Vetted Vendor Management Professionals

“COO experience at an early-stage technology company (CyberAlliance) focused on building scalable operating systems: SMART goal-setting by function, KPI-based performance management, monthly business reviews, and a structured stage-gate product introduction process. Also has hands-on experience rapidly adapting support operations to meet new customer 24x7 monitoring requirements while planning for scale.”

“Candidate is not currently pursuing a startup or business plan and is not looking to found a company at this time, expressing a preference for joining an existing organization. They have limited familiarity with the VC/accelerator landscape but are specifically interested in learning how companies are evaluated and how investment decisions are made.”

Zach Pavlosky

Screened

Director-level M&A and Capital Markets advisor specializing in debt placement and middle-market deals

Washington, DC11y exp

“Corporate development / corporate strategy M&A professional from a small boutique consulting firm (Aleris Acquisitions) who also owned internal ops improvements. Led the shift from manual spreadsheet-based tracking to HubSpot with pipeline scoring/prioritization, created enablement materials to drive adoption, and regularly supported founders in tech/tool decision-making through structured presentations and demos.”

ADITI DUGAR

Screened

Director of Real Estate FP&A and Lease Accounting specializing in global occupancy and systems transformation

24y exp

“Cross-functional corporate operations/real estate leader with experience delivering office consolidation, finance centralization, and facilities management transformation programs. Implemented a digital budgeting/forecasting tool covering ~$700MM in costs and automated reporting into OneStream to improve executive visibility and reduce errors. Experienced in portfolio optimization and executive steering committee governance to maintain alignment across Real Estate, IT, and FM stakeholders.”

Alex Yum

Screened

Senior Supply Chain & Warehouse Operations Leader specializing in logistics optimization

Leonia, NJ20y exp

“Operations leader at AWI who ran multiple high-impact initiatives in parallel, including a WMS implementation, fulfillment workflow redesign, and a company-wide cost optimization effort. Known for building KPI dashboards and exception-based reporting that improved data trust and saved executives ~4–6 hours per week, while standardizing warehouse processes and coaching supervisors to reduce escalations and stabilize day-to-day ops.”

Jamie Lusk

Screened

Executive Talent Acquisition & Executive Search Leader specializing in high-growth tech

Los Angeles, CA18y exp

“Talent leader with ~20 years reporting directly to CEOs/COOs and advising seed-to-Series C startups and venture studio portfolios on 0-to-1 hiring. Built recruiting infrastructure from scratch at FightCamp (cut time-to-hire to ~35 days with ~98% acceptance) and has proven hands-on executive search impact, including taking over and closing a Chief Product Officer search in ~45 days.”

Monae Martin

Screened

Mid-level Business Development & Account Manager specializing in partnerships, GTM, and sports hospitality

Los Angeles, CA5y exp

“Growth-creative marketer in a club/sports-style environment focused on premium offerings, running structured creative experiments across multiple clubs/markets. Demonstrated measurable performance gains (≈20% lower CPA, ≈12% higher ROAS) by shifting from brand-led to value-forward messaging and translating channel-level performance insights into modular, rapid-iteration creative systems.”

Jay Passarella

Screened

Senior Video Production Manager specializing in sports storytelling and postproduction

Keyport, NJ18y exp

“Video editor/post-production specialist with deep Premiere Pro expertise and strong After Effects capability, currently editing for the USGA YouTube channel (features/tributes/hype content). Built the Midnight Sun Company channel from scratch starting in 2013, including a music video that surpassed 5M views, and has experience leading and mentoring a small team of editors.”

Bassam Amrou

Screened

Director-level Digital Solutions & IT Transformation Leader specializing in enterprise innovation

Plano, TX12y exp

“Entrepreneurial operator with experience creating business plans and securing venture capital to accelerate a go-to-market strategy. Demonstrates a structured approach to new ventures: framing opportunities, validating/de-risking via market/competitive/external analysis and financial modeling, then building governance, sponsorship, and an execution plan with the right team.”

Dylan Grassl

Screened

Senior Client Success & Events Leader specializing in media and live entertainment partnerships

Chicago, IL15y exp

“Sales development and event-sales professional currently at Yondr, blending inbound lead management with outbound prospecting to drive 8–10 meetings/week and ~50% inbound conversion. Helped lift department revenue 35% and built new sponsorship guidelines that secured strategic partnerships and referral-driven growth. Has experience supporting higher-value healthcare-sector deals ($125K–$750K) and managing longer sales cycles end-to-end.”

“CRM/project management professional with RAPP experience supporting AT&T consumer campaigns, combining high-volume campaign execution with data-informed optimization. Notable for leading a 140-version direct mail/email program under urgent timelines, coordinating multiple stakeholders, and using incrementality analysis to refine targeting and improve revenue impact.”

“Previously founded and successfully exited a self-funded startup in the marine electronics and vessel monitoring/control space. Brings unusually broad end-to-end technical depth—from transistor-level design and firmware to Internet-connected systems and software—paired with a pragmatic founder mindset around market needs, differentiation, reliability, and product strategy.”

“Early-stage investing candidate with experience at Slauson & Co., combining sector research, founder sourcing, and structured pipeline management. They stand out for publishing investment research in areas like pet care, women's health, and eldercare, then using that thesis work to build founder relationships and inform internal investment tracking.”

Andy Trus

Screened

Senior Product Leader specializing in EdTech and AI-powered learning products

Apex, NC17y exp

“EdTech product leader with deep experience across K-12 and higher education, spanning $100M-scale platform strategy, 0-to-1 learning products, and AI-enabled assessment workflows. Particularly compelling for roles at the intersection of AI and education: they built an LLM-based content QA tool that saved $2.75M and articulate a nuanced philosophy around using AI to amplify human tutoring rather than replace it.”

“Product leader at VicRoads who rebuilt the Custom Plates digital portfolio, including an AI-powered pricing and recommendation platform that drove more than 20% revenue uplift. Stands out for combining commercial product thinking with explainable AI, regulatory compliance, and legacy-system modernization in a government-related environment.”

“Former Societe Generale investment banking/markets professional turned startup operator who became the first employee at Two Dots and helped scale it from prototype to $12M ARR. Combines executive-level financial analysis, AI product understanding, and hands-on GTM/customer execution, with a standout example of building a backtest-led enterprise sales motion that pushed conversion above 90% and helped win major property management customers.”

“Pre-seed founder (pre-product) building a new enterprise control layer for AI-enabled organizations focused on governed autonomy and decision-cycle compression; thesis formalized in their book "The Decision Velocity Era." Former CEO of Evaluation Solutions who built an internal proprietary operating system, proved it in live operations, commercialized it as SaaS, and enabled growth to $120M+ in contracted revenue.”

“People/HR-focused change leader with experience driving a company-wide payroll/PEO provider transition through executive alignment, cross-functional facilitation, vendor coordination, and employee-focused communication/training. Uses systems thinking to diagnose drivers of turnover (e.g., gaps in post-onboarding training) and coaches leaders via 360-style feedback, real-time coaching, and structured behavior experiments to improve delegation and team effectiveness.”

“Chief of Staff at DataDome and Onna (founding-team experience) who built executive operating cadences, planning processes, and finance-backed dashboards to drive alignment across fast-scaling orgs (200+ global). Led major transformations including a single-product to multi-product platform shift (improving retention and enabling new market entry) and a sales-led to product-led (PLG) transition, and managed fundraising from Seed through Series B with outside counsel.”

“Talent Acquisition/Recruiting Operations leader with 10+ years driving large-scale K-12 district hiring, including staffing across 200 schools and managing thousands of candidates annually. Known for redesigning fragmented recruiting workflows and implementing ATS solutions (Lever, AppliTrack, Taleo, Oracle HCM) to deliver measurable gains: 15% vacancy reduction, 20% faster time-to-hire, 30% fewer compliance errors, and 25% faster onboarding.”

“QA/automation engineer with experience at Riot Games’ player platform, owning E2E automation for mission-critical authentication/account flows using Playwright/JavaScript plus API automation. Built CI merge gates and nightly verification with Slack reporting, and repeatedly caught backend-driven session/authorization regressions before production. Known for stabilizing flaky UI tests via selector strategy and network intercepts, and for influencing design early with testability hooks and telemetry.”

“Windows/VMware infrastructure project lead with experience managing 3,000+ servers across large enterprise environments (mentions Pfizerco, American Express, and FedEx). Focused on performance troubleshooting and stability using monitoring tools, plus security hardening and dependency/latency evaluation during on-prem to AWS/Azure hybrid migrations.”

Joseph Orisino

Screened

Senior Longform Video Editor specializing in YouTube-style storytelling and post-production leadership

New York, NY18y exp

“Senior editor/post-production supervisor with extensive Premiere + After Effects experience across major media brands (Yahoo Finance, Thrillist, Yahoo News/Katie Couric) and current work producing a video suite for SkinCeuticals (L'Oréal). Known for building scalable editorial workflows (style guides, review processes) and delivering retention-focused longform YouTube edits with strong cross-functional coordination through color, audio, graphics, and social versioning.”

Nikhil Saukhla

Screened

Director-level Operations & Chief of Staff specializing in HealthTech and venture-backed startups

12y exp

“Operations leader/advisor with experience joining a Cedar Sinai Accelerator spinout (RAIOS) at an inflection point and rebuilding the company’s internal ops “connective tissue” across HR, finance, IT, product, and sales. Uses structured frameworks (RACI, OKRs/KPIs), rapid diagnostics, and tool centralization (Gusto, BILL, Brex) to create scalable, founder-friendly operating systems.”