Vetted Cross-Functional Leadership Professionals

Karan Mehta

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Business Operations & GTM Strategy leader specializing in analytics and performance

Foster City, CA9y exp

“ZS consultant/product owner who repeatedly turns vague GTM performance goals into decision-centric analytics products and operating rhythms. Has scaled analytics initiatives from pilots into $1M+ platforms with 100+ leader adoption, and tied measurement tools to material business outcomes (e.g., $10M+ incremental revenue impact) through change management and cross-functional alignment.”

Sourabh Jain

Screened

Director of Software Engineering specializing in enterprise Data, ML & AI platforms

Bay Area, CA23y exp

“Former Walmart Director of Software Engineering who left in March 2025 to build products for clients. Recently delivered an LLM/RAG-based UNSPSC classification solution for an MRO client using a multi-stage retrieval + web search + prompt-engineering workflow, and has led large-scale retail forecasting initiatives and high-severity cloud-migration incidents end-to-end.”

“Entrepreneur building a platform to turn clinically/technically validated medical device innovations (not yet commercialized in Western markets) into acquisition-ready companies by tightly controlling execution. Focuses on selecting technologies with execution risk (not clinical/technical risk) and running them through a structured program framework designed around acquisition criteria from day one.”

“Operations/program support professional with experience at Meta and a ~25-person sports/partnerships agency (Innovative Partnerships Group). Known for quickly diagnosing bottlenecks and implementing lightweight systems (e.g., Airtable recruiting dashboard with 150 applicants; monthly vendor accrual process bridging engineering, vendors, and FP&A) to improve executive visibility and operational throughput.”

Derek Tuggle

Screened

Executive Robotics & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in industrial IoT controls

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“VP of New Product Development at Axiom Cloud who built and scaled a "Virtual Battery" product that used supermarket frozen inventory as thermal energy storage—personally prototyped core control/safety logic in Python and led the engineering buildout through deployment and operations. Combines real-world industrial controls and edge deployment experience (LonWorks/Modbus, Docker/CI/CD) with an MS in CS focused on robotics, perception, and ML, including ROS 2 and YOLO-based perception.”

Jehanzeb Khan

Screened

Director-level Engineering Manager specializing in large-scale data and compute platforms

Sunnyvale, CA20y exp

“Platform and distributed-systems leader (player-coach) who owned architecture and reliability for an Amazon analytics/data platform serving ~100K internal users at exabyte scale. Built an ML-driven “Lakeflow” optimization layer that cut pipeline completion times ~20–25% and reduced compute waste >15%, and led major incident response/redesign efforts (e.g., deletion storm) with strong rollout/observability/rollback practices.”

“Operations leader with Amazon experience owning a founder-level initiative during national supply chain Regionalization, building and scaling a "Stack-to-Light" operating mechanism to standardize non-sortable FC execution with instrumentation and balanced-scorecard metrics. Later joined Revivn to stabilize an underperforming operation by developing frontline leaders and aligning ops with finance and GTM through clear KPIs and operating cadence.”

“Backend-leaning engineer with experience at Dropbox, Wayfair, and Etsy who has led cross-product integrations and internal platform tooling. Re-architected a legacy promo code system from a PHP monolith to a Java/Spring Boot microservice achieving a 99% execution-time reduction, and built a React/TypeScript + Supabase product (press.social) with LLM-powered bulk parallel generation and a path to multi-tenancy.”

“Operations/business leader at Rent the Runway who led a cross-functional, Board-visible redesign and network-wide rollout of the company’s garment bag—a >$5M CapEx/OpEx initiative central to luxury customer experience. Known for aligning executives with conflicting priorities (cost vs CX), driving KPI-based operating rhythms, and delivering vendor/manufacturing wins that improved unit cost while upgrading product quality; previously led legal operations with strong confidentiality/privilege discipline.”

Quinn Staudt

Screened

Executive Political & Public Sector Operations Leader specializing in campaigns, government, and strategy

19y exp

“Senior cross-functional leader with 20 years’ experience advising founders, C-suite, and elected officials; most recently served on the executive team of a New York City mayoral campaign overseeing 12+ departments, messaging alignment, and budget allocation. Brings strong operating cadence (daily check-ins/rolling agendas), data-driven prioritization, and proven discretion from nearly a decade holding Top Secret federal government clearance.”

Donnell Mata

Screened

Director-level Strategy & Operations leader specializing in GTM, product, and operating cadence systems

San Francisco, CA22y exp

“Operator/strategy leader with experience driving digital transformation and building executive operating systems in high-noise environments. At a legacy B2C brand, created a prioritization framework and exec alignment process that cut 100+ initiatives to 16 and lifted execution from 12% to 81%. At Point B, owned a $20M delivery budget while shifting the firm to a tech-forward practice, implementing OKR/KPI cadences and AI-enabled workflows (n8n, LLMs, gamma.ai) that materially improved executive productivity.”

Edward Yeh

Screened

Director-level Data Engineering & MDM leader specializing in enterprise data platforms

Hunt Valley, MD20y exp

“Former Xendit (YC-backed fintech) operator applying outcome-driven, scalable product-building experience to a new startup: a real-time, personalized real estate investment intelligence platform. Has begun prototyping, completed ROI analysis, and validated the space with US market research plus broker interviews in Chicago and Los Angeles, aiming to differentiate from Zillow/Redfin with goal-based ranked investment recommendations.”

Assaf Igell

Screened

Executive Product Growth & Marketing Leader specializing in B2B PLG and monetization

Los Angeles, CA14y exp

“Growth and brand marketing leader across web3/creator economy products, including film.io (decentralized filmmaking) and the 2021 launch of the DC Comics Digital Collectible Marketplace. Known for data-driven audience segmentation and integrated multi-channel campaigns (email, Twitter/X, influencers, events) that delivered outsized earned media and large-scale user onboarding, with rigorous cohort-based revenue tracking.”