Vetted Team Management Professionals

“Lifelong basketball player with extensive exposure to elite Southern California high school basketball (Servite/Trinity League) and familiarity with college recruiting through close connections, who applies a structured PFF-style evaluation lens to scouting. Comfortable identifying talent via film and in-person viewing and proactively engaging prospects through social media outreach; also brings experience working demanding overnight/on-call schedules from Amazon last-mile logistics.”

“Founder of an algorithmic trading startup who reports raising $25M+ over roughly the last three years. Has spent several years working closely with VC funds, focusing on fundraising and lead generation with VC/PE firms, and is strongly committed to entrepreneurship and scaling new technologies.”

“Brazil-based startup CTO who raised $3M and spent 5 years building an agri-fintech credit origination tool for farmers, including going through Y Combinator and fundraising via Demo Day and Brazilian VCs. Ultimately shut the company down due to market shifts (rising interest rates and farmer delinquency), demonstrating pragmatic judgment and deep exposure to credit-market dynamics.”

“Unity VR/MR developer with multiple shipped Meta Quest projects, including a multi-user mixed-reality co-creation experience featuring real-time connection logic and shader-driven mesh generation for performance. Also builds AI-powered interactive applications, recently creating a video interview simulator using OpenAI API, HeyGen real-time avatars, and AWS audio/agent tooling while managing end-to-end latency challenges.”

“Global technology operations leader currently at WPP, managing teams across APAC, EMEA, LATAM, and North America. Has built large technology teams in India (Chennai and Bangalore) and managed product/product design teams in the US, and recently led a major org restructure shifting from a global to a regional operating model with change management.”

“ML/LLM engineer who has shipped a production transformer-based document understanding system on AWS, owning the full pipeline from domain fine-tuning to Dockerized CI/CD deployment. Demonstrates strong production rigor—latency optimization (distillation/quantization, async batching, autoscaling), orchestration with Airflow/Step Functions/Azure Data Factory, and monitoring/drift detection—plus experience translating ops stakeholder needs into adopted AI automation via dashboards.”

“Technology leader who built a unified platform for Fox live sports production operations starting in 2019, delivering an initial operational system on an ~18-month timeline while simultaneously scaling an in-house engineering team from a service-provider partnership. Led a security architecture for external vendors/partners using a separate Okta instance with zero-trust and passwordless authentication, and drove adoption through strong change management, documentation, and agile execution.”

“Associate Director in commercial technology leading Salesforce platform delivery (Sales Cloud + Health Cloud) for patient engagement and order management. Personally led secure integrations like Bartender Cloud label/barcode generation (PDF creation, encryption, malware scanning) and owned a major StreamSets-based Salesforce data sync incident triggered by a Salesforce region move, adding proactive monitoring and automated DR/failover. Experienced in scaling delivery via CI/CD, release cadence, and leading teams through architecture reviews, code reviews, and lead-to-cash automation.”

“Gameplay/mocap animator with acting/performance background who has owned high-fidelity mocap cleanup/polish and helped build a weapons/combat animation system across multiple character types on a Star Wars title for Disney Interactive. Established a standardized anchor/zero-pose capture protocol to streamline engine integration and cleanup, and has experience optimizing animation/VFX for low-bandwidth 3D Facebook deployments; some relevant mocap work is under NDA for private review.”

“Global people/program leader with experience managing teams across Seoul, Tokyo, and Brazil; addressed language and collaboration barriers via workshops and cross-functional workflow design, driving a major attrition improvement and 90% team approval plus board commendation. Has led edtech product teams (design + development) through a 4-month sprint and partnered with executives on org-wide onboarding redesign using 30-60-90 plans and workflow data.”