Vetted Stakeholder Management Professionals

Gary Pulford

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Executive sales leader specializing in public sector SaaS, public safety, and SLED

Lafayette, CO26y exp

“National public sector sales leader with deep experience in public safety, broadband, and government modernization deals. Built organizations from the ground up, exceeded quota, maintained strong retention, and led complex partner-driven wins with Microsoft, AWS, and major public agencies including New Orleans, Atlanta, and Hawaii.”

“MBA-trained project manager with experience spanning retail, commercial real estate, payroll operations, and government compliance. Has served as an owner's representative at CBRE, managed contractor hiring and training at Gusto during peak volume, and now coordinates a complex Department of Defense healthcare initiative involving 40+ stakeholders and significant change management.”

Janine Casale

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Director-level operations leader specializing in franchise and enterprise transformation

Parsippany, NJ29y exp

“Operations and business transformation leader with experience spanning franchise advisory and large-scale enterprise execution, most recently as Senior Director of Operations Solutions & Engagement at Wyndham Hotels & Resorts. Stands out for building structure in ambiguous environments, leading cross-functional initiatives across operations, legal, technology, sourcing, and brand teams, and using analytics tools like Power BI and Salesforce to turn fragmented processes into scalable, insight-driven systems.”

“Senior product leader with experience at Discover and Capital One, focused on platform modernization, partner onboarding, and AI-enabled workflow automation in regulated financial environments. Particularly compelling for roles needing a 0-to-1 builder who can align engineering, design, compliance, and executives while shipping human-centered AI products with measurable impact like 50% faster onboarding and 40% lower design load.”

“Product leader with a strong track record of modernizing legacy SaaS platforms, including an API-first rebuild that increased engagement by 40% and reduced support burden. Also led AI-powered workflow automation that delivered 80-90% time savings through human-in-the-loop design, showing a pragmatic, user-centered approach to applied AI.”

“Paid social creative lead with experience across major consumer brands (Duracell, Amazon Groceries, Puma) and Gen Z-focused retail, owning end-to-end creative strategy from concept/briefing and UGC direction through QA and delivery. Known for contextual, seasonally-timed campaigns and performance-driven iteration (CPA/ROAS, funnel drop-offs), including a Duracell Meta campaign that reached 20M+ views and sustained engagement gains via creator feedback loops.”

“Founder/product manager building an operational longevity nutrition startup with a 500k community, growing primarily through organic social content and rapid weekly funnel experiments. Has launched a detox bundle via a major partnership with Hurom (expected to drive ~$500k ARR) and is building a pipeline of partnerships plus planned corporate sales; preparing to raise $500k–$1M and applying to accelerators.”

“Program/operations leader with Booz Allen Hamilton experience turning around a near-canceled Millennium Challenge Account Indonesia procurement-training contract by implementing train-the-trainer, mentorship, and KPI/dashboard-driven execution. Currently supports the CFO organization at Berkeley Lab, translating high-level strategy into people/process/technology/governance plans with an executive operating cadence.”

“HR professional currently at Intuit supporting global teams on escalated cases spanning LOA, employee relations, performance management, and change management. Previously partnered with executive leadership at Care/of to execute a RIF and ultimately a full company closure, owning selection criteria, WARN/separation documentation with Legal, and employee communications with a strong empathy-first approach.”

“Built and deployed a production Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) platform in a healthcare setting to automate clinical documentation review and summarization, targeting near-real-time, explainable outputs. Emphasizes grounded generation to reduce hallucinations, latency optimizations (chunking/embedding reuse), and PHI-safe workflows with access controls, plus strong orchestration experience using Apache Airflow.”

“Operations/process leader with experience in SaaS and RPO environments, known for turning tribal knowledge into scalable, measurable systems. Has built documentation and knowledge-management standards for 90+ person teams, used data and change agents to drive adoption, and delivered major productivity gains (~300%) through training and automated reporting. Also led cross-functional process mapping and implemented partner onboarding workflows directly in Salesforce to improve SI partner enablement.”

“Org/people advisor with 20+ years applying systems thinking and data-driven methods to high-stakes change—spanning DEI transformations at an international consulting firm, profitability turnarounds in eldercare via company-wide facilitation, and executive coaching. Also designs compensation benchmarks for novel roles at international tech companies, enabling successful global hiring and growth.”

“People/HR leader with strong change management and employee relations experience, including implementing an internal mobility policy to improve fairness and transparency. Uses people analytics (exit interviews, engagement surveys, Five Whys/root-cause diagrams) to drive measurable outcomes—cut frontline turnover ~25–26% by improving onboarding and advancement pathways. Also coaches leaders to improve team engagement and mediates cross-functional conflict (clinical vs. administrative) during critical workflow changes.”

“Enterprise AE with deep telecom/ISP deal experience, including closing a large municipal ISP account (~150K subscribers) by multi-threading across engineering/marketing/product and C-suite while navigating local government approval hurdles. Known for high-stakes renewals/retention work—successfully salvaged an under-deployed, churn-risk customer into a 4-year extension with increased ACV—and for strong peer-ranked quota performance.”

“Automotive embedded product leader (player-coach/product-functional engineering) who helped ship a cybersecurity gateway ECU into production, owning architecture decisions, critical module reviews, and delivery. Demonstrated hands-on security/diagnostics expertise (ADA, RSA) and production defect ownership, plus experience tailoring quality-gate processes to speed variant delivery without sacrificing quality.”

“Software engineer with strong compliance-domain experience who built a customer-facing compliance and reporting dashboard using React/TypeScript with Spring Boot microservices. Demonstrates mature production engineering practices—contract-first APIs, event-driven architecture (Kafka/RabbitMQ), caching (Redis), and robust CI/CD + observability (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK)—and also created a Python-based audit automation tool adopted into the standard release process.”

“Seasoned IT professional services and business transformation executive (currently global Head of Business Transformation Management at Fujitsu) who has built scalable sales-to-delivery operating models for growing boutique firms. Uses data-driven process/task mining plus stakeholder-led prioritization to deliver measurable outcomes, including a 30% manufacturing cycle-time improvement and 80+ SAP S/4HANA improvement recommendations implemented via a phased roadmap.”

“字节跳动实习期间将内部AI重量预测模型从“可用但难上线”的单点能力，改造成可商业化复用的通用API：统一多地区接口与评估口径，设计分层兜底与置信度分级，先灰度上线SEA/JP并推动US/EU落地，结合线上结果进行模型微调。具备LLM/RAG/Agent系统的实战排障方法论，以及面向开发者与售前场景的技术演示与跨团队推进能力。”

“Quota-carrying SaaS seller with experience at Splunk and Everlaw, spanning security/observability and legal tech. Strong in self-sourcing (events + outbound), running full-cycle deals ($50K–$75K ACV), and winning competitively via ROI/TCO narratives while navigating security/compliance and legal/procurement. Has also helped build a repeatable GTM motion in a high-ambiguity segment by refining ICP, messaging, and sales process rigor (MEDDICC, Gong, CRM hygiene).”

David Shin

Screened

Executive Startup Operator specializing in GTM, partnerships, and venture-backed scaling

Remote10y exp

“Early-stage startup operator who served as Chief of Staff and VP of Partnership Operations at Getlabs, simultaneously driving capital raising, rebuilding the sales org, and optimizing customer success processes for revenue expansion. Strong in executive alignment and operating cadence design (OKR-driven communication, structured exec meetings, evergreen decision docs) while balancing hands-on operations with strategic capital planning.”

Alejandro Morales

Screened

Director-level Talent Management leader specializing in enterprise performance, succession, and leadership development

Dallas, Texas19y exp

“Talent/Recruiting Operations leader with deep HR tech governance and process architecture experience, including architecting a Workday Talent Review deployment and building standardized succession/bench-strength data models. Known for driving measurable adoption (Quarterly Conversations from 16% to 85%) and creating legally defensible, high-volume selection workflows through validated assessments (American Airlines), while leading teams across US and Mexico.”

Sandeep Mekala

Screened

Director-level Mobile Engineering Manager specializing in Generative AI and agentic mobile experiences

Remote13y exp

“iOS player-coach who led end-to-end development of real-time customer support chat and unified notification systems for T-Mobile’s iOS app using SwiftUI, Firebase, WebSockets, and Core Data (including offline handling). Drove measurable reliability/latency gains (~30%) through a major notification refactor and owned a high-severity push-notification incident from rollback through RCA and backward-compatible hotfix, while also scaling team process and people management.”

Bhaskar Reddy

Screened

Junior Business & Data Analyst specializing in analytics and BI

Fairfield, CT2y exp

“Analytics-focused candidate with hands-on experience building SQL and Python workflows that turn messy multi-source data into reporting assets and dashboards. They show strong practical judgment around data quality, table grain, validation, and performance tuning, and they described an education-focused engagement project that reportedly improved course completion by 15% through targeted interventions and metric-driven stakeholder alignment.”

“Finance data and reporting professional with PwC experience who bridges accounting and technology, especially around GL-related reconciliations, reporting accuracy, and close support. While not a direct PeopleSoft GL owner, they bring strong SQL-driven troubleshooting, ETL/data mapping remediation, and process automation experience that helped shorten close cycles and improve audit readiness.”