Vetted Team Building Professionals

“Brand strategist and business builder with startup experience at Betterment pre-launch, operational and revenue strategy work at Patch, and 15 years at McCann delivering 10 AOR wins including Qualcomm, HomeGoods, Air Wick, and Kroger. Particularly strong at entering unfamiliar categories, uncovering overlooked customer insights, and turning them into clearer positioning, smarter targeting, and winning pitches.”

michael avrahamov

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Executive engineering leader specializing in AI-first SaaS and cloud platforms

San Francisco Bay Area, CA22y exp

“Senior engineering executive who operated as an org-level CTO at both ServiceNow and Oracle, leading global teams up to 150 engineers and driving cloud-native, multi-tenant platform architecture. Particularly strong in observability, streaming systems, and security, with experience delivering large-scale systems ingesting data from millions of agents while building high-performing, high-DORA engineering organizations.”

“Early-stage founder building a service business targeting small clinics, already with one client. Identified the opportunity by helping a family member and then validating needs through direct client conversations; uses AI (including AI agents) for content generation and plans deeper workflow automation to scale cost-effectively.”

“Fintech product builder focused on AI-native opportunities; recently helped their company operationalize LLMs in customer service and bank ops by creating systems to continuously improve prompts and evaluations. Also drove growth by identifying hooks in a major American retailer distribution channel and integrating into the retailer’s payment flows to become a key part of the user funnel.”

Marc Urbaitel

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Director-level engineering leader specializing in cloud infrastructure and compliance systems

Portland, OR24y exp

“Experienced software builder and former founder who ran his own startup for 15 years in the late 1990s, focused on bleeding-edge online ticketing technology. Brings a mix of hands-on software delivery, team building, and startup leadership, though he is currently seeking a well-backed opportunity with strong cash compensation rather than entrepreneurship at all costs.”

“Senior public sector sales executive with a strong track record selling SaaS licensing and permitting solutions to state and local governments. Most notably grew Accela from $25M to $100M in four years with 90%+ retention and personally led a complex $10M statewide Oregon deal featuring a custom multi-jurisdiction pricing model. Brings deep expertise in government procurement, RFP influence, forecasting discipline, and building high-performing regional sales teams.”

“Operator with a rare mix of startup creative leadership and big-company strategic execution. Built the design/creative function at Series A hospitality startup Life House Hotels, then at Amazon led cross-functional partnership, marketing, and collectibles initiatives—including a first-of-its-kind sports/outdoor event that drove 10% sales growth without discounts.”

“Senior product leader from PlayStation and Epic Games with rare experience scaling consumer gaming subscription and personalization platforms at massive scale. Led the PlayStation Plus evolution into a tiered live-service platform, driving growth from 30M to 40M subscribers and a 15% ARPU lift, while also bringing AI/ML personalization expertise from the Epic mobile store and Fortnite ecosystem.”

“Senior enterprise product leader with high-impact experience at AWS and SirionLabs, spanning AI-powered database migration and NLP-driven contract analytics. Stands out for shipping trustworthy human-in-the-loop AI products with measurable business impact, including a GA launch that lifted automated schema conversion to 90%+ and drove ~20% downstream revenue growth, plus a rapid COVID-era CLM solution that produced upsell and cross-sell gains.”

“Repeat startup co-founder with multiple successful exits and significant fundraising experience (most recent raise $6M USD; prior raise £10M GBP). Interested in roles bridging investors and startups—performing due diligence and evaluating MVPs/USPs to help firms invest in the right companies and support portfolio growth toward exit.”

“Founder of Optibuy, a newly launched advisory firm focused on energy and manufacturing, combining AI, risk management, operational excellence, and digital transformation to solve longstanding industry problems. The candidate is pursuing an E&P studio model to incubate client solutions and has a targeted fundraising strategy aimed at O&G corporate VC arms, energy-focused VCs, and experienced industry angels.”

“Senior product engineering and data architecture leader who has owned end-to-end solutions for enterprise analytics and legal search platforms, including work for Sony Pictures Entertainment and Accenture Legal. Combines executive-level architecture and team leadership with hands-on experimentation in modern AI systems, recently building a multimodal Hugging Face agent that significantly exceeded its benchmark score.”

“Operations/Continuous Improvement leader with 25 years of Lean/Kaizen experience, including roles at Danaher and 10x Genomics. Known for building enterprise operating rhythms (True North + daily management) and developing internal CI certification programs, while delivering measurable quality and cycle-time gains (e.g., NCR/MRB lead time cut 47→14 days and FPY improvements via global test-equipment relocation).”

“Hardware operations and supply chain leader in a startup environment with strong exposure to fundraising dynamics, board-level reporting, and the financial impact of manufacturing and inventory decisions. Has spent several years in Silicon Valley managing teams at scale and brings a rare blend of operational depth, strategic awareness, and entrepreneurial ambition.”

“Senior software engineering leader with 20+ years of management exposure who has alternated between IC and director-level roles, leading teams of up to 25 across AI platform, analytics, Salesforce, and systems software projects. Particularly compelling for roles needing both technical depth and organizational leadership: they have architected systems themselves, built teams in new geographies, and coordinated platform, AI/data, and consumer engineering groups to deliver successful turnkey AI solutions.”

Ale Flores

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Director-level Product Leader specializing in AI assistants, personalization, and digital video

Seattle, WA12y exp

“Senior Amazon product leader with 12 years across Alexa, Fire TV, Echo Show, and Prime Video, operating at unusually large scale. She led Alexa+ personalization from a nascent effort into an org-wide framework, authored GenAI rearchitecture strategy approved by Amazon's CEO, and has a track record of combining deep technical product thinking with executive influence, partner negotiation, and team building.”