Vetted Mentoring Professionals

Vik Krane

Screened

Director-level Product Leader specializing in AI-powered SaaS and FinTech

12y exp

“Product leader and startup co-founder who has been shipping AI-powered products since 2020 across creative tools, expert knowledge products, and financial compliance workflows. Particularly notable for building Shotcraft from zero to scale, using AI to turn scripts into executable shot lists, and for a nuanced human-centered AI philosophy that emphasizes user control over critical outputs.”

Catherine Merritt

Screened

Senior investment banking associate specializing in debt advisory and consumer transactions

New York, NY8y exp

“Investment banking associate with debt advisory experience who has built highly targeted investor pipelines and helped raise capital for sponsor-backed acquisitions. Stands out for combining rigorous investor outreach and process management with strong judgment on business quality, market risk, and competitive positioning across private equity, technology, and startup-related mandates.”

“Talent acquisition leader with experience at Grey, Publicis, and Taylored Search who specializes in building and restructuring recruiting teams and embedding TA into strategic business planning (including new business/RFP pipelines). Known for bringing market data and candidate sentiment into executive org-design decisions to improve hiring outcomes, speed offer approvals, and increase acceptance rates.”

“Recruiting leader with experience managing a team of 5 recruiters and stepping in hands-on for high-impact executive searches. Recognized with a Gold Star Award at PTC Therapeutics for partnering closely with a VP Marketing on a critical Director-level hire through offer negotiation, and drove time-to-fill reductions at Johnson & Johnson by implementing and tracking improved search strategies.”

“Recruiting leader with 15 years of people management experience (up to 10 recruiters) and deep, hands-on executive search background from 5+ years at Samsung, supporting four SVPs and filling roles up to VP level. Known for streamlining complex hiring processes—cut Samsung’s 100+ page recruiting SOP and overall process roughly in half—resulting in a significant drop in time-to-fill and improved stakeholder satisfaction.”

“Global talent acquisition/executive search leader from FIS Global who managed a distributed recruiting org and partnered closely with HRBPs and C-suite leaders. Has driven enterprise-wide recruiting lifecycle improvements (including onboarding programs to reduce attrition) and engaged in strategic initiatives like an AI council tied to product roadmap decisions.”

“Longform YouTube editor currently serving as Food52’s sole editor for YouTube episodes, with prior experience at Maul Media, PES Group/Skypunch Creative, Tubi, and Food52. Has led consistency and quality across series by managing and giving notes to an overseas postproduction agency, and brings a retention-driven approach (cold opens, pacing, music, b-roll, and motion/typography) through final color, mix, and QA.”

“Operations leader who built holding-company infrastructure from the ground up for Fairwood Brands, a national collection of design-build landscaping companies—spanning finance/accounting, HR, safety, fleet, and corporate admin. Emphasizes data-driven visibility into financial/operational performance and pricing discipline to materially improve profitability and enable scalable growth, while mentoring founders and leadership teams through change.”

“Entrepreneurially minded operator with ~20 years in corporate now building a new venture (business plan + MVP in progress) and focused on rapid traction to reach PMF. Previously identified and executed a major student-events opportunity in Milan, scaling from renting a hotel for 800 paying guests to an Olympic village for 5,000, handling logistics, outreach, and team coordination.”

“Senior technology/executive leader with 30+ years building and scaling mission-critical platforms across blockchain, cloud, cybersecurity, and fintech, including leading 100+ person global teams and managing $100M P&Ls. Founded Pharus (2022) after driving Web2-to-Web3/DeFi/metaverse initiatives at SDK Co, using a first-principles, PoC-driven approach to deliver secure, compliance-aware transformations (GDPR/NYDFS) and multi-million-dollar optimizations, with a focus on quantum-resistant Web3 and ethical AI governance.”

“Software engineer with hands-on ownership of both fintech checkout improvements (saved payment methods/one-click checkout with tokenization and feature-flag rollouts) and production LLM/RAG systems for customer support. Demonstrates strong operational rigor via guardrails, evaluation loops integrated into CI/CD, and scalable data pipelines handling messy PDFs/CSVs/logs with reliability and observability.”

Shaun Ames

Screened

Senior Unreal Engine Game Developer specializing in multiplayer systems and VR

California, United States9y exp

“Gameplay/network systems developer with shipped experience at Narsun Studios and Volition, including end-to-end ownership of a custom multiplayer session system for a VR title built on Unreal Online Subsystem with dedicated servers on AWS GameLift and PlayFab backend. Strong in profiling-driven optimization, scalability/load testing, and data-driven progression/balance (GAS), with telemetry-led changes that improved retention by ~20%.”

Lucas Silbernagel

Screened

Senior Front-End Software Engineer specializing in accessible, high-performance web apps

Toronto, Canada6y exp

“Frontend engineer who led the 2025 end-to-end launch of the Score Casino web platform, integrating a new regulated brand into an existing monorepo with scalable theming, Next.js routing changes, and supporting Docker/SRE deployment work. Emphasizes quality at scale through visual regression testing, Datadog/Bugsnag observability, and test-suite redesign (parameterized theme tests) that reduced CI flakiness; shipped the launch two months ahead of schedule while meeting GLI submission standards.”

Yashwanth Naidu

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native Java/React microservices

USA4y exp

“Backend/DevOps-focused engineer with hands-on ownership of Java Spring Boot microservices on AWS, including Kubernetes deployments, Jenkins-based CI/CD, and GitOps-driven infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Helm). Delivered measurable performance gains (25% faster APIs) and built a Kafka real-time streaming pipeline with strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana/CloudWatch) and rapid rollback practices that cut production downtime from hours to minutes.”

Dan Sorensen

Screened

Executive CISO specializing in cybersecurity strategy, AI governance, and enterprise risk

Denver, CO10y exp

“Founder of Nexus Security Advisors, an early-stage cybersecurity consulting firm focused on supporting small and mid-sized businesses with practical security needs. Brings cybersecurity leadership plus AI governance and compliance focus, and has experience designing and delivering hands-on cyber threat intelligence training by validating needs with leadership and partnering to build a practical curriculum.”

“Recruiter with strong full-desk experience in high-throughput GTM hiring, including a recent search where they filled 7 senior account executive roles for an ecommerce AI adtech platform. Stands out for partnering closely with senior revenue leadership to redefine the profile, building targeted LinkedIn sourcing campaigns from market maps, and driving a tightly managed sub-3-week process to close hires efficiently.”

Mohit Sharma

Screened

Principal Salesforce Architect specializing in healthcare and patient engagement

Ewing, NJ15y exp

“Salesforce lead architect working on a large J&J healthcare implementation, with hands-on ownership of security architecture, identity modernization, and Experience Cloud design in a HIPAA-sensitive environment. Particularly notable for leading a SAML-to-OpenID Connect rollout and driving reusable LWC architecture across patient and provider portals while coordinating closely with identity, DevOps, QA, and business stakeholders.”

“Sales leader with a strong track record in IT solutions and education-sector selling, combining frontline revenue ownership with sales enablement, training, and process design. Stands out for leading the only quota-attaining team out of 40 across the US and Canada, closing a $17M regulated-sector deal, and repeatedly improving sales performance through customer-centric strategy and operational problem-solving.”

Joseph Selby

Screened

Senior Product Leader specializing in EdTech and digital assessment

Remote, USA17y exp

“Edtech product leader with deep experience across Pearson, SMART, and Promethean, spanning legacy platform modernization, classroom engagement tools, and early AI in education. Particularly compelling for roles at the intersection of product, pedagogy, and human-centered AI: they rebuilt SMART's 29-year-old Notebook platform and have repeatedly designed products around real teacher and student needs.”

Zach Dosen

Screened

Executive product leader specializing in healthcare IT, AI, and enterprise SaaS

Marietta, GA18y exp

“Product leader with deep healthcare AI experience who has launched high-impact products at hc1 and now navigates complex franchise stakeholder environments at ABM. Stands out for pairing rigorous prioritization and human-centered AI design with measurable business results, including a 20% staffing cost reduction and a 62% reduction in lab test-matching labor.”

Matthew Marriotti

Screened

Director-level Product and UX leader specializing in retail e-commerce experiences

Erie, PA13y exp

“Long-tenured American Eagle product/design leader with 12.5 years driving digital experience transformation, including a zero-to-one mobile app initiative that grew from less than 5% to more than 50% of digital revenue. Brings a rare blend of UX research depth, product strategy, cross-functional execution, and practical AI-enabled design thinking.”

“Frontend engineer with experience building complex enterprise web applications used by thousands of manufacturing plants globally. Stands out for pragmatic architecture decisions—especially using a BFF to tame legacy APIs and improving delivery by abandoning an overbuilt custom grid effort—while also focusing on accessibility, browser-level debugging, and regression prevention.”

“Data/analytics-focused engineer who builds end-to-end KPI reporting and validation products used daily by plant leads and leadership to track yield, downtime, and defects. Combines Python/SQL + Power BI data pipelines with strong data-quality practices (automated validation, monitoring/alerts) and has experience designing scalable frontend architecture in TypeScript/React and working in distributed/microservices-style data systems.”

“Unity gameplay developer who led implementation of an airport scene for Duplo Town (children’s physics/exploration game), adding multiple unspecced interactions that significantly increased polish and playfulness and delighted testers/clients. Principal/lead-level engineer with strong sprint planning and impact-vs-effort prioritization, plus experience designing asynchronous client-server interactions and state management (aware of Photon-style real-time multiplayer sync).”