Vetted Leadership Professionals

“Restructuring and deal-origination professional with FTI experience who applies distressed-investing rigor to founder sourcing and early-stage evaluation. Stands out for turning signal-based outbound into real opportunities, including sourcing and nurturing the Spirit Airlines relationship over roughly two years into one of the firm's largest bankruptcy engagements, while also bringing venture studio exposure to early consumer concept testing.”

“Operations-focused startup builder who creates “enterprise-ready” maturity through reliability testing systems, data collection, and customer-facing quarterly reviews. Has a process-first approach (document → automate → scale), including automating manufacturing testing and moving it to a contract manufacturer. Experienced mentoring founders/executives using GQM and improving leadership effectiveness through targeted coaching and role redesign.”

Kathy Gagne

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive Leadership Advisor specializing in organizational design, culture transformation, and board coaching

East Greenwich, RI37y exp

“Operations and organizational effectiveness advisor who builds scalable playbooks and maturity-based operating frameworks for growing organizations, including investment portfolio companies. Has led change and regulatory adoption work in a large financial institution and coached a rapidly scaling fintech founder/exec team to improve trust, delegation, and decision-making.”

“Full-stack engineer with fintech and AI product experience: built HuddleAI end-to-end on Firebase/React, including a serverless LLM meeting-intelligence pipeline (FFmpeg + Google Speech-to-Text + GPT-4 with schema validation) and Slack notifications. At Gemini, owned a Postgres/Scala workflow change for wire deposit approvals that cut blocked registrations by 60% and emphasized correctness/compliance in UK/EU transaction-state UI.”