Vetted Team Building Professionals

“Bootstrapped founder of ByteThirst, a launched browser extension and CLI that monitors and estimates the environmental cost of LLM usage. They are targeting a niche climate-tech/AI space with support for 14 platforms, a freemium subscription model, and a first-mover thesis backed by market research, market sizing, and profit projections.”

“Former high school/college hockey player who spent ~8 years coaching and running strength & conditioning support for NCAA Division I hockey programs (including Yale, Boston College, Harvard). Also coached Team USA Women’s hockey athletes, helping prepare them for pro league tryouts, and is comfortable creating training-tip content on Instagram and YouTube.”

Cornelius O'Donnell

Screened

Director-level Engineering & Program Leader specializing in AI product platforms

San Diego, CA25y exp

“Technical Program Manager and one of three internal "founders" of HP’s Hardware-as-a-Service home printer subscription initiative, spanning DTC shipping, simplified setup, ink replenishment, and warranty coverage. Led roadmap definition/execution, scaled delivery rapidly to 15+ scrum teams (including vendors) with SAFe-like coordination and shared engineering standards, and drove key architecture trade-offs (building an interim subscription management service) to accelerate time-to-market by about a year.”

Tara Petrin

Screened

Executive Marketing Leader specializing in MarTech, CRM, and digital growth

Los Angeles, CA14y exp

“Marketing/CRM professional who has built a CRM and marketing department from scratch—starting with Excel, then integrating into a formal CRM—using segmentation by geography (zip code/geofencing) and profession. Has run retention and lifecycle programs across both B2B and B2C via email/newsletters/social, with A/B testing experience and exposure to major clients including Fox and Sony.”

“Healthcare data platform builder with experience at Aetion delivering a rule-based EMR/EHR ingestion and validation framework that cut onboarding from 8–10 weeks to hours and unlocked $30M+ in revenue over ~3 years. Motivated to found an AI/agent-driven healthcare solution, with a specific interest in using PET scans, doctor notes, and treatment data with LLMs to help predict cancer progression and guide next-step treatments.”

“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.”

“Entrepreneur and executive building an entertainment IP studio centered on YouTube-driven discovery and toyetic, product-friendly franchises. Has prior pre-accelerator experience, has already begun investor conversations, and demonstrates a thoughtful, market-aware approach to fundraising, production cost compression, and venture studio economics.”

Mayuresh Kanade

Screened

Director-level GTM and Customer Success leader specializing in Enterprise AI and SaaS

Redlands, CA18y exp

“Global sales and customer success leader with 20 years across the US, UK, and India who is now developing a buyer-first B2B platform focused on data sovereignty and shifting control from seller CRMs to enterprise buyers. Has worked with VC-backed startups and portfolio companies, including GTM efforts around AI/ML and cloud ecosystems such as Snowflake, Dataiku, Databricks, and Azure.”

Robert Piechnik

Screened

Executive sales leader specializing in healthcare, life sciences, and government services

Sayville, NY25y exp

“Senior public sector sales leader with national U.S. Medicaid experience across EDS/HP and Maximus. Claims billion-dollar revenue impact, including more than $1.2B at EDS/HP and $1.1B in new business at Maximus, plus multiple Medicaid wins exceeding $500M TCV while rebuilding teams and displacing incumbents.”

Prakash Bhanu

Screened

Director of Software Engineering specializing in cloud, platform, and FinTech systems

Sunnyvale, CA22y exp

“Senior software engineering leader with broad 0-to-1 product experience spanning web apps, microservices, monoliths, messaging platforms, ML/AI products, and large-scale distributed systems. Notable examples include building a payroll/finance product for cast and crew, a distributed messaging platform, and a Walmart application deployed across multiple CDNs and clouds handling hundreds of TPS, with personal ownership across architecture, design, coding, and support.”

“Senior product leader with a track record of transforming legacy and labor-intensive products into AI-native, high-growth platforms across automotive SaaS, legal tech, enterprise software, and UCaaS. Most notably, they rebuilt CallRevu’s call analysis engine to replace human review with AI, cutting processing costs by 93% and reducing turnaround from 30 minutes to under 3 seconds, while also launching a new adjacent product line.”

“Senior GTM and marketing executive with 20+ years leading growth strategy across Fortune 500 brands and startups in sectors including automotive, telecom, retail, finance, and logistics. Notable highlights include leading an automotive GTM initiative tied to $200M+ opportunity capitalization, serving as CMO for a $550M organization, and creating a novel embedded insurance product for a marketplace that later became an industry standard.”

Michael Yudanin

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in AI/ML and enterprise software

San Ramon, CA19y exp

“Engineering leader with 20+ years of experience who still codes daily, currently directing AI-driven knowledge management systems at eGain. He stands out for combining large-scale people leadership with deep technical ownership of LLM/NLI pipelines and for a track record of turning complex operational problems into high-impact systems, including a manufacturing platform that boosted throughput 4x and expanded across 11 plants.”

“Senior engineering leader with 22 years of experience building teams from the ground up across domestic and international settings. The candidate also indicates prior startup involvement, past capital-raising experience, and familiarity with VC, studio, and accelerator ecosystems, suggesting a CTO profile with startup exposure.”

“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.”

Chris Deringer

Screened

Executive Marketing & Growth Leader specializing in SaaS and automotive digital marketing

Derwood, MD24y exp

“Growth-stage operator/CMO who helped scale DealerOn from 12 people and $1M to 800 people and $125M, building SEO/digital ads products, client success operations, and multi-source performance dashboards. Led a thought-leadership marketing engine with Google/Facebook partnerships and implemented Salesforce-based acquisition campaigns; experience optimizing onboarding and retention across different customer segments (auto dealers, law firms, home services).”

colton childrey

Screened

Senior QA Leader specializing in AAA games, XR platforms, and backend systems

Los Angeles, CA7y exp

“Game/interactive software QA professional with experience spanning AAA titles (Activision Black Ops 3; Halo 4/Forge) and VR at Meta (The World Beyond). Notable for modernizing QA operations at Lego BrickLink Studio by implementing Testmo and dramatically increasing test coverage and user satisfaction, plus quickly diagnosing and unblocking a critical public-launch issue caused by misconfigured gatekeeper flags.”

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.”

Mariana Quintanilha

Screened

Executive Brand & Integrated Marketing Leader specializing in GTM and growth strategy

Los Angeles, CA18y exp

“VP-level marketing leader in proptech/real estate marketplaces who blends brand strategy with performance rigor. Repositioned RentSpree with a full narrative/IA and cross-channel messaging overhaul driving +32% conversions and major signup growth, and built an internal AI copy assistant to scale on-brand content across teams. At QuintoAndar, created the company’s first 360 mass media acquisition engine, delivering significant lifts in direct traffic, visits, and contracts while implementing CAC guardrails and MMM-style measurement.”

Chris Przybyszewski

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Executive entrepreneur specializing in biotech, medtech, and fundraising

“Serial entrepreneur who has founded five companies, achieved one acquisition with another pending, and raised $150M across biotech, medtech, and mobile tech ventures. Brings rare end-to-end startup formation experience spanning EIR and accelerator mentorship, board and executive leadership, and sophisticated capital strategy across both dilutive and nondilutive funding.”

“Talent acquisition leader who has built and managed recruiting teams up to 12 and maintained hands-on executive recruiting when needed. Led a major recruiting tech/process upgrade by replacing a legacy ATS with Greenhouse and driving adoption through training, and has partnered closely with HRBPs on compensation strategy, performance KPIs, and sensitive employee-relations communications. Also created and rolled out a Sales Consultant Program across US operations at RTB House.”

“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.”

Shyaam Sundhar Rajamadam Srinivasan

Screened

Director-level Cybersecurity Architect specializing in cloud security, threat detection and incident response

Reston, VA18y exp

“Entrepreneur building an AI-enabled platform to help tradespeople (e.g., plumbers/carpenters) find customers, currently moving from ideation toward MVP and user launch. Previously founded Votimo (2012), an early philanthropy/donation-transparency platform, raised ~ $2M in angel funding, and implemented the system before strategic drift from leadership/vision changes.”