Vetted Performance Management Professionals

“Senior engineering leader with VP-level scope who combines hands-on technical depth with large-scale org leadership. He led modernization of a legacy automotive ERP platform and architected OEM integration systems, while also scaling teams aggressively and translating enterprise customer needs into practical product and engineering plans.”

“Product leader with cross-industry experience spanning field-service/mobile platforms, healthcare EHR patient portals, and legal contract lifecycle management. Stands out for building and pitching platform strategy at the executive level, shipping AI-assisted workflow improvements that saved technicians time, and tying product investments directly to business outcomes like ARR growth.”

“People/operations leader with experience managing global teams and building product, design, and analytics organizations. Partnered directly with CEO and operating leadership to drive post-acquisition integration—unifying fragmented teams, systems, and cultures through a target operating model, clear roadmaps, and accountability frameworks while protecting company culture.”

“Engineering leader who proposed and delivered a new API-based document management platform to replace a vendor-dependent system, improving latency by ~1s and availability to 99.9% while migrating legacy data. Also drove Python-based automation of ~12 workflows via third-party API integrations and led an SSO/auth integration focused on backward compatibility and high login success rates.”

Joseph Dowden

Screened

Director-level HR Business Partner specializing in org transformation and talent strategy

Basking Ridge, NJ14y exp

“HR/People operations leader with global scale experience supporting a 600+ person customer success org across US/EMEA/APAC, including 500+ compensation reviews and employee relations/investigations. Led a major transformation moving 75 employees into sales-compensated roles to improve retention and customer outcomes, and partnered with senior leaders on pay equity/eligibility work resulting in $34K in retro bilingual premium payments plus leader training for consistent application.”

Laura Florin

Screened

Executive People & HR Leader specializing in high-growth startups and global compliance

New York, NY18y exp

“Operations leader/advisor with experience helping an early-stage tech company scale from ~100 to ~250 employees by redesigning operating processes, implementing RACI-based accountability, and introducing automation and real-time dashboards. Notably improved the sales-to-onboarding handoff to create a more consistent client experience and accelerate onboarding, supporting referral-driven growth while coaching founders/executives to embrace simplicity as a speed lever.”

“Entrepreneur building a luxury rental car company startup with capital already raised, though undisclosed. Demonstrates a thoughtful founder mindset centered on vision, growth trajectory, due diligence, and market penetration, and is actively building connections in the VC/accelerator ecosystem.”

Tree Archibeque

Screened

Executive Sales Leader specializing in SaaS and B2B revenue growth

Chicago, IL11y exp

“Sales leader with a track record of building outbound organizations from scratch and scaling them aggressively across B2B environments. At Comcast, they grew an outbound team from 8 to 80 and helped drive 35% division revenue growth; at OnDeck, they built the outbound channel from the first hire to 65 reps and $22M revenue in 18 months. They also bring hands-on experience closing complex multi-stakeholder security/IoT deals and coaching managers through data-driven pipeline discipline.”

“Strategic sales leader in education technology currently at Top Hat, owning multimillion-dollar revenue across higher education enterprise accounts in the U.S. and Canada. Stands out for building structured account-planning and pipeline disciplines that drove repeatable target overperformance, plus closing complex public-education deals including a school partnership that grew from $40K to about $12M and a county-wide rollout reaching 9,000+ students.”

“Operations and platform leader with 25+ years focused on monetization, go-to-market, and scalable execution systems, especially in advertising and programmatic environments. She has built operating models for early-stage companies, restructured distressed units, led PE-backed post-acquisition integrations, and delivered measurable impact including $3M+ in savings, 46% YoY growth, and a 99.9% quality rate while centralizing services across 18 agencies.”

“Pre-seed founder (pre-product) building a new enterprise control layer for AI-enabled organizations focused on governed autonomy and decision-cycle compression; thesis formalized in their book "The Decision Velocity Era." Former CEO of Evaluation Solutions who built an internal proprietary operating system, proved it in live operations, commercialized it as SaaS, and enabled growth to $120M+ in contracted revenue.”

“Programmatic media specialist who owned a $50K+/month Trade Desk DSP account for Disney movie/TV launches, leveraging PMPs and rigorous testing across audiences, deals, and creative formats. Drove 5–10% week-over-week gains in video completion rate while maintaining strict brand-safety standards, and has experience leading a team of traders and translating complex performance tradeoffs into client-ready action plans.”

“Strategic HR Business Partner supporting Product Development, Creative/Design, Digital, Marketing, and Supply Chain organizations, partnering with senior leaders across the US, UK, and Latin America. Known for data-informed org design and capability reviews that drive future-ready restructures, including redefining roles/leveling and enabling more data-driven leadership via Power BI adoption.”

“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.”

“People/HR-focused change leader with experience driving a company-wide payroll/PEO provider transition through executive alignment, cross-functional facilitation, vendor coordination, and employee-focused communication/training. Uses systems thinking to diagnose drivers of turnover (e.g., gaps in post-onboarding training) and coaches leaders via 360-style feedback, real-time coaching, and structured behavior experiments to improve delegation and team effectiveness.”

“Partnerships leader (Director of Partnerships at Frontify; previously supported Founder/CEO/President at Modicum) known for driving cross-functional alignment and executive productivity. Built U.S. market presence and expanded agency partnerships while implementing practical operating rhythms (trackers, leadership syncs, streamlined reporting) to keep senior teams aligned and moving quickly.”

“Operations leader/consultant for early-stage, VC-backed and fast-growth companies with hands-on experience spanning NetSuite finance ops, product prioritization, and People Ops/HR systems. Notably overhauled internal communications at a Bay Area home health company by centralizing to HIPAA-compliant Slack integrated with ClickUp, driving ~30% faster project completion and ~25% higher retention, using ADKAR-based change management and rigorous adoption tracking.”

Nikhil Saukhla

Screened

Director-level Operations & Chief of Staff specializing in HealthTech and venture-backed startups

12y exp

“Operations leader/advisor with experience joining a Cedar Sinai Accelerator spinout (RAIOS) at an inflection point and rebuilding the company’s internal ops “connective tissue” across HR, finance, IT, product, and sales. Uses structured frameworks (RACI, OKRs/KPIs), rapid diagnostics, and tool centralization (Gusto, BILL, Brex) to create scalable, founder-friendly operating systems.”

Subbu Paravatareddy

Screened

Engineering Leader specializing in cloud modernization and AI/ML integration

Emeryville, CA21y exp

“Player-coach engineering leader focused on buyer/distribution product lines, building scalable purchasing/planning frameworks and modernizing workflows. Drove performance and reliability improvements via queue-based async architectures, external API redundancy, and CI/CD automation, and has led production incident response (cache-related) with follow-up playbooks and monitoring. Experienced in high-growth/startup environments, combining hands-on delivery with mentoring, 1:1s, and performance coaching.”

Corey Bowlby

Screened

Executive Product & Technology Leader specializing in FinTech SaaS, core banking, and payments

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates23y exp

“Product/technology executive who has repeatedly built and scaled engineering organizations from early-stage startups to large enterprises (including Temenos with ~2,000 developers). Led major platform modernizations (monolith-to-microservices) to enable SaaS, resilience, and faster delivery, and launched an innovation hub to build proprietary neural-network biometric algorithms for a payments product enabling "wave of the hand" transactions.”

“Senior building products leader with broad regional ownership across sales, operations, and distribution in the Northeast and South Central U.S. Stands out for combining commercial growth with operational rigor—driving $10M+ commodity growth, adding new distribution centers, improving SG&A and inventory performance, and navigating complex dealer/builder channel negotiations to win market share.”

“Autonomous robotics student who built an end-to-end ROS2 semantic goal navigation system as a solo course project, integrating CLIP-based vision-language understanding with SLAM Toolbox and Nav2 to execute natural-language commands in Gazebo/RViz. Also implemented and tuned an RRT planner from scratch in Python and uses Docker plus GitHub workflows for reproducible, tested robotics codebases.”

“People/HR strategy leader with experience in global team management and workforce planning across five divisions at Kantar. Uses data-driven org change (production + engagement analysis) and practical engagement levers (stay interviews, internal mobility, shift redesign) to deliver measurable results, including a 10% production efficiency gain in six months, and has led targeted initiatives to recruit/retain women through focus groups and flexible work options.”

“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.”