Vetted Vendor Management Professionals

Ellise Kim

Screened

Mid-level CRM & Lifecycle Marketing Manager specializing in email/SMS growth for DTC brands

Los Angeles, CA7y exp

“CRM/lifecycle marketer at Honest who led end-to-end launch strategy for a new anti-aging collection, combining creative storytelling with a custom Y2K-inspired early-access experience. Delivered a 26% MoM lift in new subscribers and 36% waitlist-to-purchase conversion, and uses rigorous segmentation and A/B testing to tailor messaging across acquisition and retention—especially effective during periods of reduced paid media.”

Bhaskara Naidu

Screened

Director-level Talent Acquisition Leader specializing in SaaS, Product & GCC tech hiring

Hyderabad, India14y exp

“Recruiting leader with 4+ years of people management experience, leading a team of 8 direct-report recruiters and staying hands-on in high-impact executive searches (including senior engineering leadership). Strong HRBP and executive stakeholder partner who uses KPI-driven reviews, structured interviewing, and dashboards to improve quality and cut hiring timelines ~20–25%, while also reducing agency reliance through source-mix and cost-impact analysis.”

Ryan Echols

Screened

Senior Workforce Analytics & WFM Leader specializing in contact center operations

Marietta, GA8y exp

“Operations-focused team lead currently managing 20 coordinators, with strong workforce management experience spanning forecasting, scheduling, KPI/staffing reporting, and executive-facing data presentations. Led a cross-functional Salesforce implementation and redesigned forecasting/workflow to support a newly created internal-promotion department, improving flexibility in coverage planning.”

“Candidate participated in Launch Factory's venture studio selection process, which introduced them to a formalized startup methodology, and then went on to found and recently exit their own business. They are highly motivated to keep building companies, with a clear emphasis on creating products that serve a community and validating market need through product-market fit.”

Cia Hang

Screened

Executive IT and Operations leader specializing in digital transformation and security

Chicago, IL13y exp

“Candidate is very familiar with the venture capital and broader investment landscape, but is not interested in founding a company. They have worked with several TPG-backed or TPG-owned organizations, helping drive business scaling, cost reduction, and execution against investor governance requirements.”

Mark Peters

Screened

Executive sales leader specializing in MedTech, medical devices, and mission-critical communications

New Jersey, USA15y exp

“Senior public sector sales leader with repeated success building and scaling national SLED, Federal, and DoD organizations through hybrid direct and channel models. Has owned up to $200M+ in annual revenue, secured major state contract wins in New Jersey, drove post-bankruptcy growth at 3-5x market rates in the AED space, and helped create acquisition-driving commercial momentum.”

“Veteran IT operations and security professional with 30+ years of experience keeping companies safe from attacks. They are developing a business plan centered on restoring human oversight in heavily automated operations environments, with the goal of creating a simple, repeatable model that can scale across states and potentially serve both private and public-sector security needs.”

“Functional/implementation consultant with experience across 10+ ERP deployments, including Infor LN and Salesforce/Rootstock, primarily in manufacturing environments. Brings hands-on ownership across the full lifecycle—from requirements, process mapping, configuration, and documentation through UAT, training, go-live, and hypercare—with particular depth in shop floor, procurement, inventory, and global operational complexity such as tax and shipping integrations.”

“Backend/platform engineer who owned a Python-based smart finance assistant backend, building async FastAPI microservices with PostgreSQL/Redis and deploying to AWS EKS via Docker/Helm and CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins). Strong in production reliability and migrations—implemented observability (Prometheus/Grafana), security (JWT RBAC), and executed a low-downtime monolith-to-microservices migration plus Kafka-based event streaming with ordering/retry/idempotency patterns.”

“Engineering/IT leader with 12+ years of people management and deep ERP ecosystem experience, including SAP S/4HANA and large-scale integrations (APIs/EDI/e-commerce). Managed an 11-person cross-functional team supporting multiple business domains and led process improvements like support-cycle/ticketing and documentation, plus regression test automation strategy driven by business-critical prioritization.”

“Worked on a long-running, high-dependency production rollout in financial post-trade systems, delivering trade-booking functionality on post-trade feeds used by multiple downstream teams. Emphasizes cross-team/external-team coordination and extensive testing to avoid disruptions, with additional experience improving application reliability via VPN-based resiliency measures.”

“Infrastructure/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of on-prem OpenStack/VMware and Kubernetes clusters deployed via Kubespray, including OpenStack-integrated networking and Ceph-backed storage. Built a GitOps-style Terraform delivery model in GitLab with CI/CD and security scanning (SAST/DAST/Checkov), and operated a hybrid on-prem/AWS ecommerce architecture with PCI-segmented payment systems over site-to-site VPN.”

John Abraham

Screened

Executive Credit Risk Leader specializing in underwriting and lending portfolio management

San Diego, USA21y exp

“Operations leader with deep fintech/lending startup experience (OnDeck Capital, 1st Merchant Funding, ForwardLine, Founders First) building end-to-end underwriting-to-portfolio operations, compliance, and supporting functions like sales/marketing. Known for scaling teams and automating repeatable work—citing growth from ~$3MM to ~$20MM in 2 years—while implementing systems like Salesforce/QuickSight and helping build proprietary funding and portfolio management software. Also provides structured part-time advisory support with clear scope/cadence, including helping set up a global finance company based in Argentina.”

Monal Rana

Screened

Senior HR Manager specializing in global HR operations and talent management

New York, NY11y exp

“HR/People leader with experience driving enterprise change and operational improvements, including a regional-to-global org restructure across the U.S. and Canada and major benefits/HRIS transitions. Strong blend of systems thinking and people analytics (dashboards, engagement/turnover diagnostics) plus hands-on leadership coaching and high-stakes employee relations investigations in partnership with Legal and executive leadership.”

Akam Pachachi

Screened

Executive Sales & Partnerships Leader specializing in Enterprise SaaS, Travel Tech, and Market Expansion

Oshawa, Canada14y exp

“Partnerships and growth leader (Traveronto) specializing in partner-led GTM through enterprise/API integrations and white-label distribution. Uses rigorous analytics (audience overlap, engagement quality, cohort retention/LTV) to source and scale creator/platform partnerships, and runs funnel-driven A/B tests on onboarding and pricing to improve activation, GMV, and recurring revenue while keeping CAC low.”

Nicholas Picarelli

Screened

Senior Procurement Manager specializing in hospitality FF&E/OS&E sourcing

Los Angeles, CA8y exp

“Procurement/sourcing professional with experience at Avantstay, owning end-to-end sourcing for furnishing new properties under tight go-live deadlines. Demonstrated trade/tariff cost mitigation by shifting a Canada-based linen supply flow to bulk US warehousing, and built cross-functional SOPs and vendor KPIs to improve operational execution despite lacking an ERP.”

Cherrice Mason

Screened

Director-level Talent Acquisition Operations leader specializing in global TA programs, HRIS/ATS, and compliance

Dallas County, Texas18y exp

“Talent Acquisition Operations leader with 15+ years spanning aviation and helicopter rescue/emergency services through manufacturing, healthcare, and SaaS. Has led teams up to 30 and recently drove a major shift from a business-unit recruiting model to shared services across 8 units, improving Workday reporting/integrations and helping a SkillBridge program exceed goals by 100%.”

“Sales professional with experience building outbound motions in both life sciences and field-services environments. Stands out for turning lab-level wins at Fred Hutch into an institutional sale through multi-threading and champion-led expansion, and for helping Roadside Response grow from no revenue to $5M+ in under 3 years by refining ICP and compliance-driven messaging.”

“Worked on a P&C insurance integration project at Accenture, using SQL to unify policy, billing, and claims data from APIs and ETL pipelines into clean reporting tables. Demonstrated hands-on experience with data quality validation, window-function-based transformations, and query performance tuning, helping business teams get a single reliable view for faster claims processing and management reporting.”

Ben Coats

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in startups, SaaS, and cloud-native platforms

Newport, VT24y exp

“Early-stage technical advisor working fractionally with an AI health tech startup focused on autism therapy, helping turn a functional prototype into a deployable enterprise application. Brings a mix of hands-on coding, infrastructure/Terraform experience, and founder-oriented thinking around market opportunity, studio fit, and right-to-win.”

Rajesh Palaparthi

Screened

Mid-level Industrial Engineer specializing in industrial automation and smart manufacturing

Dearborn, MI3y exp

“Manufacturing automation and controls engineer with hands-on ownership of PLC/HMI/SCADA packages for high-volume production line upgrades involving robotics, conveyors, safety interlocks, and remote I/O. Stands out for managing both controls architecture and detailed documentation while coordinating field changes and production-safe implementation in Allen-Bradley environments.”

“Project/program leader focused on large-scale enterprise technology rollouts in highly distributed restaurant environments, including POS, infrastructure hardware, mobile, and SaaS platforms across thousands of locations. Stands out for managing multiple concurrent implementations end to end while coordinating complex cross-functional teams, vendors, governance, and executive stakeholders.”

“CTO candidate who independently built an AI bot to assist store associates by first analyzing manual workflows, then delivering a nights/weekends POC that earned executive sponsorship and immediate funding. Successfully scaled the initiative to production by reallocating developers and later secured budget for a dedicated FTE within four months, citing strong adoption and cost savings.”