Vetted Team Leadership Professionals

“Commercially minded candidate with exposure to private equity firms as sales targets and experience building partnerships around venture-backed company ecosystems. They appear more inclined to join an existing company than found one, bringing a metrics-driven, process-oriented approach and creative execution style with a strong focus on clear growth paths and capital stability.”

“Founder who built and operated a marketing agency (Six Degrees) end-to-end, setting up legal/infrastructure foundations and implementing SOPs, KPIs, and repeatable operating rhythms. Emphasizes operational excellence, predictable delivery, and prioritization based on customer impact, revenue risk, and compliance/safety.”

“Operations-focused leader with multi-property experience who turns vague complaints (labor spend vs. service quality) into repeatable operating systems. Known for aligning finance, ops, revenue, and HR around shared metrics, running pilots before scaling, and improving labor efficiency/staffing predictability without harming guest experience.”

“Unity VR programmer with multiple shipped Meta Quest titles (including Lead Programmer on Infinite Inside), spanning core architecture, interactions, Addressables, and localization. Also independently designed/programmed/directed the commercial Steam release Zellige: The Tilemaker of Granada, managing a 10-person team and earning positive coverage from Rock Paper Shotgun.”

“Video producer with 4 years at Berklee College of Music leading end-to-end production for online music education (degree/graduate/non-degree), with clips published via Berklee Online Learning’s YouTube. Combines high-end cinema camera experience (RED KOMODO/V-RAPTOR, Zeiss/Sigma) with deep audio engineering skills (Pro Tools, Logic, Ableton) and social/marketing content leadership for Bean House Productions and a gospel label (Red Alliance Media).”

“Operations/project management professional with hands-on experience leading a company-wide office consolidation (3 floors to 2), coordinating across IT, HR, marketing, facilities management, and movers while maintaining executive alignment. Strengths include building clear communication systems (templates, trackers, EA cadences) that improve executive decision-making and managing sensitive initiatives such as layoff logistics with strict confidentiality.”

Leo Almada

Screened

Director-level Finance & HR Operations leader specializing in governance, HRIS, and e-commerce finance

New York, NY11y exp

“Currently at Magnum managing a small global team (NY/London/Paris) and leading analytics operations, including financial reporting for a Shopify-based ecommerce platform. Partnered directly with a newly appointed CFO and COO during a significant org change involving elimination of three global director roles, coached the COO through difficult conversations, and supported a senior promotion that included navigating an H-1B visa process.”

Tyler Stroud

Screened

Executive Engineering Leader specializing in AdTech and scalable cloud platforms

Miami, FL15y exp

“Engineering leader with experience in small, bootstrapped startups and exposure to VC environments, currently pursuing CTO-level opportunities. Thrives in fast-iterating, high-uncertainty settings and emphasizes data-driven clarity plus strong problem/market validation when evaluating new ventures.”

Colleen Gray

Screened

Executive healthcare and medtech CEO specializing in capital raising and medical device commercialization

San Francisco, CA18y exp

“Registered investment banker at US Capital Global with roughly 20 years of fundraising experience across startups and growth companies. He has served as both operator and founder/C-suite leader, raising more than $275M+ for ventures including StorageWay and $27M for medtech startup TracPatch Health, with particular depth in healthcare, investor strategy, diligence, and board-level execution.”

“Commercial leader with 19+ years across telecom, enterprise tech, SaaS, AI, fintech, and digital transformation, combining sales, GTM, operations, and software delivery leadership. Particularly strong in launching and commercializing early-stage offerings across international markets, including ConnectDevs, Codifica.ai, and Fennix, with roughly $750K in new revenue generated within three quarters.”

“Backend/cloud engineer who built an AWS serverless IoT system that computes Bluetooth beacon locations from telemetry using heavy scientific Python (NumPy/SciPy/pandas) packaged as Dockerized Lambda, integrated with Java microservices and scheduled batch orchestration. Has deep AWS delivery experience (CI/CD with Code* tools, CloudFormation, cost controls) and has led high-severity incident response including CloudTrail forensics and infrastructure recovery after a compromised-keys crypto-mining attack.”

“GS-9 federal civilian Human Resource Specialist supporting Navy recruiting at Fort Hamilton (Brooklyn), leading ~12 military recruiters and overseeing elements of contracting and security clearance processing via NASIS. Brings prior Army experience (medically discharged) plus a BS in Legal Studies/Criminology and is starting an MBA in Global Management & Leadership, with a strong data-driven approach to executive stakeholder decisions.”

“Full-stack developer with strong cloud/on-prem focus (AWS, VPC networking) who has improved production reliability by bringing manually created IAM/security group resources under Terraform and standardizing environments. Demonstrated end-to-end troubleshooting across app + infrastructure + networking (traffic capture revealed proxy response truncation) and delivered Python-based monitoring/reporting enhancements that improved ops visibility and turnaround.”

“ML/AI engineer who deployed a real-time, edge-based computer-vision pipeline for produce recognition in retail self-checkout to reduce shrink. Demonstrates strong end-to-end production chops: multi-camera data calibration/sync, ranking-based modeling for fine-grained classes, latency-focused optimization, and continuous A/B testing/monitoring with guardrails. Experienced with ML orchestration (Kubeflow Pipelines, Airflow) and CI/CD via GitHub Actions, and collaborates closely with store operations to make interventions usable in the checkout flow.”

Manali Patil

Screened

Senior Software Engineer & Engineering Manager specializing in cloud backend and manufacturing MES

Santa Clara, CA9y exp

“Customer-facing engineer who led recurring midnight ERP data-feed/B2B integrations from prototype to production, building reusable APIs and using Hangfire for job scheduling. Known for tight weekly customer iteration, strong documentation and test coverage (80%+), and cross-functional problem-solving with Operations/Quality/NPI to resolve data-collection and manufacturing-process constraints; has 2 customers live on the integration.”

Jarron Tate

Screened

Director-level Enterprise SaaS Sales Leader specializing in HR Tech

Gretna, NE18y exp

“Enterprise and public-sector sales leader with experience managing teams of up to 16 and selling into education, government, healthcare, manufacturing, hospitality, tech, and other verticals. Most recently drove $30M+ pipeline and $4M ARR at HR Acuity while landing marquee customers like Google DeepMind, PayPal, Cisco, and Palo Alto Networks, and previously helped scale Roots through international expansion before its acquisition by Deel.”

“Performance marketer with high-spend ($50K+/month+) acquisition experience at TastyTrade (online brokerage), running full-funnel prospecting and retargeting across DV360, Meta, TikTok, Reddit, X/Twitter, and Google Display. Uses structured, KPI-driven testing and weekly reporting; notably reversed a Meta downturn by restructuring campaigns and refreshing creative/audiences, resulting in ~2x performance improvement.”

“Growth-creative lead focused on scaling paid acquisition profitably across Meta and Google (Search/PMax), with a rigorous testing approach that isolates creative impact and uses ROAS/CPA decision rules tied to breakeven thresholds. Strong in translating performance signals (drop-off, hook effectiveness, audience shifts) into concrete edit lists and modular UGC/influencer-driven creative systems for rapid iteration across Meta, TikTok, and YouTube.”

“Partnership and account-growth professional with experience managing 1,000+ accounts and sourcing/closing major key accounts through relationship-led selling and CRM-driven execution. Led a cross-functional GTM launch (creative/marketing + sales) that achieved #5 positioning among 5,000+ competitors in the first year, and reports 85% YoY growth with 40% QoQ distribution/sales gains. Built a QR-code customer feedback survey loop to continuously refine questions tied to sell-through and sales performance.”

“Operations-focused advisor/consultant for early-stage and growing companies, with repeated experience scaling processes and people. Has driven measurable improvements in SaaS partnerships by implementing partner scoring, onboarding, and accountability systems, and reduced churn for an outsourced IT provider by clarifying roles and responsibilities without adding headcount. Known for mentoring founders through data-backed, Socratic questioning to unlock tough decisions like reallocating spend away from underperforming partners.”

“Greater Boston-based videographer with foundation and brand experience (Milken Family Foundation, Kia) spanning social-first YouTube content, live-event b-roll, green-screen interviews, and conference audio capture. Comfortable as a lean two-person crew, known for fast on-the-fly shot planning and strong technical command across major cinema camera ecosystems, DJI stabilization, pro audio recorders, and extensive lighting/grip setups.”

Usamah Paul

Screened

Mid-level Product Launch Administrator specializing in global e-commerce sports releases

Manchester, United Kingdom8y exp

“Web product lifecycle professional with hands-on experience taking licensed sports merchandise from start-to-finish and publishing it live on a website. Tracks operational throughput and content/catalog health via daily/weekly metrics (products processed, image sourcing/uploading, catalog updates) and applies structured planning for event timelines.”

Tony Simonetti

Screened

Senior Video Editor specializing in branded, documentary, and real estate profile content

Richmond, VA13y exp

“Video editor/motion graphics specialist with 10+ years in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects, delivering high-volume branded content under extreme deadlines (200+ videos in 24-hour turnarounds; 300+ assets with AE graphics). Co-led a 7-person post-production team at Homes.com, building templates and workflow standards to maintain quality at scale. Longtime contributor to ArtsEmerson’s YouTube presence for nearly a decade, helping evolve channel branding and cross-platform rebranding.”

Edward Fisher

Screened

Director-level Talent Operations & Recruiting Operations leader specializing in scalable systems

Dallas, TX11y exp

“Talent/Recruiting Operations leader from high-volume, customer-centric environments who has managed teams of 18–42 and owned workforce planning, QA calibration, onboarding/training, and process optimization. Notable for redesigning a service-coordinator hiring funnel (standardized competency screening + scheduling automation + revamped onboarding) driving 8–10% service-level gains and faster fills, and for leading cross-functional system implementations with strong reporting/analytics rigor.”