Vetted Leadership Professionals

“Cross-functional operations leader who managed six departments and led a first-time international expansion from Dubai into Riyadh, including hiring a Saudi GRO to navigate registrations/licensing and local requirements. Implemented a BI dashboard and later integrated it with an ERP to give executives real-time visibility into sales, project delivery, and finance, and stood up a PMO to improve delivery and collections while reducing sales-to-delivery friction.”

Erik Melanson

Screened

Executive intelligence and cyber operations leader in defense and national security

Annapolis Junction, MD19y exp

“Aspiring founder in the early stages of shaping a startup concept, with a practical plan to refine the initial offering, sharpen the value pitch, and secure both investors and early client interest. Brings firsthand exposure to private-equity-backed companies, including experience seeing capital raising and board accountability from the operating side.”

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.”

“ML/AI engineer with experience at Uber and Scale AI, focused on customer service automation across both classical NLP and generative AI systems. Has owned systems from experimentation through production on AWS, including LLM fine-tuning, RAG optimization, safety evaluation, and internal Python platform tooling that improved consistency and engineering velocity.”

KARTHIKBABU VADLOORI

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in Spring Boot, React, and cloud microservices

San Francisco, CA5y exp

“Backend engineer with experience at Meta and Accenture building regulated-data systems (healthcare/financial) using Python/Flask and Postgres. Has scaled high-throughput services to millions of daily requests, delivering measurable latency wins (~40% API latency reduction; ~35% faster DB-backed endpoints), and has productionized ML inference services using Docker/Kubernetes and AWS (ECS/SageMaker).”

“R&D-focused aspiring founder building a business plan (with CPA/attorney support and a secured webpage) and preparing to seek external funding. Demonstrated ability to turn a customer need into an executed technical initiative—scoped requirements, pitched leadership, formed a team, built tools, and created physics-based models to inform thermal performance guidance for signal cables.”

Bradley Schleyer

Screened

HR Director / HR Business Partner specializing in global people strategy and employee relations

New York, NY16y exp

“People/HR leader with demonstrated impact influencing C-suite decisions on compensation and benefits—implemented a simplified bonus structure and drove a 401(k) match change using salary-band contribution data and executive-ready PPTs. Experienced in high-stakes employee relations, including investigating a microaggression complaint involving a top executive with legal collaboration, confidentiality, and proportional outcomes.”

“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.”

“AI/LLM-focused engineer with hands-on experience building RAG pipelines, prompt engineering workflows, and multi-agent systems using tools like LangChain. Stands out for combining AI-assisted development with production-grade validation and for leading the architecture/orchestration of agent-based recommendation systems that improved response time, accuracy, and scalability.”

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.”

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer who has shipped across console/PC/VR and mobile, including Ace Combat 7 (VR) and mobile titles. Built monetization-impacting gameplay systems (power-ups) and a full server-authoritative multiplayer architecture, and uses LLM-driven editor tooling and multi-agent workflows to rapidly prototype features while adding automated testing, benchmarking, dashboards, and CI/CD.”

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.”