Vetted Team Building Professionals

“Entrepreneurial operator with experience building two bootstrapped ventures, spanning both operations-heavy business execution and creative production. Through Kellogg MBA work and current exposure at Equiseed, they combine startup ecosystem knowledge with a highly practical, customer- and unit-economics-driven approach to founding.”

“Senior cross-functional leader with deep experience in high-stakes compliance and executive operations, including executing a DOJ monitorship rollout (52 ethics/compliance processes in 3–4 months) and driving executive alignment through training and dashboards. Also led M&A at AT&T across strategy, diligence, and integration, and delivered measurable operational improvements like automating the financial close down to 1 day.”

“Engineering manager leading a 15-person team at FBN on the Gridbull platform, shipping a self-serve pricing/quoting tool for structured commodity products using real-time futures market data. Owns architecture and reliability for third-party data integrations (WebSocket + REST fallback), including resolving a day-one production incident caused by undocumented vendor connection resets. Introduced lightweight Technical Implementation Plans to improve cross-functional alignment and delivery speed in a high-growth environment.”

“Technology executive (VP/SVP Engineering, CTO/co-founder) with ~17 years of roadmap execution and the last 7 in senior exec roles. Notably led an AI-first strategic pivot when generative AI emerged—creating the AI product strategy, reskilling teams, and shipping initial AI features—while also scaling engineering orgs using SPACE metrics and driving major architecture decisions (custom reporting with React + Redshift) to close competitive gaps.”

“Chief of Staff to a President with deep experience driving cross-functional strategic initiatives and executive operating cadence in a commercial banking environment. Delivered a $25M contribution initiative, built governance and reporting systems (including Salesforce leaderboards), and stood up a PM function that cut the project portfolio by >50% and doubled throughput; also supported org design work during a merger with high discretion.”

“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

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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

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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

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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.”

“Commercial leader in life sciences, diagnostics, and scientific tools who has repeatedly built revenue from early-stage scale, including growing NimbleGen from under $1M to $25M and helping position it for a $300M sale to Roche Diagnostics. Brings deep experience selling complex clinical software and instruments into hospitals, labs, pharma/biotech, academia, and government, with a strong reputation for building teams, operating cadence, and cross-functional alignment.”

Scott Mangino

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Executive product leader specializing in SaaS and consumer mobile platforms

Denver, CO14y exp

“Product leader who blends strategy, UX, and hands-on building—designing in Figma, using Claude Code to prototype and push PRs, and partnering closely with engineering to ship faster. Led the Travel Noire app from content brand extension to AI-enabled travel companion, and independently built human-centered AI workflows for grassroots volunteer management. Particularly strong in trust-based, assistive AI products that amplify human relationships rather than replace them.”

“Former psychiatrist and educator turned product leader with a strong human-centered AI philosophy. Has led AI-native SaaS and mobile products, managed large cross-functional orgs, and brings distinctive edtech experience including reducing tutor rematch rates by 52% while protecting the tutor-student relationship.”

Steve Crowell

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Executive sales leader specializing in Enterprise SaaS, MarTech, and Retail Media

West Nyack, NY20y exp

“Enterprise SaaS sales leader who spent 8 years at RevTrax after being promoted from IC, now leading a 4-AE team responsible for $20M+ ARR while still carrying a personal $2M quota. Stands out for driving a GTM repositioning that produced 105%+ ARR growth, building MEDDIPICC-based pipeline rigor, and personally landing marquee enterprise logos like Coca-Cola and expanding them into 7-figure platform deals.”

Richard Roberts

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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.”

“Product leader with experience building AI-enabled interactive voice assistant experiences for global customers, including an IVA that contained 93% of calls successfully. Has also scaled their team 3x in three years and emphasizes simple, efficient UX across complex multi-system claims workflows.”

Jonathan Tucker

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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.”