Vetted Performance Management Professionals

Thazim Banu Shaffee

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Engineering Manager specializing in payments, risk, and high-scale distributed systems

San Jose, CA14y exp

“Engineering leader/player-coach on a risk core transaction platform (payments/branded checkout) who led major migrations from a monolithic stack to microservices, including API contract redesign and performance improvements (reported ~500ms latency reduction). Experienced running high-stakes production incidents (upgrade-related outage/degradation) end-to-end with RCA and rollout-process changes, and has accelerated delivery via documentation/tooling (audit sign-off cycle reduced from ~3 sprints to ~1).”

Britney Russ

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive product leader specializing in consumer technology and EdTech

Los Angeles, CA13y exp

“Senior product leader from Codecademy who has spent roughly a decade building and mentoring cross-functional organizations while leading major strategic pivots in education. Most notably, they repositioned Codecademy toward a new learner segment and launched an AI-native learning platform that tripled signup rates, while also creating new revenue streams like live learning and accessible AI workshops.”

Kristen Hoey

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive HR & Talent Strategy Leader specializing in Capital Markets

25y exp

“Recruiting and talent leader with experience managing recruiter teams at Citi (8) and Point72 (3), now advising recruiting teams and leaders. Partners directly with CEOs and board members on senior talent selection, executive coaching, and succession planning, and has driven process improvements such as implementing scheduling software and automation to shorten interview timelines and improve candidate experience.”

“Senior enterprise and public sector sales leader with deep experience running large multi-country organizations across Latin America and the Americas, including $300M+ P&L ownership. At Motorola Solutions, they transformed a transactional sales model into a strategic solutions engine, growing revenue from roughly $55M to over $300M in two years while driving major market share gains and leading complex government modernization deals.”

“Senior executive-operations leader who has run CEO-office functions at BNY (Head of the CEO Office) and supported scaling leadership teams at Public as Chief of Staff to Co-CEOs/Head of People. Known for building operating cadences (MBRs, offsites), creating decision-driving templates, and executing high-stakes weeks combining board governance, CEO travel/client engagements, and external communications with strong discretion.”

Sanjana Gehlot

Screened

Senior digital consultant specializing in operations, supply chain, and transformation

New York, NY7y exp

“MBA-trained operator with a mix of startup, venture capital, consulting, and enterprise PMO experience. She has a strong track record of quickly ramping on complex technical domains—from cybersecurity to financial services systems change—and turning ambiguity into structured analysis, clear narratives, and measurable operational improvements.”

“Platform/backend engineer focused on Kubernetes at scale: built a Java control-plane service for multi-region cluster provisioning/monitoring/upgrades using Kafka-driven async workers, and solved peak-load provisioning failures by eliminating blocking I/O and dynamically scaling consumers. Also shipped an LLM-assisted Kubernetes troubleshooting/remediation feature that pulls Prometheus logs/metrics into prompts and uses guardrails (confidence thresholds + human-in-the-loop) to prevent risky actions.”

Ale Flores

Screened

Director-level Product Leader specializing in AI assistants, personalization, and digital video

Seattle, WA12y exp

“Senior Amazon product leader with 12 years across Alexa, Fire TV, Echo Show, and Prime Video, operating at unusually large scale. She led Alexa+ personalization from a nascent effort into an org-wide framework, authored GenAI rearchitecture strategy approved by Amazon's CEO, and has a track record of combining deep technical product thinking with executive influence, partner negotiation, and team building.”

Dhaya Lakshminarayanan

Screened

Executive Operations Leader specializing in AI, climate tech, and high-growth organizations

San Francisco, CA20y exp

“Operator who has repeatedly stepped into founder-level, cross-functional ownership at startups—running full HR (recruiting, onboarding, benefits) with AI-driven process automation, and later serving as interim VP People & Culture during an executive transition. Also managed cap table, 409A, equity grants, and day-to-day investor relations, and built company-wide ELT goals/KPIs and operating rhythms tied to board-approved strategy.”

Sara Rubacha

Screened

Engineering Manager specializing in databases and distributed systems

Weston, FL21y exp

“Aspiring founder exploring an AI automation startup focused on automating processes involved in building companies. Not yet developed specific use cases or raised capital, but describes a clear plan to validate ideas through use-case research, building a pilot, and testing with early customers; not familiar with the VC/accelerator landscape yet.”

“Technologist drawn to venture studio/zero-to-one environments, motivated by owning technical architecture and building scalable systems from day one. Interested in rapidly shipping MVPs, iterating toward product-market fit, and validating ideas through real user feedback rather than pursuing entrepreneurship for its own sake.”

“Operations/HR leader brought into an early-stage company to run a business unit and build HR from zero; drove 40% revenue growth and helped position the company for a buyout offer. Known for pragmatic process redesign (removing approval friction, centralizing contracts) and scaling people operations with tools like Pave and UKG, plus hands-on founder coaching using pilots and Theory of Constraints.”

“Technology/engineering leader with experience at Real Messenger, Wolters Kluwer, and Accenture AI, spanning roadmap definition through execution and org scaling. Has operated at the executive level (fundraising, investor relations, SPAC merger activities, media presentations) while driving architecture decisions validated by PoC/testing/production success metrics.”

“Senior Engineering Manager with large-scale platform/API ownership at eBay, leading a globally distributed team and redesigning Order public APIs used by external developer ecosystems at ~800M requests/day, delivering 84% performance gains and reducing compute by ~300 VMs. Also led Google CRES ETL migration work on GCP, creating reusable Python libraries to standardize configuration across 10 integrations and improve developer productivity.”

Zahara Kanji

Screened

Director-level HR People Partner specializing in tech org design, workforce analytics, and talent strategy

21y exp

“People/HR leader partnering closely with CTO and senior engineering leadership on major org transformations, including decentralizing QA/IT Ops and establishing new performance/promotion guardrails. Built and scaled a Returnship program across a tech org (60+ conversions to FTE; +40% diversity hiring) and used people analytics to cut high-performer turnover from 18% to 5% while boosting internal promotions to 20%. Experienced in executive coaching, succession planning, and sensitive ER investigations in partnership with legal/ER.”

Bill Boedeker

Screened

Executive Marketing & Communications Leader specializing in financial services and AI/ML content

New York, NY18y exp

“Executive communications and program management professional with experience at BlackRock Alternatives and JPMorgan’s Machine Learning Center of Excellence. Led high-velocity, cross-functional initiatives like a weekly president’s newsletter to 900 global employees and built Monday.com reporting boards for a rapidly scaling global ML org, while also coordinating multi-track executive events (AI Summit) and handling sensitive, ADA-compliant HR issues with discretion.”