Vetted Leadership Professionals

“Technology executive (10+ years in consulting) now bootstrapping a startup (No Taker Guard) with an MVP live on a marketplace and 50+ potential client engagements. Has led complex healthcare initiatives, including migrating an EMR system to the cloud via PoC, vendor collaboration, and end-to-end deployment, enabling AI analytics and telehealth capabilities while improving scalability and reducing costs.”

“Senior gameplay animator with shipped AAA experience on Just Cause 4 (cinematics) and deep UE5 implementation experience—often operating as one of the only animators on a project. Led multiple combat-style animation sets, owned mocap cleanup/polish workflows across Maya/MotionBuilder and UE5, and partnered with engineering/tech animation on systems like AI-driven talking characters (viseme setup).”

David Kroes

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Executive HR & People Leader specializing in culture transformation, talent, and organizational development

Los Angeles, USA20y exp

“Operations/people-ops leader focused on early-stage, growth, and turnaround environments, with hands-on experience implementing UKG (HRIS) and Lever (ATS) to scale without adding headcount. At Niagen Bioscience, drove a 25% improvement in time-to-fill and cut administrative workload by 30% in 6 months, led a company-wide optimization initiative to reduce silos, and coached a VP of Finance into a successful CFO transition that included restructuring the finance org and upgrading key talent.”

“Data/analytics engineer who built and operated a DocuSign-based real-time analytics platform end-to-end, processing 20–50k webhook events/day with ~99.5% reliability. Strong in idempotent event processing, schema-evolution-safe ingestion (raw JSON + dynamic parsing), and serving data via versioned, low-latency REST APIs with solid CI/CD and observability.”

“Integration Management Office professional focused on M&A integration and human capital work, coordinating integration planning across 17 workstreams through deal close. Partners closely with executives (including a CHRO) by building practical tools like Excel workforce planning dashboards and establishing governance/SteerCo cadences, while operating with strong sign-to-close discretion and data privacy compliance.”

“ML/AI engineer focused on production-grade model reliability: built a monitoring and validation framework to detect drift, trigger anomaly alerts/retraining, and maintain consistent performance for device intelligence workflows at scale. Strong MLOps background with Python pipelines, Docker/Kubernetes deployments, Airflow orchestration, and real-time monitoring dashboards; experienced partnering with product managers to deliver business-facing insights.”

“Senior growth/partnership leader operating at the intersection of cloud, AI, and creator/gaming ecosystems. Has driven >20% QoQ revenue growth and double-digit user growth via ecosystem partnerships, design-partner pilots, and referral loops, and reports shortening sales cycles 25–30% through a strong telecom/enterprise network (Verizon, Dish, T-Mobile, Scotiabank; earlier Cisco/Ericsson).”

“Growth creative lead at Amazon who ran structured, incrementality-informed A/B tests for Prime acquisition on Amazon DSP. Produced a winning benefit-led video + social-proof framework that improved CTR/CVR while cutting CPA (-24%) and increasing ROAS (+32%), then scaled the approach across email and onsite placements for an additional 10–12% lift in Prime sign-ups.”

“Executive MBA candidate exploring entrepreneurship with exposure to the venture capital ecosystem (including an investor-focused conference). Highly committed to building a product from the ground up and uses authenticity, market fit, and personal expertise alignment as key criteria for pursuing new ideas.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building credit/fraud enrichment services and checkout pipelines on AWS (EKS + Lambda) using FastAPI, Kafka, Postgres, and Redis, with a strong focus on reliability patterns (timeouts/retries/circuit breakers) and observability. Has also built AWS Glue/PySpark ETL into S3/Redshift with schema evolution and data quality controls, and modernized legacy credit decisioning into Java/Node microservices with parallel-run parity validation and feature-flag rollouts.”

“Built and deployed a production AI/ML SRE copilot that uses RAG over real-time Splunk signals plus deployment/runbook data to generate grounded incident summaries and next steps, cutting time-to-contact by 30%. Treats the knowledge corpus like a production dataset (quality gates, semantic chunking, metadata enrichment) and runs golden-dataset automated evals to ensure reliability, while partnering closely with ops/support leaders through discovery sessions and metric-driven demos.”

“Entrepreneur building a bootstrapped AI-based personal agent (inspired by Claude desktop) aimed at making AI assistance accessible to non-technical users. Motivated by improving individuals' daily lives by helping them organize their day and offload simple, repeatable tasks; plans to explore VC/accelerator options but has not raised capital yet.”