CRO @ Redfish Technology || Providing Disruptive Tech Companies w/ Talent || 24k Followers || Forbes Next 1000 || Girl Mom

Forbes 2021 - Next 1000 Honoree


Chief Revenue Officer at Redfish Technology, where I lead with empathy, strategic insight, and a commitment to building strong relationships. 

As Viola Davis once said, "My dreams are bigger than my fears."

Our Work

Helped a new VP of Sales at an Enterprise AI Client hire the first 3 members of his Sales Team: Our team consulted with the VP to identify the profiles he needed, researched and built a list of target companies to source from, then reached out nationwide to over 350 AEs in our network, interviewed/screened over 70, submitted 30 to the VP for review, and he hired 3 - saving 100’s of man-hours in the process.

We've built out and engineering teams with the top 30 startups across the country.

Placed Director of Growth at a Fintech Startup: After hiring the Director of Growth, we were asked if we could help with two PM roles, they were struggling with filling. We did so in about 5 weeks for both a Platform PM and Mobile PM. This led to an introduction to their Design team, where we have helped them hire 3 Sr. Product Designers.

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Everyone says they want a great DevOps engineer.

But many companies hire them by testing Kubernetes trivia, Terraform syntax, or obscure AWS details.

Tools matter — but they’re not the real value.

Great DevOps engineers understand systems. They remove friction from engineering teams, improve reliability, and make shipping software faster and safer.

When DevOps is done right, deployments are boring, outages are rare, and engineers can focus on building.

#devops #hiring #recruiting Redfish Technology

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CRO @ Redfish || Scaling Startups with the Right People || Blaine County Board of Education || Forbes 2021 - Next 1000 Honoree

Most companies aren’t bad at hiring Product Managers.

They’re bad at defining them.

There’s a huge difference between:
• 0→1 builders
• Growth optimizers
• Platform architects
• Roadmap coordinators

If you don’t calibrate that upfront, you’ll interview 15 “strong” candidates and still feel stuck.

Product hiring breaks down when:
– The mandate isn’t clear
– Success isn’t defined
– Stakeholder complexity is underestimated
– “Strategic” and “technical” get used interchangeably

The best PMs are elite problem framers.

They create clarity, drive alignment, and ship under ambiguity.

When we recruit for Product roles, we don’t start with resumes.
We start with calibration:
What does winning look like in 12 months?
Where has this role failed before?
Is this a builder or a scaler?

That clarity changes everything.

#product #hiring #recruiting

How do you actually screen for great Product Managers?

A lot of people can talk product. Far fewer can actually own product.

When I screen PMs, I look for a few simple signals:

• Ownership – What did they actually drive?
• Decision making – What trade-offs did they make and why?
• Customer focus – Are they solving real user problems or just shipping features?
• Metrics – Do they know the outcomes their work drove?
• Influence – How do they align engineers, design, and leadership?
Great PMs don’t just ship features.

They own decisions and outcomes.

#productmanagement #recruiting Redfish Technology

If you’re vetting a technical recruiting agency, here’s a question you should absolutely ask:

“How often do you train your recruiters on technology?”

Not on sales.
Not on closing.
On actual technology.

Because if your recruiter doesn’t understand what a vector database is... how are they evaluating an AI engineer?

At Redfish, we take this seriously.

Our Principal Recruiter, William Brewer, trains our team twice a month on real technical topics — not surface-level buzzwords.


Today we broke down:

* How embeddings work
* Why vector search matters for AI-native products
* When companies need Pinecone vs. pgvector vs. custom infra
* What signals to listen for in a candidate’s experience

If your recruiting partner can’t intelligently ask about RAG pipelines, embeddings, DSP, LLM orchestration, or distributed systems...

You’re not getting a true technical filter.
You’re getting keyword matching.

And in today’s market, that’s not enough.


#hiring #techrecruiter #redfishtechnology

If you’re paying attention to standout startups right now, StoreEase is one of them. It’s been one of the most impressive teams we’ve recruited for.

Founder & CEO StoreEase Virtual Management

I recently traveled to San Francisco to visit with the StoreEase Engineering team. Every billboard is about AI. Every conversation is about what's next and where it's going?

This team is developing the most advanced applied AI in the self-storage industry. Embedding intelligence directly into our workflows, hardware, and software to enhance operations and create a fundamentally better customer experience at scale. 

The Bay Area may have the most restaurants per capita, but it also has the highest concentration of engineering talent in the world. Grateful to experience both. 

Excited to continue to watch this team build.

Fractional CIO | IT Strategy for High-Stakes M&A | Faster M&A, Smoother Exits | De-risking IT & unlocking value | Author

Most technology integrations miss their synergy targets. Not because the technology is wrong, but because the right leadership wasn't in place early enough.

That's where I come in.

I'm an Interim / Fractional CIO specialising in Transformation & Resilience. I work with CEOs and boards of multi-site, acquisition-led businesses, typically PE-backed, 500–10,000 employees, to turn technology from a source of risk into a source of value.

When integration timelines slip, cyber posture is unclear, or the estate has grown faster than the team can manage, I step in to stabilise delivery, simplify complexity, and build a roadmap the board can trust.
Recent engagement:

VetPartners (BC Partners-backed, £1B revenue, 14,000 staff, 9 countries). Built the Group IT Strategy from scratch. Created acquisition integration blueprints. Accelerated new practice onboarding by 30%. Simultaneously ran IT operations for 540 UK practices.

Career outcomes:

£700M+ M&A technology integration across the platform and bolt-on acquisitions
£15M+ annual EBITDA contribution through operational excellence and cost optimisation
Technology leadership across automotive retail, consumer goods, and veterinary services

Clients call me when:

→ Integration is off-track, and synergies are at risk
→ The board wants cyber confidence before exit, audit, or due diligence
→ Technology is a red flag in the data room
→ They need senior leadership fast—without permanent headcount

I also serve as NED (Digital & Technology) at Age UK, and I've published on AI governance, IT leadership, and board-level technology strategy.

Available for select interim and fractional mandates.

Let's talk: DJ@Starkhorn.co.uk

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