Vetted Cross-Functional Leadership Professionals

“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.”

Eugeniu Cozac

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Senior Frontend Engineer specializing in React/Next.js for enterprise FinTech and AI platforms

San Francisco Bay Area, CA10y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong real-time and applied AI experience: built an internal AI “virtual subject matter expert” platform at Shell Energy serving ~1,800 employees with sub-200ms response streaming. Diagnosed AWS load balancer WebSocket disconnects and shipped reliability fixes (heartbeats, reconnect/backoff, session resume), and implemented AI production guardrails (eval suite, drift monitoring, confidence thresholds, citations, human-in-the-loop) that reportedly cut hallucinations by ~90%.”

Matthew Wackerhagen

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Director-level Growth & Innovation Leader specializing in AI-enabled transformation

Charlotte, NC10y exp

“Innovation-focused operator from a Fortune 100 financial services environment (TIAA) who repeatedly brought startups into the enterprise to accelerate change. Created a white-glove inside sales model to improve annuity conversions, generating hundreds of millions in year-one impact and reportedly surpassing $1B over time. Interested in entrepreneurship but only with a funded startup that can provide salary stability.”

Joshua Sampson

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Executive digital marketing leader specializing in growth strategy for sports and consumer brands

Charlotte, NC9y exp

“Paid media specialist with D2C/eCommerce experience managing seven-figure budgets across Meta, Google, Amazon, TikTok, and OTT. They stand out for combining hands-on creative testing, channel reallocation, and executive-level strategy guidance—especially in messy situations like rebuilding account structure after a team departure or adjusting performance strategy during tariff-driven market disruption. Currently seeking contract/freelance work, with openness to full-time for the right fit.”

Han Dong

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Executive growth marketing leader specializing in B2B SaaS and developer platforms

San Jose, CA19y exp

“Startup operator who launched and scaled Hyphenate as VP of Marketing and GM, creating a new category in white-label in-app chat for mobile apps. He owned messaging, acquisition, onboarding, and funnel design end-to-end, growing the business to 100+ customers, roughly $1M ARR, and a 16-person team while building a repeatable inbound and freemium growth engine.”

Chuks Onwuneme

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Executive technology leader specializing in Healthcare IT, AI, and regulated SaaS

Seattle, WA24y exp

“Founder who raised friends-and-family capital in 2024, used it to build an initial product and develop patent-backed IP, then pivoted from AI impersonation detection to authorization and trust infrastructure for agentic workflows. Demonstrates strong strategic thinking around infrastructure products, customer-driven repositioning, and venture-backed startup dynamics.”

Ben Ayed

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Executive product leader specializing in AI, security, and connected devices

Fremont, CA22y exp

“Product leader with hands-on experience building and scaling a production Voice AI Assistant for automotive dealerships, combining LLMs, speech technologies, workflow orchestration, and system integrations. Stands out for balancing AI capability with trust, UX, and operational ROI—shipping a system that answered over 90% of incoming calls while improving conversion, reducing workload, and augmenting rather than replacing human staff.”

Scott Mangino

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Executive product leader specializing in SaaS and consumer mobile platforms

Denver, CO14y exp

“Product leader who blends strategy, UX, and hands-on building—designing in Figma, using Claude Code to prototype and push PRs, and partnering closely with engineering to ship faster. Led the Travel Noire app from content brand extension to AI-enabled travel companion, and independently built human-centered AI workflows for grassroots volunteer management. Particularly strong in trust-based, assistive AI products that amplify human relationships rather than replace them.”

“Senior semiconductor product/GTM leader responsible for products in the $4.5B ion implant market, with a recent high-current product launch generating over $180M in annual revenue. Brings deep expertise in market intelligence, pricing, competitive positioning, and top-tier customer engagement across major chipmakers and power device manufacturers.”

“Implementation consultant/business analyst with 8 years of experience delivering enterprise banking, tax, and payroll deployments, including 100+ Horizon Core implementations at FIS and roughly 20 ADP Workforce Now rollouts. Stands out for combining hands-on technical mapping and IBM i/AS400-based configuration work with strong banking compliance knowledge across OFAC, Regulation E, Regulation O, and NRA requirements.”

Becky Dubrow

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Director-level Product Leader specializing in SaaS and cybersecurity platforms

Remote, USA21y exp

“Security product leader with deep experience spanning Bishop Fox, Malwarebytes, and startup environments, combining platform architecture, AI-enabled security workflows, UX judgment, and org leadership. Notably re-architected offensive security platforms, introduced human-in-the-loop AI systems, and scaled a consumer business from $17M to $120M+ ARR while growing and mentoring global product teams.”

Kerry Officer

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Executive product leader specializing in HCM, learning platforms, and public sector SaaS

Queen Creek, AZ22y exp

“Senior product leader with 20 years of experience spanning platform modernization, enterprise integrations, and AI-enabled HCM products. She led a major rebuild of a homegrown integration platform for a $77M portfolio, accelerated delivery by 18 months through vendor-backed iPaaS selection, and also drove AI initiatives across 13 products with a strong emphasis on transparency, QA, and human oversight.”

“Senior product leader with deep payroll/HCM experience across ResNav, Paycom, Paylocity, and Namely, known for rebuilding broken systems, creating product process from scratch, and influencing boards and executives on major platform decisions. She combines hands-on prototyping, strong engineering partnership, and customer-driven iteration, with examples ranging from an ML-based approvals workflow that reached 100% client opt-in to stabilizing a troubled time-off platform and reducing churn risk among major revenue clients.”