Vetted Team Leadership Professionals

“Product design leader who has operated as both design head and product owner across retail, supply chain, and global trade platforms. Notable for turning design research into business strategy shifts, leading AI/ML workflow products with measurable adoption gains, and scaling globally distributed design teams while tying UX decisions directly to ROI.”

“Commercial leader currently in building management systems/DDC controllers with a focus on the data center vertical; previously worked at Oracle. Has negotiated reserved-capacity style agreements in telecom (including a Vodafone Group deal using a retail-minus model) and has experience selling into Federal Government and Defense by shaping RFP outcomes through stakeholder alignment.”

“Recruiting Operations leader with experience scaling talent functions at Scout Motors, Caribou, Peloton, and Willis Towers Watson—owning dashboards, headcount/forecasting, ATS optimization, and event-based hiring workflows. Implemented Lightcast and SeekOut to uncover niche automotive technical talent beyond LinkedIn, and redesigned onsite hiring event interview processes by department, driving strong candidate feedback (4.7/5).”

“Engineering leader (Credit Karma/fintech) who built internal developer-platform frameworks at near open-source scale, including a unified key management system migrating ~450 services from on-prem HSM to a centralized KMS. Known for driving large cross-team migrations with strong safety mechanisms (canaries, shadow reads, rollback toggles) and measurable DX/ops improvements (60% fewer provisioning requests; 40% faster time-to-first-secret).”

“Talent Acquisition Operations leader who has managed teams up to 10 and owns end-to-end TA ops areas (strategy, selection, employer branding, and process/tech optimization). Recently standardized fragmented hiring by moving to a one-funnel approach with competency weighting and recruiter triage, already improving time-to-fill. Led Gem implementation/integration and uses ATS analytics (SmartRecruiters) plus post-hire performance data to validate sourcing and selection quality.”

“Enterprise Customer Success Manager who runs rigorous onboarding/adoption programs (project plans, stakeholder cadences, SLA/ticket oversight) and leverages cross-functional leadership to unblock product gaps and POCs. Demonstrated land-and-expand impact, including growing an enterprise account from $500K to $3MM over three years and converting renewals into cross-sell wins through onsite executive engagement and roadmap alignment.”

“Candidate is not currently pursuing a startup or business plan and is not looking to found a company at this time, expressing a preference for joining an existing organization. They have limited familiarity with the VC/accelerator landscape but are specifically interested in learning how companies are evaluated and how investment decisions are made.”

Shery Saeed

Screened

Executive Strategic Advisor & Executive Coach specializing in transformation and growth

New York, NY26y exp

“Transformation/PMO leader who launched the Bear Stearns program management office for a firm-wide business transformation, building governance (steering/ops committees), communications, and an issue-resolution system to align five parallel teams. Known as a highly discreet trusted advisor who improves executive effectiveness through delegation systems, and who can influence senior leaders via storytelling and ROI framing—while also advocating strongly for teams on deadlines and workload.”

Alex Yum

Screened

Senior Supply Chain & Warehouse Operations Leader specializing in logistics optimization

Leonia, NJ20y exp

“Operations leader at AWI who ran multiple high-impact initiatives in parallel, including a WMS implementation, fulfillment workflow redesign, and a company-wide cost optimization effort. Known for building KPI dashboards and exception-based reporting that improved data trust and saved executives ~4–6 hours per week, while standardizing warehouse processes and coaching supervisors to reduce escalations and stabilize day-to-day ops.”

Jamie Lusk

Screened

Executive Talent Acquisition & Executive Search Leader specializing in high-growth tech

Los Angeles, CA18y exp

“Talent leader with ~20 years reporting directly to CEOs/COOs and advising seed-to-Series C startups and venture studio portfolios on 0-to-1 hiring. Built recruiting infrastructure from scratch at FightCamp (cut time-to-hire to ~35 days with ~98% acceptance) and has proven hands-on executive search impact, including taking over and closing a Chief Product Officer search in ~45 days.”

Dylan Grassl

Screened

Senior Client Success & Events Leader specializing in media and live entertainment partnerships

Chicago, IL15y exp

“Sales development and event-sales professional currently at Yondr, blending inbound lead management with outbound prospecting to drive 8–10 meetings/week and ~50% inbound conversion. Helped lift department revenue 35% and built new sponsorship guidelines that secured strategic partnerships and referral-driven growth. Has experience supporting higher-value healthcare-sector deals ($125K–$750K) and managing longer sales cycles end-to-end.”

“Entrepreneur building a luxury rental car company startup with capital already raised, though undisclosed. Demonstrates a thoughtful founder mindset centered on vision, growth trajectory, due diligence, and market penetration, and is actively building connections in the VC/accelerator ecosystem.”

“Previously founded and successfully exited a self-funded startup in the marine electronics and vessel monitoring/control space. Brings unusually broad end-to-end technical depth—from transistor-level design and firmware to Internet-connected systems and software—paired with a pragmatic founder mindset around market needs, differentiation, reliability, and product strategy.”

“Strategic sales leader in education technology currently at Top Hat, owning multimillion-dollar revenue across higher education enterprise accounts in the U.S. and Canada. Stands out for building structured account-planning and pipeline disciplines that drove repeatable target overperformance, plus closing complex public-education deals including a school partnership that grew from $40K to about $12M and a county-wide rollout reaching 9,000+ students.”

Edward Diehl

Screened

Senior Technical Project Manager specializing in data, systems, and FinTech delivery

Morristown, NJ12y exp

“Enterprise implementation and modernization leader with 10+ years across JP Morgan, StoneX, and Majesco, delivering complex B2B/SaaS programs in highly regulated insurance and financial services environments. Has progressed from project coordination into full program ownership, managing $5M+ initiatives and portfolios of 4-6 concurrent enterprise implementations with executive-facing governance.”

“Engineering director and former front-end engineering manager with a strong blend of people leadership, UX/design-system ownership, and hands-on technical depth. At Siemens, they led a 15-person US/Europe team through a SaaS-era design-system transformation, winning over resistant product teams and exceeding adoption goals; at Intellimize, they solved legacy-browser constraints with a custom TypeScript-based build pipeline that improved quality, morale, and user experience.”

“Former Societe Generale investment banking/markets professional turned startup operator who became the first employee at Two Dots and helped scale it from prototype to $12M ARR. Combines executive-level financial analysis, AI product understanding, and hands-on GTM/customer execution, with a standout example of building a backtest-led enterprise sales motion that pushed conversion above 90% and helped win major property management customers.”

“Talent Acquisition leader with WeWork experience who managed a team of 3 recruiters plus a TA Coordinator while maintaining an executive-level requisition load. Partnered closely with HRBPs on org design and workforce planning, and implemented a budget-aligned requisition approval process via a weekly hiring committee. Has hands-on C-level search experience, including supporting the CEO in hiring a CFO.”

“Former Chelsea youth academy player who moved to the U.S. on a soccer scholarship (University of Akron, later Cal Poly) before multiple ACL injuries ended his playing career. Transitioned into 6 years of coaching in the San Luis Obispo area across club (U12-U16), high school, and college environments, with demonstrated player evaluation/development success. Also brings relationship-building skills from sales and hands-on experience creating/filming music video content for social media.”

“HR leader who joined Polished as Head of HR days before the entire C-suite resigned, then partnered with new executives to restructure a $500M e-commerce organization using rapid internal promotions and manager development. More recently at Coforge, supported a North America population and used exit-interview and compensation data to address call-center turnover in Charleston, WV, alongside deep experience running sensitive ER investigations.”

“Chief of Staff at DataDome and Onna (founding-team experience) who built executive operating cadences, planning processes, and finance-backed dashboards to drive alignment across fast-scaling orgs (200+ global). Led major transformations including a single-product to multi-product platform shift (improving retention and enabling new market entry) and a sales-led to product-led (PLG) transition, and managed fundraising from Seed through Series B with outside counsel.”

“Gameplay/systems designer who owned the end-to-end gameplay redesign of Top Spin 4 (2011)—including player states, ball physics, shot resolution, attributes, and AI—with much of that work later reused in TopSpin 2K25 (2024). Deep experience balancing realism and responsiveness for competitive multiplayer/online play, using extensive playtesting plus telemetry analysis (Tableau) to tune timing windows and core mechanics.”

“Customer Success/Account Management leader with deep enterprise SaaS implementation experience, including end-to-end ownership of a Fortune 500 rollout across 800+ locations. Known for rescuing high-risk onboardings through hands-on data remediation and executive stakeholder governance, driving measurable improvements in NPS/CSAT, ticket volume reduction, and major adoption/expansion. Also led cross-functional, accelerated POS integrations (including early Toast POS) to meet tight POC deadlines and enable full-location deployments.”