Vetted Risk Management Professionals

“Chief of Staff / PMO leader at CAIS who built a firm-wide product & technology roadmap and delivery governance from the ground up, partnering directly with the executive committee to define OKRs and prioritization. Led cross-functional GTM readiness tracking and delivered major platform modernization (monolith to microservices) plus trade lifecycle automation in the alternative assets/independent financial advisor space, while also instituting financial discipline and vendor negotiations that saved millions.”

“Senior engineering/technology leader who has defined and delivered a multi-year roadmap to modernize platforms and embed AI, leading global teams through cloud-native and microservices migrations on AWS/Azure. Demonstrated measurable outcomes including 99.99% uptime, 40% fewer incidents, 25% faster delivery, 5x scalability, and $30M in new business opportunities, while scaling a 100+ person distributed org with strong OKR-driven execution and mentorship culture.”

“Former COO at a venture firm who founded a consultancy/startup serving luxury apparel and accessories brands, with current paying clients acquired through her executive network. Focuses on operational and business strategy for luxury brands of African descent and runs end-to-end product development and sourcing across NYC/China with supplier links to Turkey and India; previously built a book of business at Morgan Stanley and advised startups.”

“Early-stage founder building a service business targeting small clinics, already with one client. Identified the opportunity by helping a family member and then validating needs through direct client conversations; uses AI (including AI agents) for content generation and plans deeper workflow automation to scale cost-effectively.”

“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.”

“Engineering leader/player-coach on a risk core transaction platform (payments/branded checkout) who led major migrations from a monolithic stack to microservices, including API contract redesign and performance improvements (reported ~500ms latency reduction). Experienced running high-stakes production incidents (upgrade-related outage/degradation) end-to-end with RCA and rollout-process changes, and has accelerated delivery via documentation/tooling (audit sign-off cycle reduced from ~3 sprints to ~1).”

“Former COO of Paxos who joined near inception and helped scale the company to a $2.4B valuation, owning operations across nearly all functions and implementing core operating systems like OKRs and decision frameworks. Now advises and coaches early-stage founders through Lynx Collective (NYC startup community he founded), teaches a Startup Executive Bootcamp, serves as an NYU Stern adjunct professor, and sits on a public company board.”

“Corporate transactional/M&A attorney with private equity deal experience who runs cross-functional workstreams across tax, finance/lending, restructuring, and benefits, and is trusted as an "outside in-house counsel" for C-suite needs (board materials, equity, annual reports). Previously led day-to-day operations at a custom-apparel startup, automating fulfillment and scaling a nationwide campus-manager program (25+ hires) while improving fulfillment speed and driving $2M+ annual revenue growth.”

“Operations and clinical-development advisor currently supporting two early-stage biotech companies (vaccines and kidney transplant therapeutics). Brings 20 years of vaccine/clinical development experience from Sanofi and Pfizer, and has directly guided a CEO by connecting them with key clinical scientists and regulatory experts to support IND strategy and clinical advancement decisions.”

“Operations/Continuous Improvement leader with 25 years of Lean/Kaizen experience, including roles at Danaher and 10x Genomics. Known for building enterprise operating rhythms (True North + daily management) and developing internal CI certification programs, while delivering measurable quality and cycle-time gains (e.g., NCR/MRB lead time cut 47→14 days and FPY improvements via global test-equipment relocation).”

“Alliance leader with experience at both AWS and Equinix who built and commercialized multi-megawatt GPU/AI infrastructure opportunities in partnership with Oracle. Strong in structuring contract models (including Federal reseller scenarios), value-based negotiation to defend pricing, and navigating hyperscaler-style procurement (RFPs, security/compliance, multi-year budgeting) while coordinating architects/SEs and customer stakeholders.”

“Operations leader with Apple and Roku experience who owned founder-level, cross-functional initiatives including Roku’s Brazil market entry (regulatory, tax/entity setup, manufacturing/logistics, and launch metrics) with direct CEO oversight. Built Roku’s International Business Operations function from zero—standardizing OKRs, dashboards, and country-level P&Ls—and influenced major strategic decisions like exiting a ~$10.5M-loss UK channel business and restructuring Mexico ads go-to-market via partnership.”

“Operator who has repeatedly stepped into founder-level, cross-functional ownership at startups—running full HR (recruiting, onboarding, benefits) with AI-driven process automation, and later serving as interim VP People & Culture during an executive transition. Also managed cap table, 409A, equity grants, and day-to-day investor relations, and built company-wide ELT goals/KPIs and operating rhythms tied to board-approved strategy.”

“Advisor to early-stage cybersecurity firm Nday Security, helping shape lean operations and go-to-market while deferring investors in favor of potential early acquisition. Previously appointed by the U.S. President as the first Chief Security Officer for the newly formed Department of Homeland Security, standing up operations and integrating 22 agencies under intense post-9/11 urgency.”

“ML/NLP practitioner and technical founder who built an AUP risk-scoring model at Bill.com using TF-IDF + SVD features with XGBoost, and previously created automated data-quality guardrails for a Global Equity Risk stacked ML model at Thomson Reuters. Recently built a RAG-based chatbot for PaymentJock’s Home Affordability Probability product using embeddings and a local vector database (FAISS/Chroma), improving answer quality through chunking rather than expensive fine-tuning.”

“Operations leader with experience scaling a fast-growing, startup-like government organization (tripled headcount in two years) by implementing OKRs, operating cadences, reporting structures, and decision/escalation frameworks. Has led complex process turnarounds (including a debt-collection overhaul with legal coordination and an appeals board) and advises executives on high-stakes public communications during critical-infrastructure cybersecurity incidents using data-driven decisioning.”

“Entrepreneurially minded builder focused on proving architecture concepts via minimal demo prototypes for marketing. Has hands-on experience improving an A/B experimentation framework by interviewing stakeholders, identifying system limits and bottlenecks, and defining success criteria to scale experimentation and speed up analysis.”

“Chief of Staff to the COO of firmwide engineering at Goldman Sachs, serving as lead strategist for a COO/CIO-sponsored program to drive operational excellence and scalability via AI/automation. Ran discovery across divisions, built governance/OKR systems, negotiated budget commitments with divisional leaders, and coordinated firmwide CFO alignment while preparing Board-level materials for executives.”

“Technologist drawn to venture studio/zero-to-one environments, motivated by owning technical architecture and building scalable systems from day one. Interested in rapidly shipping MVPs, iterating toward product-market fit, and validating ideas through real user feedback rather than pursuing entrepreneurship for its own sake.”