Vetted Risk Management Professionals

“Corporate strategy / M&A professional with experience acting as a chief-of-staff-style associate to multiple managing directors at Focus Financial Partners while running parallel M&A, enterprise vendor negotiations, and infrastructure strategy work. At BNY, led strategic growth initiatives around fintech partnerships (TAM + financial modeling) and supported a confidential divestiture using rigorous information-control processes.”

Melissa Douros

Screened

Executive Product & Operations Leader specializing in FinTech, governance, and digital transformation

Buffalo Grove, IL25y exp

“Operations/product transformation leader with experience driving customer-centric operating model changes at Discover, shifting from a centralized PMO/SAFe to a Product Delivery + Scrum structure aligned to customer journeys. Cites measurable outcomes including a 54% reduction in compliance issues and 20% new product revenue growth, and currently advises a startup board mentoring a first-time founder on org structure, roadmap, and governance-focused decision-making.”

Cornelius O'Donnell

Screened

Director-level Engineering & Program Leader specializing in AI product platforms

San Diego, CA25y exp

“Technical Program Manager and one of three internal "founders" of HP’s Hardware-as-a-Service home printer subscription initiative, spanning DTC shipping, simplified setup, ink replenishment, and warranty coverage. Led roadmap definition/execution, scaled delivery rapidly to 15+ scrum teams (including vendors) with SAFe-like coordination and shared engineering standards, and drove key architecture trade-offs (building an interim subscription management service) to accelerate time-to-market by about a year.”

Sudhir Sagi

Screened

Executive technology and operations leader specializing in connected vehicle SaaS and IoT

Novi, MI28y exp

“Candidate indicated they do not have a business plan or startup, are not familiar with the venture capital/accelerator landscape, and explicitly requested to withdraw their application because the position does not seem like the right fit.”

“Compensation and payroll professional with hands-on experience supporting end-to-end U.S. payroll and compensation cycles in Workday. Stands out for building Excel-based validation and reconciliation models, resolving HRIS/payroll/finance mismatches at the root-cause level, and adding controls that improve payroll accuracy and compensation decision-making.”

“Healthcare operator and entrepreneur who founded and scaled Tellica Imaging (an Intermountain Company) from inception to serving 150,000 patients, generating $70M+ in gross revenue, and operating across 4 US states. Serves as President & CEO of two joint ventures and has hands-on experience building board-ready business cases, securing internal capital, and mastering healthcare revenue cycle/reimbursement to drive growth and customer satisfaction.”

“Backend-focused software engineer (4+ years) across e-commerce, banking, and healthcare who owned mission-critical checkout/order management end-to-end and improved peak-traffic success rates via resiliency patterns (timeouts/retries/caching) and data-driven iteration. Also built and shipped real-time operational dashboards (React/TypeScript + Spring Boot) using WebSockets and event-stream integrations, with strong experience in Kafka/RabbitMQ-style messaging at scale.”

“Engineering leader who has led 100+ engineers at Sainsbury’s Tech and previously scaled an org from 6 to 60+ at AND Digital. Drove a high-impact modernization of a pricing/decisioning platform serving 1,700 stores—moving from batch monolith to real-time Kafka-based event-driven microservices with MLOps, IaC (Terraform), and zero-trust—delivering £18m+ annual profit uplift and 10+ deploys/day.”

Vivek Anand

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CIO/CTO/CDO) specializing in AI, cloud, and data strategy

Northbrook, IL20y exp

“Founder with an end-user-ready product who has self-funded/used angel investing but has not yet launched marketing in earnest. Motivated by identifying a market gap with a differentiated product and is now seeking value-add investors who can provide both capital and go-to-market expertise/connections.”

“ML/AI engineer with Goldman Sachs experience building production fraud detection and RAG-based trading insights systems end-to-end. Stands out for combining real-time ML infrastructure, GenAI retrieval systems, and compliance-aware design, with measurable impact including nearly 25% false-positive reduction and improved analyst productivity.”

“Sourcing/procurement-focused candidate who owned vendor selection and risk planning for an IoT pressure/temperature gauge prototype, partnering with a procurement expert on negotiations. Demonstrates strong operations/process mindset by fixing a sales-to-production handover bottleneck with a simple checklist and managing milestones via master trackers and RACI.”

“Strategy/finance leader with experience spanning wealth management, London Stock Exchange, and a voice AI startup. Led an ESG product launch supported by market research/ROI modeling that generated $5M+ over five years, and has hands-on PMO capability (Jira, SQL/Excel, Power BI) plus change-management experience aligning sales teams with executive digital transformation initiatives.”

Blake Thomas

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in AI and EdTech platforms

San Mateo, CA21y exp

“Has been on the receiving end of a VC investment and took responsibility for significant parts of the diligence process, drawing parallels to hands-on work with security compliance and auditors. Approaches entrepreneurship and idea selection with a structured framework (leverage, resources/runway, passion) and a sustainability-first mindset around risk and personal/family well-being.”

“Data engineer with experience at Expedia building SQL Server and Azure Data Factory pipelines for business reporting and analytics. Stands out for pragmatic end-to-end pipeline ownership in ambiguous environments, with a strong emphasis on data quality, rerunnability, query performance, and making downstream datasets reliable for other teams.”

Michael Singleton

Screened

Executive Soccer Coach & Sports Psychology Leader in Coaching Education

St. Petersburg, FL29y exp

“Senior soccer leader and educator: former NCAA coach across Div I/II/III, youth national team contributor, and ex-leader within a major state soccer organization. Now VP of Education at United Soccer Coaches, known for integrating sports psychology into coaching and for transforming Washington & Lee into a #1-ranked, perennial Final Four program while also excelling in recruiting and player evaluation.”

Jamie Jones

Screened

Executive biotech and pharma commercial leader (CEO/CBO/VP) specializing in growth, launches, and fundraising

Greater Boston, MA37y exp

“Entrepreneur and fundraising leader with 8 years raising $500K–$55M across life sciences, transportation, and brand marketing. Notably raised $55M for an oncology startup by de-risking the story and sourcing aligned institutional investors with drug development expertise. Brings a highly structured, metrics-driven approach to validation and surgical go-to-market execution in resource-constrained environments.”

“Private equity fund internship experience sourcing and outbounding to founders (notably B2B SaaS and healthcare), using AI-personalized cold emails to generate responses and progress conversations through NDA, financials review, and detailed modeling. Demonstrates structured discovery and diligence rigor, including pushing for segment-level data to enable long-term cash flow modeling and making pass/continue decisions against investment criteria.”

“Entrepreneurial operator with 30+ years of experience building internal startup-style business cases inside private companies, securing capital/OpEx funding, and turning proposals into delivered technology initiatives. Brings a strong venture-informed mindset, including familiarity with Series A/B/C funding dynamics, combined with hands-on strength in business planning, financial modeling, team building, and execution.”

“Performance marketer from Unilever with hands-on ownership of a sizable multi-platform paid media portfolio across Google, Meta, TikTok, and YouTube. Stands out for combining rigorous experimentation, LTV-based audience segmentation, and incrementality testing to improve ROAS, lower CPA, and restore growth when campaigns plateau.”

Carlos Morales

Screened

Director-level QA Manager specializing in AAA game testing, live services, and VR worlds

San Francisco, CA16y exp

“Game QA professional with ~5 years in embedded QA roles across major studios (Experis Game Solutions, Activision, Ubisoft, Meta), including ownership of the Weapons feature area on Ubisoft’s XDefiant and feature testing on Warzone. Known for risk-based, cross-system test coverage (matchmaking/party, progression, entitlements/MTX, performance across PC/console, live-service integrations) and for leading cross-discipline meetings and release readiness reviews.”

“GenAI/ML engineering leader (player-coach) who built and deployed an image-to-text production system for topology/resource diagrams, combining YOLO-based issue detection with an LLM to generate support-ready reports at scale. Heavy AWS stack (SageMaker, Step Functions, Lambda, CloudWatch, FastAPI, Kubernetes/Docker) with KPI-driven optimization (MTTR, P50), including ~21 custom labels and reported 30–50% faster issue identification while processing thousands of images in production.”