Vetted Team Leadership Professionals

“Execution-focused technology leader and consultant who architects and implements core business systems (ERP/GL, Azure/M365, Google Workspace) and infrastructure to help organizations scale. Has supported growth from 0 to 55M and operated in a 250M+ environment, including standardizing hardware and deploying Intune/Jamf MDM to enable 10+ new retail store openings with consistent POS infrastructure.”

Eidin Khial

Screened

Executive Merchandising Leader specializing in fashion buying and e-commerce growth

Encino, CA10y exp

“VP-level fashion merchandising leader (Men's at Fashion Nova; also experience at "Protein One") with deep expertise in fabric-led assortment strategy, OTB/line planning, and factory cost engineering. Demonstrated outsized impact on margin, lead times, and retention (e.g., +600 bps GM, lead time 120->35 days, retention +22%) and has executed celebrity collaborations with structured royalties and co-sponsored marketing activations.”

“Engineering/technology leader from Ticketmaster who drove a domain-driven modernization strategy for legacy commerce platforms while launching new revenue features (add-on sales like merch/parking/hotels). Rebuilt and scaled teams post-COVID by reorganizing around business domains and implementing federated architecture governance, including a distributed-saga-based order orchestration approach that improved resilience and enabled partial-order success.”

“Strategic operator who localized and scaled a South Korean D2C colored contact lens brand in the US by building three flagship retail locations (LA/Miami), leveraging influencer-driven events, and then launching a wholesale B2B program now in 300 independent optometry offices generating ~$150K/month. Previously spent 6 years at a creative strategy agency (acquired by Accenture) delivering a $1M culture/service-standards transformation for AdventHealth using multi-format communications (film, art, learning design, conferences). Also runs a restaurant/food truck business and is an active creator (music, webcomics, podcasts).”

“Cross-functional marketing/media operations leader with experience orchestrating multi-agency, full-funnel ways-of-working for a large P&G client. Built a client Power BI performance dashboard with an offshore AI team to eliminate manual data stitching and enable near real-time reporting, and regularly drives on-time/on-budget delivery through RACIs, Gantt-based ownership, and centralized status tracking.”

William Elderton

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in FinTech, cloud platforms, and digital transformation

Austin, TX26y exp

“Seasoned operator with 30 years of experience at multiple startup companies, primarily in venture-backed environments, plus some exposure to private equity-backed firms. The candidate is highly familiar with the VC and accelerator ecosystem, though they clarified they were pursuing a CTO role rather than actively planning to found a startup.”

“Brand and growth marketer from True Religion who helped refresh the brand during a comeback period, driving 30%+ YoY DTC growth and positioning DTC as the top growth engine. Experienced leading seasonal multi-channel launches and scaling acquisition through creator-led social, email, and paid digital, with strong creator/talent deal negotiation and culture-driven storytelling.”

“Senior Engineering Manager with a player-coach style who stays technically engaged through heavy code reviews and pair programming. Led prioritization and stakeholder alignment for a scalable, resilient feature-flag evaluation service with strict sub-50ms latency goals, including a major caching-strategy redesign and incremental rollout approach. Experienced in incident response/retrospectives and in coaching engineers toward improved performance and promotions.”

Rina Thakker

Screened

Executive Product & Technology Leader specializing in consumer digital platforms and media

Darien, CT21y exp

“CTO at Grand Slam Track (track & field league) for ~2 years, owning a broad technology portfolio across digital marketing tech, IT, broadcast technology, and athlete/data management systems. Entrepreneurial operator with repeated experience assessing product-market fit using user sentiment, demand data, demographic targeting, and A/B testing; familiar with VC mechanics and looking to deepen hands-on fundraising experience via a large network and board connections.”

“Infrastructure/operations engineer with hands-on IBM Power/AIX administration (LPAR/DLPAR, HMC, RMC) and PowerHA cluster failover experience, plus modern DevOps tooling across CI/CD, Kubernetes/Helm, and IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation/Ansible). Emphasizes controlled change management, drift prevention via Git-as-source-of-truth, and observability practices using Prometheus/Grafana.”

“Solo technical founder building LabInsights, a healthcare middleware platform aimed at reducing missed follow-ups for abnormal lab results by layering AI-driven flagging, patient-friendly education, and prioritized care-team workflows on top of existing hospital systems. Currently validating in Bangalore with a former hospital CEO advisor, focusing on unit economics and securing LOIs/paid pilots; attracted to a venture studio to fill GTM, fundraising, and ops gaps.”

Steven Petermann

Screened

Director-level Sales Leader specializing in Enterprise SaaS and public sector GTM

Atlanta, GA16y exp

“Sales leader from Barracuda Networks with strong experience running Southeast-region SaaS business across Enterprise, Commercial, and especially SLED/public sector accounts. Stands out for bringing discipline to long-cycle government sales, improving forecast quality, and consistently delivering at or above plan while expanding into larger enterprise and public-sector opportunities.”

“Performance marketer with hands-on ownership of $50K+/month spend across Google Ads, Meta, TikTok, and SEO, including healthcare work for Orlando Epilepsy Center. Demonstrated measurable efficiency gains (Meta CPL $300→$90 and 3x ROI) through structured testing, segmentation, and analytics-driven optimization, plus creator strategy improvements on TikTok by shifting to local influencers.”

“Engineering leader who managed a 20-person cross-functional team building customer-driven software solutions, delivering a 50% reduction in simulation/test lifecycle and securing a long-term strategic SLA. Strong in scalable data ingestion architectures (FastAPI + Kafka + multiprocess workers), operational diagnostics (correlation IDs/centralized logging), and microservice decoupling for analytics/visualization. Active open-source contributor who shipped a NATS bug fix and improved SDK onboarding with automation that cut ramp time by 30%.”

“Entrepreneur building a bootstrapped AI-based personal agent (inspired by Claude desktop) aimed at making AI assistance accessible to non-technical users. Motivated by improving individuals' daily lives by helping them organize their day and offload simple, repeatable tasks; plans to explore VC/accelerator options but has not raised capital yet.”

Neha Baadadmath

Screened

Executive Software Engineering Leader specializing in Trading, Payments, and FinTech platforms

Phoenix, AZ18y exp

“Entrepreneurially minded operator with experience in trading-platform environments who prototyped a vector-database layer to generate contextual incident narratives and reduce MTTR/escalations. Also building a non-tech venture: luxury wine distribution into India and broader Asian markets, sourcing directly from wineries with a Master of Wine and planning tier-1 launch via restaurant-owner connections while navigating complex import duties and licensing.”