Vetted Cross-Functional Leadership Professionals

“Operations leader specializing in building scalable internal systems for startups, from being Spoonflower’s first ops hire (5th employee) to launching its first international Berlin/EMEA office from scratch. At bookingkit, drove measurable operational improvements by implementing a customized OKR framework (+18% goal achievement) and deploying automation/AI tools like Contractbook and kapa.ai to eliminate manual work and save engineering time.”

Michell Graham

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Executive Operations & Commercial Leader in Renewable Energy and Service Delivery

Houston, TX21y exp

“Operations leader with deep experience scaling early-stage energy companies, including helping take Sunnova through an IPO and currently building Radial Power’s project development and accounting frameworks. Known for creating standardized, repeatable workflows (interconnections/community solar) and service operating models (centralized dispatch + local field service) that reduce cost, backlog, and time-to-NTP while enabling rapid growth.”

“Engineering leader with 11 years at Nokia/Janus International scaling an engineering organization from 3 to roughly 50 people, plus recent startup experience building an AI-powered virtual property manager platform. Particularly compelling for roles needing a rare mix of hands-on architecture depth, people leadership, and cross-functional execution across backend, web, mobile, QA, and even hardware-integrated products.”

“Healthcare product leader who started as a front-end engineer/unofficial product head and helped transform a custom hospital software business into a SaaS platform that became the company's flagship, generating over 80% of revenue. Later, as VP of Product after acquisition by Press Ganey, they led multi-product consolidation across global teams and launched HIPAA-compliant genAI features that delivered measurable customer efficiency gains.”

Zach Dosen

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Executive product leader specializing in healthcare IT, AI, and enterprise SaaS

Marietta, GA18y exp

“Product leader with deep healthcare AI experience who has launched high-impact products at hc1 and now navigates complex franchise stakeholder environments at ABM. Stands out for pairing rigorous prioritization and human-centered AI design with measurable business results, including a 20% staffing cost reduction and a 62% reduction in lab test-matching labor.”

“HR/people leader with experience partnering directly with firm partners and C-suite leaders to drive culture and retention initiatives, including launching a Partner Connectivity Program to rebuild community during/after remote-pandemic work. Strong in people analytics (Workday/Aderant) and executive dashboards, and experienced handling complex employee relations cases and accommodations in collaboration with in-house counsel.”

Marty Schneider

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Executive Operations & GTM Leader specializing in startups across logistics, esports, and civic tech

Redwood City, CA15y exp

“Founder/CEO who built Hometown Heart from the ground up—creating SOPs and standing up hiring, GTM, finance, and investor/government relations—scaling from 6 employees and $100K debt to 350 employees and $40M in annual revenue in 3 years. Led expansion into San Francisco County, proactively managing compliance/licensing and municipal stakeholders to secure early approvals and drive major revenue growth.”

Bobby Sanders

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Mid-level Game Designer specializing in systems and gameplay

Anaheim, California6y exp

“Game QA tester/designer hybrid with hands-on Unreal Engine 5 technical debugging experience, focused on NPC AI navigation and performance. At Lantern Tower Games (Telmahre), owned end-to-end quality for an NPC system (dynamic navmesh, moving platforms, EQS, actor pooling), using Unreal Insights and asset reference refactors (hard->soft + async loading) to resolve critical memory/performance issues while collaborating closely with engineering and level design in Scrum.”

Vu Tran

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Senior Product Manager specializing in 0–1 platforms, AI workflows, and product operations

Oakland, CA8y exp

“Customer success/product-facing operator from AllRoomie (AI-powered rental marketplace) who owned an enterprise real estate brokerage account end-to-end. Improved conversion and adoption by automating lead intake/routing and fixing integration issues, citing ~40% less manual coordination, faster response times, and expansion into additional regions through ROI-driven land-and-expand motions.”

Steve Van Treeck

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Engineering executive specializing in SaaS platforms for transportation & logistics

Denver, CO18y exp

“Pragmatic, Lean Startup–oriented candidate who prefers validating ideas through barebones MVPs and direct customer feedback, especially when entering unfamiliar markets. Motivated to partner with visionary founders and scale accessible products by lowering barriers to entry, while maintaining financial sustainability.”

“CRM/lifecycle marketing strategist with hands-on ownership of campaign strategy, audience definition, QA oversight, and performance analysis across onboarding, re-engagement, nurture, retargeting, and winback programs. Particularly strong in experimentation design, offer testing, and using behavioral/purchase data to personalize messaging and improve sales outcomes, though not a direct Braze builder.”

Eugene Nelepko

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Executive growth leader specializing in AI-powered SaaS, marketplaces, and e-commerce

San Francisco, CA13y exp

“Growth leader with strong zero-to-one and systems-building experience across e-commerce and retail media. Most notably, they proposed and launched a new retail media division from scratch, presold demand before product build, and scaled it to $1.5M ARR with 85% margin, while also building data-driven lifecycle and acquisition systems that materially improved activation and CAC efficiency.”

“PMP-certified project/program manager with 13 years of experience leading high-stakes federal intelligence and law enforcement technology programs. Has owned a $15M+ portfolio spanning AI/ML analytics platforms, AWS/Azure cloud initiatives, and enterprise data integrations, with active Secret Clearance and a track record of improving executive visibility and reducing escalations in compliance-heavy environments.”

“Omnichannel merchandising and partnerships leader who owned end-to-end strategy for major soccer programs, including USA Soccer and the Argentina National Team. Negotiated a sophisticated dual-license structure to preserve Amazon channel rights while protecting margin, and drove $8M in pre-buys plus margin improvement through disciplined planning, Excel-based hindsight analysis, and in-season inventory adjustments.”

“Paid media and programmatic specialist (CTV + programmatic audio) who has scaled test budgets into multi-million-dollar quarterly buys using forecasting, media mix modeling, and attribution/foot-traffic KPIs. Has experience running performance-based campaigns across DSPs and full-funnel platforms (Meta/Google/TikTok) and supporting large renewals via strong client communication and cross-functional coordination.”

Melanie Gittiban

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Executive Healthcare Operations Leader specializing in AI-enabled value-based care

Dallas–Fort Worth, TX19y exp

“Operations leader with deep healthcare delivery experience who joined a struggling VC-backed company and helped architect a full strategic pivot away from a fragmented home care LTSS agency model into a scalable chronic care telehealth/value-based care platform. Designed the end-to-end virtual care operating model (clinical team structure, triage/escalation workflows, EHR/RCM/call center ops) and rebuilt performance management around leading indicators to help leadership steer scaling decisions.”

Nadia Elinbabi

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Senior Product and Systems Design Leader specializing in AI-enabled enterprise workflows

Charlotte, NC18y exp

“Former UX designer with 12 years in design who moved into product management and now leads complex AI-enabled retail experiences. Most notably, they championed Competitive Quote from an overlooked Hack Day prototype into a major initiative later valued at $300M over three years, combining strong product strategy, agentic UX thinking, and deep practical understanding of human-in-the-loop AI systems.”

“Product leader with 20 years of experience across startups and agencies, including leading the end-to-end rebuild of Filmik, an AI-enabled workflow platform for film and television production teams. Stands out for combining deep UX simplification instincts with human-centered AI thinking, using automation to reduce friction while preserving trust, control, and collaboration. Has also built and mentored globally distributed product, design, engineering, and delivery teams across multiple regions.”

“Product leader with strong experience in highly regulated benefits and claims environments, including building statutory benefits systems and launching AI-enabled claims automation. Stands out for navigating regulatory ambiguity, legacy/API integration, and executive alignment while still shipping on time and under budget, with a clear philosophy that AI should augment human work rather than replace it.”

“Product leader in education and assessment who led a major TOEFL iBT transformation, combining global stakeholder alignment, adaptive testing, and human-in-the-loop AI scoring/content systems. Also brings large-scale people leadership experience, having managed a 1,300-instructor cybersecurity training operation while launching adjacent programs in digital marketing, AI, and software development.”

“Product leader with experience rebuilding teams and platforms in both healthcare and AI-enabled SaaS environments. Most notably rebuilt Uniform Teeth’s product organization, EMR, and patient app after a restructuring, contributing to major clinical efficiency gains and the company’s acquisition by Impress in 2022. Brings a strong human-in-the-loop AI philosophy, plus experience leading PMs, design, and engineering through high-change environments.”

“Executive-operations/program leader who supports senior leadership through multiple concurrent, high-visibility initiatives (tech rollout, cost optimization, growth strategy). Known for creating portfolio dashboards, operating cadences, and decision logs that reduce initiative sprawl, accelerate executive decision-making, and keep cross-functional teams aligned while maintaining strict confidentiality during sensitive changes like leadership restructures.”

Weston Carpenter

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Mid-level Backend Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“Technical/presales engineer with experience at Grubhub and Appen, spanning LLM-adjacent data labeling workflows and production AI troubleshooting. Built an integrations platform at Grubhub and has hands-on experience diagnosing prompt-related AI failures via Splunk, adding JUnit tests and logging to prevent recurrence. Known for shipping customer-specific workflow adaptations (e.g., OCR annotation coordinate transformations for crop/rotation) while keeping timelines intact through iterative delivery and parallelization.”

Ravi Bijinepalli

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Senior ADAS/Autonomous Vehicle Validation Engineering Manager

Columbus, Ohio8y exp

“Controls and automated-vehicle engineer from the EcoCar EV Challenge who led an 8-person team implementing ACC and lane-centering directly on a vehicle (1st place result). Strong in CAN-based debugging, simulation-to-real deployment (Simulink to C++/dSPACE), and distributed robotics communication using DDS, with additional exposure to multi-agent RL and control barrier functions for coordinated driving.”