Vetted Vendor Management Professionals

“Education product leader with a strong track record building learner-facing engagement and AI features at Sophia, including an AI chat-based assessment, motivational messaging system, and course planning experience. Stands out for combining measurable product impact with thoughtful human-centered AI practices, academic integrity safeguards, and strong cross-functional leadership across product, engineering, academics, ops, legal, and PR.”

Prayasha Chaudhary

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Senior Engineering Leader specializing in cloud architecture and AI-powered data platforms

Remote5y exp

“Hands-on startup operator with experience across three startups, including companies built from inception and a PEAK6-backed environment. Particularly compelling for early-stage roles: they have rebuilt technical foundations, scaled platforms during growth, and pair strong product ownership with a practical, user-validation-first approach to building scalable systems.”

Kamilah Patterson

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Senior HR Business Partner specializing in talent strategy and workforce analytics

Brooklyn, New York11y exp

“HR Business Partner with GroupM experience supporting multiple mergers, building and transitioning Analytics/Programmatic/Account Management teams through hands-on job architecture, benchmarking, and performance management. Uses HR analytics (including an Excel-based retention model with visual reporting) and cross-functional partnership with IT to reduce disruption and improve retention during restructuring and major policy changes like return-to-office.”

Sanjay Mamani

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive Technology Leader specializing in enterprise data, AI, and cloud analytics

Mooresville, USA26y exp

“25-year builder/operator who has scaled others' visions and led VC-backed startup incubation work (Saltmines). Built Bridgetree’s AI CoE from 0 to 1 and cites $20M+ measurable customer impact, with experience leading 110-person cross-disciplinary teams. Exploring a new venture idea (gotAgentic.ai) focused on agentic AI solutions such as AI-ready data prep, agentic SDLC teams, and front-office automation (scheduling/invoicing).”

“Sole founder of Bazaaro who built the company’s operations across product, hiring, GTM, finance, and investor relations—securing initial investment by effectively spanning multiple functions. Also drove a high-stakes operational turnaround at Ciena by process-mapping end-to-end workflows, correcting cost mis-modeling, and building Excel dashboards to recover $60K+ while improving margin visibility.”

“HR/talent business partner with global experience supporting teams across the US, UK, and Canada, focused on adapting talent initiatives to cultural and legal requirements. Played a key role in a successful company integration, driving HRIS/process changes, compliance, and employee communications, and has supported product/design/analytics orgs with staffing, compensation strategy, and career mapping.”

“Talent acquisition leader and executive recruiter who has managed up to 10 recruiters while driving tech stack optimization, vendor/cost management, and executive-level reporting. Experienced partnering closely with HRBPs and CFO-level stakeholders on director+ hiring, including internal audit leadership roles, and has led a full recruiting lifecycle redesign to improve candidate experience and hiring leader visibility.”

“Change management and HR/people strategy leader with repeated experience partnering with senior executives through high-impact transformations, including QuickChek’s post-acquisition integration into Fortune 500 Murphy USA. Uses structured frameworks (McKinsey 7S, ADKAR) and KPI-driven systems thinking to execute org design, system migrations, and workforce analytics initiatives, and has handled complex employee relations investigations with risk-based decision tools.”

“US Talent Acquisition/Recruiting Ops leader at Funbox (nearly 5 years) who owns end-to-end recruiting operations and ATS strategy, and who successfully pivoted into HR Ops during a 2022 slowdown (payroll, compliance, policies, reporting). Known for building operational rigor at scale—redesigned req approval/1:1 req-to-hire workflows, led Greenhouse→HiBob hiring module implementation in ~4 months, and executed a major hiring blitz (35→75 reqs; ~90% closed; 100+ referrals) across functions including engineering, product, sales, marketing, and frontline support.”

Neus Tosi

Screened

Director-level Talent Acquisition & Development leader in beauty and pharmaceuticals

New York, NY9y exp

“Recruiting leader with experience managing teams of 2–5 and driving end-to-end recruiting process improvements, including SOP standardization, ATS implementations (Taleo/Paylocity), and data-driven reporting. Has led confidential executive searches (VP level) and partnered closely with HRBPs on strategic, high-volume initiatives such as building a global IT service center in Argentina (Boehringer Ingelheim).”

Amrita Mukherjee

Screened

Senior Talent Acquisition Manager specializing in executive search and account management

East Brunswick, NJ16y exp

“Staffing leader who has managed a team of 7 recruiters and delivered rapid, multi-location hiring across both direct and contract placements. Partners closely with client-side HRBPs and C-suite stakeholders, including handling contract negotiations, and has improved hiring outcomes in challenging geographies through relocation and sign-on incentive strategies.”

Mike Gardiner

Screened

Technology Executive / Engineering Director specializing in AI-driven platform transformation

Lehi, UT12y exp

“Built a 0-to-1 iOS mobile gardening application that helps users plan, track, and harvest crops with pest control guidance, weather, and climate-zone-based planting date recommendations. Demonstrated strong customer discovery and MVP-first product execution, including a major data challenge: compiling US climate zone data for every ZIP code from widely dispersed public sources into an app-ready database.”

Robert Wheeler

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in cloud, AI/ML, and scalable product platforms

Manhattan, USA25y exp

“Technical leader and hands-on engineer with 20+ years of experience who has previously raised funding and exited a venture. Currently bootstrapping a new AI-direction startup with personal and family capital, leveraging structured financial planning and a relationship-driven approach to investor outreach.”

taylor joseph

Screened

Mid-level Buyer and Merchandiser specializing in fashion retail and wholesale

Hollywood, CA4y exp

“Current Revolve merchandising/buying professional with prior wholesale brand management experience, bringing a blend of retail and wholesale partnership perspective. Strongest differentiator is hands-on, data-driven inventory and assortment management—she cites improving turns/productivity by roughly 50% in a slow-moving business area and helping support consistent year-over-year growth through better reorder and inventory processes.”

scott graham

Screened

Executive customer experience and operations leader in SaaS, EdTech, and enterprise support

New York, NY24y exp

“Founder/operator with an MS in Finance who has helped grow an early-stage company from startup toward scaleup on roughly $400K raised, while delivering 25%+ YoY ARR growth and 100% retention without new capital for 30 months. Differentiates through a sharp eye for overlooked but mission-critical work like data cleansing, strong financial modeling instincts, and a hands-on, trust-building consulting style that wins long-term contracts in underserved sectors.”

“Product leader with deep edtech experience who helped take Honor Education from an incomplete early product at zero users/zero revenue to general availability and a $38M Series A. Combines zero-to-one product building, AI feature delivery, LMS integration strategy, and team leadership, with a clear philosophy around human-centered AI that supports educators and learners rather than replacing them.”

“Operations and strategy generalist who has built a career helping leaders bring structure to complex, fast-moving environments. Most notably led multi-year digital transformation work at McCarthy Mentoring while simultaneously owning client services, operations, finance, and stakeholder management, and has also advised on cybersecurity governance and supported senior decision-makers in government, research, and climate-tech contexts.”

“Merchandising and buying leader with experience at Rue Gilt, Zappos, and Fisker, owning end-to-end category strategy, OTB, and vendor negotiations across multi-channel e-commerce. Known for structuring high-impact vendor deals (tiered cost breaks, exclusivity, vendor-funded markdowns) and using SKU-level analytics to drive outsized results, including 15% sales growth/8% margin improvement on a $55M category and 80% YoY profit growth from partnership agreements.”

“Lifecycle/CRM marketer with 14 years of cross-functional experience, leveraging SQL-driven segmentation and structured A/B/multivariate testing to optimize engagement and conversions. Has led coordinated national/regional launches for a hardware product and tracks impact through CRM campaign codes tied to closed sales.”

“Hands-on architect/executive who built a virtual sales platform from scratch with real-time video delivery and autoscaling global video nodes, while also operating at the stakeholder/roadmap level. Previously scaled IT as Arbonne grew from ~$11M to $1B in annual sales and led large digital transformation efforts including a 70-person team for princesshouse.com; also advises startups (e.g., SocialBud) on product expansion and roadmaps.”

“Product designer/hardware prototyper building Saccade (VR headset attachment for Apple Vision Pro) to enable earlier, lower-cost Alzheimer's detection via eye-tracking and on-device CV/ML; designed a custom biocompatible snap-on light-shield replacement with integrated cameras/PCB after Apple camera-data restrictions. Also has biomedical manufacturing experience (major fixture-driven throughput gains) and leads a 160-member Assistive Technology Club sponsored by Apple and Google.”

Lauren Stein

Screened

Executive Chief of Staff specializing in operations, HR, and GTM enablement for SaaS

7y exp

“Chief of Staff with strong cross-functional leadership across go-to-market and product/engineering, focused on revenue-aligned prioritization and executive operating cadence. Implemented integrated Looker reporting to connect product usage/adoption with revenue, retention (GDR/NDR), churn risk, and upsell—enabling faster executive decision-making and clearer accountability.”