Vetted Strategic Planning Professionals

Kristen Hoey

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive HR & Talent Strategy Leader specializing in Capital Markets

25y exp

“Recruiting and talent leader with experience managing recruiter teams at Citi (8) and Point72 (3), now advising recruiting teams and leaders. Partners directly with CEOs and board members on senior talent selection, executive coaching, and succession planning, and has driven process improvements such as implementing scheduling software and automation to shorten interview timelines and improve candidate experience.”

“Entrepreneur and senior executive who has raised capital and built a sophisticated, integrated agency platform spanning PR, design, exhibitions/live environments, and media placement; the business is currently in a sale process due to a major shareholder exiting the U.S. Strong premium-market positioning experience, leveraging C-suite access to validate opportunities and building human-centric, data-driven, AI-enabled service offerings across luxury/hospitality/culture/real estate/wellness.”

“Former Special Assistant at the National Security Council with experience supporting senior federal executives and handling national-security-sensitive information. Helped stand up and standardize operations for a large-scale refugee resettlement effort (60,000 people), creating an executive-driven exception/escalation process and partnering with dev and data teams to prioritize agile sprint work and improve reporting accuracy.”

“Senior executive-operations leader who has run CEO-office functions at BNY (Head of the CEO Office) and supported scaling leadership teams at Public as Chief of Staff to Co-CEOs/Head of People. Known for building operating cadences (MBRs, offsites), creating decision-driving templates, and executing high-stakes weeks combining board governance, CEO travel/client engagements, and external communications with strong discretion.”

Andrew Chang

Screened

Executive operator and startup investor specializing in FinTech, crypto, and regulated blockchain

New York, NY22y exp

“Former COO of Paxos who joined near inception and helped scale the company to a $2.4B valuation, owning operations across nearly all functions and implementing core operating systems like OKRs and decision frameworks. Now advises and coaches early-stage founders through Lynx Collective (NYC startup community he founded), teaches a Startup Executive Bootcamp, serves as an NYU Stern adjunct professor, and sits on a public company board.”

“Operations/Continuous Improvement leader with 25 years of Lean/Kaizen experience, including roles at Danaher and 10x Genomics. Known for building enterprise operating rhythms (True North + daily management) and developing internal CI certification programs, while delivering measurable quality and cycle-time gains (e.g., NCR/MRB lead time cut 47→14 days and FPY improvements via global test-equipment relocation).”

“Operations leader/advisor focused on rapid, data-driven optimization and scalable org/process design. Has rebuilt internal structures, automated and streamlined customer-journey workflows, and delivered measurable cycle-time improvements (cut onboarding from 90–120 days to under 30). Previously built a new operations team that scaled to over $4M in revenue and frequently mentors non-operations executives using tailored, practical coaching.”

“Hardware operations and supply chain leader in a startup environment with strong exposure to fundraising dynamics, board-level reporting, and the financial impact of manufacturing and inventory decisions. Has spent several years in Silicon Valley managing teams at scale and brings a rare blend of operational depth, strategic awareness, and entrepreneurial ambition.”

“Former Managing Director of the LimeLife Fempire Fund with 4 years in corporate venture capital, where they built the fund, sourced deals, led diligence, and deployed $2MM into four women-owned early-stage consumer companies. Also brings nonprofit small business accelerator experience, giving them a strong operator-investor perspective on what startups need to grow.”

“Operations leader with experience scaling a fast-growing, startup-like government organization (tripled headcount in two years) by implementing OKRs, operating cadences, reporting structures, and decision/escalation frameworks. Has led complex process turnarounds (including a debt-collection overhaul with legal coordination and an appeals board) and advises executives on high-stakes public communications during critical-infrastructure cybersecurity incidents using data-driven decisioning.”

“Chief of Staff to the COO / Strategy & Business Development leader at Annapurna who unified four distinct entertainment verticals (film, TV, interactive, theatre) into the company’s first cross-functional five-year plan. Built standardized pipeline reporting, forecasting models grounded in real execution rates, and executive dashboards that improved decision-making speed and COO leverage while navigating creative/finance tension and sensitive information.”

“Operations and business leader with deep footwear/apparel experience who built and scaled internal operating systems for lululemon’s footwear startup division—creating strategic plans, end-to-end product-to-shelf playbooks, and launching product management software to replace Excel/Access. Previously led adidas North American Brand & Product (300 people, $500M budget) and now advises a growing footwear startup preparing for acquisition, including hands-on partnership solutions to improve inventory and P&L.”

Dhaya Lakshminarayanan

Screened

Executive Operations Leader specializing in AI, climate tech, and high-growth organizations

San Francisco, CA20y exp

“Operator who has repeatedly stepped into founder-level, cross-functional ownership at startups—running full HR (recruiting, onboarding, benefits) with AI-driven process automation, and later serving as interim VP People & Culture during an executive transition. Also managed cap table, 409A, equity grants, and day-to-day investor relations, and built company-wide ELT goals/KPIs and operating rhythms tied to board-approved strategy.”

“Chief of Staff to the COO of firmwide engineering at Goldman Sachs, serving as lead strategist for a COO/CIO-sponsored program to drive operational excellence and scalability via AI/automation. Ran discovery across divisions, built governance/OKR systems, negotiated budget commitments with divisional leaders, and coordinated firmwide CFO alignment while preparing Board-level materials for executives.”

“Data engineer focused on building and operating reliable Airflow-orchestrated pipelines into BigQuery, including daily billing ingestion (~1GB/day) and ad platform (Facebook/LinkedIn) data collection. Implemented end-to-end data quality checks plus org-wide incident response automation integrating PagerDuty, Slack, and Jira, and has experience executing large backfills (4–5TB) via time-window batching.”