Vetted Cross-Functional Leadership Professionals

“Senior infrastructure/platform engineer with deep IBM Power/AIX (Power9, VIOS, HMC, LPAR/DLPAR) and PowerHA production ownership at scale (40 frames / ~300 LPARs), including hands-on outage recovery and performance tuning. Also delivers modern DevOps/IaC capabilities—CI/CD for Kubernetes microservices and Terraform-based multi-account AWS (EKS/VPC/IAM/RDS) with drift detection and safe rollout controls.”

Bill Boedeker

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Executive Marketing & Communications Leader specializing in financial services and AI/ML content

New York, NY18y exp

“Executive communications and program management professional with experience at BlackRock Alternatives and JPMorgan’s Machine Learning Center of Excellence. Led high-velocity, cross-functional initiatives like a weekly president’s newsletter to 900 global employees and built Monday.com reporting boards for a rapidly scaling global ML org, while also coordinating multi-track executive events (AI Summit) and handling sensitive, ADA-compliant HR issues with discretion.”

“Operations and GTM advisor for early-stage and scaling software companies who implements practical operating frameworks (RACI, OKRs) to translate founder vision into execution. Notable outcomes include cutting sales ramp time from 6–9 months to 3–4 months at OPSWAT through enablement programs and driving 124% of financial plan at Cradlepoint (2022) after cascading OKRs across the organization.”

CHRISTOPHER LOREFICE

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Executive Operations & Supply Chain Leader specializing in multi-site transformation and M&A integration

New York, NY19y exp

“Operations executive (VP Operations) with deep experience building internal operations support functions from scratch in a growing healthcare laundry/services business. Led data and process transformations across procurement, supply chain, and safety—implementing KPI dashboards, savings scorecards, and analytics tooling (MS Access, Qlik)—and delivered measurable DC improvements (e.g., +7 fill-rate points and >30% returns productivity) through Lean/5S redesign and targeted capex.”

hemant jha

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Executive Design & Innovation Leader specializing in product, strategy, and sustainable systems

Chicago, Illinois25y exp

“Product/system designer focused on ultra-clean, modular, customizable work/organization environments (e.g., making stations for studios and fabrication spaces). Emphasizes rules-based interaction models, restrained structural visual language, and hands-on field research/prototyping to embed industrial constraints (tolerances, load paths, safety) into intuitive, training-free user experiences.”

Rich Espinoza

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Executive sales leader specializing in media distribution and enterprise revenue growth

Los Angeles, CA30y exp

“Senior media sales and distribution executive with 25+ years at NBCUniversal and Sony Pictures Television, leading national account strategy across U.S. broadcast groups, affiliates, and platform distributors. Most notably helped lead Seinfeld renewal negotiations that generated more than $300M in licensing revenue, while also steering distribution strategy through the industry's shift from linear TV to streaming, FAST, and AVOD.”

“Customer Success Lead in healthcare AI (diabetic retinopathy screening) who owns enterprise accounts end-to-end and drives measurable adoption/retention outcomes. Experienced navigating complex stakeholder dynamics during a health system acquisition, using Tableau/Salesforce analytics and ROI storytelling to expand from pilot to full deployment, and leading cross-functional delivery of EMR-integrated SSO to unblock clinical workflow adoption.”

Scott D'Andrea

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Executive Business Manager / COO Chief of Staff in global investment banking

New York, NY25y exp

“Business Manager/Chief of Staff with 20+ years in investment banking (Barclays, HSBC) leading cross-functional governance across IT, Ops, Finance, Compliance, and Risk. Notably helped launch and operationalize a new TRS on leveraged loans trading desk at Barclays, including building a bespoke trade-booking system and scaling the business from $0 to >$20B AUM, later becoming the largest TRS desk globally.”

Tina Bai

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Executive operator-founder specializing in GTM, revenue strategy, and AI-native commercial operations

New York, NY10y exp

“Operator with Deloitte consulting experience supporting PE/VC-backed portfolio companies and current experience inside a VC-funded Series C scale-up. Building a bootstrapped D2C women’s telehealth brand (Petty Pills) with two initial SKUs, deployed tech stack, and white-labeled clinical/compliance infrastructure, leveraging AI tooling to keep operations lean while focusing on full-time operator roles.”

“Startup operator with experience across more than 12 startups, focused on taking early-stage companies to the next level from a growth and development standpoint. Highly familiar with the venture capital, studio, and accelerator ecosystem, and motivated by fast execution, cross-functional ownership, and building alongside strong teams.”

“Life sciences business development leader with experience as Head of Business Development at Praxis Precision Medicines, leveraging VC relationships to source value-accretive opportunities such as a partnership with Cerebral Therapeutics. Demonstrates a founder-oriented mindset and unusually rigorous biotech opportunity assessment, including nuanced evaluation of mechanism, preclinical data, and compounded biology/technology risk.”

“Seasoned business leader with decades of leadership experience (including Fortune 50/500) and prior Silicon Valley startup exposure, now pursuing entrepreneurship. Building “Datascension,” a gamified, story/episode-based career coaching platform that includes hands-on tasks (e.g., SQL queries, Python scripts) plus a participation-based credit/currency system and certification/badging, informed by feedback from recruiters and coaching/recruiting firms.”

“Serial game publishing builder who has helped raise $300M+ across multiple rounds for four publishers. Deeply embedded in the SF/LA VC ecosystem and actively advises clients through pitch rounds, emphasizing data-driven narratives, timing, and investor relationship-building in highly scrutinized markets.”