Vetted Strategic Planning Professionals

“Founder of Build from Scratch and GreenTech Business ecosystems focused on sustainable/low-carbon innovation; raised $150K friends-and-family and built a global platform of 140 companies across 20 countries. Organized three angel funds and invested in LATAM-first recycling and waste-tracking ventures (including lithium-ion battery recycling with a patent), leveraging a corporate finance and investor relations background to mentor and support founders.”

David Kroes

Screened

Executive HR & People Leader specializing in culture transformation, talent, and organizational development

Los Angeles, USA20y exp

“Operations/people-ops leader focused on early-stage, growth, and turnaround environments, with hands-on experience implementing UKG (HRIS) and Lever (ATS) to scale without adding headcount. At Niagen Bioscience, drove a 25% improvement in time-to-fill and cut administrative workload by 30% in 6 months, led a company-wide optimization initiative to reduce silos, and coached a VP of Finance into a successful CFO transition that included restructuring the finance org and upgrading key talent.”

“Strategic operator who localized and scaled a South Korean D2C colored contact lens brand in the US by building three flagship retail locations (LA/Miami), leveraging influencer-driven events, and then launching a wholesale B2B program now in 300 independent optometry offices generating ~$150K/month. Previously spent 6 years at a creative strategy agency (acquired by Accenture) delivering a $1M culture/service-standards transformation for AdventHealth using multi-format communications (film, art, learning design, conferences). Also runs a restaurant/food truck business and is an active creator (music, webcomics, podcasts).”

“Cross-functional marketing/media operations leader with experience orchestrating multi-agency, full-funnel ways-of-working for a large P&G client. Built a client Power BI performance dashboard with an offshore AI team to eliminate manual data stitching and enable near real-time reporting, and regularly drives on-time/on-budget delivery through RACIs, Gantt-based ownership, and centralized status tracking.”

“Operations leader/Chief of Staff profile with experience building organizations in both government and high-growth tech. Helped stand up Senator John Fetterman’s Senate office—designing the org structure and systems for a 55-person team—and later improved planning, reporting, and OKR execution within Stripe’s legal/global policy org during rapid scaling. Now consults part-time to help executives translate strategy into execution through clear ownership, operating rhythms, and scalable systems.”

“Data/analytics engineer who built and operated a DocuSign-based real-time analytics platform end-to-end, processing 20–50k webhook events/day with ~99.5% reliability. Strong in idempotent event processing, schema-evolution-safe ingestion (raw JSON + dynamic parsing), and serving data via versioned, low-latency REST APIs with solid CI/CD and observability.”

William Elderton

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in FinTech, cloud platforms, and digital transformation

Austin, TX26y exp

“Seasoned operator with 30 years of experience at multiple startup companies, primarily in venture-backed environments, plus some exposure to private equity-backed firms. The candidate is highly familiar with the VC and accelerator ecosystem, though they clarified they were pursuing a CTO role rather than actively planning to found a startup.”