Vetted Digital Transformation Professionals

Vela Sivasankaran

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in cloud, telecom, and digital transformation

Virginia, USA16y exp

“Former founder of a financial services technology startup that is currently on hold for family reasons. Has hands-on startup fundraising exposure from employee roles, including presenting proof-of-concept demos to venture capital firms, and brings a strong focus on fraud prevention, safeguards, and regulatory compliance.”

“Senior engineering executive and former VP of Architecture at Expedia who led a small, high-leverage architecture organization supporting an 8,000-person global engineering org. Brings a rare mix of executive people leadership and hands-on AI systems work, including OpenAI plugin integration, multi-agent booking architecture, and agentic fraud workflows that materially improved execution, automation, and customer-facing outcomes.”

“Cross-functional digital transformation and operations leader with experience at Brookfield and Celonis, building centralized roadmaps and executive dashboards to align priorities across Finance/Accounting/Operations/Portfolio Management. Implemented FP&A reporting automation and sales compensation/performance reporting (Anaplan, Monday.com), and established strong PII governance via access approvals and monitoring.”

“Aspiring founder building an AI governance and compliance startup for the finance industry, focused on agents that monitor data lakes/lakehouses to detect security vulnerabilities, PII exposure, and governance issues in real time. Has already formed an S-corp, has not raised capital yet, and approaches idea validation through Minimum Lovable Product testing with potential clients.”

“Engineering leader with hands-on platform, cloud, security, and data infrastructure experience who managed a 9-person cross-functional team spanning data engineering, infrastructure, SRE/DevOps, and DevSecOps. Notable impact includes completing a Mesos-to-ECS migration, cutting AWS spend by $1.6M annually, standing up a security engineering team, and building a no-code data lake/warehouse platform in partnership with sales, support, data science, and BI.”

“Operations and leadership advisor with experience scaling and globalizing large and growing businesses, including Reebok’s expansion from ~$1B to ~$3B and Student Advantage’s rapid roll-up (15 acquisitions in 18 months). Known for post-merger/ERP-driven process redesign, building customer/metric feedback loops (NPS, time-to-ship), and coaching founders/executives across industries (tech, healthcare, biopharma, B2B SaaS/sports tech).”

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.”

HUGH BOYLE

Screened

Executive marketing leader specializing in brand, digital, and agency transformation

Grapevine, TX18y exp

“Experienced corporate operator with a co-founder bringing 50+ combined years of relevant large-company experience, now building a bootstrapped AI/SaaS/Data Infrastructure startup. They have spent the past year developing a detailed business plan, playbook, and investor materials with support from Accenture's startup assessment tools, and are just beginning to engage VCs from a position of strong preparation.”

“Enterprise transformation project/program leader with deep experience in SAP, Ariba, and Coupa implementations for large multinational organizations. Has grown from techno-functional consulting into full PM/OCM ownership, leading multimillion-dollar programs across finance transformation, asset management, and procure-to-pay environments with complex governance and executive stakeholder demands.”