Vetted Market Research Professionals

Sokhnadiarra Ndiaye

Screened

Mid-level founder and community growth leader specializing in education and startup partnerships

New York, NY8y exp

“Founder-operator who built and pivoted Muneko from a media translation startup into a media distribution platform for emerging-market film and TV, securing LOIs, pilots, and high-profile industry relationships. Earlier served as COO of a NYC policy advocacy organization at age 18, helping scale it from a small team to 50-70 active members while driving major events and public visibility.”

“Paid media and programmatic specialist (CTV + programmatic audio) who has scaled test budgets into multi-million-dollar quarterly buys using forecasting, media mix modeling, and attribution/foot-traffic KPIs. Has experience running performance-based campaigns across DSPs and full-funnel platforms (Meta/Google/TikTok) and supporting large renewals via strong client communication and cross-functional coordination.”

“Growth creative marketer who led end-to-end experimentation for Kahana’s Oasis agentic browser launch, repositioning it as a task-specific “productivity multiplier” and validating the message via structured A/B tests across Meta, LinkedIn, and landing pages. Reported performance lift included CPA reductions (23% Meta, 17% LinkedIn) and a 28% ROAS increase, with a repeatable modular framework for rapid creative iteration and hands-on direction of UGC creators and editors.”

“Providing technical guidance to a small team exploring a biomedical startup focused on earlier disease detection, including for remote/underserved areas. The venture is in ideation with initial research completed and is moving toward prototyping while exploring initial investment/support.”

“Buyer managing the Nightwear & Lingerie category with end-to-end ownership across range planning, vendor negotiation, phased launches, and in-season trading. Reported delivering $61M in sales at a 56% margin with 4% growth in 2024–2025, and demonstrates strong retail math/OTB discipline plus vendor-led speed-to-market tactics (e.g., pulling forward pipeline and using air freight when needed).”

Derick Labit

Screened

Intern/Entry Accountancy professional specializing in audit, tax, and sustainability reporting

Los Angeles, CA

“Growth/creative marketer who owned an end-to-end market-entry campaign for Deoproce skincare in the Philippines, building a localized acne-focused positioning and executing across influencers/affiliates plus trade events via an external agency. Emphasizes platform-specific creative iteration (Meta/TikTok/YouTube), modular ad development driven by trends, and structured creator direction with clear guidelines and approvals.”

Lavanya Aggarwal

Screened

Mid-level Product Marketer specializing in GTM strategy for tech and media

Los Angeles, CA4y exp

“Marketing/paid social creative lead who recently ran a 3-month campaign for the Shortzy! app, owning strategy through QA while coordinating freelancers on a small budget. Combines entertainment/on-set direction experience with performance marketing fundamentals (A/B testing, CPA/ROAS/CTR) from Google Marketing certification work, plus conversion assets like landing pages and subscription messaging.”

Kaitlyn Silver

Screened

Junior HR analytics and business student specializing in people data and strategy

Atlanta, GA3y exp

“Early-career candidate and current college senior who serves as a TA for an entrepreneurship class, where they teach structured outbound sales methods. While they lack direct sales-role experience, they demonstrate unusually strong conceptual knowledge of cold calling, stakeholder mapping, qualification, and data-driven messaging optimization, plus hands-on performance marketing experience from running a social media account.”

“Early-stage investor from Manchester Stories with a strong sourcing engine, generating 500-600 deals per year through referrals, events, thematic research, and AI-driven stealth startup discovery. Particularly differentiated in private payer healthcare and founder relationship-building, with examples of converting value-add outbound outreach into investments through hands-on market guidance and rigorous diligence.”

“University student who completed a 3-month internship at Venture Starters, supporting multiple startups with market research, donor outreach, data analytics, and organizational work. They helped match startups to aligned donors and opportunities, crafted tailored outreach emails, and used shared Excel tracking and AI-assisted research to streamline prospecting.”

“Candidate brings analytical, business-focused project experience spanning startup viability and supply chain optimization. They led a startup assessment project evaluating customer demand, pricing, and competitor positioning in West Lafayette, and identified operational efficiencies projected to lower costs by 15%, while also demonstrating strong Excel-based modeling and professional external communication skills.”

“Product leader in education and assessment who led a major TOEFL iBT transformation, combining global stakeholder alignment, adaptive testing, and human-in-the-loop AI scoring/content systems. Also brings large-scale people leadership experience, having managed a 1,300-instructor cybersecurity training operation while launching adjacent programs in digital marketing, AI, and software development.”

“Performance creative/growth marketer with hands-on experience running full-funnel paid social for e-commerce and other brands, focused on combating creative fatigue and scaling efficiently. Uses structured A/B testing and modular creative systems across Meta, TikTok, and YouTube; recently delivered a 22% CPA reduction and 28% ROAS lift by shifting to problem-solution and social-proof storytelling.”

“Founder building an AI-driven predictive analytics and programmatic advertising platform focused on identifying and marketing "hidden gem" songs and books. Has demonstrated early traction with 1M+ streams, a growing revenue base, acquired catalogs, and an artist roster, while developing proprietary AI and a supporting data ecosystem.”

“AI/LLM-focused builder with internship experience at Curated, where they owned a voice AI support deployment end-to-end and built a RAG-based internal knowledge assistant. They pair practical production instincts with measurable outcomes, including a 30% reduction in human-handled support tickets, a 20-point NPS improvement, and a 40% reduction in manual document search across five teams.”

“People operations and HR leader with experience spanning hospitality, nonprofit, retail, and startup environments, including leadership roles at Avra Group, American Ballet Theatre, Hotel Barriere Fouquets, and The Travel Agency. Particularly compelling for growth-stage companies: she helped scale a regulated cannabis retailer from roughly 50 to 300+ employees while building the HR infrastructure, compliance processes, and leadership support needed for multi-location expansion.”