Vetted Program Management Professionals

“Cross-functional operations leader who managed six departments and led a first-time international expansion from Dubai into Riyadh, including hiring a Saudi GRO to navigate registrations/licensing and local requirements. Implemented a BI dashboard and later integrated it with an ERP to give executives real-time visibility into sales, project delivery, and finance, and stood up a PMO to improve delivery and collections while reducing sales-to-delivery friction.”

“Safety-critical firmware validation engineer with Tesla autonomous vehicle experience who built Python-based HIL/SIL automation and dashboards, cutting regression time by 30% while maintaining an auditable risk-tradeoff process with safety and engineering teams. Also deployed an inventory management system across 8+ R&D teams in 3 countries at FUJIFILM, troubleshooting a major cross-site sync issue to a timezone root cause with strong documentation and interim mitigations.”

“Entrepreneur building a platform to turn clinically/technically validated medical device innovations (not yet commercialized in Western markets) into acquisition-ready companies by tightly controlling execution. Focuses on selecting technologies with execution risk (not clinical/technical risk) and running them through a structured program framework designed around acquisition criteria from day one.”

Erik Melanson

Screened

Executive intelligence and cyber operations leader in defense and national security

Annapolis Junction, MD19y exp

“Aspiring founder in the early stages of shaping a startup concept, with a practical plan to refine the initial offering, sharpen the value pitch, and secure both investors and early client interest. Brings firsthand exposure to private-equity-backed companies, including experience seeing capital raising and board accountability from the operating side.”

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.”

“Operations/program leader who partnered closely with a COO to drive transformation initiatives (compliance workflow automation and budgeting redesign), implementing governance cadences and executive dashboards to improve alignment and decision speed. Managed a $120MM operating budget and successfully delivered regulator-mandated resolution planning under tight timelines, while maintaining strict discretion during restructuring work involving sensitive HR data.”

“International development program manager with experience across major institutions (World Bank, McKinsey, Deloitte) and multi-country complex programs, including multi-million-dollar US government finance projects. Known for driving executive alignment and accountability through data-driven messaging, disciplined follow-up cadences, and productivity tooling/process improvements (e.g., Asana).”

“Operations/program support professional with experience at Meta and a ~25-person sports/partnerships agency (Innovative Partnerships Group). Known for quickly diagnosing bottlenecks and implementing lightweight systems (e.g., Airtable recruiting dashboard with 150 applicants; monthly vendor accrual process bridging engineering, vendors, and FP&A) to improve executive visibility and operational throughput.”

Derek Tuggle

Screened

Executive Robotics & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in industrial IoT controls

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“VP of New Product Development at Axiom Cloud who built and scaled a "Virtual Battery" product that used supermarket frozen inventory as thermal energy storage—personally prototyped core control/safety logic in Python and led the engineering buildout through deployment and operations. Combines real-world industrial controls and edge deployment experience (LonWorks/Modbus, Docker/CI/CD) with an MS in CS focused on robotics, perception, and ML, including ROS 2 and YOLO-based perception.”

Jehanzeb Khan

Screened

Director-level Engineering Manager specializing in large-scale data and compute platforms

Sunnyvale, CA20y exp

“Platform and distributed-systems leader (player-coach) who owned architecture and reliability for an Amazon analytics/data platform serving ~100K internal users at exabyte scale. Built an ML-driven “Lakeflow” optimization layer that cut pipeline completion times ~20–25% and reduced compute waste >15%, and led major incident response/redesign efforts (e.g., deletion storm) with strong rollout/observability/rollback practices.”

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.”

“Cross-functional digital transformation and operations leader with experience at Brookfield and Celonis, building centralized roadmaps and executive dashboards to align priorities across Finance/Accounting/Operations/Portfolio Management. Implemented FP&A reporting automation and sales compensation/performance reporting (Anaplan, Monday.com), and established strong PII governance via access approvals and monitoring.”

“Architect/engineering leader who built a multi-tenant AI platform end-to-end, including a secure FastAPI orchestrator (JWT, RBAC, tenant isolation, auditing) and an extensible MCP tool-routing layer, then productionized it via fully containerized microservices (Docker, Postgres/pgvector, Redis). Also has strong governance and compliance experience (ARB with security/privacy/SOX) and has owned high-severity incidents through mitigation and RCA/RCCA, plus prior high-volume payments/accounting data pipeline design with audit-grade integrity checks.”

Simon Coombe

Screened

Executive Talent Acquisition Leader specializing in Financial Services and Technology

19y exp

“Global talent acquisition leader and player-coach with 15+ years managing recruiter teams (up to 25–30) across multiple regions. Has personally delivered executive searches (including CIO and engineering leadership) and driven enterprise-wide recruiting improvements, including building a global structured interview/assessment program at NASDAQ. Partnered directly with CEO/CFO/CHRO to shift compensation strategy during a high-attrition period (50%) to stabilize hiring and retention.”

“Aspiring founder building an AI governance and compliance startup for the finance industry, focused on agents that monitor data lakes/lakehouses to detect security vulnerabilities, PII exposure, and governance issues in real time. Has already formed an S-corp, has not raised capital yet, and approaches idea validation through Minimum Lovable Product testing with potential clients.”