Vetted Team Leadership Professionals

“Business builder and operator with 15+ years developing new businesses inside larger companies, including joining GIPHY 5 years post-founding and helping drive value pre-acquisition. As Head of GIPHY Studios, led a major org and business-model transformation—converting a non-revenue content team into a profitable, self-sustaining creative agency embedded within the company.”

“Global talent acquisition leader and player-coach with 15+ years managing recruiter teams (up to 25–30) across multiple regions. Has personally delivered executive searches (including CIO and engineering leadership) and driven enterprise-wide recruiting improvements, including building a global structured interview/assessment program at NASDAQ. Partnered directly with CEO/CFO/CHRO to shift compensation strategy during a high-attrition period (50%) to stabilize hiring and retention.”

“Built a production LLM-driven archival assistant that turns large, low-quality scanned handwritten files (120+ pages) into structured datasets, overcoming context-window and hierarchy challenges with a two-phase LLM + rules pipeline and reaching 98.1% accuracy (Gemini-2.5 Flash). Also orchestrated a large human-in-the-loop effort with 78 archivists, producing 2,400 high-quality annotations in 4 days via detailed rubrics and support.”

“Senior engineering leader in the Bay Area with experience spanning VMware, Hortonworks/Cloudera, Barracuda, and Palo Alto Networks, including leading open-source work (Apache Knox) and architecting large-scale security platforms. Has driven disaster recovery and cloud security products, designed Python microservices for Microsoft 365 security, and scaled teams (3x) while formalizing enterprise readiness practices with automated documentation using Notebook LLM.”

“Architect/engineering leader who built a multi-tenant AI platform end-to-end, including a secure FastAPI orchestrator (JWT, RBAC, tenant isolation, auditing) and an extensible MCP tool-routing layer, then productionized it via fully containerized microservices (Docker, Postgres/pgvector, Redis). Also has strong governance and compliance experience (ARB with security/privacy/SOX) and has owned high-severity incidents through mitigation and RCA/RCCA, plus prior high-volume payments/accounting data pipeline design with audit-grade integrity checks.”

“R&D-focused aspiring founder building a business plan (with CPA/attorney support and a secured webpage) and preparing to seek external funding. Demonstrated ability to turn a customer need into an executed technical initiative—scoped requirements, pitched leadership, formed a team, built tools, and created physics-based models to inform thermal performance guidance for signal cables.”

“Longform digital video editor with major entertainment brand experience (MTV, Comedy Central, AwesomenessTV), including an MTV YouTube show with 20M+ views. Comfortable leading multi-part series workflows and mentoring other editors, and experienced enhancing storytelling with motion-graphics-heavy edits (e.g., Comedy Central Snapchat series).”

“Senior cross-functional leader with 20 years’ experience advising founders, C-suite, and elected officials; most recently served on the executive team of a New York City mayoral campaign overseeing 12+ departments, messaging alignment, and budget allocation. Brings strong operating cadence (daily check-ins/rolling agendas), data-driven prioritization, and proven discretion from nearly a decade holding Top Secret federal government clearance.”