Vetted Performance Management Professionals

“Startup President in the liquor/spirits space with hands-on experience raising capital (from friends & family through family offices/venture) and leading a major pivot from DTC to wholesale. Built GTM plans, leveraged partnerships to secure distribution across 8 states, and launched an American Single Malt positioned as a category leader ahead of TTB ratification, including product/brand strategy and multi-market rollout.”

“Global people/program leader with experience managing teams across Seoul, Tokyo, and Brazil; addressed language and collaboration barriers via workshops and cross-functional workflow design, driving a major attrition improvement and 90% team approval plus board commendation. Has led edtech product teams (design + development) through a 4-month sprint and partnered with executives on org-wide onboarding redesign using 30-60-90 plans and workflow data.”

“People/organizational leader with hands-on experience managing global teams (India, Mexico, UK, Canada) and partnering with product/design/analytics leadership on org design, workforce planning, and restructuring. Drove measurable outcomes including engagement improvement (67% to 82%), reduced role ambiguity (15%), and faster hiring (25%) while scaling cross-functional product and analytics organizations.”

“Operations/PMO leader across IPG Mediabrands, Kinesso, and IPG Corporate with deep experience building executive governance systems and cross-functional operating rhythms. Led high-visibility transformations including a $36M global rebrand and created data-backed dashboards/cadences that improved efficiency (10–20%) and executive alignment, including oversight of a 175M monthly media spend analysis.”

“Salesforce-focused engineering leader who combines architecture depth with people leadership, operating today in a true player-coach role. They’ve built financial-services web apps on Heroku/Postgres integrated with Salesforce, navigated complex third-party API/vendor constraints, and have a strong track record of growing and mentoring teams—including developing junior hires into certified Salesforce talent and AppExchange/CI-CD contributors.”

“CFO for PE-owned Catalyze Holdings (distributed generation solar + battery storage for C&I) brought in to professionalize a founder-led startup into an IPO-ready organization. Implemented IPO-readiness governance plus Procore and NetSuite (on time/on budget), established KPI and stage-gate operating rhythms, and drove change management that improved process clarity and reduced G&A spend.”

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.”

Mark Nies

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Talent Acquisition leader specializing in recruiting operations for hypergrowth companies

Florham Park, NJ10y exp

“Talent acquisition leader with deep executive search and recruiting operations experience, including leading teams up to 35 during Teladoc Health’s Livongo acquisition integration. Recently completed a fractional consulting engagement hiring C-suite/VP/SVP leaders and partnering directly with CEO/CFO/founders on strategic decisions. Known for driving measurable process improvements—e.g., building a workforce plan/budget that moved offer approvals from 40% to 100% in 30 days.”

Kathy Gagne

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive Leadership Advisor specializing in organizational design, culture transformation, and board coaching

East Greenwich, RI37y exp

“Operations and organizational effectiveness advisor who builds scalable playbooks and maturity-based operating frameworks for growing organizations, including investment portfolio companies. Has led change and regulatory adoption work in a large financial institution and coached a rapidly scaling fintech founder/exec team to improve trust, delegation, and decision-making.”

Sehar Uddin

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Digital Marketing & Technical SEO Strategist specializing in B2B and B2C growth

Northbrook, IL9y exp

“Performance marketer with pharma advertising experience managing $50K+/month budgets across search, display, and programmatic. They highlight measurable efficiency gains—about 20% lower CPA and 30% higher conversions over two quarters—while using a structured, statistically minded testing approach and full-funnel budget allocation across Meta, TikTok, and Google. Seeking contract/freelance work.”

“HR/People leader with experience managing distributed teams and driving major org initiatives, including implementing a data-driven pay equity compensation program presented to the CEO. Also built a multi-channel recruiting program (schools, affinity orgs, career fairs, marketing) aimed at increasing visibility and diversifying the candidate pipeline.”

“People Business Partner Principal/Director at Guild focused on scaling HR infrastructure and organizational excellence. Led a major redesign of a 300-person team, improving efficiency and culture, and implemented Workday and Quinto to enable a new performance review cycle and pay-for-performance bonus plan while advising C-suite leaders on talent strategy and org design.”

“Startup-oriented sales leader with founding manager experience across multiple companies, now leading a 5-AE team with a $1.325M revenue target. Has repeatedly built sales process from scratch, including playbooks, forecasting systems, and dashboards, and has navigated both team rebuilds and GTM shifts from inbound to outbound/PLG. Also brings hands-on enterprise deal experience, including a complex ~$250K Hilton rollout across 10 properties.”

“HR/people partner with strong people-analytics orientation, currently supporting a complex voluntary buyout initiative involving critical talent decisions, role evaluation, and workforce planning. Demonstrated impact improving retention in a sales organization by building internal mobility pathways (cut turnover ~50%) and coaching leaders to improve engagement and morale, with experience handling sensitive employee relations situations including mental health crises.”