Vetted Mentorship Professionals

“Repeat founder and active VC with over 3 years of experience running a fund and syndicate. Currently exploring an agentic deal flow CRM for venture funds, with early components already built and a clear plan to dogfood it and recruit other VCs for validation.”

“HR leader who joined Polished as Head of HR days before the entire C-suite resigned, then partnered with new executives to restructure a $500M e-commerce organization using rapid internal promotions and manager development. More recently at Coforge, supported a North America population and used exit-interview and compensation data to address call-center turnover in Charleston, WV, alongside deep experience running sensitive ER investigations.”

Joseph Orisino

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Senior Longform Video Editor specializing in YouTube-style storytelling and post-production leadership

New York, NY18y exp

“Senior editor/post-production supervisor with extensive Premiere + After Effects experience across major media brands (Yahoo Finance, Thrillist, Yahoo News/Katie Couric) and current work producing a video suite for SkinCeuticals (L'Oréal). Known for building scalable editorial workflows (style guides, review processes) and delivering retention-focused longform YouTube edits with strong cross-functional coordination through color, audio, graphics, and social versioning.”

Elbot Carman

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Senior Creative & Brand Designer specializing in brand systems, digital marketing, and UI/UX

Atlanta, GA13y exp

“Brand/marketing designer with experience modernizing a SaaS company’s identity (Hudson MX) and improving external perception through cohesive brand systems and asset libraries. Also supported American Express by building a scalable Figma component library to rapidly recreate UI screenshots with high fidelity using in-product access and Chrome DevTools for exact specs, and produced stakeholder interview videos for LinkedIn/Vimeo in Adobe Premiere.”

“HR leader experienced in partnering with senior leaders through restructuring and process standardization, supporting multi-location organizations with diverse teams. Strong in org design/workforce planning, manager coaching, and change communications (talking points/FAQs), with a focus on minimizing disruption while monitoring engagement and attrition trends.”

“Built and deployed an LLM + RAG + memory system on a Furhat social robot, adding continuous face/voice recognition embeddings over WebSockets to enable persistent, natural conversations across sessions. Experienced working around real-world hardware/latency constraints and uses Datadog plus structured debugging/rollback practices for stabilizing customer-facing LLM workflows.”

Samikshya Satpathy

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Mid-level UI/UX & Product Designer specializing in e-commerce and enterprise SaaS

Ann Arbor, MI4y exp

“Product/UX designer with large-scale consumer and omnichannel experience across Nykaa and Swiggy (100M+ users), combining deep research with high-polish UI and scalable design systems. Demonstrated measurable business impact across ops efficiency (1500 hrs/year saved), app quality (4.3→4.8 rating), and e-commerce conversion (48% uplift), and has owned a growth pod while collaborating closely with UA/growth and engineering.”

Huy Hua

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Senior Product Designer specializing in enterprise B2B SaaS and AI governance

San Francisco, CA12y exp

“Product/UX designer focused on AI governance and GRC, who led end-to-end design of IBM Watsonx.governance by unifying previously siloed products (OpenPages, OpenScale, Factsheets) into a role-based platform for proactive risk detection and audit-ready compliance. Combines deep field research with strong technical fluency (CS degree, SQL, API-aware collaboration) and has shipped award-winning work (iF Gold 2025) with market recognition (IDC MarketScape Leader).”

“Built internal production LLM tools for engineering and support, including a customer-health assistant and a RAG-based incident explainer grounded in logs, metrics, and deploy data. Stands out for combining strong GenAI safety/evaluation practices with pragmatic backend engineering, delivering measurable impact like a 40% drop in data-help requests and answers in seconds instead of minutes or hours.”