Vetted Team Management Professionals

“Recruiting leader with experience managing teams from 5 to 55 and staying hands-on in senior/executive searches. Partnered closely with HRBPs and a CFO at PDT, including designing compensation structures for a junior-talent program and helping build out the CFO’s organization over 6 years. Known for implementing a shorter, structured, data-driven interview process that improved hiring speed and enabled teams to become fully staffed and more proactive in hiring.”

Padmaja Tyada

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Executive engineering leader specializing in cloud, AI, and FinTech platforms

San Jose, CA25y exp

“Engineering leader with experience scaling teams from 25 to 60+ and delivering both enterprise platform modernization and AI-native product innovation. At Experian, he led an AWS transformation of a high-volume credit platform serving 250M+ consumers, achieving 10x performance gains and 30% cost reduction; at Channel Core, he built AI-powered creator tools using OpenAI and RAG that improved adoption and personalized outreach outcomes.”

“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.”

“Apple product leader with a rare mix of platform, commerce, UX, and AI workflow experience. They led the App Store Connect rebuild for 50,000+ developer partners, shipped high-impact pricing and payments improvements, and recently built Claude-powered investigation tooling that saves engineering time while preserving human judgment. Strong fit for human-centered AI roles where trust, measurable outcomes, and cross-functional execution matter.”

Diego Leyton

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in AR/VR, metaverse, and game development

Menlo Park, CA14y exp

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer from Horizon Worlds with deep experience shipping multiplayer VR and mobile features, especially scalable real-time animation and object interaction systems. Stands out for redesigning a high-overhead RPC-based animation pipeline into a deterministic client-side playback architecture that reduced network load, improved stability in complex worlds, and enabled previously unpublishable worlds to ship.”

Martin Bom

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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.”

“Engineering leader who built and scaled a distributed team (Serbia + US) to deliver an internal multi-tenant Kubernetes-based PaaS, moving a large org from manual ops-driven deployments to automated CI/CD with >99.97% uptime and 100% service adoption. Known for culture change (blameless post-mortems, clear intake via ticketing) and security-first platform practices (tenant isolation, Falco) supporting SOC2 compliance; also operates at exec level with stakeholder communication and fundraising.”

Michael Smith

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Principal-level finance leader specializing in venture-backed startups and strategic finance

New York, NY16y exp

“Repeat founder and former venture investor with 7 years of investing experience, now building a startup focused on fixing CPG trade promotion inefficiencies. The candidate articulates a differentiated product vision using predictive modeling and portfolio-wide cross-elasticity analysis rather than event-by-event TPM measurement, and is actively mapping the NY venture studio ecosystem to support 0-to-1 company building.”

Jeff Otchis

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Director-level Product Management leader specializing in B2B cybersecurity and enterprise SaaS

Austin, TX24y exp

“Enterprise B2B go-to-market and product marketing leader with experience at Compaq, HP, Dell, Forcepoint, and AT&T/LevelBlue, spanning cybersecurity and OEM businesses. Stands out for building a unified GTM motion across four merged companies at Forcepoint and for driving measurable growth through vertical marketing and sales enablement, including $25M and $10M revenue impacts in separate roles.”