Vetted Product Strategy Professionals

“Senior engineering/CTO-level leader with hands-on delivery of serverless, event-driven cloud governance platforms (deployed across multiple GE business units) and experience building adaptable usage-based billing at UserTesting. Has advised startups (including CaseText during YC) and supported fundraising and acquisition due diligence, including investor materials for a smart cooler custody management system presented to BARDA during Operation Warp Speed.”

“Product/UX designer with end-to-end ownership of Dell’s “Parts for Your Dell” multi-device shopping experience, using 30+ usability tests and A/B testing to drive a 28% conversion lift and 40% satisfaction increase. Experienced translating complex hardware compatibility logic into guided flows, building cross-viewport design systems, and collaborating closely with engineers on edge cases and component implementation; also prototyped gamified micro-interactions at upGrad and completed a GenZ-focused fintech capstone with PNC.”

Andrew Bender

Screened

Executive product leader specializing in EdTech and SaaS

Cambridge, MA20y exp

“Product leader with deep edtech and AI experience who helped scale instaGrok from a disappointing launch to 330,000 monthly users in one school year without paid acquisition. Has operated as the sole product decision-maker in a tiny startup, consulted through founder-strategy conflict, and brings a human-centered view of AI as a tool for exploration and learning rather than replacement.”

Vela Sivasankaran

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in cloud, telecom, and digital transformation

Virginia, USA16y exp

“Former founder of a financial services technology startup that is currently on hold for family reasons. Has hands-on startup fundraising exposure from employee roles, including presenting proof-of-concept demos to venture capital firms, and brings a strong focus on fraud prevention, safeguards, and regulatory compliance.”

“Product leader at FloQast who launched FQ Ops from scratch, expanding the company beyond close management into a broader workflow platform that reached 70% adoption and $4.5M ARR in its first year. Has led both product and interim design organizations, mentored multiple internal hires into PM roles, and brings a thoughtful human-in-the-loop AI philosophy shaped by leading AI strategy across more than 10 product areas.”

“Technical Account Manager at LinkedIn for 7 years supporting some of the company's largest global enterprise customers across LinkedIn Learning and Recruiter. Blends sales engineering, implementation, compliance, and post-sales ownership, with strong experience navigating complex integrations, migrations, and regulated-industry security reviews. Particularly compelling for enterprise SaaS roles needing someone who can span pre-sales architecture, customer trust, and renewal-critical problem solving.”

“Technology/IT leader with experience spanning healthcare software (Medicaid/Medicare) and large-scale media production IT. At O'Neil Digital Solutions, drove a configuration-first standardized platform that cut client onboarding from months to weeks and helped position the org to double its client base. At 20th Century Fox Television, led a major security and cloud-network standardization initiative post-Sony hack, enabling secure worldwide production at scale (~50 productions/year).”

Ching Pei

Screened

Executive product leader specializing in B2B SaaS growth and portfolio integration

Remote11y exp

“Current VP of Product / Chief Product Officer who spent the last two years helping shape fundraising and exit strategy efforts at their company. They bring rare product-led storytelling experience across debt financing, pre-IPO roadshow preparation, and acquisition discussions with private equity and investors, paired with a clear interest in building something from scratch.”

“AI product leader with end-to-end experience building revenue-generating products and internal AI platforms across legal tech, edtech, and neurofeedback healthcare. At Clio, they helped launch the company's first AI offerings, drove $60K MRR in two months, scaled the AI team from 15 to 45, and enabled 12 additional AI applications across the business. They also bring a strong human-centered AI perspective from building tutor matching, lesson-planning, and clinician recommendation systems.”

“Senior engineering leader in the Bay Area with experience spanning VMware, Hortonworks/Cloudera, Barracuda, and Palo Alto Networks, including leading open-source work (Apache Knox) and architecting large-scale security platforms. Has driven disaster recovery and cloud security products, designed Python microservices for Microsoft 365 security, and scaled teams (3x) while formalizing enterprise readiness practices with automated documentation using Notebook LLM.”

Ofir Baharav

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Executive Chairman/CEO specializing in hardware, SaaS, and industrial technology turnarounds

Los Altos Hills, CA26y exp

“Two-decade CEO/EVP Product operator with multiple founder-level and public-company turnarounds, known for implementing an AOP-driven execution cadence and rigorous decision documentation. Delivered outsized outcomes including 5x trade show performance gains, major reliability improvements (DOA down to ~1–2%), and an 18-month transformation of a shrinking product into the company’s highest-growth/highest-margin line that remained an industry leader for a decade.”

“UI/UX and product-minded designer with experience shaping digital products from concept to launch across telecom and higher education. Notably pitched a new Globe Telecom app that became the basis for the product after joining, helped launch it within five months, and contributed to a 4x subscription lift through A/B-tested in-flow upsell design.”

Allie Bogus

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Executive product leader specializing in EdTech and digital education platforms

Brooklyn, NY13y exp

“Product leader with experience across mission-driven digital media and edtech, including leading the redesign of Understood.org, a flagship site with 2M monthly visitors. Brings a strong experimentation mindset, deep cross-functional product/design collaboration, and practical AI experience spanning workflow automation and ML-powered job-data classification. Has also mentored junior PMs into highly regarded cross-functional leaders.”

Donnell Mata

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Director-level Strategy & Operations leader specializing in GTM, product, and operating cadence systems

San Francisco, CA22y exp

“Operator/strategy leader with experience driving digital transformation and building executive operating systems in high-noise environments. At a legacy B2C brand, created a prioritization framework and exec alignment process that cut 100+ initiatives to 16 and lifted execution from 12% to 81%. At Point B, owned a $20M delivery budget while shifting the firm to a tech-forward practice, implementing OKR/KPI cadences and AI-enabled workflows (n8n, LLMs, gamma.ai) that materially improved executive productivity.”

“Engineering leader with experience at CBS Interactive and Paramount who scaled a web engineering team from 4 to 30+ (adding QA/PMO/mobile) while instituting strong agile and code-quality processes. Led a major architectural shift to a generic content API that decoupled web/mobile experiences from niche publishing systems, reportedly cutting developer onboarding time by ~50% and enabling some day-one production commits.”

“Backend engineer with end-to-end ownership of scientific and AI-powered systems, including neuron imaging pipelines at Monell Chemical Senses Center and an LLM-based structured information extraction platform for Wharton and PSG. Stands out for turning messy, compute-heavy workflows into reliable production backends with measurable impact, including saving researchers over 50 hours per week.”

“Product leader and former co-founder/CPO who built a K-12 tutoring marketplace end-to-end and later led AI personalization work at Mattel. Particularly compelling for mission-driven edtech roles: they combine deep two-sided marketplace and trust/safety experience with a clear philosophy that AI should strengthen, not replace, human tutoring relationships.”

Josh Rhoades

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in AI-enabled SaaS and regulated platforms

Los Angeles, CA30y exp

“Senior engineering leader with experience at Disney and BlackLine who drives business-aligned technology roadmaps through deep Product/Engineering partnership (two-in-a-box) and pragmatic prioritization frameworks. Has led major modernization initiatives—private-to-public cloud migration to GCP with multi-cloud evolution, data-layer performance improvements (Mongo/Redis, caching/query optimization), and tooling upgrades (VSS to GitHub)—while scaling teams with strong quality and accountability culture.”

Kevin Hoffman

Screened

Director-level product and engineering leader specializing in distributed systems and cloud platforms

Windsor, CT16y exp

“Former CTO and co-founder of Cosmonic who led technology vision, roadmap, and team building while also serving as the technical lead in investor and VC meetings. Has hands-on experience supporting seed and Series A rounds, plus strategic exposure to later-stage fundraising at Synadia, combining startup-building depth with a pragmatic view of risk and business viability.”