Vetted Negotiation Professionals

“Previously supported capital raising at Space Ocean Corp by securing several thousand dollars in grant funding and building investor-readiness/outreach materials. Has early exposure to VC/studio/accelerator meetings and articulates nuanced differences in their incentives and time horizons. Interested in refining skills as an early-stage CTO and is highly committed to entrepreneurship.”

Stephen Boney

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive operating partner and global manufacturing leader in metals and packaging

Nashville, TN41y exp

“Operations and quality leader who co-founded and scaled a patented-product business in the retail paint industry to $400k+ revenue with ~50% gross margin, while maintaining perfect delivery and quality-return records through a disciplined supplier audit system. Former global quality leader at Novelis who used collaborative self-assessment frameworks to drive ~65% reduction in customer claims and mentor non-operations teams (including sales) in practical quality tools and loss reduction.”

Rory Catinella

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Talent Acquisition & Recruiting Leader specializing in scaling high-growth hiring

Southlake, TX15y exp

“Senior staffing/recruiting operations leader with large-scale, high-volume experience across Amazon and Integrity Staffing, known for building rigorous operating cadences, analytics, and documentation that materially improve productivity and rankings. Also led SaaS-enabled workforce solutions operations at Indeed Flex, implementing strategic account planning that cut high-risk churn by 77% while managing multi-market teams.”

“Chief of Staff / cross-functional operator with experience at HighRadius and Darwinbox, building executive operating rhythms (KPI dashboards, pipeline reviews, decision logs, intake/triage) and driving multi-country SE Asia expansion. Uses data-driven prioritization and unit economics (CAC, sales velocity) to align founders/CxOs on tough trade-offs, and has supported a GenAI product launch while managing enterprise escalations without derailing strategic timelines.”

Candace Gillhoolley

Screened

Senior Growth & Partnerships Leader specializing in creator and community ecosystems

Remote, Canada16y exp

“Partnerships and growth leader spanning developer/creator ecosystems, with experience at Manning Publications and currently at DataDriven Media (Impact Quantum). Launched a Twitch-based virtual conference GTM during the pandemic that drove 45,000 new developer leads and converted them into paying customers, and is highly metrics-driven across engagement, conversion, and retention.”

“Growth/partnerships leader with experience across Hootsuite, SMART Technologies, and Spinify, building partner ecosystems and GTM programs tied directly to pipeline and revenue. Notably created agency partnerships that drove 21% of total revenue and ran a data-backed self-serve SMB experiment that produced an 18.4% lift in conversations.”

“Chief Quantum Officer working at the intersection of quantum and AI, motivated by market opportunities to safely accelerate AI adoption. Four-time CIO/CTO with global technical and business leadership experience, plus exposure to the startup funding ecosystem through Newchip (Austin-based accelerator) and fund advisory work with AFG Partners in Hong Kong.”

“Supply chain/sourcing professional focused on semiconductor tooling NPI ramp-ups, owning vendor selection through production and delivery. Demonstrates strong cost and trade-risk mitigation (e.g., avoided 25% Section 301 tariff via HTS/landed-cost analysis) and measurable supplier performance turnarounds (OTD improved to 95%) using SAP MRP, shortage analysis, and structured supplier governance.”

“Automotive embedded product leader (player-coach/product-functional engineering) who helped ship a cybersecurity gateway ECU into production, owning architecture decisions, critical module reviews, and delivery. Demonstrated hands-on security/diagnostics expertise (ADA, RSA) and production defect ownership, plus experience tailoring quality-gate processes to speed variant delivery without sacrificing quality.”

“Business Development Officer (Sales Development) with SaaS experience across healthcare and financial industries, combining multi-channel outbound (calls/email/video/LinkedIn) with structured BANTR qualification. Reported strong activity-to-meeting conversion metrics and meeting-to-closed-won outcomes at Coface, and helped advance a complex 7-month deal (Okapi AI) from first touch to signature while maintaining rigorous Salesforce hygiene.”

“Sourcing/procurement professional with Accenture experience supporting telecom infrastructure expansion, owning RFQs through delivery and managing 12+ vendors. Known for strong supplier performance management (scorecards, KPIs, corrective actions) delivering ~97% on-time material delivery while cutting expedited freight 13% and avoiding ~AUD 500K in delay costs; also brings supplier onboarding and capability/capacity assessment experience from Nestlé and Accenture.”

Benjamin Hudnut

Screened

Junior Live Events & Music Operations professional specializing in booking, touring, and community events

Los Angeles, CA4y exp

“Founder/director of the music and event production company Tuned In, personally driving outbound BD to book underground LA talent and produce 25 events, including a major Lunar New Year collaboration with Alice Longyu Gao. Also ran multi-channel voter/community outreach for the Frankie Carrillo campaign (door knocking, 1,000+ SMS) and built automation tools (Apple widget; AI image-to-CSV workflow at Live Nation) to improve operational efficiency.”

Sakid Ahmed

Screened

Executive Telecom & Wireless Connectivity Leader (GM/VP Engineering)

Chicago, IL29y exp

“Operator with experience in a private equity-backed business that was carved out of a larger company and later taken public. Brings a startup-builder mindset from within larger-company environments, with emphasis on P&L ownership, go-to-market strategy, product strategy, and evaluating ideas through product-market fit and scalable market demand.”