Vetted Vice Presidents

“Full-stack engineer with early-stage startup experience who shipped and owned production Next.js (App Router + TypeScript) features end-to-end, including auth-aware APIs, caching, and post-launch monitoring/iteration. Demonstrates strong performance and reliability chops across React UX optimization, Postgres analytics modeling/query tuning (validated via query plans), and durable ingestion workflows with retries/idempotency.”

“Operations-focused advisor who has helped organizations scale through major transitions (including doubling headcount and moving from fully remote to hybrid) by implementing structured scheduling, space planning, and documented processes. Uses EOS/Level 10 to drive accountability and execution, and has mentored a young executive team through role definition, ownership transfers, and exit planning culminating in a $12M sale.”

Rocky Vienna

Screened

Executive Technology & Operations Leader (CIO/CTO/COO) specializing in PE value creation

10y exp

“Operations transformation leader with private-equity due diligence experience who rebuilt KIO Networks’ operating model using ITIL/COBIT/ISO 27001, stood up a PMO, and standardized tooling across countries—helping shift the business from co-location to managed services/cloud and improving EBITDA from -7% to +4% in 18 months. Also serves as a board member/mentor at EvoNexus and UCSD Rady, coaching founders on ICP, GTM, pricing, and investor readiness.”

“President/founder of Kazenet, an early-stage no-code, compliance-focused recurring-revenue SaaS platform with customers and ~$200K revenue YTD, currently preparing a seed raise targeting angels/seed investors. Also mentors founders at C10 (Kendall Square venture studio), bringing hands-on experience scaling revenue, teams, and new verticals across US and international markets.”

“Light industrial staffing operations leader who scaled from multi-unit branch manager to Market VP overseeing four Dallas–Fort Worth branches (~$63M annual volume) and 56–58 direct reports. Known for data-driven SOP/operations turnarounds that lifted revenue 30%+ and gross profit 25%+ (President’s Club top 10%), plus leading a multi-market Employee Bridge mobile app pilot and tightening E-Verify compliance for high-volume accounts like HelloFresh.”

Brandon Pav

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive CTO specializing in cloud architecture, DevSecOps, and scalable SaaS platforms

Indianapolis, IN13y exp

“Founder of Pavtek Consulting LLC who acts as a hands-on technology leader for startups, building MVPs and full-stack AI products, custom ERPs, integrations, and AI agent chat tools. Notably led a major turnaround at Dyknow (EdTech), cutting major cloud waste and moving the business from a $500k annual loss to double profitability within two years before a successful acquisition.”

“Aspiring founder with moderate familiarity with the VC and startup studio ecosystem, motivated by the ability to solve problems according to their own vision. Particularly interested in building in home services and mental health/counseling, and expresses strong commitment to entrepreneurship.”

“Serverless-focused engineer (5+ years) who has built and deployed AWS Lambda/API Gateway backends with CloudFormation-based IaC and Jenkins-driven CI/CD across dev/staging/prod. Has experience with AWS Glue/OpenSearch data pipelines and emphasizes data correctness via Golden Data automated tests; also modernized a regulated .NET account-confirmation workflow by eliminating an unreliable SMTP email dependency. Based in San Jose, seeking primarily remote work with quarterly travel to Bethesda, MD and targeting $200k base.”

“Serial CEO, startup operator, and capital raiser who says he has raised over $1B and led 5 high-growth tech-enabled businesses to successful exits. He combines fundraising, venture-building, regulatory problem-solving, and brand creation—highlighted by scaling Ventete, mentoring for a decade in venture networks, partnering at TIFIN, and helping create proprietary financial structures that processed $12.5B in deal flow.”

“Built the US market for Karya in an ambiguous zero-base environment, creating a repeatable outbound playbook for spice buyers, importers, and food manufacturers. Combines HubSpot, Salesforce, and Claude to run highly personalized, high-volume outreach; recently turned 200+ post-event emails into 10 online and 2 in-person meetings in 2 days, and says their accounts now represent around 40% of company revenue.”

“Operations-focused advisor/consultant for early-stage and growing companies, with repeated experience scaling processes and people. Has driven measurable improvements in SaaS partnerships by implementing partner scoring, onboarding, and accountability systems, and reduced churn for an outsourced IT provider by clarifying roles and responsibilities without adding headcount. Known for mentoring founders through data-backed, Socratic questioning to unlock tough decisions like reallocating spend away from underperforming partners.”