Vetted Team Leadership Professionals

“Board member/advisor to a mid–$10M revenue company aiming for $100M+, focused on portfolio trimming, analyst-quadrant positioning (Gartner/Forrester/ISG), and building scalable commercial operations. Has driven org redesign (separating marketing and sales), CRM rollout (Salesforce) alongside existing Dynamics accounting, and coaches founders to adopt metrics, messaging discipline, and delegation for global scale.”

“Consulting-style leader (McKinsey context) driving data- and AI-enabled transformations across healthcare, QSR, retail, and services. Has built AI-powered analytics tools for marketing ideation, led agile operating models with client-side counterparts and external coaches, and navigated highly sensitive competitive retail engagements by isolating teams and delegating pricing work to avoid conflicts.”

“Engineering manager/player-coach in the Alexa media ecosystem who led delivery of a Tier-1 gateway service enabling third-party providers (e.g., Spotify/Pandora) to control playback across users’ Echo devices, driving 10–15% lifts in engagement metrics. Deep in API design, AWS infrastructure choices (EC2 vs Fargate), OAuth/LWA auth flows, and production rigor (security reviews, load testing, feature-gated dial-ups), with demonstrated incident ownership and operational automation wins.”

“PhD with 10 years in oil & gas who has repeatedly developed and deployed technologies inside companies, including creating an industry-standard method for mapping oil contamination from the ground surface. Experienced in taking innovations from lab validation through funding, field demonstrations, and regulator/stakeholder alignment, and now looking to found a company building AI tools for heavy industries like oil & gas and mining.”

“Senior engineering/technology leader who has defined and delivered a multi-year roadmap to modernize platforms and embed AI, leading global teams through cloud-native and microservices migrations on AWS/Azure. Demonstrated measurable outcomes including 99.99% uptime, 40% fewer incidents, 25% faster delivery, 5x scalability, and $30M in new business opportunities, while scaling a 100+ person distributed org with strong OKR-driven execution and mentorship culture.”

“Growth marketing and marketing ops leader who joined a PE-owned SaaS business after $150M in annual sales and built the demand gen function from the ground up (roles, processes, tech stack, and reporting). Implemented SiriusDecisions-based lead processes, Salesforce-driven lead scoring/routing, and multi-touch attribution, then enabled sales via Challenger training—driving $231M in pipeline and improving marketing ROI to $6 pipeline per $1 spent.”

“Former COO at a venture firm who founded a consultancy/startup serving luxury apparel and accessories brands, with current paying clients acquired through her executive network. Focuses on operational and business strategy for luxury brands of African descent and runs end-to-end product development and sourcing across NYC/China with supplier links to Turkey and India; previously built a book of business at Morgan Stanley and advised startups.”

“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.”

“Entrepreneur building a mental healthcare solution (business plan + prototype; no capital raised yet) targeting therapists and patients. Former Fortune 50 leader who drove a multi-year digital transformation from stakeholder discovery through funding and execution, and previously scaled a data monetization offering by securing 20+ channel partnerships and investing in partner enablement and brand awareness.”

“Entrepreneurial healthcare operator currently serving as investor, co-founder, and COO of Mednevo, a startup combining AI with physician oversight rather than replacing doctors. Brings experience from 8 startups, prior capital raising, and a practical approach to healthcare AI trust, including doctor-controlled AI shutoff, HIPAA-minded compliance, and physician validation of LLM outputs.”

“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 building an enterprise agentic AI startup who has already raised about $100K (friends & family plus self-funding). Has prior and current experience engaging VCs (including outreach to both large and small firms) and emphasizes demo-driven pitching, enterprise customer validation, and targeting billion-dollar market opportunities.”

Martin Bom

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in cloud services and large-scale delivery

Amsterdam, Netherlands31y exp

“Engineering leader with a hands-on developer background who has launched and scaled cloud services at AWS (CloudShell) while also leading AWS Cloud9. Built multi-year roadmaps and cross-org stakeholder alignment (product/marketing/mobile), and has a track record of scaling teams (3x growth) by implementing operational excellence, automated quality gates, and security champion programs; advocates serverless architectures to minimize maintenance and accelerate global expansion.”

Thazim Banu Shaffee

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Engineering Manager specializing in payments, risk, and high-scale distributed systems

San Jose, CA14y exp

“Engineering leader/player-coach on a risk core transaction platform (payments/branded checkout) who led major migrations from a monolithic stack to microservices, including API contract redesign and performance improvements (reported ~500ms latency reduction). Experienced running high-stakes production incidents (upgrade-related outage/degradation) end-to-end with RCA and rollout-process changes, and has accelerated delivery via documentation/tooling (audit sign-off cycle reduced from ~3 sprints to ~1).”

“Former COO of Hamilton Lane’s direct investment unit (appointed in 2007) who helped professionalize operations in an early-stage environment—implementing DealCloud, revamping investment committee materials, and creating valuation governance. Known for pairing process/technology upgrades with culture repair through high-touch communication and transparent leadership.”

Kristen Hoey

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive HR & Talent Strategy Leader specializing in Capital Markets

25y exp

“Recruiting and talent leader with experience managing recruiter teams at Citi (8) and Point72 (3), now advising recruiting teams and leaders. Partners directly with CEOs and board members on senior talent selection, executive coaching, and succession planning, and has driven process improvements such as implementing scheduling software and automation to shorten interview timelines and improve candidate experience.”

Jack Bridges

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Senior Software Engineer specializing in game platforms and player-facing systems

Brier, WA27y exp

“Senior engineer with a rare mix of game-platform and mobile content-delivery experience: helped ship the Xbox 360 Party system and later architected the custom multi-catalog asset pipeline behind Netflix Stories. Particularly compelling for teams needing someone who can design scalable, low-memory, high-stability systems for live content across many titles and external partners.”