Vetted Program Management Professionals

“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.”

Stephanie Kline

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive Content Strategy & Thought Leadership Leader specializing in B2B growth

North Carolina, US13y exp

“Chief-of-Staff / operations leader who has scaled creative and production organizations through hyper-growth, including growing a creative team from ~30 to 200+ while improving turnaround times and protecting margins. Acts as a founder force-multiplier by installing operating cadences, dashboards, and decision systems, and has built scalable editorial and motion-graphics pipelines tied to growth metrics (e.g., ~$2 CPI and seven-figure media spend scaling).”

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.”

“Veteran software development PM with 20+ years spanning custom development, COTS implementations, governance, and modernization in complex public-sector environments. Recently led a 12-month consolidation of three NRC legacy systems into a single Microsoft Power Platform workflow and helped the IRS stand up portfolio governance and executive reporting for IRA-funded initiatives using JIRA Align.”

“Unity developer from the Naer project who built a natural-feeling VR wrist-flick gesture mechanic for teleport/push/pull interactions, validated through telemetry, low-FPS simulation, and diverse user testing with modular ScriptableObject tuning. Also handled Photon PUN 2 networking bug fixes (mid-air item state issues) and RPC optimizations while integrating AI tools (Claude/Gemini/ChatGPT) into planning and implementation.”

“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.”

Douglas Green

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Executive sales and marketing leader specializing in language services and healthcare

Austin, TX27y exp

“Mission-driven builder focused on transforming education by embedding entrepreneurial mindset training into student learning. Already runs a fellowship for Alpha School/University of Austin students and is developing FounderOS, a remote cohort-based platform built on an entrepreneurial knowledge graph, learning science, and gamification. Brings unusually deep ecosystem knowledge from studying 1,000+ global founder programs.”

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.”

“Serial entrepreneur and entrepreneurship instructor at Montana State University currently bootstrapping MEETR (meetr.pro), a platform targeting snowsports instructors and outdoor guides, with early customers acquired via paid social, SEO, paid search, and cold outreach. Previously built and scaled EXEC from zero to one to 25,000+ members, culminating in acquisition by Community.co after selling into elite professional organizations and private clubs.”

“IT professional exploring a startup in digital transformation and IT security, motivated by repeated client needs around efficient resource utilization and better adoption. Emphasizes user-centric, iterative transformation with strong training and feedback loops, paired with security fundamentals like privacy and least-privilege access. Has limited familiarity with VC/accelerators and is not currently pursuing investment.”

“Built football recruiting and athlete advisory experience through youth sports coaching and a West Coast talent pipeline, including helping families navigate contracts, exposure, and player development. Describes hands-on work sourcing opportunities, evaluating prospects, and supporting one SoCal athlete from 8th grade development through a scholarship to San Jose State.”

“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.”

Brandon Bolds

Screened

Senior Project/Program Manager specializing in enterprise transformation and supply chain

Ardmore, PA15y exp

“Project leader who transitioned from government contracting, manufacturing, construction, and disaster recovery into enterprise SaaS implementations. Most recently served as a senior PM at Logic Factory leading complex supply chain optimization and logistics transformation programs for Fortune 500 clients like Kraft Heinz, Carvana, Amtrak, and Herbalife, including a 3-year, $4M implementation.”

“Program and operations leader from agency environments who has delivered complex global initiatives for marquee enterprise brands including Google, Netflix, YouTube, and Meta. Though not from a traditional SaaS implementation consulting background, they bring strong implementation-adjacent experience in governance, change management, executive stakeholder alignment, and internal systems rollout across distributed teams.”

“Former basketball player with deep exposure to youth leagues/tournaments and recruitment events, now coaching middle and high school athletes while coordinating district-wide Special Olympics programming. Currently a full-time Florida State University grad student in athletic coaching who regularly produces and edits video content and uses game film breakdown to develop players; comfortable scouting and communicating with families via social media.”

“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.”

“Operations and program management advisor with 40 years of experience mentoring ~100 early-stage and growing companies, emphasizing business planning, SOPs, and financial/GAAP-driven operational diagnostics. Helped a small construction management firm professionalize (banks/bonding readiness) and scale to $200M+ in annual revenue, and has supported private development initiatives from initial concept through multi-billion-dollar project execution.”

“Talent/Recruiting Operations leader who has run regional and national high-volume recruiting organizations (~40–50 people) and owned the full recruiting operating system end-to-end (ATS/CRM, analytics, workflows, training, and cross-functional governance). Known for rebuilding chaotic multi-state hiring engines into standardized, SLA-driven processes with real-time dashboards—cutting time-to-fill ~30% and boosting recruiter productivity >25%—and for leading major tooling implementations like GoodTime and advanced Lever reporting.”

Lauren Durfy

Screened

Director of B2B SaaS Marketing specializing in demand generation and lifecycle programs

10y exp

“Growth/marketing operator with strong partnership and outbound expertise: built an outbound email engine that became the #1 revenue-driving marketing channel (30% open rate, 9% CTR, 9/10 HubSpot Health Score) while maintaining CASL/CAN-SPAM compliance. Also runs measurable partnership programs using UTMs/GA and executes acquisition experiments across AEO (schema/content), YouTube, and Reddit—driving new clients and close-won opportunities via LinkedIn network effects.”

“Application security and customer-facing delivery professional with deep experience in eCourt/public portal modernization, protecting sealed records and PII under statutory constraints. Has led threat modeling, phased remediation/risk acceptance to hit legislatively mandated launch dates, and implemented SAST/DAST/SCA programs in CI/CD on AWS/EKS with strong observability-driven troubleshooting and stakeholder alignment.”

Vasilis Chatzigiannis

Screened

Director-level Strategy & Operations leader specializing in FinTech and consulting

Princeton, NJ29y exp

“Cross-functional operations/coordination professional with experience aligning finance (including FP&A), vendor management, and operations through structured communication cadences and tools like Asana. Has supported executive productivity by coordinating executive assistants, prioritizing meeting agendas, and triaging inbound email and meeting requests, and has stepped in to resolve finance-team misalignment by clarifying objectives and delivery expectations.”

“Implementation consultant with nearly 7 years at FAST Enterprises delivering public-sector tax system implementations for NYC and Pennsylvania agencies. Brings rare depth in translating complex government business processes into configured workflows, ETL/SFTP integrations, financial calculation tools, and UAT-driven releases across collections, audit, and tax operations.”

“Commercial and operations leader with 11 years building the revenue infrastructure behind enterprise growth, spanning Fortune 500 creative-tech engagements, a Series A SaaS launch, and an AI operations consulting practice. Particularly compelling for GTM and revenue roles: they have repeatedly built pricing, packaging, pipeline, and delivery systems from scratch, including scaling ARR 5x at a startup and deploying AI-driven outbound engines that materially increased pipeline efficiency.”