Vetted Recruiting Professionals

“McKinsey consultant (BA and newly promoted Engagement Manager) with experience leading large-scale operating model and digital transformations using stage-gate governance and executive steering committees. Also served as a Policy Advisor to a governor, producing confidential executive briefings and implementing tracking systems to drive interagency accountability on climate and resilience initiatives; delivered a pharma/biotech workforce roadmap projecting $75M savings over 3 years.”

“Early-stage investor/sourcer with experience at Insight Partners and M13 who combines thesis-driven outbound with deep ecosystem presence to generate proprietary founder relationships. Particularly strong in generative AI, creative tooling, and commerce tech, with added credibility from Gold House Ventures fellowship, angel investing communities, and a fractional fundraising advisory practice that has helped founders close rounds.”

“Entrepreneur building an AI-driven small molecule biotech startup who has already raised $5M from major venture capital investors. Brings 3 years of fundraising experience and a thoughtful approach to aligning investors with different risk profiles across financing stages, paired with strong conviction around founding high-risk, high-upside companies.”

“Recruiting leader with experience managing teams from 5 to 55 and staying hands-on in senior/executive searches. Partnered closely with HRBPs and a CFO at PDT, including designing compensation structures for a junior-talent program and helping build out the CFO’s organization over 6 years. Known for implementing a shorter, structured, data-driven interview process that improved hiring speed and enabled teams to become fully staffed and more proactive in hiring.”

“Recruiting leader with experience at Google and YieldStreet who combines people management with a heavy personal requisition load (15–20). Partnered directly with HRBPs and the CFO on international/executive hiring, budgeting, equity decisions, and board-level quarterly planning. Led a department-wide ATS replacement and enforced interview training/compliance and SLAs to improve data quality and time-to-fill.”

“Operations/People Ops-focused startup operator who has supported 6 early-stage companies, implementing scalable recruiting and HR infrastructure (Greenhouse/Lever/Ashby, BambooHR) while intentionally avoiding over-engineered systems. Experienced mentoring founders and junior execs on compensation frameworks (pay grades, market benchmarking, equal pay) and improving cross-functional execution by reducing redundancy through transparent project scheduling.”

Martin Bom

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in cloud services and large-scale delivery

Amsterdam, Netherlands31y exp

“Engineering leader with a hands-on developer background who has launched and scaled cloud services at AWS (CloudShell) while also leading AWS Cloud9. Built multi-year roadmaps and cross-org stakeholder alignment (product/marketing/mobile), and has a track record of scaling teams (3x growth) by implementing operational excellence, automated quality gates, and security champion programs; advocates serverless architectures to minimize maintenance and accelerate global expansion.”

“Founder of Optibuy, a newly launched advisory firm focused on energy and manufacturing, combining AI, risk management, operational excellence, and digital transformation to solve longstanding industry problems. The candidate is pursuing an E&P studio model to incubate client solutions and has a targeted fundraising strategy aimed at O&G corporate VC arms, energy-focused VCs, and experienced industry angels.”

Margaret Liu

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Mid-level VC Investor specializing in early-stage investing and cross-border expansion

San Francisco, CA8y exp

“San Francisco-based VC professional with 4 years of investment banking and 3 years of venture experience, focused on high-volume founder sourcing through invitation-only Bay Area events and pitch competitions. Recently sourced two startups at an event and advanced both into follow-on meetings and due diligence, using a structured process for discovery, data room/NDA requests, and partner/IC updates.”

“Former COO of Hamilton Lane’s direct investment unit (appointed in 2007) who helped professionalize operations in an early-stage environment—implementing DealCloud, revamping investment committee materials, and creating valuation governance. Known for pairing process/technology upgrades with culture repair through high-touch communication and transparent leadership.”