Vetted Operations Management Professionals

“Founder/CEO of a consumer products startup since 2020 who has raised angel funding and reinvested it into R&D, product development, production, and expert legal/industry support (has not taken a salary). Former financial and deals consultant who applies rigorous market, buyer-landscape, and exit-path analysis (including Blue Ocean Strategy) to choose and execute opportunities, with a strong commitment to entrepreneurship.”

“Brand/partnership leader with high-profile celebrity brand experience, including launching the Kardashian Kollection into hundreds of stores and hiring 50 VIP selling specialists nationwide. Managed end-to-end brand management across product, placement, and retailer/celebrity stakeholder satisfaction, and was promoted to VP of a fragrance endeavor within 6 months; also partnered closely with Revlon on an Elizabeth Taylor fragrance launch (GWP/packaging).”

“Growth-creative marketer in a club/sports-style environment focused on premium offerings, running structured creative experiments across multiple clubs/markets. Demonstrated measurable performance gains (≈20% lower CPA, ≈12% higher ROAS) by shifting from brand-led to value-forward messaging and translating channel-level performance insights into modular, rapid-iteration creative systems.”

“Operations leader with repeated experience integrating acquired firms into a larger platform, running top-to-bottom operational reviews and driving transitions to new policies, procedures, and systems using structured project management (ClickUp/monday.com). Known for building accountability cadences and coaching leaders—often shifting KPI visibility and leadership approach to improve consistency across revenue, billability, A/R, and other core metrics.”

“Operations leader at AWI who ran multiple high-impact initiatives in parallel, including a WMS implementation, fulfillment workflow redesign, and a company-wide cost optimization effort. Known for building KPI dashboards and exception-based reporting that improved data trust and saved executives ~4–6 hours per week, while standardizing warehouse processes and coaching supervisors to reduce escalations and stabilize day-to-day ops.”

“Enterprise Customer Success Manager who runs rigorous onboarding/adoption programs (project plans, stakeholder cadences, SLA/ticket oversight) and leverages cross-functional leadership to unblock product gaps and POCs. Demonstrated land-and-expand impact, including growing an enterprise account from $500K to $3MM over three years and converting renewals into cross-sell wins through onsite executive engagement and roadmap alignment.”

“Operations/finance-focused advisor with experience helping early-stage companies build lightweight but effective operating systems—monthly financial reporting, KPI frameworks tied to revenue levers, and forecasting cadences using tools like QuickBooks and Metabase. Has also implemented scalable request-prioritization (Jira) and guided founder/executive org design changes, including transitioning a founder to president while elevating an internal leader to CEO.”

“Operator who took a seed-funded university spin-off in cybersecurity from zero revenue and heavy losses to profitability and industry leadership, while building the full internal ops stack (HR/payroll/benefits/401k) and the initial GTM engine (Salesforce/HubSpot, SPIN + MEDPICC). Personally led fundraising across 30+ VC pitches, raising $11.2M total and delivering $98M returned to investors to date, with additional upside from a subsequent spin-off.”

“Startup product/enterprise-stack builder who helped take Ventric Health from R&D to a market-launched healthcare product in 2024, operating in a $34M-raised, revenue-generating model leveraging Medicare C reimbursement through providers. Previously drove adoption of an integrated K-12 digital learning platform distributed to 100+ institutions over two years, with reported improvements in test scores.”

“People/Org leader with hands-on experience managing teams across Europe and the US, often in post-merger consolidation environments. Has repeatedly built product/design/analytics teams from scratch using benchmarking, role templating, and budget/scenario planning with finance, and has led high-stakes change initiatives including reorgs, M&A integration, and RIF execution with structured global communications.”

“Org design and change-management leader with experience running globally distributed teams across North America, Europe, and Asia. Has built and managed product/design/analytics functions and partnered with executives on restructures and product rollouts by clarifying decision rights, implementing structured communication rhythms, and using analytics to guide resourcing and planning.”

“Engineering/exec leader (CEO experience) who built a lighting controls and building automation platform from scratch, choosing an Ethernet/PoE and Node.js web-centric architecture that anticipated market shifts and later became an industry pattern. Known for rigorous vendor QA (test-to-failure) and for delivering high-profile deployments (e.g., Black Desert Resort, Resorts World Villa 66) while leading globally distributed engineering teams.”

“Global operations/program leader from PSI who ran concurrent transformation initiatives across US/APAC/EMEA—AI-driven proctoring automation, vendor consolidation, and BI/exec dashboards—while overseeing delivery of millions of exams in 120+ countries. Known for KPI-based governance (RACI, steering cadences, shared dashboards) that drove measurable outcomes: +20% throughput, $5M annual cost reduction, and 30% reduction in executive meeting load with faster decision cycles.”

“Academic and international development leader (economics/public policy) who has advised SMEs and government institutions across the Middle East, including USAID-funded higher education and private sector development work in Palestine and fiscal management leadership across Iraqi ministries. Known for systems-thinking operational frameworks that align strategy, processes, and talent, plus large-scale training/ToT delivery (10,000+ trainees) and policy/regulatory collaboration to enable market development.”

“Operations and general management leader with experience spanning Citibank (Regional VP), a startup COO/GM role, and industrial operations at Tatco. Has delivered high-impact operational and technology changes including a Paychex payroll migration for 150+ employees and an ERP/subscriber migration of 200,000+ records that improved marketing execution and sales enablement, while also managing executive alignment and sensitive workforce matters.”

“Operations leader who helped scale Kaseya from ~500 to ~5,000 employees, building and scaling core back-office teams (procurement, risk, corp ops, supply chain) with repeatable operating models and cadences. Combines hands-on "walk the floor" observation with financial analysis (e.g., inventory/balance sheet) to drive scalable efficiency improvements, including evaluating RPA and moving work to a lower-cost location (Costa Rica).”

“Hands-on technical professional experienced in taking LLM/AI-adjacent integrations from prototype to production, using customer observation to refine UX and uncover edge cases. Diagnoses workflow issues in real time using logs and Sankey-style workflow analysis, and communicates fixes with clear short/long-term plans plus proactive alerting. Also partners cross-functionally to drive adoption and cost savings, including a POC around IBM Sterling Integrator that reduced licensing costs by $30K/year.”

“Business development and partnerships leader with sports/gaming experience who helped deploy Low6’s free-to-play gamification platform across 20+ NCAA schools through a LEARFIELD deal, acting as the cross-functional liaison from tech implementation through marketing and prizing. Currently building the Sports & Entertainment division at drive21 (experiential graphic design), owning both the go-to-market pitch and post-sale partnership execution while operating closely with founders/executives.”

“Operations leader managing a Northeastern US/Canada region with day-to-day responsibility for 17 facilities while also running multiple country-wide programs (goal/KPI and performance review for 130+ ops leaders, cleanliness across 90+ sites, and cost reduction). Previously led a PMO org reporting to a VP of Engineering and implemented a quarterly prioritization/resource allocation system across 200+ projects for a 500+ engineer organization.”

“COO/operator who helped scale a PE-backed Managed Services Provider from ~$20M to ~$120M in 30 months while acquiring 3–4 MSPs per year. Drove post-merger integration and standardized service delivery using ITIL, unified systems onto NetSuite and a unified delivery platform, and built a data warehouse to rapidly integrate legacy data for operational insights (including early ML/AI use).”

“Consultant focused on senior/C-suite effectiveness and cross-functional execution, including implementing a Team of Teams approach. Has led large-scale planning and alignment efforts (e.g., annual planning across 150 employees at a top quant hedge fund) and supported executive productivity through CEO calendar analytics, SOPs, and operating cadences. Experience spans highly regulated/public-company contexts and enterprise software global sales strategy.”

“Operations/project management intern with hands-on procurement and supply chain analytics experience: owned end-to-end sourcing and vendor negotiations for a 20,000 sq ft luxury estate and helped recover a project that was 2 months behind schedule. At DHL Supply Chain (Campbell’s account), built Power BI dashboards from WMS (Blue Yonder) data and used time studies to uncover a six-figure labor cost issue, influencing multi-stakeholder operational changes.”

“Revenue/GTM leader with ~10 years of experience scaling companies from early stage through IPO, with unusually deep cross-functional exposure across risk, finance, product/tech, and DevOps. At Catapult, helped drive a pivot from brick-and-mortar to e-commerce and landed major enterprise customers (Lenovo and Wayfair) by navigating complex system integrations and enterprise delivery expectations. Previously ran a family business (2004–2008) and is committed to founding a company.”

“Operations and customer-facing leader with deep last-mile logistics expertise from running a critical extra-large Amazon logistics hub end-to-end (inventory accuracy, throughput, yard efficiency), including scalable process improvements adopted across Amazon XL sites. Strong cross-functional and partner management (DSPs/carriers, engineering ops) with rapid incident resolution and VOC-to-product translation (geofence/map fixes). Also demonstrates land-and-expand growth motion from Cisco, expanding a standardized software platform across multiple global sites.”