Vetted Team Building Professionals

Steve Black

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Principal Product Manager specializing in consumer engagement, AI, and connected fitness

Laguna Beach, CA15y exp

“Product leader with experience across Nike, Adidas, Bowflex, and startups, including serving as the first digital product hire at FluidLogic. Stands out for launching a connected hardware-plus-software product from zero to one in just 90 days, while also building AI-powered consumer features and aligning the entire company around digital strategy.”

Howard Ogawa

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive product leader specializing in e-commerce, marketplaces, and direct-to-consumer platforms

California, USA19y exp

“Senior product leader with high-scale marketplace and commerce experience at Ticketmaster and GOAT, spanning checkout, CX automation, logistics, fraud, payments, and catalog. Stands out for pairing rigorous experimentation and measurable business impact—including $60M+ incremental revenue and major conversion gains—with a thoughtful human-centered AI philosophy and a strong track record of building and promoting PM teams.”

“Engineering leader with hands-on Android architecture expertise who has scaled mobile teams at Weedmaps (including forming a Platform team and rolling out MVVM/unit testing) and also co-founded a bootstrapped side business (Sizzle), owning the technical roadmap, hiring strategy (university pipeline + senior remote engineers in Pakistan), and stepping into fundraising when runway became critical.”

“Player-coach engineer/lead on a high-scale research integrity platform ("Lighthouse") that flags fraud/manipulation signals across ~3M academic manuscripts per year. Owns architecture decisions (ADRs), implements across Go/Java/React services, and introduced NLP (SciBERT embeddings + human-in-the-loop) to assess out-of-context citations while also handling production incidents with a data-consistency-first approach.”

“Entrepreneurial consultant who relocated to Boston to build a practice from scratch through intensive networking and pro-bono work, leading to being listed as a trusted provider in Leader Bank's CEO toolbox and generating qualified leads. Uses structured strategic frameworks (OODA, Porter's Five Forces, SWOT) to evaluate risk, resource lift, and enterprise/customer impact, with a strong ownership-and-accountability orientation.”

“Entrepreneur and investor with hands-on experience launching a startup, investing in numerous startups (including ones that later went public), and acquiring startups for mature enterprises that drove growth. Brings a disciplined, finance-oriented approach to evaluating opportunities—value proposition, competitive intensity, and risk/expected value—shaped by firsthand experience with venture funding disputes.”

“Mission-driven founder at the pre-seed stage with a fully developed business plan, validated concept, and defined business model. They demonstrate strong early-stage startup judgment through demand validation, scalability assessment across repeatable use cases and multi-city expansion, and informed familiarity with VC, studio, and accelerator pathways while preparing for first outside capital.”

Lisa Wong

Screened

Senior Program Manager specializing in financial services technology transformation

New York, NY20y exp

“Consulting and PMO leader with deep experience inside large financial institutions, specializing in tax technology platform delivery across complex business lines including HNW, hedge funds, mutual funds, insurance, and banking/capital markets. Stands out for building governance, funding, and cross-functional operating structures that reduce redundancy, improve communication, and enable on-time, on-budget implementations with measurable time savings and fewer errors.”

“International development and consulting professional with experience spanning Deloitte, McKinsey, the World Bank, IFC, IDB, and the International Rescue Committee. She has led multi-million-dollar global programs, authored proposals and published research, operated in emergency relief settings across East Africa, and even launched her own startup—bringing a rare mix of strategy, finance oversight, field execution, and high-level stakeholder management.”

“Operator with consulting and startup experience who has led founder-level, zero-to-one initiatives across highly complex domains—from conceiving and launching an $80M, 80m maritime disaster-response vessel for Global Support & Development (Sergey Brin’s org) to acting as a cross-functional leader at Windfall Bio spanning regulatory, GTM, partnerships, and R&D. At Deloitte, owned the Omnia ESG software roadmap and drove >30% faster delivery through standardization/automation, and was tapped to train other managers on their operating cadence system.”

“Talent Acquisition/People Strategy leader who has managed a large recruiting organization (25 recruiters + 3 TA Managers) while staying hands-on with executive search. Known for enterprise-wide recruiting lifecycle standardization and for building workforce planning and DEI glidepath reporting that informs executive leadership decisions through data, dashboards, and forward-looking scenarios.”

“Healthcare systems leader with unusually broad provider-side experience spanning operations, finance, revenue cycle, supply chain, and strategic planning. Combines executive finance exposure—M&A support, bond offerings, debt reporting, IPO-related work, and FEMA/DOH coordination—with hands-on operating leadership, including recovering $350M in COVID relief funds and helping drive a turnaround that produced $90M in revenue plus $45M in savings within 6 months.”

Bryan Mangelson

Screened

Executive operator specializing in SaaS, cloud infrastructure, and M&A

Remote, USA11y exp

“Candidate has prior startup experience that included raising money and evaluating accelerator opportunities, giving them practical exposure to early-stage company building. They are motivated by the chance to shape company culture and vision, and they assess ideas with a mix of market research, customer interviews, and personal conviction.”