Vetted Team Building Professionals

“Climate and clean-energy sales leader with 15 years of executive experience building national origination teams, channel programs, and public-sector sales motions. Has scaled recurring revenue 4x, delivered over $800M in value across 64K clients with 99% retention, and led complex regulated-market deals spanning utilities, transit agencies, fleets, and sustainability compliance.”

Kamilah Patterson

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Senior HR Business Partner specializing in talent strategy and workforce analytics

Brooklyn, New York11y exp

“HR Business Partner with GroupM experience supporting multiple mergers, building and transitioning Analytics/Programmatic/Account Management teams through hands-on job architecture, benchmarking, and performance management. Uses HR analytics (including an Excel-based retention model with visual reporting) and cross-functional partnership with IT to reduce disruption and improve retention during restructuring and major policy changes like return-to-office.”

Sanjay Mamani

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive Technology Leader specializing in enterprise data, AI, and cloud analytics

Mooresville, USA26y exp

“25-year builder/operator who has scaled others' visions and led VC-backed startup incubation work (Saltmines). Built Bridgetree’s AI CoE from 0 to 1 and cites $20M+ measurable customer impact, with experience leading 110-person cross-disciplinary teams. Exploring a new venture idea (gotAgentic.ai) focused on agentic AI solutions such as AI-ready data prep, agentic SDLC teams, and front-office automation (scheduling/invoicing).”

“Engineering/technology leader with experience tying roadmaps to OKRs/KPIs, scaling cross-functional engineering teams, and driving go-to-market execution for Managed IT Services revenue growth. In an early-stage company setting, personally stood up core systems (CRM, lead gen, website) and multi-cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS) while building investor materials (pitch deck, VDR, financials), resulting in an investor LOI within 8 months. Also led an on-prem deployment architecture redesign for a network monitoring (NPM) product to improve compatibility, scalability, and security.”

“Serial entrepreneur since leaving corporate in 2009, working largely for equity on multiple startups. Building (1) academically rigorous, anti-overfitting quant/backtesting tools for retail investors (with potential applicability to smaller hedge funds lacking quant staff) and (2) a partner-led “social-as-a-service” platform for verticals like real estate/PropTech (including FSBO use cases) focused on first-party data capture vs. big tech.”

Martin Wells

Screened

Executive AI & Technology leader specializing in AI, streaming, and gaming platforms

Seattle / Tacoma, WA18y exp

“Worked at an accelerator and served as an Entrepreneur in Residence, providing CTO and general founder support to startups. Although not pursuing entrepreneurship personally, they bring direct exposure to early-stage company building and accelerator ecosystems.”

“Founder building an enterprise AI SaaS platform for complex, asset-intensive industries, targeting fragmented-data and manual planning workflows with an AI-native, explainable scenario-analysis product. Bootstrapped to date with production platform in active enterprise trials/pilots and preparing for an institutional seed raise; emphasizes workflow integration, ROI proof points, and founder-led GTM.”

“Hands-on architect/executive who built a virtual sales platform from scratch with real-time video delivery and autoscaling global video nodes, while also operating at the stakeholder/roadmap level. Previously scaled IT as Arbonne grew from ~$11M to $1B in annual sales and led large digital transformation efforts including a 70-person team for princesshouse.com; also advises startups (e.g., SocialBud) on product expansion and roadmaps.”

“Financial data engineer who has built and operated high-volume batch + streaming pipelines (200–300 GB/day; 5–10k events/sec) using AWS, Spark/Delta, Airflow, Kafka, and Snowflake, with strong emphasis on data quality and reliability. Demonstrated measurable impact via 99.9% SLA adherence, major reductions in bad records/nulls, MTTR improvements, and significant latency/runtime/query performance gains; also built a distributed web-scraping system processing 5–10M records/day with anti-bot and schema-drift defenses.”

“Candidate participated in Launch Factory's venture studio selection process, which introduced them to a formalized startup methodology, and then went on to found and recently exit their own business. They are highly motivated to keep building companies, with a clear emphasis on creating products that serve a community and validating market need through product-market fit.”

“HRBP leader in a startup environment with experience supporting global teams and driving org change through structured communication and ADKAR-based change management. Built an analytics-focused function to mature data-driven decision-making, and created a role expectations playbook that later shaped onboarding and reduced role-related performance issues for newly promoted senior staff.”

Akam Pachachi

Screened

Executive Sales & Partnerships Leader specializing in Enterprise SaaS, Travel Tech, and Market Expansion

Oshawa, Canada14y exp

“Partnerships and growth leader (Traveronto) specializing in partner-led GTM through enterprise/API integrations and white-label distribution. Uses rigorous analytics (audience overlap, engagement quality, cohort retention/LTV) to source and scale creator/platform partnerships, and runs funnel-driven A/B tests on onboarding and pricing to improve activation, GMV, and recurring revenue while keeping CAC low.”

“Sales professional with experience building outbound motions in both life sciences and field-services environments. Stands out for turning lab-level wins at Fred Hutch into an institutional sale through multi-threading and champion-led expansion, and for helping Roadside Response grow from no revenue to $5M+ in under 3 years by refining ICP and compliance-driven messaging.”

“People Operations/HR leader in a healthcare setting (Episcopal Health Services) who designed and rolled out a scalable panel interview and behavioral interviewing approach across senior stakeholders. Strong in people analytics and process improvement—cut onboarding cycle time from 4–6 weeks to under 2 weeks—and experienced in complex employee relations (PIP + FMLA) and union workforce performance management.”

Andrew Stock

Screened

Executive sales and operations leader specializing in solar, staffing, and growth strategy

Sacramento, CA24y exp

“Entrepreneurial operator with prior CEO experience leading a SaaS company in the solar space, including two years of venture fundraising, accelerator participation, and raising two small rounds of capital. Currently consulting for a startup with an option to become CEO, but is selectively seeking stronger opportunities based on sharp judgment around business model viability, founder quality, and market risk.”

“Three-time co-founder with experience building both bootstrapped and funded startups, including raising $150K personally and advising companies that raised $500K+ in angel and pre-seed capital. Brings unusually broad startup operating range across customer discovery, product, GTM, hiring, legal, fundraising, and VC/studio mechanics, with entrepreneurial experience dating back to childhood and multiple business exits in college.”

“Candidate claims responsibility for end-to-end technical delivery and describes a structured four-phase delivery process (discovery, design/wireframes, build/testing with quality and velocity focus, and smooth launch). They declined to provide any specific project case studies, technologies, incidents, management examples, or compensation details during the screen.”

“Led the creation of a software department at a hardware startup and designed/built a platform to manage fleets of hexacopter drones, including tackling the challenge of streaming high volumes of data from many IoT edge devices. Prefers greenfield work with high autonomy, combining hands-on architecture with structured planning, cost estimation, and risk-driven execution.”

“Former mechanical engineering professional who pivoted into business development and drove major international growth through strategic partnerships (helping scale headcount from a few to 300+ in 2–3 years). Now finishing an MBA (graduating in May) and building a recruiting/hiring-manager-focused product—prototype complete, validating demand, and aiming to launch an MVP within ~2 months before fundraising.”

David Kim

Screened

Director-level Brand & Marketing Leader specializing in luxury, lifestyle, and omnichannel growth

Brea, California18y exp

“Brand and growth marketing leader who helped launch Gentle Monster USA and evolve the brand from offline-centric to a digital-first global expansion engine, delivering 126% sales growth and a more diversified customer base. Also drove a strategic pivot at legacy B2B manufacturer Flexfit—expanding channels (LinkedIn/Reddit), implementing ingredient branding, and scaling inquiries from ~5.5k to 17k+ annually through multi-audience campaigns and improved tracking/registration flows.”

Kent Hargrave

Screened

Executive Healthcare IT Leader specializing in enterprise strategy, cybersecurity, and clinical systems

Seattle, WA32y exp

“Candidate is not interested in entrepreneurship or founding a company and prefers working for others. Has limited familiarity with the VC/accelerator landscape, with indirect exposure through colleagues who pursued VC funding.”