Find Experienced Founders in the USA
Explore our directory of Experienced Founders in the United States. Discover verified video resumes, professional portfolios, and authentic references designed to provide deeper context into expertise, experience, and professional impact.
HUGO ACURIO
Fractional COO | Telehealth, Diagnostics & Pharma | AI Ops
I'm Hugo Acurio, a fractional COO for US telehealth, diagnostics, and pharmacy companies scaling from $5M to $150M. Operations run with AI, pharma-grade compliance. I built the patient-ops system behind 100K+ encounters at HelixVM, put a production AI sales agent on a live regulated channel in 13 days, drove 300% regional growth at Omron LATAM, and took Iris Global Ecuador from losses to $650K-$850K in profit. English, Spanish, Portuguese. See the board, invent the system, and build it.
Emma Abalogun
Founder, UP Leadership | Speaker
UP Leadership, founded by Emma Abalogun, provides leadership development, organizational training, and speaking engagements focused on helping managers and leadership teams lead effectively under pressure. Through the proprietary RAM-R™ Method, leadership workshops, Lunch & Learns, and Leadership Intensives, Emma helps organizations build greater self-awareness, emotional intelligence, consistency, and accountability. Her work helps leaders understand their behavioral blind spots and strengthen how they communicate, make decisions, and lead when pressure is high.
Craig Barbieri
Fractional CTO | AI & Digital Transformation Leader | AEC
Craig Barbieri is a technology executive who leads AI and digital transformation in architecture, engineering, and construction. He has two decades of director-level technology leadership at firms from 500 to several thousand staff, twice operating as de facto CTO, building technology organizations from nothing and managing budgets up to $5M. He now runs Barbieri Technology Group, a fractional CTO practice covering AI strategy, governance, and adoption, and builds AI software products including TermsWatchdog. He holds an M.Arch and MLA from Penn.
Philippe Vella
Founder
Phil Vella is the founder of StartMidwest, an online magazine covering innovation and entrepreneurship across the American heartland, and Zeroto7, a consultancy helping international founders, funds, and ecosystem builders break into the U.S. by starting in the middle — a $4.7T market most overlook. Previously, he built and sold Europe's first Fractional CMO firm for early-stage startups, working with 200+ businesses and VCs that collectively raised over $1B. he is Australian by origin, and based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Nihil Kumar
Global Brand Consultant, Design Architect, Business Advisor
Most brands look like everyone else. Not because the founder lacked vision, but because the brand was built on aesthetics and trends, not psychology and function. That’s the problem I fix. I’m Nihil, Global Brand Psychologist, Consultant, and GTM Advisor. I help founders build brands that don’t just look good. They think, speak, and sell. My approach isn’t marketing. I use cognitive science applied to brand architecture. How does your audience perceive, remember, and choose you?
Moise C Nzouatoum
Software Architect & Developer
No biography provided.
Mark Scrimenti
Fractional COO and Strategic Operating Partner
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Catherine Liang
Leadership & Performance Coach
We are committed to helping you lead without self-abandonment by providing a safe, empathetic, evidence-informed coaching partnership that names what’s real (including identity and workplace politics), strengthens boundaries, and turns insight into practical next steps–so that high-achieving, purpose-driven leaders can reclaim balance, protect their health and relationships, and shine with calm, values-led authority.
Brad Hayden
Founder & Fractional CRO
Brad Hayden is a Fractional Chief Revenue Officer and Community Builder with over 20 years of experience scaling revenue operations, go-to-market strategy, and cross-functional sales teams inside some of the most demanding retail, technology, and consumer environments in the world. His career spans Dell Technologies, Amazon, Herjavec Group, and Startups, and today he channels that enterprise-grade discipline into Silver Sharps, the fractional GTM and RevOps studio he founded to give growth-stage companies and nonprofits access to senior revenue leadership.
Staci Cretu
Fractional CMO/GTM Advisor
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