Vetted Digital Transformation Professionals

“CTO candidate with experience supporting startups targeting Series A/Series B funding and a strong grasp of how funding choices affect ownership. Emphasizes building clean-slate architecture and organizations, and uses market/UX research plus AI-enabled rapid prototyping and architectural trade-off analysis to validate ideas quickly.”

Mike Martin

Screened

Executive Services & Operations Leader specializing in managed services, M&A integration, and growth

28y exp

“COO/operator who helped scale a PE-backed Managed Services Provider from ~$20M to ~$120M in 30 months while acquiring 3–4 MSPs per year. Drove post-merger integration and standardized service delivery using ITIL, unified systems onto NetSuite and a unified delivery platform, and built a data warehouse to rapidly integrate legacy data for operational insights (including early ML/AI use).”

Sudhan Louis

Screened

Director of Enterprise Architecture specializing in digital transformation, AI, and API strategy

Rolling Hills Estates, CA26y exp

“Hands-on architect/technology leader who builds prototypes (including Agentic AI wellness/biomarkers) and then scales teams to execute. Led a ~$400M global e-commerce transformation spanning 95 countries with active-active US/EU multi-region resilience, microservices/MFE (MACH), and strong security patterns (service mesh + API gateway + Ping Identity), plus modern data foundations (customer hub/MDM/Snowflake, data fabric/medallion).”

Matthew Wackerhagen

Screened

Director-level Growth & Innovation Leader specializing in AI-enabled transformation

Charlotte, NC10y exp

“Innovation-focused operator from a Fortune 100 financial services environment (TIAA) who repeatedly brought startups into the enterprise to accelerate change. Created a white-glove inside sales model to improve annuity conversions, generating hundreds of millions in year-one impact and reportedly surpassing $1B over time. Interested in entrepreneurship but only with a funded startup that can provide salary stability.”

Ravi Ada

Screened

Executive CTO specializing in digital health platforms, cloud & AI, and FHIR/HL7 interoperability

Carrollton, TX22y exp

“Healthcare diagnostics/health tech founder building Casandra.ai, an API-driven lab test catalog and ordering platform designed to standardize fragmented test catalogs and integrate into provider workflows via FHIR. Bootstrapped and built a deploy-ready product, drawing on prior startup experience and accelerator participation (Health Box, DreamIt Ventures).”

Joe Brannon

Screened

Executive IT & PMO leader specializing in digital commerce and enterprise transformation

Baton Rouge, LA19y exp

“IT leader with hands-on M&A integration experience (including day-one readiness) across notable brands (e.g., Billabong, Marucci Sports) and product-focused organizations (Oakley). Brings broad IT domain expertise (AI, business systems, digital sales technologies) and has worked with multiple startups; interested in joining an existing startup to help it scale rather than founding a new company.”

Kishore Koduri

Screened

Director-level Enterprise Architecture leader specializing in AI and platform transformation

Akron, OH29y exp

“Entrepreneurial candidate with deep technology expertise who has already acted as a founder/principal across a real estate venture and early-stage tech startups. Most notably, they raised approximately $1-2M for a real estate project and describe hands-on ownership from ideation and business case development through ROI validation and investor commitment.”

Arpan Acharya

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in AI, data platforms, and healthcare SaaS

Pittsburgh, PA21y exp

“Senior product and platform engineering leader with experience spanning startup-style incubation and large-scale enterprise transformation at Omnicell. Led architecture used by 400+ engineers, scaled a new data-focused team from 10 to 60, and drove an inventory optimization platform that helped secure the company’s first $100M+ multi-product contract.”

Mark Parolisi

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in digital publishing and media platforms

Greater New York City Area, NY18y exp

“Engineering leader in digital media/news with 8 years leading globally distributed teams supporting 24+ consumer and internal web applications. Distinguishes himself as a hands-on player-coach who standardized tooling across teams, built an in-house authentication and entitlements platform, and led AI systems for newsroom draft generation and taxonomy workflows that improved efficiency and engagement.”

“Solutions engineering and technical consulting leader with experience across healthcare logistics, transportation SaaS, analytics, and HR interoperability. Stands out for deep integration and security expertise—spanning APIs, EDI, HL7/FHIR, SSO/SAML, and enterprise architecture—and for using customer-specific POVs and automation initiatives to drive adoption and measurable operational impact.”

“Product-oriented startup operator with hands-on AI experience across chatbot UX, PRDs, and technical RAG pipeline design. They’ve worked across early-stage builds and portfolio-company product strategy, including improving engagement by 46% on an internal AI product through better workflows, content pipelines, and analytics-driven iteration.”

Kumar Shashi

Screened

Senior Program & Operations Manager specializing in AI, semiconductor NPI, and regulated manufacturing

Palo Alto, CA12y exp

“Operations and customer-facing leader with deep last-mile logistics expertise from running a critical extra-large Amazon logistics hub end-to-end (inventory accuracy, throughput, yard efficiency), including scalable process improvements adopted across Amazon XL sites. Strong cross-functional and partner management (DSPs/carriers, engineering ops) with rapid incident resolution and VOC-to-product translation (geofence/map fixes). Also demonstrates land-and-expand growth motion from Cisco, expanding a standardized software platform across multiple global sites.”

Martin Bliss

Screened

Executive Technology & Architecture Leader specializing in DevOps, cloud platforms, and digital transformation

Plano, TX14y exp

“Startup-minded product builder with consulting experience in Oil & Gas who formed an LLC to design and deliver a modern project-controls software platform, replacing Excel-heavy workflows with scalable web-based calculations. Strong in pragmatic tech-stack decisions, talent matching, and shipping MVPs despite shifting stakeholders; sees marketing (pitching/networking) as a growth area and has evaluated partnership/investment offers for balanced support.”

“CTO-for-equity founder who partners with non-technical co-founders to bring AI-powered product ideas to market, emphasizing financial viability and go-to-market planning over "just an MVP." Currently working with two other founders (CEO/Sales and CPO/industry expert) to launch a SaaS platform, leveraging AI coding tools (Cursor/Windsurf) for extremely fast, production-ready iteration with daily releases.”

“CTO/AI executive with repeated 0-to-1 leadership and founder experience across banking software, cloud, and fintech. Most recently, as a fractional CAIO, built a 50+ person team and launched 3 products in 9 months generating $10M+ new revenue; previously founded Trilogy (200+ clients in 7 countries) and created cloud tech that helped drive a $35M acquisition by VMware.”