Vetted Strategic Planning Professionals

“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.”

“Founder-sourcing and relationship-development operator with experience from CAA, skilled at cold outreach and long-cycle nurturing that converts into active opportunities. Recently leveraged a former colleague relationship to support a sports equipment startup's Series A by sourcing strategic VC introductions, and has evaluated early-stage products (e.g., 3D-printed custom mouthguards) through founder discovery and top-level financial review.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on real-time mapping and SLAM in unstructured environments, combining camera-based navigation, GTSAM/iSAM2 pose-graph optimization, and nvBlox ESDF mapping with strong real-time performance on both RTX 4070 and Jetson Orin. Has hands-on ROS 2 + Docker integration experience and has built Isaac Sim plugins/ROS 2 packages to make LIO-SAM work in simulation, plus work on decentralized multi-robot SLAM with heterogeneous LiDARs and edge map building.”

“Operations-focused leader with experience spanning client delivery, sales operations, and longer-term customer success initiatives at a reputation analytics firm and at Penta. Known for implementing systems (ClickUp, Salesforce/HubSpot, marketing tech) and rigorous reporting rhythms that improve executive visibility, accountability, and data-driven resource allocation; also supported an acquisition by preparing confidential financial documentation and contracts.”

“Enterprise Architecture leader with insurance domain experience (Farmers Insurance) who drove a multi-phase roadmap to modernize a siloed CRM landscape—migrating from legacy Siebel to Salesforce Financial Services Cloud with Customer 360, MDM, and omnichannel capabilities. Also led a high-impact architecture decision to implement offline billing to reduce customer-facing downtime, including complex SAP/on-prem-to-cloud integration and transaction sync.”

“Operations and revenue-ops leader with higher-education experience who built a team and the full operating/marketing/sales infrastructure from scratch, getting to revenue in under a year and beating projections by year 2. Deep hands-on Salesforce CRM implementation and automation (lead-to-opportunity conversion, round-robin assignment, dashboards) paired with data-driven brand/market research and executive mentoring.”

“Current COO who rebuilds and scales operational backbones end-to-end—data architecture, workflows, dashboards, and operating cadence—creating real-time visibility into pipeline, cycle times, and revenue forecasting. Known as a cross-functional integrator (hiring, GTM, finance, investors) who drives tough tradeoffs and turns ambiguity into durable operating systems.”

“Senior HR leader/HRBP with experience at Lowe's and as VP of HR at Chefs' Warehouse (NYSE: CHEF), known for building scalable talent and performance systems across large operational workforces. Led a nationwide assessment across 15 distribution centers and delivered executive-ready insights that earned a CEO commendation, and is a strong HRIS/people-metrics practitioner (Workday/ADP/Dayforce) who turns survey and workforce data into concrete action plans.”

“Chief of Staff at the Kufel Group with a strong operator + investment/portfolio orientation, leading OKR rollout, real-time portfolio reporting, and AI workflow adoption in parallel. Built AI-enabled executive productivity systems (meeting transcription/summaries, prep briefs, scheduling optimization) and measured impact via an Executive Effectiveness Dashboard, citing a 40% drop in urgent escalations and 13% portfolio performance improvement.”

Helen Eresseril

Screened

Director-level Global HR Business Partner specializing in people strategy and org design

USA & India20y exp

“HR/People leader with experience at Equifax, EMC, and HP driving high-impact org initiatives across compensation, performance management, leadership coaching, and people analytics. Led a major pay-for-performance variable comp redesign and managed a sensitive conflict-of-interest investigation resulting in VP termination, while also improving leader engagement outcomes (+15%) and reducing attrition drivers through internal mobility and development programs.”

Michael Singleton

Screened

Executive Soccer Coach & Sports Psychology Leader in Coaching Education

St. Petersburg, FL29y exp

“Senior soccer leader and educator: former NCAA coach across Div I/II/III, youth national team contributor, and ex-leader within a major state soccer organization. Now VP of Education at United Soccer Coaches, known for integrating sports psychology into coaching and for transforming Washington & Lee into a #1-ranked, perennial Final Four program while also excelling in recruiting and player evaluation.”

Jamie Jones

Screened

Executive biotech and pharma commercial leader (CEO/CBO/VP) specializing in growth, launches, and fundraising

Greater Boston, MA37y exp

“Entrepreneur and fundraising leader with 8 years raising $500K–$55M across life sciences, transportation, and brand marketing. Notably raised $55M for an oncology startup by de-risking the story and sourcing aligned institutional investors with drug development expertise. Brings a highly structured, metrics-driven approach to validation and surgical go-to-market execution in resource-constrained environments.”

“Private equity fund internship experience sourcing and outbounding to founders (notably B2B SaaS and healthcare), using AI-personalized cold emails to generate responses and progress conversations through NDA, financials review, and detailed modeling. Demonstrates structured discovery and diligence rigor, including pushing for segment-level data to enable long-term cash flow modeling and making pass/continue decisions against investment criteria.”

Bryan DiMenna

Screened

Executive Revenue & Sales Leader in Life Sciences, Specialty Chemicals, and Retail Channels

St. Augustine, FL20y exp

“Innovation and licensing leader (formerly led global rapid innovation at BASF) with 10+ years interfacing with top-tier universities and Fortune 100 companies across pharma/biologics, aerospace/defense, and chemicals. Currently drafting provisional patents and guiding lab validation from computational biology toward bench-scale proof of concept for a DARPA-grant-aligned venture targeting >90% margins in a rapidly growing market.”

Alan Rudolph

Screened

Executive COO/CCO leading global Customer Success and Operations in B2B SaaS and Managed Services

Boca Raton, FL15y exp

“Experienced enterprise SaaS operator/investor with extensive exposure to both venture capital and private equity, focused on value creation and financial performance improvement. Has evaluated and acquired 20+ companies in private-equity-backed software environments and brings strong judgment across product quality, go-to-market strategy, and business economics.”

“Performance marketer from Unilever with hands-on ownership of a sizable multi-platform paid media portfolio across Google, Meta, TikTok, and YouTube. Stands out for combining rigorous experimentation, LTV-based audience segmentation, and incrementality testing to improve ROAS, lower CPA, and restore growth when campaigns plateau.”

Shane Westra

Screened

Executive product and technology leader specializing in B2B SaaS

27y exp

“Senior product leader with a track record of building and repositioning B2B software businesses into major growth engines, including initiatives that contributed to Workfront’s $1.5B Adobe acquisition and SimpleNexus’s $1.2B nCino acquisition. Brings deep experience across product strategy, UX transformation, AI-enabled workflows, and cross-functional org leadership, with repeated success turning research insights into high-impact products.”

Alex Lange

Screened

Executive Strategy & Technology Leader specializing in PropTech, digital marketing, and venture innovation

Bellevue, WA36y exp

“Serial entrepreneur with decades in lead gen and CRM marketing and a track record of three exits/acquisitions. Founded Roost, a national MLS-driven real estate portal, leveraging SEO/SEM/email and a pilot-led, unit-economics approach (pricing, retention, CAC/LTV). Now exploring an AI-driven, end-to-end automation concept for SMB hyper-local marketing and execution.”