Vetted Regulatory Compliance Professionals

Jivan Shirvanian

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level financial planning professional specializing in wealth management

Pasadena, CA6y exp

“Relationship Manager and financial advisor with a strong outbound sales foundation, combining data-driven lead optimization with consultative discovery. Stands out for turning cold, initially resistant prospects into advisory relationships through relevant market insights, structured follow-up, and a disciplined pipeline process that was adopted more broadly and used to train others.”

Mark Kemp

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director of Product Management specializing in FinTech and financial data platforms

Austin, TX15y exp

“Product leader in financial services who has built both customer-facing and internal AI-enabled products, including an award-nominated retirement plan platform that drove submissions from 40% to 98% in good order and unlocked a $10M revenue stream. Also built product process and team structure from the ground up at Consero, with experience applying AI/LLMs to workflow automation and reporting in complex, data-heavy environments.”

Joseph Bonassar

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive General Counsel specializing in global risk, compliance, and complex litigation

Torrington, CT45y exp

“First in-house General Counsel multiple times, brought in during high-change environments (notably Neopost’s acquisition of Hasler) to build corporate structure and operational/legal systems from scratch. Known for embedding contract management and governance into end-to-end workflows and for standardizing complex dealer distribution networks via pilot-and-scale approaches. Also led a first acquisition at a multinational specialty chemical company (Dymax) and currently advises a startup consolidating dental practices.”

Mark Thomas

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level software architect specializing in cloud, distributed systems, and healthcare IT

McCalla, AL20y exp

“Startup veteran with experience at seven companies since 2004 and direct exposure to Birmingham's Innovation Depot accelerator through three different startups. Has worked closely with investment teams on MVPs and pitch decks and brings a pragmatic lens to evaluating ventures through need, margins, burn rate, cash position, and sales growth strategy.”

“Healthcare product leader who rebuilt the NextCare Anywhere urgent care platform across mobile and web, dramatically improving booking conversion from 2% to 34% by simplifying the patient journey and fixing key caregiver workflows. Also brings emerging AI leadership in regulated environments, having helped define AI policy and pilot human-supervised workflows that delivered 30-40x documentation gains with 100% first-pass approval.”

“Former CTO at Enodo who led development of programmatic parsers to extract unstructured data from real-estate financial documents (rent rolls and T12s), validating with users via prototypes before productionizing. Emphasizes accuracy-driven engineering and scalable test-suite growth based on real user samples, and has experience scoping complex product ideas (e.g., browser-based narrative editor) down to an MVP.”

“Chief of Staff to the family of Kevin Scott (CTO of Microsoft), serving as the first CoS to unify previously siloed teams and build an operating cadence for executive decision-making. Experienced running high-stakes, high-security events including a Presidential fundraiser/President Biden visit, coordinating with the presidential advance team and Secret Service while protecting principal priorities and privacy.”

“Founder of pre-revenue cybersecurity startup Ceyepher Security; has already set up lead-intent sourcing, automated pipeline/CRM analytics, and outbound marketing. Plans to raise capital after landing first clients to demonstrate value via revenue, whitepapers, and customer testimonials; interested in studio support to accelerate sales. Mentions a disability that has enabled significant time honing computer science skills and is open to joining innovative work even outside their own company.”

Rob Wlaschin

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Engineering Manager specializing in AI platforms, FinTech, and Healthtech

Santa Clara, CA24y exp

“Serial entrepreneur building three distinct products: a context-aware AI chatbot, a connected TV companion-screen platform with an implementation client, and gamerogue.net, a mobile-optimized web-based virtual tabletop marketplace currently seeking funding. Brings hands-on fundraising experience, familiarity with the VC/accelerator ecosystem including YC, and a notably pragmatic approach to validating ideas based on existing market demand rather than speculative adoption.”

DAVID READER

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive M&A and Tax Attorney specializing in middle-market transactions and operations

Tampa, FL43y exp

“Operations-focused advisor with experience building scalable structures in highly regulated and transaction-heavy environments. Restructured a multi-state cannabis startup into a parent/subsidiary model with a separate IP entity and implemented governance/compliance systems that supported multiple private placements. Also transformed an M&A advisory firm into a more scalable platform by standardizing the deal lifecycle, improving onboarding/compliance, and reducing deal cycle time.”

“Marketing motion/video creative with end-to-end ownership (storyboards, design, motion, edit) and a strong performance mindset (first-frame hooks, pacing, above-benchmark watch time). Built a scalable, compliance-safe Figma design system for a Merck vaccine website with locked components and medical/legal sign-offs, and produces high-volume multi-format social video via modular CapCut/After Effects templates in a fully remote, async workflow.”

Guillermo Salas

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive software engineering leader specializing in AI-augmented Healthcare SaaS platforms

Elm Grove, WI15y exp

“VP-level software engineering leader in a private-equity-backed company, overseeing a 50+ person org through aggressive growth and operational efficiency goals. Particularly strong in building the operating system around engineering—product-to-engineering governance, AI-augmented SDLC practices, ADRs, and feature-flag-driven delivery—to reduce ambiguity, dependency on institutional knowledge, and cycle time.”

“Master’s student and Deep Learning teaching assistant who teaches LLM/VLM fine-tuning (including LoRA) and built a Hugging Face LLM fine-tuned for unit conversion, improving reliability by analyzing synthetic data and filling missing number-system conversion examples. Also implemented the Raft consensus protocol using gRPC in a distributed systems course with correctness validated by unit tests.”

“People/HR leader specializing in change management, leader coaching, and people analytics—partnered with VP Operations and HR to execute a large-scale restructuring ahead of a major live event cycle with compressed timelines. Uses a systems-thinking, metrics-first approach (operational + engagement + adoption) and has resolved high-stakes ER conflicts involving retaliation allegations through neutral investigations and mediation.”