Vetted Product Management Professionals

“Gaming integrations specialist with experience shipping pre-built slot games (e.g., Push Gaming titles) to casinos, operators, and aggregators via API integrations. Handles end-to-end launch workflow including requirements gathering, compliance/jurisdictional constraints, staging-to-production deployments, and coordinating bilateral API testing and production monitoring for new market launches.”

Arianna Hofmeister

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Product Leader specializing in logistics SaaS and AI workflows

Missouri, USA9y exp

“First product hire at ColdTrack who helped transform a 3PL into a technology company by building ColdTrack Live, a proprietary cold-chain parcel optimization OMS now backed by $10MM in tech investment. Unusually hands-on across product, UX, QA, and AI automation, with proven impact in logistics operations, client growth, and human-centered AI workflow design.”

“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.”

“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.”

Luke McConnell

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Executive product leader specializing in digital products and FinTech

Naperville, IL11y exp

“Product leader with deep experience building and modernizing complex systems in regulated industries, especially banking and logistics. They led a major core banking platform rebuild, introduced AI-driven operational features, and drove a mobile UX change that increased app usage by roughly 200%. Also brings people leadership experience from building a product team from scratch and a personal connection to education through ESL program work and a family background in special education.”

“Education product leader who has built and rebuilt large-scale learning platforms from the ground up, including GamED Academy, a Minecraft-based K-12 platform that grew to 6,000+ active students per cycle and produced IP tied to a Microsoft/Mojang exit. Particularly compelling for mission-driven edtech roles: combines curriculum, UX, platform, and AI product leadership with a clear philosophy that technology should amplify human teaching relationships rather than replace them.”

Rebecca Johnson

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Senior Product Manager specializing in AI workflows and healthcare SaaS

Remote, USA8y exp

“Homegrown product/program leader with 8 years of experience who has repeatedly found high-cost operational pain points and turned them into scalable product wins. Most notably, they built an address-validation and fraud-prevention system in non-emergency medical transportation that produced multi-million-dollar savings, and previously led an AI-assisted OCR workflow that raised accuracy to 98.6% and drove major efficiency gains.”

“Venture/accelerator operator with experience at Newchip Accelerator (Austin) and Boomerang Venture Studios, focused on high-volume sourcing and qualifying founders and building an investor network through automated LinkedIn/email outbound and events. Known for translating outreach into founder–investor meetings, running structured discovery, and using rubric/risk grading to drive go/no-go decisions while maintaining strong post-meeting feedback loops.”

“Silicon Valley operator with ~30 years of experience as a board member, advisor, VC, founder, and turnaround executive, claiming 50+ venture-backed turnarounds. Has driven outsized outcomes including a $1B Nokia spinout and a 9-figure Jaspersoft exit to TIBCO, and is known for pragmatic, people-and-financials-first operational diagnosis (including CRM forensics) and rapid team scaling via structured hiring pipelines.”

Anjana Priya Swathi Samudrala

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Junior Full-Stack AI Developer specializing in LLMs and RAG applications

Orlando, US2y exp

“Product-minded software engineer who owned a Shopify POS app end-to-end at Swym, shipping an MVP and then scaling iteration speed with E2E automation and CI/CD—resulting in a Shopify Badge, Top-5 App Store ranking, and +40% new user acquisition. Also built an ESG insights tool using React/TypeScript + FastAPI with Snowflake and a RAG pipeline, plus microservices patterns (async jobs, queues, DLQs, autoscaling) and internal Metabase/SQL analytics dashboards.”

Joey Mule

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Technology executive and engineering leader specializing in Automotive SaaS

17y exp

“Engineering leader who built the MVP and scaled iService Auto into a fixed-ops platform for dealership groups, aligning a dealer-driven roadmap to churn/revenue outcomes and preparing the company for strategic acquisition. Led a major modernization from a legacy Symfony monolith to a React frontend with a Symfony JSON API using feature-flagged incremental migration, while growing and retaining a ~20-person engineering team through the acquisition.”

Elad Masasa

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Executive sales and operations leader specializing in SaaS and revenue growth

Bexley, OH22y exp

“Sales leader with hands-on experience building US/Canada B2B and public sector growth for AccuPOS, including SAM.gov-enabled selling into hospitals and U.S. embassies. Stands out for combining direct sales leadership with ecosystem partnerships and product-led market expansion, driving 68% sales growth and a 30% shorter sales cycle.”

“Analytics candidate who has built full-stack data products end to end: from cleaning 1M+ retail transactions in MySQL to Python-based market basket analysis, churn segmentation, and Streamlit dashboards with Gemini-powered business recommendations. Also built a reproducible predictive modeling workflow for concrete strength forecasting, showing a blend of SQL, machine learning, and stakeholder-friendly delivery.”

Elizabeth Tran

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Junior product and operations leader specializing in AI automation

Virtual, USA3y exp

“Babson-affiliated outreach and partnerships lead with hands-on experience helping an Austin robotics startup and Babson's AI lab drive growth through AI-assisted outbound campaigns. Stands out for combining modern AI tools, community-based prospecting, and personalized messaging to generate event signups and secure high-profile partners like Anthropic, ElevenLabs, GitHub, and Cursor.”

Brandon McCarty

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Executive startup founder specializing in SaaS, FinTech, and operations

Raleigh, NC15y exp

“Founder/product leader who built CureMint, an industry-first procure-to-pay platform for dental groups, combining e-commerce UX, spend controls, AP workflows, and AI-driven catalog normalization. He appears strongest in zero-to-one product leadership, domain-driven product strategy, and strategic pivots—ultimately evolving the company toward fintech/payments and helping support its Series A story.”

“MarTech-focused enterprise CSM/strategic account leader with 7 years advising enterprise retailers, specializing in discovery-to-conversion workflows and API-driven integrations. Demonstrated ability to turn transactional vendor relationships into strategic partnerships using Tableau/Looker insights, cross-functional execution with Product/Engineering, and measurable outcomes (25% revenue lift, 15% YoY growth, 35% faster deployments) that support renewals and expansion.”

Brian Morelli

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Senior Procurement & Strategic Sourcing Manager specializing in technical equipment and NPI

El Segundo, California19y exp

“Supply chain/sourcing leader with experience taking a personal hydration system from idea to product, coordinating 35 custom-component suppliers into a CM-led FATP and logistics flow. Demonstrated trade/tariff risk mitigation by shifting manufacturing from China to Taiwan/Indonesia while standing up logistics plus IQC/OQC and buffering inventory to avoid sales disruption. Known for hands-on supplier qualification/auditing and for turning around supplier performance through clear communication, forecasts, and direction.”

Danny Gainer

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Executive product leader specializing in AI-powered B2B SaaS

American Fork, UT9y exp

“Product leader in sales tech who has served as both the first product hire and Head/Director of Product, with hands-on experience building AI-native workflow products. Most notably, they led an AI sales coaching product that analyzed calls and delivered personalized coaching, driving a 7% lift in revenue per rep per day, and also redesigned rep workflows to cut disposition time by 75%. Their differentiator is a strong human-centered AI philosophy focused on changing behavior and building trust, not just automating tasks.”

“Senior Unity game programmer who shipped a Meta Quest VR game (Unearthed VR) and owned key systems spanning gameplay, UI, shaders/VFX, and VR interaction. Notably built a reusable, general VR interaction framework to make interactions intuitive and user-friendly, and emphasizes scalable, data-oriented architecture for maintainable Unity projects.”