Tagged: operations
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Stephanie Majors
Stephanie Majors is a startup operator and self-described multi-time Chief of Staff who turns organizational chaos into working systems. She has served as Executive Business Partner to the CEO at Coactive AI, an AI-driven visual content platform in San Jose, and as Chief of Staff at companies including TIDAL and The Sales Collective. With more than two decades in operations across entertainment, finance, and technology, she is known on LinkedIn for a candid, no-filter take on what the Chief of Staff role actually demands and for championing quiet, results-focused leadership over the loud kind.
Parabola
Parabola is a San Francisco-based no-code data automation platform that lets operations and finance teams turn messy, recurring, spreadsheet-driven processes into transparent, auditable AI-powered workflows. Users describe a process in plain language or drag-and-drop building blocks, and Parabola builds a documented agent that pulls data from PDFs, emails, spreadsheets and APIs, cleans and transforms it, and runs on a schedule. Founded by Alex Yaseen and backed by OpenView, Matrix, and Thrive Capital, the company focuses on ecommerce, retail, CPG, freight and logistics teams that need to automate work that traditionally required an engineer.
The Backflip Group
The Backflip Group is a boutique strategy consulting firm in New York that helps lean technology teams turn great products into scalable businesses. Founded by Ceylan Conger and Madeleine Ormond, both former in-house operators and consultants at companies including Meta, Etsy and Spotify, the firm specializes in bridging the gap between strategy and execution across SaaS, eCommerce, AI, digital media and D2C. Services span go-to-market strategy, pricing and packaging, upmarket expansion, new product incubation, financial modeling and fundraising materials, delivered by a small core team backed by a network of specialist experts.
Parinaz Karkaria
Parinaz Karkaria is Chief of Staff to the CEO at Censia, the San Francisco AI talent intelligence company. She joined Censia in 2018 after running customer success at AppDynamics and managing the eBay account at Cognizant, and now spends her days translating a founder's ambitions into operating rhythm for a Series B startup selling machine learning into the world's most cautious buyer: HR.
Patricia Lai
Patricia Lai is Chief of Staff to the CEO of unspun, a San Francisco fashion-tech company using 3D weaving to make garments straight from yarn. A UC Irvine graduate, she moved from Deloitte consulting to operating roles at KeepTrucking/Motive and Cruise before landing at unspun, where she works at the intersection of executive strategy, hiring, and scaling a hardware startup trying to decarbonize apparel.
Parcha
Parcha is a San Francisco AI company building enterprise-grade AI agents that automate compliance and operations work for banks and fintechs. Founded in 2023 by former Brex leaders AJ Asver and Miguel Rios-Berrios, its Agent Hub platform lets compliance teams create, test, and deploy agents in minutes to run KYC/KYB reviews, enhanced due diligence, AML screening, and document verification - work that traditionally requires large operations teams. Backed by $5M in seed funding led by Kindred Ventures and Initialized Capital, Parcha counts fintechs like Bridge, Airwallex, Flutterwave, and Pipe among its users.
Anne Murray
Anne Murray is the Executive Business Partner in the Office of the CEO at Karat, the Seattle company that runs technical interviews as a service for companies hiring software engineers. She is the person who keeps a fast-moving executive suite running: calendars, communications, relationships, and the thousand small logistics behind a Series C startup. Before Karat she spent years as a senior executive assistant to C-suite leaders at Outreach and Zillow Group, ran her own consulting shop, and worked inside the studio that built Second Life. She is also connected to Karat's Brilliant Black Minds initiative, the company's mission to open access to engineering careers.
Caitlyn Pang
Caitlyn Pang is Director, Office of the CEO at InstaLILY AI, the New York startup building vertical AI teammates for the physical goods economy. A behind-the-scenes operator who works as a fractional Chief of Staff and COO, she is the person founders lean on to keep teams aligned and turn chaos into a plan. She sharpened that instinct through crisis years at the global nonprofit Mercy Corps, where she stepped up to support the CEO and cover the global board, and it traces back to her days reporting for The Harvard Crimson.
Atomiton
Atomiton builds an immersive intelligence platform that ties operational activity to energy, water and carbon performance, helping data centers, manufacturers and building operators cut costs and hit sustainability targets in real time.
Diya Mathew
Diya Mathew is a Senior Manager for Customer Engagement Strategy in the Office of the President & COO at ServiceNow, the enterprise cloud platform company valued at over $100 billion. A graduate of Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and NIT Tiruchirappalli, she brings a rare blend of technical depth and strategic acumen forged across Cisco, Deloitte Consulting, Meta, and now ServiceNow. Based in San Francisco, she works at the intersection of executive strategy, customer engagement, and enterprise operations.
Ali Raza
Ali Raza is the founder and CEO of ThroughPut.ai, a Palo Alto supply chain decision-intelligence company that uses AI to detect, prioritize, and clear operational bottlenecks across factories and logistics networks. A University of Pennsylvania chemical engineer turned field-operations manager, he ran manufacturing and oilfield logistics in eight countries - including a stint as geomarket manager in Yemen during the 2015 Houthi takeover - before building software around the Theory of Constraints idea that every system is limited by one bottleneck at a time.
Neel Shah
Neel Shah is a New York-based healthcare-fintech operator and the chief executive of Zaya Care, a startup that helps independently-owned practices accept insurance profitably. Before Zaya, he ran commercial and product finance at Cedar, the healthcare billing and payments company. His work sits at the unglamorous seam of American medicine - the paperwork, reimbursement and revenue plumbing that decides whether a solo dietitian, physical therapist or acupuncturist can afford to take insurance at all. Zaya, which began by importing a European-style model of maternal care and negotiating coverage with major payers, now pitches itself as the financial leverage of a large medical group for providers who want to stay independent.
Walt Weyler
Walt Weyler is a Portland, Oregon entrepreneur and chemical engineer who turned a career running factories into a second act buying, fixing, and building industrial companies. He is President and CEO of SequenceUSA, a private holding and lending company that backs Pacific Northwest manufacturing and technology firms, and President and Managing Director of Clarus LLC (Clarus Water Solutions), a water-filtration and stormwater venture spun from his work at Crystal Clear Technologies. Before founding his own companies he co-owned Kinetics, a metal-injection-molding shop he grew from a struggling $3M operation to roughly 100 employees and sold to mining giant Phelps Dodge. He sits on the Supply Chain & Logistics Management Advisory Council at Oregon State University's College of Business.
Shiri Gil
Shiri Gil works in the Office of the CEO at Vega, the New York and Israel-based cybersecurity company building a federated Security Analytics Mesh that raised a $120M Series B in February 2026. A former Israeli military intelligence team leader turned operator, she pairs a Columbia cognitive science degree with hands-on marketing-technology and operations experience from Deloitte and earlier roles. She sits at the operational center of one of the fastest-funded security startups of the moment.
Carla Faraguna
Carla Faraguna is the Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer at Substack, the San Francisco newsletter and media platform. She joined in 2024 after nearly seven years running operations and people functions at Golden (Recursion Inc), the knowledge-graph startup. Her path runs through HR and employee programs at Fandom (Wikia), cultural exchange work with the Asia Society and the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program, and a stretch of self-directed travel and volunteering across a dozen countries. She holds a master's in East Asia Studies from Stanford and a political science degree from Stony Brook.
Chuck Kruger
Chuck Kruger is the President and CEO of Foresight Mental Health, a Berkeley-based outpatient behavioral health provider he took over in April 2025 with a mandate to make the company self-sustaining and profitable. A Stanford-trained operator with more than 25 years building private-equity-backed healthcare services companies, he previously ran Akeso Occupational Health, launched and scaled Dignity Health GoHealth Urgent Care into San Francisco's largest urgent care network, and integrated more than 125 outpatient clinics over a decade at Physical Rehabilitation Network. His brand of leadership is unglamorous on purpose: run the basics well, deliver care from the first visit to the last, and make the math work.
Culleen Linzmeyer
Culleen Linzmeyer is a Senior Executive Business Partner to the CTO at Huntress, the fast-growing managed cybersecurity company built to protect small and mid-sized businesses. With more than a decade partnering with senior executives, she works at the seam where strategy meets logistics - aligning resources, coordinating projects, and keeping leadership moving. Her path is unusually wide for an operations role: editor and copywriter in the travel industry, executive assistant in banking and wealth management, a Nova Chief of Staff certificate, and graduate certificates in both virtual team leadership and forensic genetic genealogy.
Jenni Ellis
Jenni Ellis is the Executive Assistant to the CEO at CompScience, a San Francisco insurtech building AI control systems that aim to prevent one million workplace injuries by 2035. The right hand to founder Josh Butler, she runs the day-to-day machinery behind a fast-scaling, Series B startup. Before CompScience she logged operations and office-management time across some of the Bay Area's best-known tech names - Replicate, DoorDash, Instacart, and Dropbox - building a reputation as the steady operator who keeps founders and offices moving. Colleagues describe her as vivacious and enthusiastic, a natural leader who keeps tabs on the day-to-day flow of a business.
Winston Lin
Winston Lin is a Program Manager in the Office of the CEO at Juniper Square, the San Francisco fintech that builds investment management software for private markets. Based in Austin, Texas, he sits at the operational center of a Series D company with roughly 950 employees, working close to the chief executive on the business operations and systems that keep a fast-scaling SaaS company running. Before fintech he spent his career in education technology, rising to Senior Director of Data Engineering at the charter-school network Achievement First. He holds a BA from Columbia University.
Maribel Garcia
Maribel Garcia is the Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer at Sanity, the San Francisco company behind a content operating system used by developers and enterprises. She keeps the CEO's orbit running at a fast-scaling, Series C software company, drawing on a winding path that ran through public health at UC Berkeley, a food-in-schools mission at Revolution Foods, and the front lines of hospitality at AMC Theatres before landing in the tech world.
Yang Zhao
Yang Zhao is the Chief Business Officer of Handshake AI, where he runs business and operations for a fast-scaling human-data business serving frontier AI labs. He spent four years at Scale AI as Head of Product Deployment and Operations before joining Handshake, and earlier led growth and strategy at the consumer-rentals company Zumper. He pitches Handshake's edge not as tooling but as raw access to the largest expert network in the US.
Jacqueline Ramos
Jacqueline Ramos is a seasoned Executive Business Administrator at Microsoft with over 25 years of experience, currently supporting the COO, CMO for Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa (CEMA), and VP for Global Partner Solutions (GPS) in the EMEA region. Based in Dubai, UAE, she has built her Microsoft career from the ground up - starting as an Executive Assistant to the Gulf Services Director in 2008, rising through roles in business operations, and eventually becoming an executive-level administrator supporting some of the company's most senior regional leaders. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of San Jose-Recoletos in the Philippines and has leveraged her technical grounding alongside exceptional organizational and leadership skills to become one of Microsoft's most trusted operational connectors across its vast Middle East and global operations.
Orisa Cherenfant
Orisa Cherenfant is SVP of Industry Relations & Strategic Growth at Twilio, the cloud communications platform powering billions of messages, calls, and interactions globally. A first-generation college graduate from Cape Verde who earned dual degrees in Finance and Marketing from Boston College, she built her career through GE's leadership development programs before moving into tech. At Twilio, she leads industry partnerships and growth strategy, speaks at major conferences like MWC Barcelona and Twilio Signal, and was named a 2025 Entreprenista 100 Award winner. She is based in Los Angeles with her partner Eli and their twins, Margaux and Maverick.
Peter Cray
Peter Cray is VP Strategy & Operations for AWS Sales, Marketing and Global Services at Amazon Web Services, where he oversees go-to-market strategy, business and sales operations, competitive strategy, and field marketing across 122 subsidiaries worldwide. With nearly three decades in enterprise technology, he spent 15 years at Microsoft in increasingly senior roles - including COO & Chief Business Officer for Microsoft China & Greater China Region - before joining AWS in 2022. He reports to Greg Pearson as part of AWS's integrated global sales organization alongside peers Dave Levy and Robert Chu.
Abby McGarey
Abby McGarey serves as Chief of Staff to the CEO at Hinge Health, the San Francisco-based digital health company that has redefined musculoskeletal care through AI-powered physical therapy and wearable technology. A UC Berkeley MPH graduate, she moved through healthcare strategy and operations roles - from biopharma research at IQVIA to primary care innovation at Aledade - before joining Hinge Health where she rose to her current role supporting CEO Daniel Perez as the company went public in May 2025. Off the clock, she sits on the board of 100+ Women Who Care San Francisco and volunteers with Project Open Hand.
Alex Bergonia
Alex Bergonia is Chief of Staff to the CEO at Babylist, the leading baby registry and family commerce platform headquartered in Emeryville, California. With a background bridging impact investing and high-growth consumer tech, she has spent her career at the intersection of strategy, operations, and mission-driven work. Before joining Babylist, she held progressive strategy and operations leadership roles at Farmer's Business Network (FBN Financial), and earlier built expertise in impact investing through fellowships and roles at Komaza, The Nature Conservancy, DBL Partners, and RSF Social Finance. She holds an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and a BA in International Relations from Claremont McKenna College.