Vetted Cybersecurity Professionals

“Explored a digital notarization startup concept in 2020 that stalled due to COVID-era inability to secure VC seed meetings; later saw the market validate the idea via a comparable acquisition (~$57M, per candidate). Now more interested in driving innovation and simplifying complex customer experiences within an established organization, using a highly structured, metrics-driven product execution approach.”

Andrew Rosenblatt

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Executive CIO specializing in AI-driven healthcare transformation and M&A integration

Culver City, CA16y exp

“Healthcare technology veteran with 21 years in the space who is now building Explain My Labs, a pre-seed startup with an alpha product already in friends-and-family testing. They bring hands-on startup preparation experience, including a pitch deck, investor meetings, and a clear thesis around a market gap in solutions that serve both patients and users.”

“25+ year professional exploring entrepreneurship; previously helped develop corporate venture capital at Siemens and AVEVA and ran end-to-end diligence through deal close, with heavy technical diligence on pre-seed/pre-revenue companies. Interested in building an AI-enabled hard lending/origination approach to reduce decision-to-close time and scale in a large lending market, and prefers VC studio/EIR models with paid roles rather than equity-only arrangements.”

Conway Cheng Cheng

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Executive transformation leader specializing in global risk architecture and financial services

Dallas, TX26y exp

“Advisory and financial-services professional with exposure to PE/VC boards, Big 4 strategic partnerships, and innovation labs, now exploring a commercialization venture via a venture studio model. Brings a structured approach to building new businesses—combining Design Thinking, feasibility testing, rapid prototyping, and SBIR-backed R&D strategy with cross-border market entry and enterprise modernization experience.”

Sandeep Natu

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive Technology Leader (CTO/COO) specializing in Telecom, IT Delivery, and eGovernment platforms

Atlanta, GA19y exp

“Entrepreneurial operator who has started three revenue-generating startups for an employer and is now ready to found independently. Built and scaled a USSD-based lottery product in Nigeria by partnering with MTN, driving 10%+ uplift in gross turnover, and has hands-on experience validating market gaps via SMS/call-center surveys and launching pilots before scaling.”

“Built and operated a production warehouse metadata collection platform at Sigma Computing, integrating Go/gRPC services with a TypeScript backend and MySQL, with strong emphasis on idempotency, retries, bounded-concurrency job queues, and Datadog-based observability. Also created Kurral (kurral.com), an AI agent runtime security and observability/governance SDK/proxy concept, iterating via pilot-customer feedback and market research; targeting founding engineer roles with $180–200k base and ~2–5% equity.”

“Senior engineering leader with deep hands-on experience building and scaling high-throughput platform infrastructure, including a Qualys core data platform using Kafka, Cassandra, OpenSearch, Ceph, and API gateways. He combines architecture depth with people leadership, and has led complex cross-team initiatives such as rolling out a Kubernetes-based container platform across 20 application teams using a phased migration strategy.”

Christopher Bun

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Executive AI/ML technology leader specializing in healthcare, biotech, and legal AI

Irvine, CA17y exp

“Repeat founder and startup advisor with experience spanning academic, health tech, legal tech, sports, and gaming. Has participated in fundraising and due diligence and has built companies, engineering teams, and software platforms from scratch, with a strong product-design-first approach to product-market fit and market selection.”

“Cybersecurity entrepreneur building a solution focused on emerging AI-driven security risks, aimed at helping mid-sized companies defend against advanced threat actors without needing large internal teams. Has a business plan, has raised capital, and is currently entering a seed VC round while doing fractional CTO/interim work to cover advisor and corporate legal costs amid upcoming EU cybersecurity/resilience policy changes.”

“Senior technology and venture-oriented leader pursuing a CTO role, with hands-on experience advising an AI startup and a VC firm while also building incubation and technology advisory functions at Iron Mountain. Notably brought a cybersecurity product to market in six months and helped position a blockchain product through early deal development, showing a strong blend of product, strategy, and venture-building capability.”