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Primary Expert Network

The Primary Expert Network is a group of vetted functional leaders from across NYC tech. Experts help Primary portfolio companies by providing ad hoc guidance and advice around functional questions, and also help one another by sharing best practices and resources via Primary's gated forums.

Technical Experts

Every aspect of engineering and product

Data science, full stack leadership, UI/UX, product design, user research, and road mapping

Prerna Singh, Senior Director of Product Management at Meetup, is an expert in product management, finding product-market fit, growing and scaling e-comm, marketplaces, and consumer businesses, scrappy user testing, and hypothesis validation Prerna Singh, Senior Director of Product Management at Meetup, is an expert in product management, finding product-market fit, growing and scaling e-comm, marketplaces, and consumer businesses, scrappy user testing, and hypothesis validation

Prerna Singh, Senior Director of Product Management at Meetup, is an expert in product management, finding product-market fit, growing and scaling e-comm, marketplaces, and consumer businesses, scrappy user testing, and hypothesis validation

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Marketing Experts

Consumer and B2B Marketing

Get connected with experts familiar with growth marketing (consumer & demand gen), brand & content marketing, SEO strategy, retention, product marketing

Fung-Lin Wu is Director of Retention Marketing at MongoDB, previously at Data Dog and DigitalOcean, and is an expert on email marketing, lead generation events, product-led growth strategy, and marketing metricsFung-Lin Wu is Director of Retention Marketing at MongoDB, previously at Data Dog and DigitalOcean, and is an expert on email marketing, lead generation events, product-led growth strategy, and marketing metrics

Fung-Lin Wu is Director of Retention Marketing at MongoDB, previously at Data Dog and DigitalOcean, and is an expert on email marketing, lead generation events, product-led growth strategy, and marketing metrics

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Customer Experts

Customer success and experience

Our experts are fluent in customer Success & implementation, call center management, CSAT / NPS, and product integrations

Julia Morton is the VP of Customer Success & Operations at Flatiron Health. As a PEN advisor, she helps founders build a Customer Success function, scale-friendly operational teams, and Customer Experience engines.Julia Morton is the VP of Customer Success & Operations at Flatiron Health. As a PEN advisor, she helps founders build a Customer Success function, scale-friendly operational teams, and Customer Experience engines.

Julia Morton is the VP of Customer Success & Operations at Flatiron Health. As a PEN advisor, she helps founders build a Customer Success function, scale-friendly operational teams, and Customer Experience engines.

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Sales Experts

Make the sale

Get to know active operators who can help with strategic partnerships, sales leadership across SMB, mid-market, and enterprise, sales enablement, and revenue operations.

Chris DePatria is Senior Vice President of Sales at Starry, Inc. Past roles have given him experience as Yahoo!'s youngest director, one of Yodle's first 100 employees, an early-days creator of AOL's sales force, and one of the first ten employees at Signpost. Chris DePatria is Senior Vice President of Sales at Starry, Inc. Past roles have given him experience as Yahoo!'s youngest director, one of Yodle's first 100 employees, an early-days creator of AOL's sales force, and one of the first ten employees at Signpost.

Chris DePatria is Senior Vice President of Sales at Starry, Inc. Past roles have given him experience as Yahoo!'s youngest director, one of Yodle's first 100 employees, an early-days creator of AOL's sales force, and one of the first ten employees at Signpost.

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Operations Experts

Org design excellence

Our network is stacked with veterans of org design, startup processes and best practices, goal planning strategy, supply chain, and FP&A.

Gary Kliegman became Chief Operating Officer at Candid after tenures at UncommonGoods and Blue Apron. He helps founders navigate startup operations, team management, project management, and paid scale.Gary Kliegman became Chief Operating Officer at Candid after tenures at UncommonGoods and Blue Apron. He helps founders navigate startup operations, team management, project management, and paid scale.

Gary Kliegman became Chief Operating Officer at Candid after tenures at UncommonGoods and Blue Apron. He helps founders navigate startup operations, team management, project management, and paid scale.

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People experts

Perfect your people function

We'll introduce you to experts in compensation, equity, and leveling best practices, business and technical recruiting, and coaching and culture.

Maria Dunn is VP of People at obé Fitness. She advises on people operations, compensation frameworks, hiring and retention best practices, employee engagement, and culture building.Maria Dunn is VP of People at obé Fitness. She advises on people operations, compensation frameworks, hiring and retention best practices, employee engagement, and culture building.

Maria Dunn is VP of People at obé Fitness. She advises on people operations, compensation frameworks, hiring and retention best practices, employee engagement, and culture building.

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