Vetted Team Building Professionals

“CIO-level technology leader (most recently at Sovos) who owned the full tech roadmap across product, infrastructure, and corporate IT, scaling engineering across 14 countries with an architectural review board and standardized security/observability. Hands-on in high-severity incidents (ransomware) while managing executive/client communications, and drove a reported 40% product-velocity lift by adopting AI code assistants and agentic AI (Devin) alongside Kubernetes + Bottlerocket for secure scalability.”

“Product-minded frontend/UX leader with notable experience at CNBC, where they owned premium subscription and engagement flows from problem definition through production and post-launch iteration. They stand out for combining high-polish React implementation, Figma-driven systems thinking, and AI-assisted prototyping to quickly ship and refine conversion-focused experiences.”

“Seasoned healthcare entrepreneur with 30+ years spanning large companies, startups, and self-founded ventures, now building a vascular implant device company around owned IP. Brings 20 years of cardiovascular focus, experience raising capital, and a pragmatic commercialization strategy centered on strategic partnerships, prototype development, and preclinical validation for a large reimbursed unmet-need market.”

“Engineering leader (12+ years Director, 17 years lead) focused on developer productivity and platform/framework work across Oracle, PlayStation, Workday, and CafePress. Notable for building distributed teams from scratch and delivering high-impact platform architecture—e.g., re-architected PlayStation’s upload pipeline to support 500GB–5TB submissions using browser-to-AWS chunked uploads with SNS/SQS and deduplication/resume support.”

Daniel Benyamin

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Executive AI and product leader specializing in media, advertising, and data platforms

Los Angeles, CA28y exp

“Serial entrepreneur in marketing and advertising who has founded four companies, most of them venture-backed. Has raised pre-seed and other venture funding multiple times, mentored at Techstars, and brings a strong investor network plus firsthand experience across the VC, accelerator, and launchpad ecosystem.”

“Product-focused operator with ~20 years experience helping both large companies and newer market entrants launch successful products, with a strong emphasis on disciplined product-market fit in emerging markets. Has personal investing exposure as an LP in two private funds and is researching seed-stage angel investing, and is motivated to found a consumer/software venture built with lean execution and clear defensibility.”

Yiteng Xu

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Director of Lab Automation specializing in high-throughput assays and NGS workflows

South San Francisco, CA9y exp

“Joined Arsenal into a leadership vacuum (manager fired, only engineer left) and still launched a screening project in 4 weeks while defining team direction. Built an 11-person automation org spanning assay development, engineering, and operations, implementing OKRs/retrospectives/dashboards and navigating major pivots (including a partner pullout) while maintaining delivery and retention.”

“Atlassian ML/AI engineer who has shipped end-to-end production systems combining classical ML, streaming infrastructure, and LLM-based personalization to improve onboarding and free-to-paid conversion. Particularly strong in turning research-style RAG and reranking ideas into low-latency, reliable product systems with robust evaluation, safety guardrails, and reusable platform services for other teams.”

“Enterprise Customer Success/Account Manager with deep Braze martech expertise, driving adoption, renewals, and expansion across major consumer brands. Notable wins include growing a nationwide coffee retailer account from $400k to $1.2M, securing a $100k+ TAM upsell through expectation resets, and turning a churn-risk DTC onboarding into a case study and conference speaker via cross-functional execution and product feedback loops.”

BHABANI Dash

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Principal Enterprise Architect specializing in AI, cloud strategy, and digital transformation

Lake Villa, IL20y exp

“Aspiring AI product builder interested in LLMs and deep learning, exploring forming a team (including fresh graduates) and leveraging crowdsourcing to develop ideas. Has not raised capital and has no VC/accelerator experience yet, but is thinking ahead about funding needs and partnering with an operational co-founder while potentially joining an existing team.”

Shady Ashkar

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Executive Technology & Engineering Leader specializing in SaaS, FinTech and HealthTech

Orange County, CA30y exp

“Engineering leader (Octane) who drove business-aligned technology roadmaps and scaled a fully distributed engineering org from 35 to 150 in 9 months using a rigorous ownership model (OARP). Led a greenfield architecture for a new vertical (AWS Lambda/ECS, Python/JS/React) that delivered an MVP in 3 months while cutting per-service cloud OPEX from ~$300+ to ~$20/month, with 15+ years of remote-first leadership experience.”