Vetted Mentoring Professionals

Ale Flores

Screened

Director-level Product Leader specializing in AI assistants, personalization, and digital video

Seattle, WA12y exp

“Senior Amazon product leader with 12 years across Alexa, Fire TV, Echo Show, and Prime Video, operating at unusually large scale. She led Alexa+ personalization from a nascent effort into an org-wide framework, authored GenAI rearchitecture strategy approved by Amazon's CEO, and has a track record of combining deep technical product thinking with executive influence, partner negotiation, and team building.”

Sara Rubacha

Screened

Engineering Manager specializing in databases and distributed systems

Weston, FL21y exp

“Aspiring founder exploring an AI automation startup focused on automating processes involved in building companies. Not yet developed specific use cases or raised capital, but describes a clear plan to validate ideas through use-case research, building a pilot, and testing with early customers; not familiar with the VC/accelerator landscape yet.”

Dan Olson

Screened

Director-level Product Operations & Program Management leader in consumer electronics

San Jose, CA27y exp

“Operations leader with Apple and Roku experience who owned founder-level, cross-functional initiatives including Roku’s Brazil market entry (regulatory, tax/entity setup, manufacturing/logistics, and launch metrics) with direct CEO oversight. Built Roku’s International Business Operations function from zero—standardizing OKRs, dashboards, and country-level P&Ls—and influenced major strategic decisions like exiting a ~$10.5M-loss UK channel business and restructuring Mexico ads go-to-market via partnership.”

George Warren

Screened

Executive sales and strategy leader specializing in education and technology growth

Austin, TX27y exp

“Revenue-focused GTM leader who has repeatedly built or rebuilt commercial motions in complex markets, spanning education technology and enterprise infrastructure. Stands out for owning end-to-end scope—from ICP and market mapping to hiring teams and closing deals—with measurable outcomes including $15M generated at zSpace, growth from $8M to $60M at K12 Inc, and AMD EPYC adoption from 0% to 21% at Dell.”

Sona Petrosyan

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in Identity & Access Management

San Ramon, CA20y exp

“Senior engineering leader with 20+ years of experience spanning hands-on engineering and 7+ years of management across startups and enterprise, including Salesforce/MuleSoft, Airbnb, and Insightly. Particularly strong in platform security and IAM, with a track record of leading high-scale foundational services, simplifying complex cross-platform trust models, and driving security-critical migrations across dozens of teams.”

Sergey Pustovit

Screened

Director-level Data Platform & Analytics Engineering Leader specializing in distributed systems

Irvine, CA31y exp

“Entrepreneurially minded builder focused on proving architecture concepts via minimal demo prototypes for marketing. Has hands-on experience improving an A/B experimentation framework by interviewing stakeholders, identifying system limits and bottlenecks, and defining success criteria to scale experimentation and speed up analysis.”

“Serial entrepreneur who has created several companies, brought them to market, raised as much as $15M, and achieved exits before moving on to new ideas. Combines an academic and institutional background spanning Harvard, MIT, Mass General Brigham, and the Department of War with two decades of consulting experience, and is especially motivated by building impactful technology.”

Armenak Bdoian

Screened

Senior Product Leader specializing in AI-enabled marketplaces and e-commerce

Seattle, WA18y exp

“Product leader with experience spanning Amazon Prime and List.am, where they built a product org from scratch and drove a marketplace transformation for 3M users. Particularly strong in zero-to-one and rebuild work across search, ads, AI moderation, and complex cross-functional alignment, with measurable impact on engagement, revenue, and operational efficiency.”

“Backend/data engineer with healthcare/telehealth domain experience, building patient appointment and data-processing systems on AWS. Has delivered production microservices and ETL pipelines (Flask/Celery, Glue/PySpark) with strong reliability/observability practices (JWT, retries/timeouts, Sentry/CloudWatch) and modernization experience migrating SAS workflows to Python services, including a documented 10min→30sec SQL performance win.”

“AWS engineering manager leading delivery for an end-to-end encrypted communications product (calling/messaging/screen sharing), including shipping read receipts with full design/engineering/QA ownership. Demonstrated strong customer-driven problem solving (offline/mission users enrollment via admin one-time codes with account allowlisting) and reliability improvements (data retention bot crash RCA, monitoring/notification, and high-volume test simulation).”

“Product leader with experience spanning global health, startup growth, and AWS enterprise systems. Most notably led a telehealth AI initiative at Orbis that launched in 4 months, validated against historical patient cases at 99.9% match to human consults, and evolved from a support feature into a standalone consult product and app. Brings a strong human-centered AI perspective, using automation to extend expert capacity rather than replace professionals.”

“Technical co-founder of Aldata AI for nearly three years, building an AI platform that ingests 100+ engineering data sources to analyze team behavior and correlate it with business outcomes. Combines hands-on architecture leadership, fast startup execution rhythms, and revenue-driven product prioritization, with prior experience in larger corporate environments like Chase.”

“Technology/engineering leader with experience at Real Messenger, Wolters Kluwer, and Accenture AI, spanning roadmap definition through execution and org scaling. Has operated at the executive level (fundraising, investor relations, SPAC merger activities, media presentations) while driving architecture decisions validated by PoC/testing/production success metrics.”