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Vetted Mentoring Professionals
Pre-screened and vetted.
Mid-level Backend Software Engineer specializing in Java, Spring Boot, and AWS
Roberto Cabrone
Director of Sales specializing in professional sports revenue growth and partnerships
“Cross-border (US/Canada) hockey advisor with extensive experience on both the business and operations sides across pro, minor, and junior organizations. Leverages deep relationships with coaches/scouts/GMs and a structured evaluation + development planning process to guide families through Prep/Academy, Junior, NCAA, and U Sports pathways; has helped an athlete jump two levels to Junior A via a targeted 6-month training and mental development plan.”
Maria Eilertsen
Senior Software Engineer specializing in scalable UI architecture for FinTech
“Frontend/design-systems specialist who has owned large-scale browser UI platforms in Norway's finance and insurance sector at Gjensidige and Fremtind. They stand out for modernizing design systems across fragmented legacy React stacks while improving accessibility, developer experience, and long-term maintainability in regulated environments.”
Urvish Shah
Mid-level Robotics Software & Systems Engineer specializing in ROS2 multi-robot autonomy
“Robotics software engineer with ROS2 multi-robot experience spanning decentralized signal source localization (LoRa RSSI on TurtleBot3) and a master’s-thesis project on collaborative object transportation with 4 robots. Strong in sim-to-real debugging—implemented noise modeling (RBF) and practical hardware/coordination fixes (CoG tuning, clock sync/flags) to make algorithms work reliably on real robots.”
Veronica Andrews
Executive Chief People & Operations Officer specializing in HR strategy and operational scale
“People/HR leader with deep org design and change-management experience, including leading a full-company restructuring at Mirimus in direct partnership with the CEO and VPs. Known for combining systems thinking with rigorous people analytics (engagement, churn, capacity, performance signals) to diagnose root causes, redesign operating models, and coach senior leaders through high-stakes transitions and ER situations.”
Uriel Kluk
Executive CTO specializing in AI, data platforms, and distributed systems
“Former CTO of Mesh Systems for 20 years, now going all-in on building a physical AI product company. He is simultaneously designing four products across eldercare, smart home monitoring, retail theft prevention, and AI-powered building access, with active industry partnerships (Advantech, Compulab) and a potential LATAM pharmacy pilot.”
Fara Di Noto
Senior Brand & Marketing Designer specializing in scalable design systems
“Marketing creative designer focused on high-polish, high-volume output through systems thinking—built cohesive campaign frameworks (e.g., 50+ asset "Refer Olympics") and component-driven Figma files to enable bulk edits and prevent style drift. At Morty, combined After Effects/Premiere with AI tools (Screen.Studio, Synthesia) to ship clear, consistent training/marketing videos faster, cutting timelines by days and reducing stakeholder revision cycles.”
Karen Nowakowski
Senior Motion & Graphic Designer specializing in UI/UX animation systems
“Marketing creative designer with 7+ years fully remote experience who builds high-polish, scalable multi-channel campaigns across web, email, social, and motion. Led end-to-end creative for AWeber’s “One Galaxy Over” faux-brand initiative (7% lift in users creating email series) and spent 6 years at MeetMe’s internal agency producing desktop gaming product-marketing campaigns using assets from 100+ Fortune 500 brands, including interactive mini-game experiences that drove a 20% engagement increase.”
Rodolfo Lopez
Senior Math Educator transitioning to Data Science & Business Analytics
“Recent McCombs School of Business (UT Austin) Post Graduate Program graduate in Data Science & Business Analytics with hands-on project experience spanning stock clustering/segmentation and hotel booking-cancellation prediction. Strong in end-to-end analysis workflows (EDA, cleaning, feature engineering) and rigorous model comparison/selection, with exposure to boosting methods and imbalanced-data techniques; limited experience so far with embeddings/vector databases and production deployment.”
Igor Prizzi
Senior Game Programmer specializing in Unity gameplay systems and animation tech
“Unity developer with cross-platform shipping experience (console and mobile) who optimized an open-world game to run on Nintendo Switch at 30 FPS by building a dynamic character pooling/occlusion-culling management system that created the illusion of hundreds of NPCs with only ~30 active. Has owned core character systems (player/NPCs, customization, interactions) and also applies AI tools to rapidly iterate on personal projects like a profitable trading bot strategy.”
Derya Kazak
Director-level HR leader specializing in change management, employee relations, and talent development
“Strategic HR leader with experience managing global teams (India/Brazil/Canada) and partnering on immigration and multi-country regulatory considerations. Has driven major org changes including implementing an attendance policy across 14 logistics locations and restructuring an HR department to align with growth, using a data-driven approach (turnover, time-to-hire, performance, exit interviews). Target compensation is around $150K, flexible based on total package.”
Nicholas Pinero
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in Unity XR/VR training simulations
“Unity/C# VR developer who owned a next-gen replay/review system end-to-end, improving determinism so recorded actions (e.g., shots) replayed consistently. Also built a Jenkins-triggered GameDriver-based VR QA automation suite that ran nightly builds and cut manual QA effort by ~75%, and contributed to Photon PUN multiuser mode with hands-on network debugging.”
Carrie Coyne
Director-level Creative Services Manager specializing in brand identity and design systems
“Marketing designer/art director with hands-on motion design (After Effects) who built high-polish social and podcast creative, including defining a podcast brand end-to-end. Experienced creating scalable, high-volume report and event branding systems, evolving agency templates into in-house frameworks while serving as the quality gatekeeper across stakeholders from SMEs to C-suite.”
Glen Jarvis
Staff Site Reliability Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and automation
“Infrastructure/automation engineer with experience bridging post-acquisition environments (Pandora + SiriusXM) by building an API-driven integration to provision Debian workloads on RHV while preserving iPXE-based imaging workflows. Strong in deep debugging across virtualization/network/OS layers (e.g., resolving virtio/vCPU contention causing network/NFS issues) and in extending automation tooling via custom Ansible/Python modules. Also has exposure to biomanufacturing on-prem devices (Hamiltons, shakers) alongside AWS microservices.”
Matthew Knecht
Executive Chief of Staff / Legal Operations leader in nonprofit public defense
“Former attorney turned senior operations/Chief of Staff-style leader with ~20 years balancing strategy and day-to-day execution. Led multi-office expansions (e.g., launching a new Detroit office) and built a professionalized finance function with audit-ready controls to free up CEO bandwidth. Also led an emergency COVID-era shift to remote operations while safeguarding safety, morale, and revenue.”
Crystal Marcus-Kanesaka
Senior Product Designer specializing in onboarding, activation, and product-led growth
“Seasoned product strategist and UX-led product leader with ~20 years across education, cybersecurity, Web3, martech, media, and public/private sector work. She combines hands-on AI-enabled product building with large-scale team leadership, including launching zero-to-one cybersecurity learning products, scaling Braintrust programs from 2,500 to 58,000 users, and improving onboarding experiences that helped double ARR to $400M. Her background in underserved K-12 communities and blended learning makes her especially compelling for human-centered AI and educational equity roles.”
Deborah Gordon
Executive Operations & HR Leader specializing in manufacturing scale-ups and KPI-driven transformation
“Operations/people-ops leader who helped an industrial fabrication company (Carlucci) scale through a major contract by standardizing operations, rolling out iPad + barcode workflows, and building workforce planning/onboarding/succession systems—doubling headcount. Uses a structured 100-day diagnostic and KPI-driven operating cadence (dashboards, AOP, goal deployment, 9-box, DISC) and mentors founders/executives by translating operational detail into strategic decision-making.”
Timothy Flechtner
Executive Technology & Product Leader specializing in games, platforms, and real-time systems
“Engineering leader with gaming and fintech/trading-firm experience who built a sponsor-funded gaming rewards platform (AmEx-style) requiring integrations across Steam/Epic/Xbox/PlayStation and Discord. Emphasizes production-grade, 12-factor delivery with Terraform/Docker/CI/CD and automated testing, plus pragmatic org scaling and remote-team culture built on aligned autonomy and trust.”
Marilyn Eisele
Executive Board Director & CPA specializing in audit, risk governance, and business transformation
“Former accountant/auditor turned CFO/President/operator who repeatedly joins early-stage, science-led companies to build enterprise-grade operations from scratch. At BIOHM Health, led end-to-end operational process buildout and automated a gut-test sequencing workflow portal (logistics through automated reporting), while coordinating contract manufacturing and third-party lab capacity to support rapid growth.”
Sophie Adams
Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in event technology and interactive systems
“Full-stack product engineer in event tech who has owned AI-powered web products from architecture to live production, including a no-code SaaS/marketplace for event activations and real-time AI kiosk experiences. Particularly strong in building for non-technical users in high-stakes live environments, with hands-on experience across Vue/Laravel, LLM workflows, image generation pipelines, and operational reliability.”
Rathi Anand
Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Insurance, FinTech, and AI/ML applications
“AI/backend engineer who fine-tuned and deployed a production LLM chatbot using a LangChain + FAISS RAG pipeline, improving latency with PEFT/LoRA and driving strong business impact (40% customer adoption; 92% satisfaction). Also served as technical lead on a data aggregation system for underwriting/quoting, introducing GraphQL for more efficient, maintainable querying and applying CDC to keep cached ranking data fresh at scale.”
Ron Buchanan
Executive technology leader specializing in cloud architecture and Healthcare IT
“Startup-focused builder currently developing a values-driven multi-platform mobile app in beta. Previously led a major technical turnaround at Lucina Analytics, taking the product from 0-to-1 and rebuilding it into an enterprise Azure-based SaaS platform that contributed to its acquisition by Unified Women's Health.”
Divya Raghavan Molloy
Executive product leader specializing in AI-native platforms and digital products
“Product leader with experience driving a major international digital platform overhaul at ESPN, unifying fragmented sports properties and delivering a 30% retention lift. More recently, they have been building a human-centered AI mental health product focused on provider-guided follow-up, and they bring a personal, long-standing commitment to educational equity through tutoring and community math programs.”
James Chiavetta
Executive CEO/Board Chairman specializing in M&A, turnarounds, and contract manufacturing
“Operations and manufacturing leader with CEO/Chair turnaround experience who has built a greenfield robotics-focused manufacturing operation from scratch, including equipment selection, engineering org buildout, and ERP-based inventory/BOM/WIP controls. Strong cost-accounting/standard-costing orientation for diagnosing inefficiencies and optimizing pricing, plus a demonstrated mentorship track record and a Juran-based quality philosophy (build quality into the process).”