Vetted Vendor Management Professionals

“Engineering/product leader who builds business-aligned technology roadmaps and scales pod-based orgs with strong delivery discipline (OKRs, CI/CD, QA automation). Led a SaaS supply-chain application adopted by Fortune 100 customers, citing ~$4M MRR and ~87% gross profit, and has hands-on experience standardizing LLM + cloud/MLOps architectures with security/compliance guardrails. Also created the PISEK methodology and used it to run distributed innovation sprints (e.g., an AI ETA predictor moved from pilot to production).”

Brandon Call

Screened

Executive Talent Acquisition & People Operations leader specializing in global recruiting and HR tech

20y exp

“Global Talent Acquisition/Recruiting Operations leader who has scaled and standardized end-to-end recruiting across regions and large teams (5–95), including major ATS/HCM implementations (Workday, Lever, Greenhouse, BambooHR). Known for rebuilding “Frankenstein” recruiting orgs into measurable operating models—cutting time-to-fill 28%, improving forecast accuracy to 5–10% variance, and boosting hiring manager satisfaction by 30+ points—while building offshore sourcing capability (South Africa delivering 55–60% of early funnel).”

Tiffany Lager

Screened

Director-level HR Business Partner specializing in org design, change management, and employee relations

New York, NY13y exp

“People/organizational leader with experience managing global, multi-country teams at a Turkey-based startup and building/scaling product and analytics functions. Partnered directly with CEO/SVP Ops/CFO to formalize org structure, clarify decision rights, and redesign performance and compensation frameworks to support scaling.”

Deandra House

Screened

Director-level Talent Acquisition leader specializing in global recruiting operations

Plano, Texas19y exp

“Talent/Recruiting Operations leader who has managed 6–20 person TA Ops teams and led a global "Recruiting 2.0" transformation standardizing intake and structured interviews, automating screening/scheduling, and building Power BI funnel dashboards. Delivered measurable impact including ~30% time-to-fill reduction and improved candidate/hiring manager experience, and has hands-on systems implementation experience across Workday Recruiting, SuccessFactors, Eightfold, DocuSign, and background check integrations.”

“Founder building Hubub, a digital concierge startup that automates business client entertainment workflows from reservations and ticketing to CRM updates and expense reporting. They have a business plan, 500 beta users, positive traction around event discovery, and are exploring a partnership with a major credit card company while prioritizing compliance and expense features next.”

Gary Zimble

Screened

Executive COO specializing in healthcare operations, IT, and multi-site transformation

San Diego, CA32y exp

“Candidate indicated they have an active business plan and are working with an investor to raise capital, suggesting entrepreneurial experience and exposure to fundraising. The interview ended early after the candidate declined to discuss current startup details.”

Jordan Karp

Screened

Executive founder and political strategist specializing in FinTech and public affairs

New York, NY23y exp

“Entrepreneur with a background in electoral politics who is building a niche lending company for political campaigns and organizations, a space they describe as having no direct competitors. They also bring prior experience starting manufacturing and transportation businesses, giving them an unusual blend of political domain knowledge, finance fluency, and repeat-founder experience.”

Brian Matthews

Screened

Senior Program Manager specializing in FinTech SaaS

Boston, MA17y exp

“Seasoned Fintech SaaS program leader with 12 years of implementation experience, including 8 years owning an online banking platform across 40 clients. Has managed portfolios of 10 concurrent customized deployments, budgets up to $15M, and executive-facing recovery plans that turned delayed projects into early deliveries.”

“Senior Yardi implementation professional with deep experience in affordable housing and accounting software rollouts for complex property management clients. Grew from learning the platform in year one to leading large-scale implementations of up to 10,000 units, managing five concurrent projects, coordinating cross-functional teams, and serving as a high-performing customer-facing problem solver.”

mahmoud abboud

Screened

Executive project management leader specializing in core banking transformation

Houston, TX20y exp

“Senior implementation consultant in fintech focused on banking and credit union clients, with end-to-end ownership of Jack Henry LoanVantage implementations. Stands out for hands-on work across discovery, configuration, data migration, UAT, training, and go-live, including managing compliance-sensitive legacy migrations and complex operational cutovers.”

“Growth and operations leader with 12+ years spanning corporate, private equity, entrepreneurial, and consulting environments. They have led multi-brand and international GTM initiatives at scale, including managing $12M+ budgets, overseeing an 850+ associate sales organization, launching a 4-language digital contract program, and driving 30% consecutive annual growth plus $8M in incremental revenue.”

Mahdiyya Oke

Screened

Mid-level AI product and operations leader specializing in 0-to-1 systems building

Cleveland, OH6y exp

“Founding operator turned AI product owner who has built systems from scratch in both physical and digital businesses. They helped launch an early-stage restaurant startup, owning everything from menu/vendor ops to payroll and infrastructure, then moved into leading enterprise AI chatbot initiatives and a two-sided marketplace product, showing unusual range across operations, product, and marketplace strategy.”

“Founder-led CRM/lifecycle marketer and early-stage operator who built a narrative-driven email program at Andine, contributing to 3x Black Friday sales YoY through segmentation and A/B-tested optimization. Also helped launch the Cleo concept shop, generating $200K in first-quarter revenue while owning backend operations (inventory, reporting, vendor outreach) and hiring/training a 4-person sales associate team.”

“CFO with hands-on experience building scalable internal operations for early-stage/growing businesses, including integrating finance and front-end systems (QBO, Expensify, Bill.com, Salesforce) across multiple acquisitions and new entities. Uses product-level P&L and KPI dashboards to drive repricing/profitability improvements, speed up close cycles, and mentor non-ops founders through structured operating models.”

“Senior designer with experience delivering premium, performance-oriented marketing creative for brands including BFGoodrich, Modelo, Corona, Coway, and HydraFacial. Builds scalable Figma design systems and modular template frameworks for high-volume multi-channel output (web, email, paid, decks, events), and also produces short-form CapCut videos optimized for major social platforms. Has worked fully remote since 2017 and has executed full Spanish-language adaptations of campaigns to expand audience reach.”

Rebekka Taubman

Screened

Senior Procurement & Facilities Manager specializing in P2P and art logistics

Inglewood, CA20y exp

“Procurement/sourcing professional with hands-on experience across facilities build-outs, custom print/envelope supply, and complex logistics. Demonstrated ability to reduce costs (20% savings on custom envelopes) while maintaining delivery performance, and to mitigate trade/tariff exposure through alternative routing strategies. Uses Critical Path Method to manage multi-step production and packaging dependencies and has improved supplier performance in multi-site service delivery environments (Iron Mountain/Office Depot).”

David Kim

Screened

Director-level Brand & Marketing Leader specializing in luxury, lifestyle, and omnichannel growth

Brea, California18y exp

“Brand and growth marketing leader who helped launch Gentle Monster USA and evolve the brand from offline-centric to a digital-first global expansion engine, delivering 126% sales growth and a more diversified customer base. Also drove a strategic pivot at legacy B2B manufacturer Flexfit—expanding channels (LinkedIn/Reddit), implementing ingredient branding, and scaling inquiries from ~5.5k to 17k+ annually through multi-audience campaigns and improved tracking/registration flows.”

Kent Hargrave

Screened

Executive Healthcare IT Leader specializing in enterprise strategy, cybersecurity, and clinical systems

Seattle, WA32y exp

“Candidate is not interested in entrepreneurship or founding a company and prefers working for others. Has limited familiarity with the VC/accelerator landscape, with indirect exposure through colleagues who pursued VC funding.”

“Platform/infra engineer with deep Kubernetes (EKS) and VMware vSphere experience who has led a monolith-to-microservices transition for a credit lending decision platform. Built GitOps-driven Terraform delivery with strong governance, and used LaunchDarkly-based progressive rollouts plus Datadog observability to safely ship multiple times per day (reported ~6x throughput and 1/3 the bugfix tickets vs legacy). Also operates hybrid on-prem/AWS networking (firewall + Transit Gateway, BGP) and has handled high-stakes datacenter migrations (100TB Storage vMotion) under Sev1 conditions.”

Ashish Kapoor

Screened

Director of Digital Solutions & Principal Architect specializing in composable DXP and AI transformation

Greater Philadelphia Area, USA20y exp

“Enterprise digital transformation technologist with SaaS and AI platform experience who positions themselves as a technical bridge for VC/startup contexts—focused on technical due diligence (scalability, technical debt, AI readiness) and helping portfolio companies build enterprise-grade, scalable platforms with AI-driven product development approaches.”

“Lifecycle/CRM marketer with hands-on experience building and QAing high-volume split-test campaigns in Salesforce and Braze. They emphasize experimentation and revenue impact, using Tableau-based KPI analysis (AOV, conversion, refund rate) to identify winners and scale successful tactics like interactive spinning-wheel offers across products.”

Evan Tobias

Screened

Director-level sales leader specializing in Enterprise SaaS and strategic partnerships

New York, NY20y exp

“Sales leader who was the first Director of Sales at Statista and built the function from the ground up, scaling the team from 6 to 27 and ARR from $5M to $33M in five years. Brings strong public sector and healthcare sales experience, including a $500K Kaiser Permanente deal, plus hands-on expertise implementing CRM/process infrastructure and creating new verticals that doubled revenue.”