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Senior executives
in the seats
that matter.

We provide growing companies and PE-backed portfolio companies with senior talent across finance, operations, sales, and marketing. Vetted operators, placed and working within days.

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The Problem

Most growing companies
have nobody in the room.

A full time senior hire costs a significant amount and takes months to find. Most growing companies keep moving forward without one and figure they will get to it later. By the time they do, a lot of time and opportunity has already passed.

73%
of $5M to $50M companies
have no dedicated CFO, COO, or VP of Sales. They are running on gut feel and hoping the wheels do not come off.
$240K+
Average C-suite salary
puts senior executive talent out of reach for most growing companies. Full time is too expensive. So they go without.
6 mo.
Average time to hire
to find, hire, and onboard a senior executive. By the time they start, the damage from the leadership gap is already done.
What We Offer

The right person
in the right seat.

We place vetted senior people across finance, operations, sales, and marketing. We run a weekly analysis on your business so your operator already knows where things stand the moment they start.

Finance & Accounting
Know your numbers every week.
No more financial surprises at the end of the quarter. We place fractional CFOs, Controllers, and Finance Directors. We connect to your financials and run the analysis so your person walks in prepared, not catching up.
What we track
Cash flow analysis, rolling forecasts, and risk flags delivered in plain language on a weekly basis.
Operations & Revenue Ops
Stop firefighting.
We place fractional COOs, Heads of Operations, and Revenue Operations leaders. We surface what is breaking before it becomes a real problem so your operator comes in to drive decisions, not discover them.
What we track
KPI monitoring, team performance tracking, and bottleneck detection before things break.
Sales & Marketing
Build a motion that holds.
We place fractional VPs of Sales, Directors of Sales, and Marketing leaders. We track pipeline health and lead activity so your person builds the process around what the numbers are actually saying.
What we track
Pipeline health, lead scoring, stalled deal alerts, and marketing performance tracking.
How It Works

Active in days.
Not months.

Most companies spend four to six weeks finding and onboarding the right person. We do it in days. Here is how.

01
We connect to your data
We connect to your financial systems, CRM, and operational tools. Running in hours not weeks.
02
We run the weekly read
We run a weekly read on your business and deliver it in plain language. No complex dashboards to figure out on your own.
03
Your expert shows up prepared
Your person already knows what is going on before day one. No long catch-up session. They get straight into the work.
04
Results, fast
One flat monthly fee. No full time salary, no placement fee, and no 90-day ramp period. You pay for the work, not the overhead.
Who We Serve

Growing companies
that need the right people.

Companies that are focused on growth and want senior experience alongside them as they scale. That is who we built Stratos Talent for.

Early growth stage
Founder-led companies
Just raised a round or hit a growth inflection and realize they need real operators running the business. They need someone in the seat fast and cannot afford a six month search.
Portfolio companies
PE-backed portfolio companies
The fund needs operators placed quickly and held accountable. No time for a months-long search. They want someone active and driving results from week one.
In transition or growth mode
Family-owned businesses
Going through a succession, a turnaround, or a growth push. Need experienced hands for a defined period without a permanent commitment or a costly full time hire.
Post-raise
Series A and B companies
Have the capital but not the team to make good use of it yet. Investors expect the leadership layer to be built fast. Stratos Talent makes that possible without the search timeline.
Our Culture

We care about
getting it right.

Culture is not something you put on a poster. At Stratos Talent it shows up in who we hire, how fast we move, and what we do when something is not working. Those are the things that actually tell you who a company is.

⚡
Speed without cutting corners
We move fast because we know speed matters to the companies we serve. But we never rush the operator vetting process. Those are two different things and we hold both standards at the same time.
🎯
Operators who have done the work
Everyone we place has a verified track record in the function they are serving. Not someone who studied it. Someone who has actually done it inside a real company at the right scale and has the results to show for it.
🤝
Accountability in both directions
We hold our operators accountable to results, and we hold ourselves accountable to our clients. If the fit is not right, we fix it. No long negotiation, no runaround. We just fix it.
📊
Data first, opinions second
Every recommendation our operators make is grounded in real data, not instinct or assumption. Opinions matter but they should follow the numbers, not replace them.
🏗️
We build things that last
We are not interested in a quick fix that falls apart when we leave. When we are inside a company, we build process, not dependency. The goal is always to make the business stronger than we found it.
🔍
Honest over comfortable
If something is not working we say so. If a company is not ready for what they are asking for, we tell them. We would rather have a hard conversation early than a worse one six months later.
Why Stratos Talent

Built differently.
For a reason.

Most staffing and recruiting firms are built for large organizations that need volume hiring across hundreds of functions. That model works for what it is built for. A founder trying to fill a specific senior seat next week without a months-long search process is not who those firms are thinking about. We are.

What matters to you
Stratos Talent
Traditional Staffing
Traditional Fractional
Time to active operator
✓  7 to 14 days
✗  4 to 8 weeks
✗  2 to 6 weeks
Weekly business intelligence
✓  Built in
✗  Not included
✗  Not included
Flat monthly fee
✓  Yes
✗  20–30% placement fee
✗  Hourly or retainer varies
Multiple senior roles in one platform
✓  Finance, ops, sales, marketing
✗  Separate engagements
✗  Usually one function
Built for $5M to $50M companies
✓  This is our primary focus
✗  Built for enterprise
✗  Varies widely
No long term contract required
✓  Month to month
✗  Often 6–12 month terms
✗  Varies
About Stratos Talent

Built by people
who have been there.

Our team comes from finance, operations, sales, and business development across multiple industries. We understand what growing companies need because we have spent our careers working through the same challenges our clients face every day.

Vick Ghotra
Founder
Sales and business development leader with 20 years of experience across technology and private equity, including leadership roles as President, Director, and Account Director. President's Club winner ranked in the top 5% of sales professionals, with a track record of scaling regional and national revenue, building high-performing sales teams, and closing complex enterprise deals. An entrepreneur at heart, Vick has founded several startups throughout his career, bringing a builder's instinct and a bias for action to everything he leads.
Gurminder Sidhu
CEO/Co-Founder
Operations and executive leader with 15+ years of experience across P&L management, strategic scaling, and cross-functional governance, including leadership roles as Head of Operations, Operations Manager, and IT Program Manager. Proven operator with a track record of managing an $8M+ national portfolio, eliminating 18% in overhead, and building high-performing talent and operational frameworks from the ground up.
John Allen Jr
CRO/Co-Founder
Sales leader with over 20 years of experience across fitness, hospitality, and multi-unit operations, closing $50M+ in revenue and scaling teams from 1 location to 15. Named #1 Sales Producer in Illinois for 25 consecutive months, drove 450% growth in training sales revenue, and promoted 57 sales reps into management over 6 years. Builds systems-driven sales organizations using CRM infrastructure, pipeline analytics, and structured coaching cadences to scale repeatable revenue growth.
FAQ

Questions we
get asked a lot.

If something is not on here, reach out. We give straight answers.

Most options out there are either too slow, too expensive, or built for organizations much larger than yours. We are focused specifically on growing companies that need senior talent fast without the cost and timeline of a traditional search. We stay involved as an ongoing operating partner, not a recruiter who places someone and disappears.
Most clients have someone active within seven to fourteen business days. We connect to your systems first and run the initial analysis. Your person walks in on day one already knowing where things stand. No ramp-up period, no extended catch-up process.
No. We work on monthly agreements. You are not locked in. That said, most clients stay because the weekly analysis becomes embedded in how they run the business and the operator becomes a real part of the leadership team. You stay because it is working, not because you have to.
Yes. Some clients run a fractional CFO and a fractional VP of Sales simultaneously. You pay for each role separately. Having multiple operators means they can also coordinate with each other, which is something you would never get from three different vendors.
Companies that are growing and want experienced senior people alongside them as they scale. If you are not sure whether we are a fit, just reach out and we will give you a straight answer.
Every operator has a verified track record in the function they serve. We check the results, not just the resume. They go through a structured assessment and complete a paid trial engagement before we put them in front of a client. We would rather slow down on operator hiring than put the wrong person inside your business.
We replace them. No drama, no long back and forth. Getting the fit right matters more to us than anything else because our model only works if the operator is actually adding value. If it is not working, tell us and we move fast to fix it.
Yes and this is one of our strongest channels. PE firms need operators placed quickly and held accountable to measurable results. We work directly with portfolio companies and can also work at the fund level to serve multiple companies in a portfolio. If you are a PE firm and want to talk about a portfolio-level relationship, reach out directly.

Every growing company needs
the right people in the room.

Stratos Talent places vetted senior people across finance, operations, sales, and marketing. No lengthy search. No full time overhead. Working within days.

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