I help founders in fintech, health tech, and ed tech (and other regulated, scaling teams) turn strategy into execution when regulation and risk make it challenging. Two decades of institutional rigor, at startup speed, without the bureaucracy.
Ex-Chief of Staff to a Chief Risk Officer and a Chief Auditor · NYU Stern MBA · PMP · PSM I
It comes from ultimate frisbee, a sport I love and coach. The break side is the harder, higher-value side of the field, the one you reach only by getting past the defender. For most companies, the defender is regulation, risk, and org friction. Most teams can work the open side easily enough; the great ones learn to work the break side too, where the real value is. I build the operations and governance that get you past those constraints, so your team can move where others can't.
Embedded as a fractional leader or scoped to a specific build, I bring the cadence, decision rights, and governance that let a scaling team grow without losing control.
The cross-functional execution machine: operating cadence, execution across teams, hiring scaffolding, and the change-management rigor to scale without breaking what matters.
Leverage for the CEO's office: strategic alignment, board and investor readiness, decision-rights tracking, and the management reporting that turns strategy into motion.
A stalled program rescued, a zero-to-one build shipped, or a regulatory or quality assurance finding successfully remediated. Scoped, led, and delivered.
Growing fast and feeling it? Handoffs slipping, every decision routing through the founder, new hires taking months to get productive. In a focused four-to-six-week sprint, I install the operating cadence, decision rights, and hiring-and-onboarding playbook that keep your velocity from stalling, then hand it off so your team can run it independently. Fixed scope, a clear start and finish, a concrete before and after. If you'd rather I stay on to help execute, that's a natural next step, never a requirement.
Book a scoping callFounders and operators who need institutional-grade operating rigor, roughly Series A to B, around 15 to 60 people, where ops maturity is suddenly expected and the regulatory stakes are real. My regulated-finance background translates directly to fintech, health tech, and ed tech, though I'm open to other industries where there's a mutual fit.
The combination is the difference: institutional depth that creates speed and safety, not drag.
"She excels at deconstructing messy operational problems and turning them into streamlined, repeatable processes. Kim's ability to drive projects to completion is a total game-changer."MD, Head of Digital Solutions & Innovation, global bank
For more than twenty years, I've built the systems, cadence, and governance that let complex, regulated organizations move faster without losing control, inside institutions that ranged from a top-tier global bank to a regional tri-state savings bank, plus a global investment bank and a professional-services firm. I've run board and management governance, closed regulatory findings, and led platform and program builds from zero to scale. Now I bring that craft to growing companies through Breakside.
I'm also a founder, a zero-to-one builder, and a high-school ultimate frisbee coach based in Brooklyn. I de-risk the unfamiliar the same way I de-risk a scaling company: decompose the process, surface the liability, prove the demand, then build.
Whether you need a fractional COO, a chief of staff, or a specific build, I'd love to talk. And if you're still figuring out what you need, that's a good place to start too.
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