AI to amplify human tutoring rather than replace it.”

“Product leader at VicRoads who rebuilt the Custom Plates digital portfolio, including an AI-powered pricing and recommendation platform that drove more than 20% revenue uplift. Stands out for combining commercial product thinking with explainable AI, regulatory compliance, and legacy-system modernization in a government-related environment.”

Susan Sorensen

Screened

Executive product leader specializing in EdTech, learning platforms, and AI-enabled outcomes

13y exp

“Education-focused product leader with 12+ years across Bridge LMS, Canvas, Kuali, and healthcare.gov, known for turning ambiguity into clear product strategy and shipping human-centered AI. They pair strong UX judgment with cross-functional leadership, including a Bridge AI course-creation launch that hit 76.8% admin adoption and a healthcare.gov enrollment redesign that cut session time to under 10 minutes.”

“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.”

Jeff Craven

Screened

Director-level delivery executive specializing in enterprise SaaS, telecom, and platform deployments

Gainesville, GA37y exp

“Enterprise SaaS implementation leader with broad cross-functional ownership spanning project management, sales engineering, customer success, and technical account management. Has delivered complex migrations and multi-release portfolios across 40+ enterprise customers, including utilities, telecom, and municipal environments, with strong experience coordinating high-stakes cutovers, integrations, and executive stakeholder communication.”

“Enterprise program/project leader with experience driving large-scale technology and operational initiatives across telecom, insurance, and tech. Most notably supported Zayo's Crown Castle acquisition through a complex Workday HRIS migration affecting 1,800 employees and a portfolio of 15 concurrent initiatives, with strong ownership of governance, executive reporting, vendor coordination, and risk management.”

“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.”

“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).”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”