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Vetted Team Leadership Professionals
Pre-screened and vetted.
John Clarke
Executive Finance & Strategy Leader specializing in Big Tech and capital allocation
“Operations/finance leader who joined Google during a rapid growth phase (circa 2007–2008) and built foundational analytics and governance systems across revenue, partnerships, and global marketing finance. Known for shifting organizations from qualitative/"feel" decisions to metrics-driven quota setting, deal evaluation (including cannibalization and margin thresholds), and ROI-based marketing budgeting while aligning senior stakeholders like CFO and CMO.”
Executive growth and brand strategy leader specializing in technology and GTM transformation
Executive Product & Partnerships Leader specializing in Responsible Tech, Privacy, and Equity
Alexandra Esparza
Executive Investment Banking & Capital Markets Leader specializing in TMT and Digital Health
“Private-capital-focused investment banker (former sports/health-tech banker) building a two-sided wellness coaching marketplace plus SaaS platform to help coaches run their businesses and consumers discover/vet/book non-regulated wellness modalities. Has an MVP, landing page, and waitlist, and is running a data-driven traction plan (ads, surveys, alpha testing, Discord/Reddit) before pursuing fundraising channels.”
Christopher McLean
Executive engineering leader specializing in security, privacy, and high-scale infrastructure
“Veteran operator from top-tier tech companies including PayPal, LinkedIn, Stripe, Facebook, and Merge, now seeking the right startup idea to found. Brings hands-on angel investing experience across 5 startups in the EU and US plus additional exposure through X-Stripe Angels, giving them both operator and investor perspective.”
Executive startup operator and attorney specializing in strategy, legal, and FinTech
Executive consumer brand advisor and investor specializing in CPG growth strategy
Staff Data Scientist specializing in machine learning, deep learning, and big data
Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM applications, RAG systems, and MLOps
Carla McIntosh
Executive Global Talent Acquisition & People Transformation leader specializing in IPO readiness
“People operations and talent acquisition leader who was handpicked to launch the first Google Operations Center in the U.S., building the entire hiring and people-program infrastructure from the ground up (including selecting/configuring Greenhouse). Experienced scaling in new markets using deep talent intelligence and transferable-skill frameworks, and currently advises founders as a board member for a talent acquisition startup with a data-and-benchmarks-driven operating cadence.”
Niccolo de Vecchi
Mid-level Management Consultant specializing in due diligence and value creation
“Former Bain strategy consultant with ~3 years experience and an MBA, with examples spanning turnaround work, consumer goods market assessment, and strategic planning. Demonstrates strong executive alignment habits (disciplined updates, no-surprises communication) and operational leadership, including training teammates on Tableau via templates to scale productivity.”
Jesse Olson
Executive AI technology leader specializing in agentic AI and enterprise transformation
“Candidate is exploring a startup in the autonomous agentic AI space and is approaching it with a disciplined founder mindset. They are evaluating market opportunity, competition, customer pain, ROI, technical feasibility, and MVP options while already speaking with potential customers across verticals to validate needs and buying processes.”
Patrick Hovakimian
Executive Legal Leader specializing in government investigations, white collar defense, and governance
SHIVA SANDY
Executive CTO/CIO specializing in FinTech, cloud transformation, and cybersecurity
“Banking/credit-union technology executive (CTO/CTIO) who has led modernization and product delivery through major change, including a post-merger roadmap that helped grow a credit union from $600M to $1.5B in 3 years. Hands-on leader who drove cloud microservices/API architecture, introduced CI/CD, and accelerated releases from quarterly to weekly while scaling teams and operating effectively with distributed/remote orgs.”
Nikolay Chirkov
Executive Engineering Leader (CTO/Head of Engineering) specializing in mobile AI inference
“Co-founded Aethernet Inc., a B2B IoT connectivity platform with a usage-based revenue model and direct sales motion to device manufacturers. Bootstrapped with founder capital and strict cost control, with angel interest pending technical validation; developed the product through multi-year architecture experiments to deliver measurable latency/reliability/scalability/cost advantages versus DevOps-heavy incumbents like AWS IoT Core.”
Director-level Corporate Communications & Public Relations leader in global tech, retail, and e-commerce
Executive Operations & Product Leader specializing in AI and Legal Tech
Senior Strategic Communications & Public Affairs Leader specializing in executive storytelling and crisis comms
Executive Government Policy Leader specializing in budgets, legislation, and energy policy
Executive Technology Leader specializing in AI/ML and Cloud Transformation
Executive CEO and Board Director specializing in global SaaS, Cloud, and AI growth
Shirley Justice
Executive Supply Chain & Operations Leader specializing in global sourcing and transformation
“Operations leader/advisor experienced in bringing structure to early-stage/growing companies by connecting Vision-Mission-Strategy to execution via roadmaps, accountability, and KPI scorecards with defined operating cadences. Demonstrated measurable impact by redesigning sales compensation around margin by product/retailer, improving profitability by 4 points within six months, and has reported directly to founders/CEOs with sales and finance backgrounds.”
Steven Panos
Executive Recruiting Leader specializing in Quant, Technology, and Campus Talent Acquisition
“Recruiting leader with experience managing teams from 5 to 55 and staying hands-on in senior/executive searches. Partnered closely with HRBPs and a CFO at PDT, including designing compensation structures for a junior-talent program and helping build out the CFO’s organization over 6 years. Known for implementing a shorter, structured, data-driven interview process that improved hiring speed and enabled teams to become fully staffed and more proactive in hiring.”