Vetted Product Development Professionals

STEFANIE BARTRA

Screened

Senior Retail Buyer specializing in apparel and footwear merchandising

Fullerton, CA17y exp

“Senior-level fashion buyer specializing in seasonal footwear, with demonstrated results driving +22% YoY growth (700K+ pairs; $16.8M revenue) through assortment, pricing, and inventory strategy across store and e-commerce. Experienced in vendor cost negotiations at SKU level, OTB/line planning, and executing cross-functional brand repositioning initiatives while coaching junior buyers into promotions.”

Jeff Cushler

Screened

Executive Technology & Product Leader specializing in Healthcare IT, SaaS, and Cloud Transformation

Austin, TX30y exp

“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.”

Joseph Herbst

Screened

Executive Technology Leader specializing in IoT, PoE building automation, and semiconductors

Portland, OR35y exp

“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.”

“Candidate has a business plan and has been actively fundraising for about one month by reaching out to targeted VCs. They are early in learning the VC/accelerator landscape, pragmatic about entrepreneurship, and open to either founding their company if funded or joining an existing company if a strong opportunity arises.”

Fumin Sun

Screened

Junior Product Analyst specializing in AI-driven FinTech analytics

New York, NY2y exp

“Analytics-focused candidate from Street Diligence who has built operational reporting and product/engagement metrics from messy platform, Jira, and manual-log data. Stands out for turning unreliable manual processes into trusted, repeatable SQL/Python workflows that influenced staffing, weekly targets, renewal prep, and a product matching-logic fix.”

“Sourcing/procurement professional with end-to-end ownership of vendor selection, negotiation, and delivery for AI-enabled workflow automation products. Uses structured scorecards, SLA/KPI-driven supplier management, and dual-sourcing strategies to reduce risk—delivering measurable outcomes like 18% cost savings, OTD improvement from 82% to 96%, and 25% rework reduction while navigating data quality drift and trade/duty exposure.”

“Former CTO/CTPO with hands-on experience supporting co-founders through pre-seed to Series B fundraising, including investor technical due diligence and architecture deep-dives. In a logistics company, led a customer-interview-driven effort applying AI and workflow tools that cut customer busywork by ~30% in the first iteration, and has experience planning delivery with onshore/offshore teams (LATAM/India).”

“CTO who ties technology strategy directly to business outcomes, building multi-year roadmaps with measurable ROI. Led major modernization (cloud, data platform, unified API, microservices + CI/CD) delivering 5x faster releases/deployments, 99.8% uptime, and 40% user growth without headcount increases, while scaling engineering from 15 to 80+ in ~18 months.”

Matthew Wackerhagen

Screened

Director-level Growth & Innovation Leader specializing in AI-enabled transformation

Charlotte, NC10y exp

“Innovation-focused operator from a Fortune 100 financial services environment (TIAA) who repeatedly brought startups into the enterprise to accelerate change. Created a white-glove inside sales model to improve annuity conversions, generating hundreds of millions in year-one impact and reportedly surpassing $1B over time. Interested in entrepreneurship but only with a funded startup that can provide salary stability.”

Ravi Ada

Screened

Executive CTO specializing in digital health platforms, cloud & AI, and FHIR/HL7 interoperability

Carrollton, TX22y exp

“Healthcare diagnostics/health tech founder building Casandra.ai, an API-driven lab test catalog and ordering platform designed to standardize fragmented test catalogs and integrate into provider workflows via FHIR. Bootstrapped and built a deploy-ready product, drawing on prior startup experience and accelerator participation (Health Box, DreamIt Ventures).”

Chuks Onwuneme

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in Healthcare IT, AI, and regulated SaaS

Seattle, WA24y exp

“Founder who raised friends-and-family capital in 2024, used it to build an initial product and develop patent-backed IP, then pivoted from AI impersonation detection to authorization and trust infrastructure for agentic workflows. Demonstrates strong strategic thinking around infrastructure products, customer-driven repositioning, and venture-backed startup dynamics.”

“Entrepreneur building a bootstrapped AI-native manufacturing company that combines agentic AI, LLM-assisted CAD/CAM, and in-house CNC machining to speed up hardware iteration. Comes from an early-stage enterprise SaaS background and evaluates opportunities like an angel investor, with strong fluency in VC dynamics and founder-market-team fit.”

“Commercial leader in life sciences, diagnostics, and scientific tools who has repeatedly built revenue from early-stage scale, including growing NimbleGen from under $1M to $25M and helping position it for a $300M sale to Roche Diagnostics. Brings deep experience selling complex clinical software and instruments into hospitals, labs, pharma/biotech, academia, and government, with a strong reputation for building teams, operating cadence, and cross-functional alignment.”

“CTO/AI executive with repeated 0-to-1 leadership and founder experience across banking software, cloud, and fintech. Most recently, as a fractional CAIO, built a 50+ person team and launched 3 products in 9 months generating $10M+ new revenue; previously founded Trilogy (200+ clients in 7 countries) and created cloud tech that helped drive a $35M acquisition by VMware.”