Vetted Team Leadership Professionals

William Scott Prestwood

Screened

Director-level Post-Production Supervisor & Senior Editor specializing in digital and streaming content

West Chester, PA19y exp

“Video editor/motion finisher with deep Adobe Premiere Pro + After Effects experience across longform/shortform, promos, sizzle reels, VSLs, and explainers. Built SOPs and led/mentored editors to maintain consistent quality from intake through delivery and archiving, with a retention-focused approach informed by focus groups/post-mortems. Notable brand work includes QVC/HSN (performance marketing + YouTube-exclusive series) and freelance projects for Call of Duty, Wall Street Journal, and Home Depot.”

Tasmeena Maryam

Screened

Senior Design Lead specializing in brand strategy and multi-channel digital campaigns

Atlanta, GA8y exp

“Senior Art Director/design lead focused on high-polish marketing creative and brand systems, spanning a packaging relaunch campaign and a B2B rebrand for a complex, data-driven product (ROIOn). Experienced building scalable Figma design systems and modular templates that enable rapid iteration and late-stage changes without quality drift, plus short-form social video production using After Effects/Premiere/CapCut in fully remote, async workflows.”

Erik Moyer

Screened

Director-level Data Science & Analytics Leader specializing in cloud data platforms and AI/ML

Dallas, TX13y exp

“Candidate states they are very familiar with the venture capital/studio/accelerator landscape and expresses strong willingness to pursue entrepreneurship "at all costs," but did not provide details on a current startup, business plan, fundraising, or prior accelerator/VC involvement during the interview.”

Robert Wheeler

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in cloud, AI/ML, and scalable product platforms

Manhattan, USA25y exp

“Technical leader and hands-on engineer with 20+ years of experience who has previously raised funding and exited a venture. Currently bootstrapping a new AI-direction startup with personal and family capital, leveraging structured financial planning and a relationship-driven approach to investor outreach.”

“Full-stack product engineer who has owned complex internal platforms end-to-end, spanning React/TypeScript frontends, Flask/Redis backend systems, and relational data design. Particularly strong at turning technically dense workflows into intuitive user experiences, including a synthetic-imagery platform adopted by multiple Army research labs and a marketing analytics system with 99.99%+ uptime.”

“Candidate is not pursuing a startup and is actively seeking employment, but brings several years of experience from a late-stage, well-funded startup. They show some familiarity with startup culture, especially the urgency, energy, and focus on creating value and demonstrating progress in real time.”

David Russ

Screened

Director-level sales leader specializing in public sector and public safety technology

Carmel, IN15y exp

“Public-sector sales leader with nationwide experience selling consulting and modernization services into state agencies across all 50 states, especially HHS, Medicaid, child welfare, and related departments. At Public Knowledge, they built a contract-vehicle- and legislation-driven go-to-market approach that produced more than $7M in new contracts and $2.8M realized in-year, while also leading complex IV&V and modernization deals.”

Andrew Bartlett

Screened

Executive product leader specializing in SaaS, AI/ML, and digital transformation

Denver, CO25y exp

“Senior product leader with broad cross-industry experience spanning publishing, travel tech, recruitment tech, eCommerce, and industrial/facilities software. Has led major platform rebuilds, AI-enabled IoT products, and portfolio-level platform strategy across roughly 10 enterprise SaaS applications, while also managing large product/design organizations with a strong servant-leadership approach.”

“Merchandising and buying leader with experience at Rue Gilt, Zappos, and Fisker, owning end-to-end category strategy, OTB, and vendor negotiations across multi-channel e-commerce. Known for structuring high-impact vendor deals (tiered cost breaks, exclusivity, vendor-funded markdowns) and using SKU-level analytics to drive outsized results, including 15% sales growth/8% margin improvement on a $55M category and 80% YoY profit growth from partnership agreements.”

“Unity developer with experience shipping on Meta Quest, tackling VR constraints through disciplined shader/particle usage and a custom rendering approach that only draws visible quads. Builds systems with cross-platform portability in mind via abstraction layers (input/networking/UI) and is currently developing a 2D visual novel/strategy prototype emphasizing decoupled architecture and ScriptableObject-driven events.”

“Former co-founder at PreConception (acquired) who partnered closely with Operations, Legal, and Medical teams to deliver a HIPAA-compliant product meeting technical and regulatory requirements. Motivated by mission and team fit, and interested in a Venture Studio CTO path with a focus on 0-to-1 building and early validation via beta testing/PMF.”

Bhaskara Naidu

Screened

Director-level Talent Acquisition Leader specializing in SaaS, Product & GCC tech hiring

Hyderabad, India14y exp

“Recruiting leader with 4+ years of people management experience, leading a team of 8 direct-report recruiters and staying hands-on in high-impact executive searches (including senior engineering leadership). Strong HRBP and executive stakeholder partner who uses KPI-driven reviews, structured interviewing, and dashboards to improve quality and cut hiring timelines ~20–25%, while also reducing agency reliance through source-mix and cost-impact analysis.”

Jon Davis

Screened

Executive business leader specializing in operations, growth, and M&A

Kalamazoo, MI23y exp

“Former CEO of Davis Oil who led an operational and cultural reset in a multi-location business—rebuilding org structure, KPI reporting, SOPs, and accountability systems. Now consults and advises leaders (especially family businesses) who lack formal operations backgrounds, using a systems-focused “diagnose before design” approach grounded in frontline discovery.”

WAYNE WILLIAMS

Screened

Senior Game QA Analyst specializing in functional testing and dev tracking

Foster City, CA22y exp

“Embedded QA analyst at Sledgehammer Games on Call of Duty titles (Modern Warfare 3 and shipped Call of Duty: Vanguard), owning deep testing for campaign maps and Zombies systems. Coordinated cross-studio testing with Treyarch and global QA teams, using JIRA/TestRail dashboards and daily reporting to manage regressions, crashes, and high-risk gameplay features, including platform-specific cert-impacting issues.”

Carolyn Kostecki

Screened

Mid-level Game Developer specializing in technical animation and Unreal Engine 5

Frisco, TX3y exp

“Gameplay animation/technical animator with Borderlands 4 experience, owning UE5 Animation Blueprint systems end-to-end (including a 3D flight AnimGraph for the "Witness" drone). Built procedural "Gestalt" NPC faces by layering authored facial poses for near-infinite variation, and improved runtime performance via thread-safe AnimBP function isolation while actively bridging animator/engineer collaboration in Unreal.”

ABHISHEK AKODIYA

Screened

Senior Technical Animator specializing in MetaHuman pipelines and AI-driven character systems

Michigan, USA4y exp

“Unreal Engine gameplay/systems developer who owned core systems like NPC AI (AI Controller/Behavior Trees) and loot/itemization/economy, plus progression/difficulty frameworks for a shipped title. Notably drove mobile performance/packaging work, citing a ~75% reduction in AAA Android export size to get a high-end console-quality build under 500MB, including a custom Photoshop macro pipeline to process a massive texture library. Also prototyped advanced MetaHuman features (secure WebSocket, speech/visemes, expressions) using Blueprints and Unreal Editor Python utilities.”

“Implementation/CS professional with enterprise account ownership in fintech/payments and ERP-integrated workflows (NetSuite, QuickBooks), including complex hybrid AP/mass pay setups and bidirectional sync challenges. Partners closely with Product/Engineering on integration plans and sandbox validation, and has driven expansion by upselling REST API automation beyond initial iFrame/ERP scope.”

Kela Olsen

Screened

Director-level sales professional specializing in medical devices and sports business

Loomis, CA22y exp

“Former Division I standout and professional baseball player turned college recruiter, coach, academy owner, and athlete advisor with deep Northern California baseball relationships. He combines data-driven player evaluation, consultative family guidance, and a strong coach/scout network to help athletes navigate recruiting and development decisions, with outcomes including 90%+ transfer/pro signing rates at Sierra College and early advocacy for players like Nick Madrigal.”

Joe Lovrek

Screened

Director-level mortgage sales leader specializing in banking and consumer lending

Huntsville, TX22y exp

“Senior national business development leader from PenFed Credit Union/PenFed Realty with deep experience scaling mortgage, banking, and real estate partnership channels across large territories. Stands out for combining relationship-led growth with operational rigor, including raising internal mortgage capture from under 1% to over 20% and leading divisions producing up to $400M annually.”

“Long-tenured EdTech operator who joined LinkIt! as the third Data Analyst when the company had fewer than 40 employees and grew into a Data Quality Manager over 7+ years. Stands out for blending data operations leadership—ETL migration, reporting automation, process documentation, and training—with highly hands-on startup execution across office operations, hybrid work rollout, and crisis response during COVID.”

“Recruiting leader who has managed 8–18 direct reports and emphasizes operational excellence through onboarding, clear SOPs, and aligned systems. Experienced in hands-on executive search and consultative partnership with HRBPs and executive stakeholders (including CHRO-level), using market data to recalibrate senior-level roles and improve fillability. Has led major recruiting lifecycle process overhauls and driven adoption through stakeholder communication and training.”

“HR leader (VP of HR at Joe Coffee Company; previously at Equinox) with hands-on experience implementing two HRIS migrations and configuring timekeeping/HR systems used as an org-wide hub (ATS, performance management, timekeeping, system of record). Drove a major compliance-focused change to break tracking/pay practices using cost analysis and system configuration to reduce liability while minimizing employee dissatisfaction.”

“Engineering/IT leader with 12+ years of people management and deep ERP ecosystem experience, including SAP S/4HANA and large-scale integrations (APIs/EDI/e-commerce). Managed an 11-person cross-functional team supporting multiple business domains and led process improvements like support-cycle/ticketing and documentation, plus regression test automation strategy driven by business-critical prioritization.”