Vetted Team Building Professionals

“Part-time founder building a bootstrapped IT startup in the R&D phase, running multiple product iterations and cost/benefit analyses to validate uniqueness and monetization potential. Has prior experience working for venture capital firms and is familiar with how accelerators operate, with a strong focus on finding investors who can be true thought partners for rapid pivots.”

Mike Martin

Screened

Executive Services & Operations Leader specializing in managed services, M&A integration, and growth

28y exp

“COO/operator who helped scale a PE-backed Managed Services Provider from ~$20M to ~$120M in 30 months while acquiring 3–4 MSPs per year. Drove post-merger integration and standardized service delivery using ITIL, unified systems onto NetSuite and a unified delivery platform, and built a data warehouse to rapidly integrate legacy data for operational insights (including early ML/AI use).”

Adam Safran

Screened

Engineering Director specializing in platform modernization, microservices, and cloud reliability

Pleasant Hill, CA26y exp

“Former founder (ran a custom web development shop in Los Angeles) with extensive startup experience and a solid working understanding of the VC ecosystem. Helped build and scale a team at Turo from founding member to ~10 people, and is motivated by ownership, impact, and originating ideas—interested in the venture studio model and disciplined about rapid validation and execution.”

Mohammed Ahmed

Screened

Senior Media Performance Manager specializing in programmatic advertising

Hyderabad, India10y exp

“Performance marketer with 10 years of experience managing large US media budgets for global brands including Ford, Toyota, Nestle, Daimler, and Mondelez. Brings strong programmatic and measurement expertise across DV360, The Trade Desk, StackAdapt, Yahoo DSP, Google Ads, Innovid, IAS, and CM360, with hands-on examples of improving e-commerce sales and restoring lost attribution through pixel diagnostics.”

“Entrepreneur building a bootstrapped AI-native manufacturing company that combines agentic AI, LLM-assisted CAD/CAM, and in-house CNC machining to speed up hardware iteration. Comes from an early-stage enterprise SaaS background and evaluates opportunities like an angel investor, with strong fluency in VC dynamics and founder-market-team fit.”

“Enterprise sales leader focused on identity, fraud, compliance, and digital trust solutions in highly regulated markets, including public sector. Stands out for repeatedly building new verticals and scaling revenue—most notably growing a gaming business from $0 to $25M and a healthcare business from $40M to $100M—while applying rigorous MEDDIC/MEDDPICC discipline and hands-on team leadership.”

“Hands-on engineering leader who has scaled teams quickly (hired 20 engineers in 4 months) and led major architecture shifts including monolith-to-microservices and serverless, async AI-driven medical data ingestion/search. Also drove a versioned-inventory redesign with auditability and rollback that reduced operational errors by 22%, and demonstrates strong incident response with clear stakeholder communication.”

Richard Roberts

Screened

Executive TV/Film Editor-Producer specializing in reality, documentary, and broadcast programming

7y exp

“Senior video editor and post producer with deep Premiere experience (and Avid for network-style work), spanning feature documentaries, TV specials, promos, and music videos. Has led teams of 5–12 editors on high-volume schedules (5–6 shows/week) while mentoring on craft, software, music, and montage. Notable credits include work with Discovery and the YouTube channel Organic Nation (Stacey Poon Kinney).”

“Multi-time founder (with exits) currently bootstrapping BrightVoice, an early-stage AI SaaS platform focused on improving law firm intake, client communication, and revenue workflows. Operates with a lean, capital-efficient approach centered on rapid validation and real customer traction, and is highly familiar with VC, venture studios, and accelerators.”

Jonathan Tucker

Screened

Mid-level Esports & Game Operations Leader specializing in strategy, analytics, and live events

San Francisco, CA9y exp

“Game designer with shipped multiplayer FPS experience on XDefiant, owning end-to-end mode design and tuning (Capture the Flag) and co-designing the Hardpoint spawn system across maps. Builds and iterates prototypes directly in Unreal Engine 5 using Blueprints, and has navigated real console/engine performance constraints and post-launch fixes while maintaining competitive integrity.”

“Builder/technical leader who was brought into Finicity to turn a credit-improvement concept into a viable product—architected, staffed, and launched what became Experian Boost. Delivered a major North American product launch in ~6 months, scaling to ~50,000 new users per day at launch and solving complex ML classification and distributed processing/order-of-operations challenges on AWS.”

“CTO/AI executive with repeated 0-to-1 leadership and founder experience across banking software, cloud, and fintech. Most recently, as a fractional CAIO, built a 50+ person team and launched 3 products in 9 months generating $10M+ new revenue; previously founded Trilogy (200+ clients in 7 countries) and created cloud tech that helped drive a $35M acquisition by VMware.”