Vetted Strategic Planning Professionals

“Corporate strategy / M&A professional with experience acting as a chief-of-staff-style associate to multiple managing directors at Focus Financial Partners while running parallel M&A, enterprise vendor negotiations, and infrastructure strategy work. At BNY, led strategic growth initiatives around fintech partnerships (TAM + financial modeling) and supported a confidential divestiture using rigorous information-control processes.”

“Seasoned medtech R&D leader and inventor with a track record of creating and scaling interventional and drug-delivery devices—crediting a low-cost coronary pressure measurement guidewire with a few hundred million dollars in revenue impact and building an innovation organization that reached ~$1B revenue. Now exploring startup opportunities in interventional devices, conducting early market assessments and leveraging deep domain networks to target modalities attracting investors, with an exit-oriented mindset (IPO or strategic acquisition).”

Thomas Majchrowski

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in SaaS, AI platforms, and M&A integration

Irvine, CA22y exp

“Entrepreneurial builder who created a SaaS system for insurance sales and developed in-house sales/marketing platforms, prioritizing a robust backend that drove over $500k in immediate sales before expanding features. Emphasizes lean, high-impact execution with strong focus on optimization, barrier management, and contingency planning.”

Alexander Goldberg

Screened

Executive Technology & Product Leader specializing in AI/AR SaaS and cybersecurity

Los Angeles, CA30y exp

“Engineering/technology leader with mission-critical experience at JPL NASA on the Mars Curiosity Rover, delivering an AI-driven navigation system designed for zero tolerance for mistakes and reportedly operating with no failures for 15+ years. Also led a monolith-to-microservices, cloud-native migration that improved scalability by 300% and cut deployments from days to hours, and is comfortable switching between executive fundraising/stakeholder communication and deep technical leadership.”

Harold Lehon

Screened

Executive Business Strategy & Operations Leader in Medical Devices, Manufacturing, and Technology

North Hollywood, CA25y exp

“CEO/operator with strong private-equity-facing transformation experience who led post-acquisition integration and cross-functional execution to deliver $4M in annual savings. Built a KPI-driven strategic planning and operating cadence that helped scale CCW from $14M to $50M over 5 years, with external recognition including Inc 5000 (2023) and a 2023 Stevie Award for innovation.”

Taylor Bloom

Screened

Executive sports technology leader and entrepreneur

Remote, USA14y exp

“Entrepreneurial media founder who built SportTechie from a side blog into an influential B2B sports-tech media company, raised capital, and sold it to Leaders Group (Advance Publications). Brings hands-on CEO experience across fundraising, monetization, hiring, and exit execution, plus strong ties to the sports-tech startup and accelerator ecosystem.”

Brian Porter

Screened

Executive sports operations leader specializing in baseball and revenue partnerships

Boston, MA26y exp

“Former White Sox player development executive and Commissioner's Office scout with 14 years across MLB-facing roles, including draft evaluation, contract negotiation, and player advising. Now an independent advisor guiding amateur players and families through recruiting, draft preparation, and pro-ball decisions, with a network that has helped create offers, workouts, and development opportunities.”

“Private equity/growth investor with sourcing-heavy experience across software, currently at PSG within a $30B AUM platform after originating 1200+ net new companies at Akmazo Capital. Stands out for combining high-volume outbound founder sourcing with rigorous market research and relationship-building that has led to proprietary SaaS deals and active investment diligence.”

“Backend-focused software engineer (4+ years) across e-commerce, banking, and healthcare who owned mission-critical checkout/order management end-to-end and improved peak-traffic success rates via resiliency patterns (timeouts/retries/caching) and data-driven iteration. Also built and shipped real-time operational dashboards (React/TypeScript + Spring Boot) using WebSockets and event-stream integrations, with strong experience in Kafka/RabbitMQ-style messaging at scale.”

“Engineering leader who has led 100+ engineers at Sainsbury’s Tech and previously scaled an org from 6 to 60+ at AND Digital. Drove a high-impact modernization of a pricing/decisioning platform serving 1,700 stores—moving from batch monolith to real-time Kafka-based event-driven microservices with MLOps, IaC (Terraform), and zero-trust—delivering £18m+ annual profit uplift and 10+ deploys/day.”

“Cross-functional operator with experience at Amazon and Airbus, known for building executive-facing systems (dashboards, AI-enabled project management, operating cadences) that improve communication and efficiency. Has handled high-pressure, multi-timezone priorities and customer-facing technical escalations using structured documentation and frequent stakeholder updates, while maintaining discretion in sensitive situations.”

“Player-coach engineering leader focused on consumer-grade video/multimodal products and high-reliability identity/auth experiences. Led design and implementation of multi-step mobile login/MFA flows with telemetry-driven funnel improvements, shipped Node services and security fixes, and owned auth incidents end-to-end using RUM and step-level instrumentation. Introduced feature-flagged delivery and targeted review/testing practices to speed iteration ~20–30% while keeping login stability high.”

Mark Krawczuk

Screened

Senior Program & Project Leader specializing in digital transformation and cross-functional delivery

New York, NY30y exp

“Cross-functional operator with experience at Rippling and Twitter, known for building lightweight but rigorous communication and reporting systems (shared notes, weekly updates, exec decks, issue-tracker velocity) to keep teams and executives aligned. Emphasizes psychological safety and early conflict resolution, and has supported senior leaders managing high-volume creative/media output through concise, proactive executive briefings.”

“Former Division I baseball player who spent nearly seven years at the MLB Commissioner's Office overseeing the international signing process. Brings a rare combination of lived player experience, bilingual international recruiting work across Latin America, and a decade-plus network spanning every MLB club from GMs to academy administrators.”

“Strategy & operations leader with senior roles at OnDeck, BlockFi, and Protocol Labs who owned founder-level initiatives end-to-end. Notably launched the first crypto credit card, driving 150k first-year sign-ups (vs 30k target) and boosting adoption of other offerings, and later cut time-to-hire from ~6 months to ~6 weeks while rebuilding GTM and operating frameworks.”

“Senior HR Director/HRBP-style leader with experience partnering directly with CEOs and senior VPs to redesign org structures in fast-scaling companies (1,000+ employees). Combines change management, systems thinking, and people analytics to deliver measurable business impact (efficiency doubled, promotions +30%, revenue 3x in 18 months) and is hands-on in leader coaching and high-stakes employee relations.”

“Operations and GTM leader with HP experience managing acquisitions of industrial printing companies (e.g., Nur, Scitex, Colorspan) and driving expansion strategy across EMEA. Strong in route-to-market/channel design, post-merger role clarity (RACI), and using Salesforce for KPI-driven performance management; also brings ICF-style coaching for mentoring leadership teams.”

“Organizational effectiveness and transformation leader who has driven everything from $75M turnarounds to building operating blueprints for smaller businesses. Blends culture/leadership change with rigorous operational design (process mapping, decision rights) and measurable outcomes (free cash flow), and also serves as an executive coach using tools like 360 feedback and DiSC. Has advised CEOs on major negotiation strategy, including a collective agreement impacting ~10,000 employees.”

“Candidate does not currently have a business plan or startup and has not raised capital. They have not worked directly in VC/studio/accelerator settings but report being familiar through friends/family and personal interest in joining that ecosystem; they are not committed to entrepreneurship at all costs.”

Andrew Lanzino

Screened

Executive Growth & Strategy Leader specializing in hospitality, entertainment, and large-scale events

Las Vegas, NV21y exp

“Strategic operations and org design leader who led restructuring at MGM Resorts, including an "org-blind" approach separating structure design from talent evaluation to reduce bias. Also teaches strategic management at a university and has advised/mentored C-suite leaders, combining high-level strategy with hands-on stakeholder listening (e.g., UNLV dean strategic re-envisioning).”

Nathan Cohen

Screened

Director-level People & Platform Leader specializing in global org scaling and enterprise systems

13y exp

“Former Director of Product turned Head of People at Endeavor, blending product/analytics rigor with HR leadership. Managed globally dispersed teams across 30+ countries and helped standardize leadership expectations for managing directors across 40+ offices through competency alignment and structured evaluations.”

Janice Yeung

Screened

Mid-level Marketing Professional specializing in cross-channel brand and growth campaigns

Toronto, Canada5y exp

“Growth and partnerships marketer with experience spanning Coca-Cola brand/creator collaborations and CMC Markets performance acquisition. Has sourced and closed a Hong Kong Disneyland partnership built around a digital game activation, and runs data-driven Google Ads GTM and funnel experiments (Search/YouTube/Demand Gen, retargeting, landing page CRO) focused on lowering CPA and increasing qualified leads.”

Khori Whittaker

Screened

Executive Venture Builder & Operator specializing in 0-to-1 launches and governance

Remote, Global15y exp

“Solo founder running a venture studio (Mongoose) building AI-personalized products (e.g., faith-based daily devotional, meal planning, and a platform aimed at helping retiring SMB owners sell businesses). Previously at InsideTrack, leveraged a Department of Labor grant program to break into the community college market and secured major contracts ($5M and $3M) by helping institutions craft winning grant applications.”