Vetted Cross-Functional Leadership Professionals

“Enterprise Customer Success/Account leader with telecom analytics experience who drives measurable business outcomes by embedding analytics into operational workflows (e.g., routing decisions). Led cross-functional deployment/integration recoveries, aligned complex stakeholder groups around shared KPIs, and used demonstrated ROI to secure renewals and land-and-expand growth (including a cited 25% margin improvement).”

Michael Hopkin

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Executive product leader specializing in AI platforms and SaaS

Portland, OR21y exp

“Senior product leader with experience rebuilding products and organizations in healthcare, research administration, public safety, and K-12 education. Stands out for building a product team from zero at Plexus and shipping an award-winning platform in 8 months, while also bringing strong human-centered AI judgment from ML compliance products at Cayuse and education strategy work at Imagine Learning.”

Crystal Marcus-Kanesaka

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Product Designer specializing in onboarding, activation, and product-led growth

20y exp

“Seasoned product strategist and UX-led product leader with ~20 years across education, cybersecurity, Web3, martech, media, and public/private sector work. She combines hands-on AI-enabled product building with large-scale team leadership, including launching zero-to-one cybersecurity learning products, scaling Braintrust programs from 2,500 to 58,000 users, and improving onboarding experiences that helped double ARR to $400M. Her background in underserved K-12 communities and blended learning makes her especially compelling for human-centered AI and educational equity roles.”

Brandon Pav

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive CTO specializing in cloud architecture, DevSecOps, and scalable SaaS platforms

Indianapolis, IN13y exp

“Founder of Pavtek Consulting LLC who acts as a hands-on technology leader for startups, building MVPs and full-stack AI products, custom ERPs, integrations, and AI agent chat tools. Notably led a major turnaround at Dyknow (EdTech), cutting major cloud waste and moving the business from a $500k annual loss to double profitability within two years before a successful acquisition.”

brendan center

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level performance marketing leader specializing in paid media and growth acquisition

Largo, FL14y exp

“Digital Marketing Director with 15+ years in marketing and 6 years at National Safety Commission, personally owning strategy, execution, and accountability for roughly $1.8M-$2M in monthly paid media spend across search and social. Particularly notable for adapting large-scale PPC programs to AI-driven changes in Google Ads, restructuring campaigns and pricing/messaging strategy to drive an 8% ROAS lift and 10-12% sales growth.”

“Product leader with experience driving a major international digital platform overhaul at ESPN, unifying fragmented sports properties and delivering a 30% retention lift. More recently, they have been building a human-centered AI mental health product focused on provider-guided follow-up, and they bring a personal, long-standing commitment to educational equity through tutoring and community math programs.”

“Operations leader from a hospital environment who manages distributed, multi-shift teams and applies product/analytics thinking to workflows and patient-care services. Partnered with senior leadership on major safety and emergency-preparedness changes (lockdown and disaster protocols) and has experience operating in a rapidly scaling healthcare organization (noted expansion to 26 hospitals in a year).”

“Revenue growth and RevOps veteran (25+ years) relaunching Impactus Growth Advisors, a services firm for early-to-growth-stage startups focused on execution-heavy revenue ops. Has validated tiered service packages through years of fractional consulting and is planning an AI-based Q&A app as an entry point to scale GTM and service delivery, with intent to bootstrap or potentially raise via angels.”

“AI startup co-founder and CTO who helped raise $2.6M in seed funding at RedRex and drove product strategy from ideation through execution. Experienced with rapid experimentation and AI-driven prototyping to validate ideas quickly, and has direct exposure to the VC/accelerator ecosystem (Gener8tor) with a market-first approach to building and pitching startups.”

“Director-level product leader with experience spanning SaaS platform rebuilds, pricing strategy, and AI-native workflow design. At Skykit, they led a major self-serve/PLG account management transformation across multiple teams, and they also built an AI sales quoting tool using a multi-stage RAG pipeline that reached 100% quote accuracy in user testing.”

“Industrial design + mechanical engineering product developer with 15 years in venture-backed startups and venture studios, including CTO-level leadership and a recent equity exit. Now building a sustainability/recycling technology venture with a prototype and patent counsel engaged, currently in the City of Austin Circular Economy Accelerator and aiming to secure a municipal waste-management pilot partner at an upcoming pitch event.”

“Commercially minded candidate with exposure to private equity firms as sales targets and experience building partnerships around venture-backed company ecosystems. They appear more inclined to join an existing company than found one, bringing a metrics-driven, process-oriented approach and creative execution style with a strong focus on clear growth paths and capital stability.”

“Sales and business development leader from the healthcare and dental technology space who has translated consulting-driven, relationship-led selling into scalable national growth programs. At Tower Leadership, they built strategic partnerships with major industry players like Henry Schein One and Patterson Dental, helped create repeatable expansion frameworks, and contributed to roughly $20M in growth while operating in complex, enterprise-style sales cycles.”