Vetted Product Development Professionals

“Sourcing/PD leader with 15+ years in home categories (home textiles, furniture, area rugs, home decor) who has owned end-to-end programs for major US retail, including vendor qualification across China/Vietnam and trade-risk mitigation by diversifying sourcing to Vietnam/Malaysia. Known for disciplined milestone tracking (T&A calendars, ETD/ETA) and rebuilding supplier relationships to restore sampling and drive order placement.”

Samuel Lee

Screened

Executive Sales Leader specializing in Enterprise SaaS GTM and global revenue growth

Hoboken, NJ14y exp

“Revenue/sales operations and GTM builder for early-stage startups who designs repeatable sales processes (CRM pipeline stages, MEDDPICC, Challenger Sales) and operating cadences (OKRs) to improve conversion and forecasting. Also mentors product/technical founders—e.g., through the Canadian Technology Accelerator—helping a fintech founder establish segmentation, metrics, and an outbound motion that produced early recurring revenue and investor readiness.”

Ron Simon

Screened

Executive Board Director & CPA specializing in governance, finance, and strategic growth

Cape Coral, FL62y exp

“Former CPA-firm partner and multi-time C-suite operator who helped build foundational operating systems for McDonald’s in its early public-company years (including franchise/store manuals and a property management system). Later served as CFO in the early video game/pinball industry and helped orchestrate the Seeburg Jukeboxes acquisition and development of the first CD jukebox with Sanyo. As an executive at Whitney Information Network, grew the business from roughly $2–3M to ~$250M in annual billing, ultimately becoming President.”

Yolanda Ramirez

Screened

Director of Apparel Product Development & Production specializing in sourcing and manufacturing

Los Angeles, CA11y exp

“Apparel sourcing/product development professional with experience owning vendor allocation, costing, and production timelines at Donni Charm. Builds T&A/WIP systems to manage samples, approvals, and IH/OTD milestones, and partners cross-functionally with finance/design to protect margins and mitigate duty risk. Known for improving supplier outcomes (e.g., dye houses) through clearer technical communication and production tools like sew-bys and pattern cards.”

“Aspiring founder with strong entrepreneurial motivation, explicitly preferring control, speed, and minimal bureaucracy over joining an existing company. They have not yet started a business, but have begun researching and networking within the VC/accelerator ecosystem and use AI tools to quickly assess market opportunities.”

Michael Knott

Screened

Executive CTO specializing in AI, FinTech, robotics, and regulated platforms

Singapore, Singapore20y exp

“CTO/co-founder who spent the last 6 years running a Singapore venture studio (Undercurrent Capital), performing technical and business due diligence and leading ventures from ideation through growth. Notably built a MAS-regulated bond issuance platform (Cache) for a commodities brokerage, integrating onboarding, back-office, margin calls, and regulated money flows, attracting $120M USD in the first month.”

“Full-stack engineer who has spent 7 years growing with a small B2B SaaS startup from 9 employees to roughly 30–40, taking ownership of major CRM features across frontend, backend, APIs, and database migrations. Particularly compelling for startup teams: they’ve repeatedly navigated poor documentation and high ambiguity, shipped frequent production changes, and delivered measurable UX and performance improvements for supplier/dealer users in a 3D configurator platform.”

“Apparel sourcing/production professional who runs end-to-end vendor onboarding and execution using open-costing negotiation, rigorous T&A calendars, and KPI-based vendor scorecards. Demonstrated proactive risk mitigation across mills/factories (phased cutting, SKU prioritization, size-ratio rebalancing) and trade/duty exposure (classification review with customs brokers and shifting volume to lower-duty countries).”

“Seasoned entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience who has raised capital for both his own companies and others, primarily through private equity and angel investors. Currently exiting his last company and open to either launching a new startup or stepping into a leadership role, with a strong bias toward disruptive, high-growth businesses that can leverage AI.”

“Software engineer with hands-on experience building data-intensive and 3D-processing web applications (React/Next.js/TypeScript + Node.js). Has worked in microservices using RabbitMQ for event-driven workflows and built an internal ops/engineering dashboard to monitor pipeline jobs, surface logs, and manage retries—improving visibility and reducing on-call/debug time.”

YESHA BHAVSAR

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Intern Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and AI applications

Alpharetta, GA0y exp

“Built and deployed an "AI Closet" application as a personal product, owning full-stack and applied AI features end to end. Particularly interesting for recruiters because they combined Next.js/TypeScript product engineering with practical AI systems work, including OpenAI vision-based smart form fill, personalized recommendation learning, and a grounded RAG application with evaluation and regression testing.”

“Founder-operator with investor experience who has built a seed-stage company to live usage, meaningful DAUs, a large waitlist, and roughly $1.2M raised. Has operated on both sides of the startup ecosystem—as a Techstars founder raising from firms and as a VC deploying capital—and brings a rigorous, user-first approach to evaluating and scaling new ventures.”