Vetted Mentoring Professionals

“Founder of Build from Scratch and GreenTech Business ecosystems focused on sustainable/low-carbon innovation; raised $150K friends-and-family and built a global platform of 140 companies across 20 countries. Organized three angel funds and invested in LATAM-first recycling and waste-tracking ventures (including lithium-ion battery recycling with a patent), leveraging a corporate finance and investor relations background to mentor and support founders.”

“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.”

“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).”

“Brand and growth marketer from True Religion who helped refresh the brand during a comeback period, driving 30%+ YoY DTC growth and positioning DTC as the top growth engine. Experienced leading seasonal multi-channel launches and scaling acquisition through creator-led social, email, and paid digital, with strong creator/talent deal negotiation and culture-driven storytelling.”

“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.”