Vetted Stakeholder Management Professionals

“Recruiting leader with ~5 years managing recruiter teams while remaining hands-on in executive search (Director through C-suite). Strong track record partnering closely with HRBPs and executive stakeholders in the beverage industry, including advising a startup founder through a confidential CMO replacement and delivering a successful hire. Drove recruiting lifecycle improvements by standardizing reference-checking with role-level templates and team training.”

“Talent acquisition leader who has owned the full TA function (and in some roles the broader people/HR function) at companies including Pryon, partnering closely with presidents/CPOs on strategy. Known for data-driven executive influence (e.g., preventing a costly location-restriction policy) and for streamlining late-stage hiring by redesigning CEO/President interview and equity-conversation processes to reduce senior-candidate backlog.”

“Recruiting leader who has managed teams of up to 6 while remaining hands-on with requisitions, owning end-to-end process design, ATS administration, and performance metrics reporting to senior leadership (including CFO/CPO). Built retention and quality feedback loops (7/30/90-day, 1-year check-ins and exit interviews) and drove process improvements like job description revisions to increase candidate quality and secure additional headcount when demand exceeded capacity.”

“Veteran hockey coach and player-development consultant (UConn NCAA ’92; minor pro) with 30+ years spanning AAA, prep, junior, and NCAA, plus experience as Player Personnel Director in the USHL. Key architect of South Kent’s Selects Academy, credited with 23 NHL draft picks and hundreds of NCAA placements, and runs an education-focused consulting practice helping families navigate pathways with honest, level-appropriate guidance.”

“Solutions Associate / technical support professional with experience assessing and fixing multi-script JavaScript issues, providing timelines, and managing scope changes with customers. Has supported customers by diagnosing recurring campaign issues, running technical demos with stakeholder feedback loops, and enabling self-service so customers can resolve problems independently.”

“iGaming product leader with 11 years of Product Owner experience, spanning QA automation (built a testing framework) through BA and ultimately PO for an online poker team for nearly 6 years. Has shipped and managed live web/mobile/tablet games and worked closely with compliance/UKGC on game certification and launches, using BI/data and player feedback to prioritize features and F2P retention mechanics (tournament ticket funnels, quests).”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered university support chatbot on Azure using a RAG pipeline, focusing on reducing hallucinations, improving latency, and handling ambiguous queries via confidence checks and clarification prompts. Also has hands-on orchestration experience (Airflow/Azure Data Factory), including hardening a demand-forecasting ingestion workflow with sensors, retries, and automated alerts, and uses a metrics-driven testing/monitoring approach for reliable AI agents.”

“Attorney-operator who joined Turing as employee #12 and built foundational people ops and internal systems from the ground up (compliant hiring, handbook/onboarding, SOPs, document management, payroll/CRM/banking). Helped scale the organization over 8 years from 12 to 65 employees and expanded service capacity from ~90 to 200 students, including leading building moves and a pandemic-driven shift to fully online operations with multi-state (20+ states) remote hiring/employment.”

“Multi-startup founder/part-owner with experience raising capital across stages (friends & family/angels through VC/PE) for a tech platform and a skincare/beauty brand, including building pitch decks and financial models. Also built a boutique wellness services firm by winning hotel/spa accounts from a larger competitor and ultimately sold the business to that competitor.”

“Built a production voice-first fitness coaching/logging system ("Hey Coach") that routes headphone audio, transcribes speech, and uses LLMs to parse workouts into structured data with human-in-the-loop QA and A/B-tested improvements. Also brings a commercial background: led capital markets at a Series A fintech securing $250M+ in commitments and drove early GTM at WorkHQ.com, landing its first Fortune 500 customer.”

“Lifecycle/CRM marketer from Churchome who led a mobile app onboarding and re-engagement program using behavior-based segmentation, in-app/push messaging, and AI-assisted chat. Drove ~20% lift in early-stage engagement, improved 30-day retention, and reduced support load through automated chat flows and rapid A/B-driven iteration.”

“Cross-functional operator and executive partner with experience leading ERP implementations, process redesign, quality initiatives, and platform/new-market launches. Known for building governance and executive-briefing systems that reduce operational noise, protect leadership bandwidth, and keep large multi-division organizations aligned—while maintaining discretion during sensitive restructurings.”

“Chief of Staff and public-sector leader who has stood up new functions from scratch—hiring 26 people and building governance/processes across 8 locations—while navigating high-stakes regulatory stakeholders. In industry, implemented OKRs and performance systems (Leapsome) and led change communications to improve executive productivity and cross-team accountability.”

“Customer success leader (Director of Customer Engagement at PlutoShift; also experience at Truework) focused on enterprise lifecycle ownership, stakeholder mapping, and VoC-driven product influence. Led cross-functional efforts to ship a reporting capability requested by customers, improving adoption and loyalty, and uses tools like Looker/Tableau plus deep customer discovery to diagnose issues like ineffective onboarding even when usage metrics look strong.”

“Gameplay-focused Unity developer who prioritizes tight, fair-feeling controls—implemented a custom raycast-based character movement system (avoiding Unity physics) to make platforming more deterministic and difficulty tuning more reliable. Has prototyped multiplayer in both Unity (Photon tic-tac-toe replication prototype) and Unreal Engine (shared workshop/crafting environment), and actively uses AI tools (Copilot + asset generation) to speed prototyping and documentation.”

“Business development leader from PDD (product design & innovation consultancy) with high-functioning Chief of Staff/EA-style experience coordinating six business owners and ~20 multi-region designers. Led annual conference/event strategy and logistics (budgets, travel/visas, speaking/booths) and implemented productivity systems like CRM migration, standardized calendar/email protocols, and time-blocking to speed reporting and decision-making.”

“Customer-facing application security/support professional who helps teams operationalize SAST/DAST/SCA in CI/CD, reduce false positives, and prioritize remediation by business risk. Has hands-on experience troubleshooting intermittent pipeline failures (rate limiting/timeouts under parallel load) using logs/metrics/traces, and driving durable outcomes via runbooks/KB documentation and phased security rollouts across stakeholders.”

“Senior operations leader with hands-on experience removing major scale blockers in high-volume operations, including building a scalable end-to-end chain-of-custody workflow validated through time studies, throughput testing, and client-facing demonstrations. Partners directly with sales from site walks through RFPs to win enterprise clients against far larger incumbents, and drives market-level gross margin improvement through P&L-driven metric selection and controllable levers like overtime.”

“Global HRS Process Manager focused on talent/recruiting operations who led a Jobvite ATS implementation and broader talent platform integrations. Known for redesigning req approval and interview workflows—cutting interview rounds to three and reducing approval layers—resulting in a 30% reduction in time-to-fill, while also building executive-ready recruiting dashboards for finance and leadership.”