Jose Torres

“Operations leader/advisor experienced in bringing structure to early-stage/growing companies by connecting Vision-Mission-Strategy to execution via roadmaps, accountability, and KPI scorecards with defined operating cadences. Demonstrated measurable impact by redesigning sales compensation around margin by product/retailer, improving profitability by 4 points within six months, and has reported directly to founders/CEOs with sales and finance backgrounds.”

Dan Olson

Screened

Director-level Product Operations & Program Management leader in consumer electronics

San Jose, CA27y exp

“Operations leader with Apple and Roku experience who owned founder-level, cross-functional initiatives including Roku’s Brazil market entry (regulatory, tax/entity setup, manufacturing/logistics, and launch metrics) with direct CEO oversight. Built Roku’s International Business Operations function from zero—standardizing OKRs, dashboards, and country-level P&Ls—and influenced major strategic decisions like exiting a ~$10.5M-loss UK channel business and restructuring Mexico ads go-to-market via partnership.”

Dhaya Lakshminarayanan

Screened

Executive Operations Leader specializing in AI, climate tech, and high-growth organizations

San Francisco, CA20y exp

“Operator who has repeatedly stepped into founder-level, cross-functional ownership at startups—running full HR (recruiting, onboarding, benefits) with AI-driven process automation, and later serving as interim VP People & Culture during an executive transition. Also managed cap table, 409A, equity grants, and day-to-day investor relations, and built company-wide ELT goals/KPIs and operating rhythms tied to board-approved strategy.”

“Senior infrastructure/platform engineer with deep IBM Power/AIX (Power9, VIOS, HMC, LPAR/DLPAR) and PowerHA production ownership at scale (40 frames / ~300 LPARs), including hands-on outage recovery and performance tuning. Also delivers modern DevOps/IaC capabilities—CI/CD for Kubernetes microservices and Terraform-based multi-account AWS (EKS/VPC/IAM/RDS) with drift detection and safe rollout controls.”