Vetted Stakeholder Management Professionals

“Director of Engineering at Proofpoint for 8 years, leading architecture and integration of Java microservices within a detection platform. Demonstrates pragmatic delivery leadership—incurring short-term cost to meet launch deadlines, then systematically paying down technical debt and optimizing AWS spend—plus a disciplined, long-horizon approach to backward-compatible API/schema evolution across many dependent services.”

“Engineering leader (12+ years Director, 17 years lead) focused on developer productivity and platform/framework work across Oracle, PlayStation, Workday, and CafePress. Notable for building distributed teams from scratch and delivering high-impact platform architecture—e.g., re-architected PlayStation’s upload pipeline to support 500GB–5TB submissions using browser-to-AWS chunked uploads with SNS/SQS and deduplication/resume support.”

“Finance professional (Citi) blending strategic account work with hands-on analytics/automation: led Asia’s first digital banking conferences and delivered 6 institutional client acquisitions. Built self-serve dashboards/VBA tools and self-taught Python to create an ML classifier still used daily, and uncovered ~$5M in untapped annual revenue. Experienced partnering with compliance/legal and navigating sensitive regulatory information in FX markets.”

“Engineering leader (Sr Director/VP) with healthcare marketplace and e-commerce/art marketplace experience who has shipped AI-driven pricing, scaled engineering teams rapidly, and navigated messy legacy integrations. Currently doing fractional tech advisory, leading a migration from self-hosted infrastructure to Google Cloud using IaC while mentoring a junior developer and modernizing security/patching posture.”

Wesley Barnes

Screened

Senior Enterprise Account Executive specializing in AI, Cloud & Cybersecurity

Ontario, Canada9y exp

“Enterprise/mid-market SaaS seller with MarTech/marketing SaaS experience (Momentive AI) and prior top-performer stints at Microsoft and Oracle. Describes a repeatable outbound motion (verticalized ICP, multi-channel sequences) and strong deal execution via mutual action plans, controlled pilots/POCs, and security/compliance navigation, including land-and-expand into adjacent departments.”

“Engineering leader (Director of Development) with hands-on cloud and product experience who builds business-aligned technology roadmaps and scales teams. Delivered an enterprise cloud-migration enabler at UHG by implementing AD authentication and Terraform-based IaC for custom VM images while meeting 90-day InfoSec patch/rotation requirements, and drove a 20% lift in user consumption/retention by designing an interactive branded media portal experience for Sunkist.”

“Data-centric operator who supports senior executives by anticipating recurring questions, building lightweight systems (meeting cadence/touchpoints), and driving cross-team clarity through rigorous documentation. Recently managed a staffing plan after significant practice turnover, navigating competing principal expectations and capability gaps while maintaining executive trust and positive feedback through proactive level-setting and discretion with PII/PHI.”

“People/HR leader (HRBP-style) with strong compliance and change-management experience, including leading an FLSA exempt-to-non-exempt reclassification for SMB sales AEs and implementing time tracking/overtime in Rippling with zero compliance findings. Uses systems thinking and people analytics to redesign performance frameworks and reduce regrettable attrition (30% drop in two quarters), and coaches senior leaders using data-driven methods (GROW) to improve engagement and build leadership bench.”

“Player-coach engineering leader focused on AWS ML infrastructure and deep learning image delivery: provisioned EKS/Kubernetes for multi-node training and automated image release pipelines (Python + AWS CDK) to cut release time from 2 weeks to 1. Also built customer migration tooling for SageMaker HyperPod and owned a security incident end-to-end, implementing prevention tests and process improvements.”

“Product-focused operator with ~20 years experience helping both large companies and newer market entrants launch successful products, with a strong emphasis on disciplined product-market fit in emerging markets. Has personal investing exposure as an LP in two private funds and is researching seed-stage angel investing, and is motivated to found a consumer/software venture built with lean execution and clear defensibility.”

“Strategic enterprise Customer Success leader from Atlassian Cloud managing a >$10M ARR, ~33k-user account end-to-end, driving measurable adoption (+12%), services expansion (+30%), and strong satisfaction (4.5/5). Experienced leading cross-functional deployments of AI agents (Rovo) and Forge-based integrations, and translating enterprise governance needs (e.g., RBAC at scale) into roadmap-shaping product requirements.”

Paul Hartwick

Screened

Executive Communications & Marketing Leader specializing in corporate reputation and crisis comms

New York, NY20y exp

“Advisor to early-stage companies (including an AI-driven market research startup) focused on building disciplined marketing/business development operations—audience targeting, content/social planning, and structured client follow-up. Former JPMorgan Chase leader who combined government relations, community relations, employee communications, and media efforts to improve local-market reputation and maximize reuse of activities across audiences. Acts as a "gray-haired" founder advisor; recently guided pricing decisions that led to higher revenues.”

Ahmed Elias

Screened

Director-level Talent Acquisition Leader specializing in global technical recruiting

14y exp

“Talent Acquisition leader who scaled a LATAM recruiting team to 17 and led major operational transformations at Amazon, including onboarding a workforce tracking tool across a ~20K employee population in BR/MX/CR. Known for hands-on confidential executive searches and for building a standardized SDE interview-prep program that materially lifted conversion rates (TPS 23%→46%, onsite 13%→33%) while freeing significant recruiter capacity.”

Yiteng Xu

Screened

Director of Lab Automation specializing in high-throughput assays and NGS workflows

South San Francisco, CA9y exp

“Joined Arsenal into a leadership vacuum (manager fired, only engineer left) and still launched a screening project in 4 weeks while defining team direction. Built an 11-person automation org spanning assay development, engineering, and operations, implementing OKRs/retrospectives/dashboards and navigating major pivots (including a partner pullout) while maintaining delivery and retention.”

“Led an end-to-end regional sourcing strategy at AMAT for consumables and high-value critical parts, including risk/mitigation planning, cross-functional execution, and executive-level reporting. Successfully influenced internal business unit leaders to shift procurement away from captive suppliers by validating and improving regional supplier capability and reliability, while building a repeatable playbook for the team.”

“Global Talent Acquisition leader with 7+ years managing recruiting orgs (2–26 direct reports) across regions and time zones, combining strategic leadership with hands-on executive search. Has led major TA initiatives including Microsoft’s internal-talent utilization program ('Talent in Flow') and a Workday skills-based transformation aligning interview frameworks to job architecture/skill taxonomies. Currently manages TA P&L at Serverfarm and partners directly with the CFO on ROI-driven hiring strategy and budgeting.”

“Talent acquisition leader who built and scaled the recruiting team at Houlihan Lokey, ultimately leading ~10–12 recruiters across campus and experienced hiring while partnering closely with HR on offers/comp. Also brings healthcare HR experience from Ketter Medical Center, working with external recruiters to hire physicians, nurses, and administrative staff, and has implemented process improvements tied to DEI/MBA engagement.”

“Recruiting leader with experience in both large-scale financial institutions (Morgan Stanley/JPMorgan) and a high-growth fintech (CAIS), including managing a 12-person recruiting team and staying hands-on with executive searches. Led a high-visibility Director of Finance search reporting to the President and drove process modernization by implementing AI tools (BrightHire, Metaview) to standardize interviews and improve sourcing. Regularly partners with HRBPs and C-suite leaders on restructuring, compensation alignment, and strategic talent pipeline programs (internship redesign with intern-to-FT conversions).”

“Senior Technical Recruiter with 15 years’ experience (including 3 years people management) at Amazon, partnering closely with business, finance, and HR on headcount planning, approvals, and hiring strategy. Known for operational problem-solving—redesigned a stalled Solutions Architect workflow (JD + interview panel) to cut time-to-fill to 67 days—and for scaling hiring under pressure (350 hires/quarter) while maintaining quality standards.”

“Engineering leader with experience building point-of-care diagnostics platforms (IoT-connected PCR device delivering results in <15 minutes) and scaling multidisciplinary teams (55+). Has led major data/IoT architecture decisions (multi-cluster Kubernetes with secure routing; Kafka + Gobblin over MQTT) and runs execution with Agile roadmaps tightly aligned to GTM and senior leadership.”

“Enterprise account leader at Amazon owning the Samsung relationship end-to-end across PCs, tablets, and wearables, blending sales conversion, operational execution (inventory/demand planning), and marketing investment strategy. Delivered a 15% lift in platform adoption and improved CSAT from 3/5 to 4/5 in H1 2025, while navigating complex stakeholder conflicts (finance, demand planning, customer) and driving cross-functional fixes to catalog/listing issues ahead of major launches.”

Johnny Davis

Screened

Senior Enterprise Customer Success Manager specializing in SaaS adoption and digital transformation

San Jose, CA18y exp

“Enterprise Customer Success leader (10+ years) with experience at Zscaler and supporting Fortune 500 customers, driving high adoption and renewals through metric-driven governance and executive stakeholder management. Known for cross-functional incident leadership (including coordinating with Apple and Product to ship a patch) and for enabling significant expansions (e.g., $600k+ add-on before renewal and a $750k DLP deal) while building Salesforce Marketing Cloud/CRM analytics and enablement tooling.”

Michael Bruno

Screened

Executive HR & Talent Strategy Leader specializing in global organizations and executive search

Sea Girt, New Jersey45y exp

“Early strategic partner recruited by the CEO to help launch and scale Curio Wellness, a vertically integrated medical cannabis/wellness company, from inception to $150M+ in annual revenue. Built scalable governance and operating systems (three-tier governance, P&L ownership, balanced scorecard, KPI dashboards integrated across ERP/CRM/POS) and coached founders/executives to professionalize leadership and execution, including an 18-month plan that doubled revenue while reducing executive turnover.”

Alberto Alanis

Screened

Director-level Global Talent Acquisition Operations leader specializing in AI and shared services

Dallas, TX21y exp

“Talent Acquisition Operations leader with experience at Uber and Workday spanning global hiring process reengineering, ATS/analytics implementations (iCIMS, Tableau, Paradox), and large-scale recruiting coordination leadership. Managed a 90+ person coordination organization across North & Latin America and redesigned the operating model (queue to pods) to double productivity while maintaining strong stakeholder experience.”