Vetted Stakeholder Management Professionals

Karan Mehta

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Business Operations & GTM Strategy leader specializing in analytics and performance

Foster City, CA9y exp

“ZS consultant/product owner who repeatedly turns vague GTM performance goals into decision-centric analytics products and operating rhythms. Has scaled analytics initiatives from pilots into $1M+ platforms with 100+ leader adoption, and tied measurement tools to material business outcomes (e.g., $10M+ incremental revenue impact) through change management and cross-functional alignment.”

“Healthcare solutions architect with roughly 7 years at Mass General Brigham, evolving from application specialist to broad cross-functional architect supporting telehealth, digital health, conversational AI, generative AI, and legal workflow initiatives. Particularly strong at translating complex clinical and business problems into enterprise architectures, integrations, and stakeholder-specific demos across hospital leadership, clinicians, IT, and vendors.”

“Senior engineering/CTO-level leader with hands-on delivery of serverless, event-driven cloud governance platforms (deployed across multiple GE business units) and experience building adaptable usage-based billing at UserTesting. Has advised startups (including CaseText during YC) and supported fundraising and acquisition due diligence, including investor materials for a smart cooler custody management system presented to BARDA during Operation Warp Speed.”

“Real Estate & Construction professional at Analog Devices who built a cross-functional "single source of truth" system (Excel to Smartsheet) integrating tools like CoStar and Conga. Previously co-founded a Shanghai-based communications coaching consultancy serving eBay middle managers, handling incorporation, branding/marketing (including WeChat), office negotiation, and growth through increased class frequency and mentoring.”

“Has hands-on familiarity with successful F2P mobile fighting games (e.g., Marvel Contest of Champions) and can articulate key retention/monetization systems like streak-based daily logins, gacha rewards, and limited-time events. While not having shipped a game directly, they have shipped web/mobile products integrated into gaming ecosystems and think in terms of live-ops health metrics and A/B testing for IAP offers.”

“Cross-functional operations leader who managed six departments and led a first-time international expansion from Dubai into Riyadh, including hiring a Saudi GRO to navigate registrations/licensing and local requirements. Implemented a BI dashboard and later integrated it with an ERP to give executives real-time visibility into sales, project delivery, and finance, and stood up a PMO to improve delivery and collections while reducing sales-to-delivery friction.”

“Senior HR Business Partner with demonstrated impact driving org change and people strategy: led a sales division restructure delivering a 25% efficiency gain, and used people analytics to launch a mentorship program that improved retention by 30%. Strong in systems-thinking diagnostics (metrics + focus groups), leader coaching, and high-stakes employee relations/mediation.”

“Engineering Manager/Tech Lead on Grindr’s monetization team who helped ship an AI-powered conversation summary feature (A-list), contributing across Android freemium implementation and backend LLM workflow service architecture/reviews. Demonstrated strong operational ownership by leading a Boost production incident from detection through rollback and prevention, and improved team throughput by introducing a lightweight end-to-end delivery process in a high-growth environment.”

RajaSekhar Divakaruni

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in Payments and Financial Services

Edison, New Jersey21y exp

“Senior Director-level engineering leader from Zelle who built a multi-year cloud and use-case expansion roadmap (e.g., SMB and brokerage funding) aligned to an aggressive growth target (from $1.2T to $5T in 5 years). Experienced scaling an engineering org from ~25–30 people into domain-driven pods and leading audit/compliance remediation (OCC, SOC 2, PCI) through security and infrastructure reengineering, including multi-region/multi-zone architecture.”

kayla Battle

Screened

Senior Global Talent Acquisition Operations leader specializing in HRIS/ATS modernization and analytics

Plano, TX8y exp

“Talent Acquisition Operations leader with 8 years of experience owning global recruiting process strategy and TA technology. Led a global iCIMS ATS implementation and standardized recruiting workflows across 15 markets, partnering closely with finance, legal, L&D, and local HR teams to ensure compliance (including Egypt-specific labor law requirements) and enable cross-market recruiter support.”

Jebiaus Brown

Screened

Senior Customer Success Manager specializing in Enterprise SaaS retention and expansion

San Francisco, CA9y exp

“Senior Enterprise Customer Success Manager in the Bay Area with a highly data-driven, AI-assisted approach to enterprise retention and expansion. Describes end-to-end ownership of large accounts (including a $300K+ account), using health scoring, sentiment/risk extraction from calls (Gong/ZoomInfo/Gainsight), and quantified business cases to influence product roadmap and secure renewals/expansions (100% GRR, 115% NRR, NPS target 72). Experience advising on martech/GTN tooling (Salesforce, Gainsight, Looker/Tableau) and applying SEO/analytics narratives in executive business reviews.”

Ashraf Jahangeer

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in AI, SaaS, and large-scale platform transformation

Pleasanton, CA19y exp

“Senior engineering executive with 20+ years of experience scaling and restructuring product engineering organizations across startups and larger companies. Over the last 8 years, they grew teams significantly at Stitch Fix and EasyPost, led monolith-to-microservices modernization, and launched products associated with 50M-100M+ ARR. Currently a hands-on VP Engineering at BlueCargo, combining executive leadership with direct technical contribution when customer-critical issues arise.”

Andrew Bender

Screened

Executive product leader specializing in EdTech and SaaS

Cambridge, MA20y exp

“Product leader with deep edtech and AI experience who helped scale instaGrok from a disappointing launch to 330,000 monthly users in one school year without paid acquisition. Has operated as the sole product decision-maker in a tiny startup, consulted through founder-strategy conflict, and brings a human-centered view of AI as a tool for exploration and learning rather than replacement.”

Bharti Prasad

Screened

Executive growth and marketing leader specializing in consumer internet and gaming

Austin, TX15y exp

“Growth and GTM leader with end-to-end P&L ownership across e-commerce and real-money gaming, including scaling a fantasy sports product to the #4 player in its category and managing a 10M-user business. Particularly notable for launching a Tongits app in the Philippines remotely from India using self-directed market research, then doubling retention in 3 months and scaling it to #5 in the country.”

“Operations and technical project leader with experience spanning a boutique investment bank and a startup, focused on modernizing facilities, workplace, and real estate workflows. Stands out for spotting manual operational pain points, driving tools like ServiceNow and Nuvolo-style workplace systems from requirements through implementation, and improving scalability, visibility, and cross-functional coordination.”

Vasudha Swaminathan

Screened

Executive product leader specializing in Enterprise SaaS and AI-powered platforms

Seattle, WA19y exp

“Product leader who helped build Stack Overflow for Teams from an unproven internal knowledge product into a $50M ARR business, later leading product, design, research, support, and analytics. Brings a distinctive point of view on human-centered AI from both Overflow AI and Sumble, with repeated evidence of pairing deep user discovery with measurable business outcomes like 20% conversion gains and sustained 100%+ NRR through strategic pivots.”