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Vetted Mentoring Professionals
Pre-screened and vetted.
Bradley Krupkin
Executive Digital Marketing Leader specializing in performance media, SEO, and e-commerce growth
“Paid media strategist with ~25 years of client-facing performance marketing experience, owning seven-figure monthly budgets across Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, and Meta. Led an international North America campaign for Pirelli Tires that increased unit sales 37% in under a year, and has a track record of using rigorous testing and attribution to reallocate spend (including shifting budget from outdoor to digital to fill a luxury apartment building). Experienced advising automotive clients through 2025 market headwinds and retaining major accounts by translating complex performance data into decisive action.”
Steven Zavala
Director-level growth marketer specializing in DTC e-commerce and CPG
“Lifecycle/CRM marketing leader from the wine and beverage space who has owned high-volume email/SMS programs end-to-end and translated CRM insights into broader revenue strategy. Stands out for combining rigorous process design, cross-channel automation, and personalization testing to drive measurable gains, including a 45% lift in incremental email revenue and $1.6M in incremental on-site upsell/cross-sell revenue.”
Charles Hui
Director-level Software Engineer specializing in SaaS web platforms
“Engineering leader managing two 6-person teams across internal tools and 14+ public brand websites, while staying hands-on in architecture and system design. Particularly interesting for teams exploring AI-assisted software delivery: they implemented a customizable multi-agent BMad workflow with human review gates across PM, architecture, development, QA, and DevOps.”
Mandy Anger
Executive product leader specializing in EdTech and AI-powered learning products
“Education-focused product leader with a career spanning Waterford, WGU, ETS, Stukent, and Accelo, combining zero-to-one AI product building with portfolio-scale operating rigor. Particularly compelling for mission-driven edtech roles: they launched an AI-powered K-12 product line with five state agency partnerships in under a year and consistently frame AI as a tool to amplify, not replace, educator and tutor judgment.”
Allison Bendersky
Director-level HRIS & Talent Acquisition leader specializing in enterprise HR systems and compliance
“HR analytics and systems leader with experience managing distributed teams and building executive-level workforce metrics. Delivered a rapid SAP SuccessFactors Performance and Compensation implementation (12–14 weeks) to hit time-sensitive review and bonus cycles, and has driven high-impact change initiatives including a 12+ year employee financial wellness program and data-led restructuring that significantly reduced layoffs.”
DAVID READER
Executive M&A and Tax Attorney specializing in middle-market transactions and operations
“Operations-focused advisor with experience building scalable structures in highly regulated and transaction-heavy environments. Restructured a multi-state cannabis startup into a parent/subsidiary model with a separate IP entity and implemented governance/compliance systems that supported multiple private placements. Also transformed an M&A advisory firm into a more scalable platform by standardizing the deal lifecycle, improving onboarding/compliance, and reducing deal cycle time.”
Alexander Meyer
Senior/Lead Game Developer specializing in Unity and cross-platform multiplayer games
“Veteran Unity game developer with extensive multiplayer networking experience (Photon PUN2/Quantum/Fusion, Unity Netcode), including work on Payday: Crime War and an in-development arena battler using Invector + PUN2. Also builds cloud backends for Unity titles (Azure/PlayFab/Firebase, SQL, CI/CD) and actively uses multiple AI assistants to speed up architecture and implementation.”
Greg Kissner
Senior Multimedia Producer specializing in marketing, promotions, and training content
“Experienced editor/motion graphics professional with deep Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects expertise spanning broadcast TV spots, music videos, social/web content, and feature-length films. Notably worked on the YouTube channel Black20—nominated for Best Web Series and awarded G4TV's "Kings of DotComedy"—with videos reaching millions of viewers.”
Joshua Smith
Executive engineering leader specializing in AI automation and enterprise transformation
“Technology leader with deep accelerator and zero-to-one product experience across the Department of Defense, Fortune 100 enterprises, academia, and GovTech. Most notably, they built a seven-tier solution that generated over $10M in first-year savings and was adopted by 300+ DoD organizations, positioning them as a strong CTO-type operator for mission-driven startups and complex enterprises.”
Guillermo Salas
Executive software engineering leader specializing in AI-augmented Healthcare SaaS platforms
“VP-level software engineering leader in a private-equity-backed company, overseeing a 50+ person org through aggressive growth and operational efficiency goals. Particularly strong in building the operating system around engineering—product-to-engineering governance, AI-augmented SDLC practices, ADRs, and feature-flag-driven delivery—to reduce ambiguity, dependency on institutional knowledge, and cycle time.”
Dean Graves
Executive Business Leader in corporate strategy, M&A, and global outsourcing/SaaS transformation
“US leader for Freeman Clark (fractional IT leadership services) who drove a >$1.5M capital raise tied to repositioning the US business as a standalone entity. Previously led a turnaround at Environmental Data Resources by unifying fragmented data/SaaS platforms and landing Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase on significant 5-year subscriptions through co-designed solutions; also has GTM leadership experience in a PE-backed startup (LogicSource) spanning sales through delivery alignment.”
Harprit Turner
Senior Project Manager specializing in SaaS implementations across Healthcare IT and FinTech
“Implementation project manager with 10+ years delivering complex SaaS programs in healthcare and fintech, including payment integrations, onboarding, migrations, and operational/clinical workflow initiatives. Has owned 4-6 concurrent enterprise implementations at CVS and Fiserv, with strong executive reporting, governance, and cross-functional delivery through go-live.”
Victor Perez
Senior Customer Success leader specializing in PropTech and FinTech
“Customer Success / product-facing account owner in a property management/rent payments platform, managing enterprise onboarding, adoption, and subscription conversion. Strong track record using CSAT/NPS and direct customer feedback to influence roadmap (e.g., shipping UX fixes within a sprint and reducing closed accounts ~10%), plus experience implementing AI chatbot/agentic workflows to improve support and drive upsell into partner services like mortgages and insurance.”
Christopher Lopez
Senior HR & DEI leader specializing in workforce culture transformation
“Talent acquisition leader and former COO who has led distributed recruiting teams (up to 20) and specializes in executive search and C-suite talent intake. Has driven enterprise recruiting transformations (talent intake overhaul, ATS implementation, workforce culture change) and delivered high-impact leadership hires including deputy commissioners for a prison system while scaling organizational leadership structures internationally.”
Joshua Hall
Executive product leader specializing in AI-native platforms and design-first SaaS
“Co-founder and employee #1 who built Reva, a vertically integrated conversational CRM for multifamily leasing and resident services, leading product, engineering, and design from inception through acquisition. Combines deep enterprise product leadership with early AI experience, including a pre-LLM chatbot that drove a 400% lift in lead conversion and prior edtech work where AI-enabled learning tools improved struggling students by a full letter grade on average.”
Charles Parsons
Executive product leader specializing in SaaS growth and product strategy
“Product and UX leader who has both rebuilt a dated messaging platform through iterative releases and launched a new Salesforce version from scratch. They combine hands-on product management, UX design, and human-centered AI thinking—especially around blended automation/manual workflows—and have also built and mentored early-stage product and design teams in a startup environment.”
Cecil Brown
Senior Basketball Coach and Video Analyst specializing in player development and performance analytics
“Former Division I scholarship athlete and professional player who transitioned into professional coaching in Europe, including coaching at Triglav across U12–U18 and the pro team, plus the U20 Women’s Slovenian National Team. Experienced in identifying and recruiting talent via film, in-person scouting, and social media, and leverages connections with major university coaching staffs to track the best recruiting tournaments/camps.”
Srikanth Bonam
Mid-level Application Support Engineer specializing in investment management platforms
“Application Engineer supporting customers in a financial trading context, experienced in coordinating urgent patch upgrades and stakeholder communications to minimize downtime. Has hands-on production incident response experience troubleshooting a critical dashboard outage caused by a bad SQL execution plan, escalating with DBAs and deploying a fast fix, then documenting full RCA via problem tickets.”
Manish Birla
Executive Program & Engineering Leader specializing in digital transformation and SaaS platforms
“Cross-functional product/engineering leader with startup and enterprise experience (Whimstay, Wells Fargo, Leap AI Technologies). Has owned end-to-end delivery including UI and payment architecture—built a multi-customer reservation payment flow using pre-auth plus event/timer-driven reminders and handled tricky edge cases like date changeover. Also introduced lightweight process (Jira, sprints, team/module structuring) to increase delivery speed in an early-stage AI document-matching startup.”
Golden Johansson
Executive Operations & Consulting Leader specializing in law firms and tribal enterprises
“Operations leader (including COO experience) who has built and optimized internal operating systems for growing organizations, notably formalizing SOPs, org structure, KPIs/incentives, and business continuity for a scaling law firm. Also experienced translating board-level direction into executable, measurable plans at Seminole Tribe of Florida, using clear visuals and dashboards to mentor leaders without formal operations backgrounds.”
Edward Yu
Senior Software Engineer specializing in FinTech, payments, and authentication
“Software engineer with experience at Dollar Shave Club and Mudflap, focused on user-driven product delivery and cross-team alignment. Built an Okta SSO-based internal portal (React/Node) centralizing access to org services, and has hands-on experience diagnosing LLM/agent workflow issues via instrumentation and systematic triage. Known for translating between product/customer needs and engineering tradeoffs to ship quickly while planning stabilization and scalability.”
Emilio Angelo Alindogan
Senior Gameplay/Unreal Engineer specializing in Unreal Engine systems and multiplayer gameplay
“UE5 C++ gameplay programmer who has built core gameplay frameworks (characters, AI, abilities, inventory/interaction, dialogue, weapons, save) and shipped on Steam (Zone 13). Demonstrated strong profiling and optimization skills by using Unreal Insights to diagnose CPU frametime spikes and removing visible hitching with a custom C++ object manager, plus experience with replicated systems using GAS and Fast Array Serialization.”
Chad Kilgore
Senior Technical Designer specializing in gameplay systems, tools, and VR/AAA pipelines
“Game/technical designer with live-service ownership at Wargaming (World of Tanks) driving KPI-based monthly events and engagement loops via data-informed reward tuning. Recently shipped Batman Arkham Shadow by automating a narrative pipeline that converted script-graph dialogue into a string library, cutting weeks of work down to hours under aggressive deadlines. Experienced rapid prototyping in UE4 (including AI-driven mode logic) and cross-functional alignment practices.”
Carl Kibler
Executive engineering leader specializing in AI and Healthcare IT
“Senior technical leader pursuing CTO roles who combines deep engineering breadth with strong product instincts and direct investor-facing startup experience. Has represented engineering, security, and IT in diligence processes, built investor-prep materials, and thinks strategically about AI-forward products, pivots, and market fit without falling into hype.”