Vetted Product Strategy 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.”

Meng Yang

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Staff Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems, cloud platforms, and IoT

Columbus, OH21y exp

“CTO/Chief Architect who rebuilt an IoT platform from a fragile legacy stack into an AWS-based, multi-tenant cloud-native system supporting 50k+ connected devices and 10M+ monthly events, then layered in real-time data pipelines and ML anomaly detection. Known for tightly aligning roadmaps and OKRs to business KPIs (onboarding speed, uptime, velocity) and for scaling teams into domain-focused pods; previously led a shift from LAMP to event-driven Node.js microservices using MQTT and message queues.”

“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.”

Vladimir Novick

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive CTO and Software Architect specializing in AI systems and cloud platforms

Israel, Israel22y exp

“Startup-minded technical founder currently running Novicklabs and building Itervox.dev, an AI agent orchestration platform for developer teams. Previously served as CTO at EventLoop and shows strong insight into multi-agent tooling, observability, security, and the open-source-to-cloud path for developer infrastructure products.”

“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.”

Dewayne DeRozzo

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive Strategy & Operations Leader specializing in SaaS, AI, and GTM transformation

New York, NY13y exp

“Ops/tech program leader who supported the national rollout of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by building an enterprise OKR system and implementing Asana + real-time dashboards across technology, operations, clinical support, and communications. Has led a 15-person team and repeatedly improves executive productivity through pragmatic tool rollouts (HubSpot, SharePoint/Confluence, Slack/Zoom) and lightweight integrations.”

“Seasoned entrepreneurial operator who has raised $185M across ventures in seed treatment, drone spraying, gene editing, and biofuels. Has worked closely with accelerators including AgLaunch and Iowa Startup Accelerator as both a participant and later a mentor, and is now open to either founding a new impactful company or stepping into an experienced CEO/C-suite role.”

William Roy

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Executive sales leader with 13 years in SaaS, technology, and consultative growth

South Bend, IN13y exp

“Sales and operations leader who helped take Executive Career Partners from $2M and in the red to $4M in sales, while owning roughly $1M personally/team-wide and modernizing CRM, reporting, training, and pricing operations. Unusually hands-on across both frontline selling and back-office systems, with additional experience in government proposals, SaaS line creation, ecommerce integrations, and company-wide rebranding.”

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.”

“Founder of an AI + blockchain software startup in the cryptocurrency space, positioned around authenticity and MiCA regulatory compliance for crypto companies. Has participated in 6 accelerators and mentors in VC-backed programs, using a feedback-driven MVP approach and validating product-market fit through direct user outreach and payment commitment.”

“Product leader who progressed from Director to VP while building a 0-to-1, award-winning B2B eCommerce platform on MACH architecture. Brings unusually hands-on AI product depth, including vectorized/document-based data foundations, RAG-powered commerce use cases, and a customizable GPT-based shopping assistant, while emphasizing human-supervised AI and customer-driven roadmap decisions.”

Tolga Onuk

Screened

Executive product and growth leader specializing in SaaS, mobility, and consumer tech

Houston, TX18y exp

“Product leader, designer, and founder who says he has built more than a dozen platforms from scratch, including a rapid transformation of Envoy from a basic EV rental app into an enterprise multi-company fleet management and EV charging platform before its acquisition. He combines hands-on design, cross-functional team leadership, and executive stakeholder management, and is now advising an AI-driven social media moderation and brand reputation platform.”

“CEO & co-founder of Spotlight Creators, a digital platform for visual artists, which they took from idea validation (100 artist interviews) to a live product with 50+ artists and 50+ customers. Drove GTM through hands-on social content across Instagram/YouTube/TikTok, ran local artist spotlight events, and pursued fundraising via cold outreach and acceptance into Launch NY while building skills in pitch decks, financial projections, and ARR modeling.”

“Mobile F2P product leader (11+ years) who has built and published multiple games—most notably Hexa Sort—into multi-million-dollar IPs with publishers like Lion Studios (AppLovin), Voodoo, and Tango. Known for rigorous, data-driven monetization and engagement optimization (months-long multi-variant testing, activation milestone discovery, ROAS-focused launch tuning) and for leading cross-functional teams across product, growth, and data.”

Joseph Barba

Screened

Executive Venture Builder specializing in company formation and go-to-market execution

Nashville, TN14y exp

“Startup operator and investor with experience as a partner at 4th Quarter and former Head of Business Development at Savage Ventures, where they ran the most profitable division across a 20-company portfolio. Currently building multiple ventures under their own studio, with several functional MVPs already developed and early signs of product-market fit.”

“Product leader with hands-on experience building enterprise SaaS products from 0 to 1, including Valueflow, a customer lifecycle mapping platform shipped as an MVP in 6 months. Also brings applied AI product experience in compliance software, launching an LLM-based document validation workflow with human-in-the-loop review and strong cross-functional alignment across regulatory, engineering, design, and customer-facing teams.”

“Sourcing/Product Development professional with deep China-based manufacturing experience who launched an eco-friendly cleaning brush line made from 100% recycled fishing nets and delivered on an Earth Day deadline. Built cost and tariff calculators to drive decisions and profitability, including improving Target private label net margins by 6 points, and runs a compliance/QC-heavy vendor qualification process (BSCI/SMETA, golden samples, third-party inspections).”

“Cross-functional operator/chief-of-staff style leader who took a product from prototype to a live pilot in 3 months, spanning public-sector data normalization, an ML matching engine, a secure API, and KPI/investor demo instrumentation. Strong focus on executive alignment and productivity via Notion-based operating systems plus automated reporting (Python/Power BI), with experience supporting fundraising and go-to-market narratives.”

Dawood Shaik

Screened

Senior Product Marketing Manager specializing in GTM, channel enablement, and pricing analytics

Minneapolis, MN9y exp

“Growth-creative/performance creative specialist focused on UGC-led paid social across Meta, TikTok, and YouTube. Uses structured creative testing (e.g., hook/angle matrices) and modular asset systems to iterate quickly; cited a campaign that lifted efficiency (25% CPA improvement, ROAS 1.8x→2.4x) and then scaled spend ~60% while maintaining performance.”