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.”

“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.”

“Angel investor (Bluegrass Angels) who advises early-stage companies on product and organizational design, with a background leading corporate back-office (finance/customer service) and supply chain. Proposed and implemented a Global Business Services/shared services unit at a large corporation, building the savings/ROI case and running quarterly progress reviews to ensure adoption and results.”

“Mobile-tech entrepreneur building AppQ (mobile.appq.ai), an agentic mobile SDK that optimizes mobile UX in real time to improve Day 1/Day 7 retention by adjusting levers like ad frequency, difficulty, messaging, and artwork. Previously co-founded an SDK-led mobile ad network (invented push notification ads), scaled to 300K+ SDK integrations, and grew revenue from $7M in 10 months to $50M the following year before exiting in 2020.”

“Performance marketer with hands-on ownership of $50K+/month spend across Google Ads, Meta, TikTok, and SEO, including healthcare work for Orlando Epilepsy Center. Demonstrated measurable efficiency gains (Meta CPL $300→$90 and 3x ROI) through structured testing, segmentation, and analytics-driven optimization, plus creator strategy improvements on TikTok by shifting to local influencers.”

“Engineering leader who managed a 20-person cross-functional team building customer-driven software solutions, delivering a 50% reduction in simulation/test lifecycle and securing a long-term strategic SLA. Strong in scalable data ingestion architectures (FastAPI + Kafka + multiprocess workers), operational diagnostics (correlation IDs/centralized logging), and microservice decoupling for analytics/visualization. Active open-source contributor who shipped a NATS bug fix and improved SDK onboarding with automation that cut ramp time by 30%.”

“Technology leader with experience owning enterprise roadmaps and executing large-scale platform standardization during rapid M&A—most notably driving a tech roadmap across a 37-company portfolio at Regent, tackling technical debt and security gaps via unified cloud-native architecture, IAM/logging, CI/CD, and a global SRE model. Previously scaled an Adobe engineering org from 8 to 40+ across four regions, implementing clear org design, KPIs, and an extreme-ownership culture to support 24/7 operations and enterprise needs.”

“VP of Strategy & Project Management with experience running ~10 parallel cross-functional initiatives, including spearheading a bank-wide DocuSign implementation across Legal/IT/Ops/Front Office. Previously at Google, built an executive dashboard for global public policy engagement and introduced a sentiment scoring system to improve leadership decision-making; strong in executive alignment, business case development, and high-cadence communications.”

“Operator/Chief-of-Staff-style leader with experience spanning a seed-stage aerospace startup, Capital One, and Oasis Financial. Has led multiple executive-driven cross-functional initiatives, built hiring and data/dashboard systems (Tableau) to increase executive leverage, and managed strategic product transformation work alongside day-to-day operational execution.”

“Entrepreneurially minded operator with experience in trading-platform environments who prototyped a vector-database layer to generate contextual incident narratives and reduce MTTR/escalations. Also building a non-tech venture: luxury wine distribution into India and broader Asian markets, sourcing directly from wineries with a Master of Wine and planning tier-1 launch via restaurant-owner connections while navigating complex import duties and licensing.”