Vetted Strategic Planning Professionals

“People/organization leader with deep experience scaling and restructuring global product organizations—managed 900+ employees across 12+ countries and helped scale Verbit’s product org from 30 to 120+ across Product, UX/UI Design, Analytics, and Product Ops. Known for building operating models (product trios, OKRs, design governance) plus talent systems (leveling, comp, calibration) and partnering with executives to deliver major reorganizations tied to strategic shifts.”

“Global HR leader with experience at Tata Consultancy Services and Target, partnering with senior product and technology leaders to drive large-scale reorganizations and operating model shifts (including COE adoption and product role re-titling for clearer career paths). Has led complex change initiatives such as offshoring, mainframe decommissioning, and merging overlapping teams, and implemented structured 30/60/90-day check-ins to support retention across US/India distributed workforces.”

“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.”

“Former PwC Director with hands-on early-stage venture experience (e.g., BridgeLights, a big-data analytics concept for early fintech) spanning concept creation, platform architecture, and go-to-market experimentation. Strong focus on building scalable, modular data platforms with rigorous governance/compliance (data lineage, quality controls) and supporting technical diligence in investor-aligned environments.”

“Former founder who built a revenue-generating DevOps GTM service from zero, using milestone-based revenue targets and multi-channel selling (relationships, channel partners, and major conferences like AWS events and Dreamforce). Also led a cross-functional FedRAMP Moderate readiness strategy to enable selling into regulated environments, coordinating engineering/product/finance/sales/security/support and third-party partners under a tight timeline.”

“AI Product Manager who also operates as a product marketer/CRM lifecycle lead, focused on behavior-driven onboarding and retention. Has delivered measurable growth through segmentation, multi-channel lifecycle programs, and experimentation (e.g., activation +23%, TTFV -30%, retention +14%), and led a cross-functional chatbot integration that improved course completion (+23%) while reducing refunds (-15%).”

“Hands-on engineering leader with 22 years in marine vessel monitoring/control who spans embedded electronics/software through cloud services. Built end-to-end telemetry platforms (sensors to cloud to web UI/API) and led a shift from low-level implementations to web-native technologies to accelerate delivery and broaden the hiring pool, while also scaling teams with a strong culture of openness and accountability.”

“Growth-creative marketer in a club/sports-style environment focused on premium offerings, running structured creative experiments across multiple clubs/markets. Demonstrated measurable performance gains (≈20% lower CPA, ≈12% higher ROAS) by shifting from brand-led to value-forward messaging and translating channel-level performance insights into modular, rapid-iteration creative systems.”

“Transformation/PMO leader who launched the Bear Stearns program management office for a firm-wide business transformation, building governance (steering/ops committees), communications, and an issue-resolution system to align five parallel teams. Known as a highly discreet trusted advisor who improves executive effectiveness through delegation systems, and who can influence senior leaders via storytelling and ROI framing—while also advocating strongly for teams on deadlines and workload.”

“COO experience at an early-stage technology company (CyberAlliance) focused on building scalable operating systems: SMART goal-setting by function, KPI-based performance management, monthly business reviews, and a structured stage-gate product introduction process. Also has hands-on experience rapidly adapting support operations to meet new customer 24x7 monitoring requirements while planning for scale.”

“Enterprise Customer Success Manager who runs rigorous onboarding/adoption programs (project plans, stakeholder cadences, SLA/ticket oversight) and leverages cross-functional leadership to unblock product gaps and POCs. Demonstrated land-and-expand impact, including growing an enterprise account from $500K to $3MM over three years and converting renewals into cross-sell wins through onsite executive engagement and roadmap alignment.”

“Entrepreneurial operator with experience creating business plans and securing venture capital to accelerate a go-to-market strategy. Demonstrates a structured approach to new ventures: framing opportunities, validating/de-risking via market/competitive/external analysis and financial modeling, then building governance, sponsorship, and an execution plan with the right team.”

“Marketing designer focused on modern, high-polish creative across direct mail, responsive web, and lightweight social video. Builds scalable Figma design systems and modular template frameworks to support high-volume campaign output with bulk-edit efficiency and minimal quality drift, and collaborates closely with UA/growth and product partners in fully remote, async workflows (Slack/Figma/Loom).”

“Growth marketer from earthnutre who led a zero-to-one conversion and traffic-quality improvement project combining SEO, landing page/CRO, and paid-media measurement. Used SEMrush-driven high-intent keyword restructuring plus phased page optimizations with control comparisons, then tied results to paid performance—reporting ~15% lower CPA and ~30% MoM ROAS lift. Also runs a modular, data-driven creative iteration process across Meta/TikTok/YouTube and provides performance-based guidance to creators/editors.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered recruiting workflow that ranks resumes against job descriptions, generates evidence-based justifications, and finds "hidden fit" candidates using embeddings + RAG. Demonstrates strong production engineering around hallucination control, latency, and predictable LLM cost management (budget checks, top-K pruning, tenant caps), plus orchestration experience with Airflow/Prefect/Kubernetes and a structured evaluation/monitoring methodology for AI agents.”

“Chief of Staff at DataDome and Onna (founding-team experience) who built executive operating cadences, planning processes, and finance-backed dashboards to drive alignment across fast-scaling orgs (200+ global). Led major transformations including a single-product to multi-product platform shift (improving retention and enabling new market entry) and a sales-led to product-led (PLG) transition, and managed fundraising from Seed through Series B with outside counsel.”

“Procurement/supply chain leader at Boshi Pets supporting North America new product launches and building Vietnam/Taiwan supply chains. Uses KPI-based supplier scorecards, virtual audits, and commodity/FX/logistics indicators to manage cost and risk. Drove a systems-enabled forecasting/process change (IWM integration) that improved supplier on-time delivery to 95%+.”

“Partnerships leader (Director of Partnerships at Frontify; previously supported Founder/CEO/President at Modicum) known for driving cross-functional alignment and executive productivity. Built U.S. market presence and expanded agency partnerships while implementing practical operating rhythms (trackers, leadership syncs, streamlined reporting) to keep senior teams aligned and moving quickly.”

“Operations/finance-focused advisor with experience helping early-stage companies build lightweight but effective operating systems—monthly financial reporting, KPI frameworks tied to revenue levers, and forecasting cadences using tools like QuickBooks and Metabase. Has also implemented scalable request-prioritization (Jira) and guided founder/executive org design changes, including transitioning a founder to president while elevating an internal leader to CEO.”

“Startup product/enterprise-stack builder who helped take Ventric Health from R&D to a market-launched healthcare product in 2024, operating in a $34M-raised, revenue-generating model leveraging Medicare C reimbursement through providers. Previously drove adoption of an integrated K-12 digital learning platform distributed to 100+ institutions over two years, with reported improvements in test scores.”

“People/HR strategy leader with experience in global team management and workforce planning across five divisions at Kantar. Uses data-driven org change (production + engagement analysis) and practical engagement levers (stay interviews, internal mobility, shift redesign) to deliver measurable results, including a 10% production efficiency gain in six months, and has led targeted initiatives to recruit/retain women through focus groups and flexible work options.”

“Recruiting leader who builds structured, competency-based hiring systems and can also personally run Senior Director-to-C-Suite searches. Notable for scaling a full hiring season to 175+ teacher hires and for leading a high-stakes CEO succession search, advising a board to define a new leadership vision and landing a CEO who remains successful four years later.”

“Early ING Direct (2001) IT leader responsible for network communication architecture in a Cisco-based environment, building secure, always-on infrastructure for one of the early pioneers of online banking. Strong blend of security/compliance depth (EFTA, GLBA, AML) and operational improvement skills (KPIs, process mapping, cross-functional redesign), with an executive-facing communication style geared toward influencing budget and strategy.”

“Operations-focused executive leader with experience spanning Fortune 500 and early-stage startups, known for building marketing and cross-functional operating systems from scratch. At Quinn Foods, introduced alignment frameworks (Four Helpful Lists, RASTI) and SOP rigor that helped achieve 5.5 ROAS and a 41% lift in household penetration; at Zoox, redesigned product development workflow and stage-gates, supporting 30% growth.”