Vetted Product Strategy Professionals

“Serial entrepreneur since leaving corporate in 2009, working largely for equity on multiple startups. Building (1) academically rigorous, anti-overfitting quant/backtesting tools for retail investors (with potential applicability to smaller hedge funds lacking quant staff) and (2) a partner-led “social-as-a-service” platform for verticals like real estate/PropTech (including FSBO use cases) focused on first-party data capture vs. big tech.”

Federico Costa

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Senior Game Designer/Producer specializing in multiplayer F2P live-service systems

Barcelona, Spain14y exp

“Game designer who led two shipped cross-platform soccer titles (Monkers League / Champs), owning core mode and control design across mobile and PC (controller + mouse/keyboard). Drove a major gameplay pivot from controlling a full team to single-character play and tuned controls via playtests to expand appeal beyond traditional sports fans, while also building engagement systems like season passes, tournaments, and live events amid repeated platform shifts.”

“Engineering/technology leader (CTO-style) with experience scaling orgs and running distributed teams across four continents for over a decade. Led a high-stakes modernization of a securities trading platform at Wedbush—migrating from monolith to microservices on AWS with zero-downtime constraints—driving 45% execution performance improvement and enabling 25% market share growth. Emphasizes business-aligned roadmaps, build-vs-buy rigor, and scalable engineering practices/culture.”

“People Operations/HR leader in a healthcare setting (Episcopal Health Services) who designed and rolled out a scalable panel interview and behavioral interviewing approach across senior stakeholders. Strong in people analytics and process improvement—cut onboarding cycle time from 4–6 weeks to under 2 weeks—and experienced in complex employee relations (PIP + FMLA) and union workforce performance management.”

“Led the creation of a software department at a hardware startup and designed/built a platform to manage fleets of hexacopter drones, including tackling the challenge of streaming high volumes of data from many IoT edge devices. Prefers greenfield work with high autonomy, combining hands-on architecture with structured planning, cost estimation, and risk-driven execution.”

“Startup operator with 8 years of experience who helped grow the business from limited initial capital into a much larger ARR. Somewhat familiar with the VC/accelerator landscape and strongly motivated to pursue entrepreneurship, with a clear framework for evaluating new venture ideas.”

“Former founder with a successful exit who has since built multiple zero-to-one enterprise platforms across IoT, NLP, and healthcare AI, each cited as generating $1B+ in revenue. Also a Stanford and Alchemist Accelerator mentor, known for using ethnographic research to find product-market fit and for selling multi-million-dollar MVP business cases to C-level executives.”

Rocky Vienna

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Executive Technology & Operations Leader (CIO/CTO/COO) specializing in PE value creation

10y exp

“Operations transformation leader with private-equity due diligence experience who rebuilt KIO Networks’ operating model using ITIL/COBIT/ISO 27001, stood up a PMO, and standardized tooling across countries—helping shift the business from co-location to managed services/cloud and improving EBITDA from -7% to +4% in 18 months. Also serves as a board member/mentor at EvoNexus and UCSD Rady, coaching founders on ICP, GTM, pricing, and investor readiness.”