Hi P*****k, I’m J*****e, an HR Recruiter at StrategyBrain. I came across your profile and was really impressed by your leadership at S***x and your decades of experience creating innovative support for military families. We’re partnering with V***s,a mission-driven tech organization focused on enriching service members’ lives,to hire their next Chief Executive Officer. Given your background in strategic vision, operations oversight, and building partnerships, I thought this might be a strong fit. Would you be open to a brief chat to explore this opportunity? Best regards, J*****e

Hi P*****k, Great to hear you’re interested! I’m available for a quick 20-minute call on: • Wednesday, May 1 at 10:00 AM ET • Thursday, May 2 at 2:00 PM ET If neither works, just let me know a couple of windows that fit your schedule. On the call, I’ll walk you through V***s’s CEO mandate,our strategic vision, operational scope, partnership priorities and culture,and I’d love to hear what you’re looking for next in your leadership journey. Looking forward to connecting! Best, J*****e HR Recruiter, StrategyBrain

Hi P*****k, Thanks for confirming Wednesday at 10:00 AM ET,and for sharing what you’re looking to tackle next. V***s is eager for a leader who can break down silos, instill lean, data-driven operations, and scale strategic partnerships to drive mission impact. Here’s a quick overview of the CEO role at V***s: • Strategic Vision & Growth: You’ll define and execute our roadmap,aligning digital platforms, content offerings, and service touchpoints to accelerate engagement and value for military families. • Operations & Innovation: You’ll oversee content development, technology, and user-experience teams (150 professionals strong), building streamlined processes, robust analytics, and agile decision-making to replace legacy workflows. • Partnerships & Funding: You’ll cultivate and deepen relationships with defense agencies, government bodies, nonprofits, and corporate sponsors to expand reach, secure resources, and amplify our social impact. • Culture & Change Management: You’ll champion a values-first, high-performance culture,leading workforce development initiatives, driving organizational change, and empowering cross-functional collaboration. • External Leadership: You’ll serve as our public advocate,shaping thought leadership, raising brand awareness, and ensuring our voice is heard where policy, technology, and military support intersect. Why this matters for you: with your proven track record at S***x, F***p, and A***o, you’ll have full autonomy to build lean structures, deploy data insights, and forge the next generation of partnerships,while working alongside an executive team and board committed to measurable growth and innovation. If you have any questions about the role, the team, or V***s’s growth plans before our call, just let me know. Otherwise, I look forward to diving deeper on Wednesday at 10:00 AM ET. Best regards, J*****e HR Recruiter, StrategyBrain

Hi P*****k, Happy to share a high-level snapshot ahead of Wednesday: • Technology & Product (~75 people): Our engineers, product managers and data/analytics team own the core platform, integrations and technical roadmap. • Content & Programming (~45 people): This group handles editorial, multimedia production, curriculum development and community engagement initiatives. • UX & Design (~30 people): User researchers, interaction designers and visual designers focused on crafting intuitive, accessible experiences. • The remaining handful of roles sit in partnerships, marketing/communications, finance and ops. As for the board’s top priority in your first six months, they’ve identified two critical objectives: 1) Unify these pillars under a lean, data-driven operating model,breaking down silos and setting clear cross-functional KPIs. 2) Deliver early wins on engagement and partnership growth,securing new defense/government alliances and demonstrating measurable upticks in active users. The biggest challenge will be orchestrating rapid cultural and process change across tech, content and UX to prove that streamlined decision-making can accelerate both innovation and impact. Given your track record in change management and scaling lean operations, the board sees you as the leader to drive that transformation from day one. Looking forward to diving deeper on Wednesday at 10:00 AM ET. Best, J*****e HR Recruiter, StrategyBrain

Hi P*****k, Great question. Today, our Data & Analytics team operates a centralized data warehouse,pulling in platform usage, content engagement, and partnership pipeline data,and layers on BI dashboards that refresh daily. We follow this reporting cadence: - Weekly leadership reviews of core metrics - Monthly cross-functional ops meetings to align on progress - Quarterly presentations to the board for strategic deep-dives For your first six months, the board is zeroed in on a handful of cross-functional KPIs: 1. User Engagement: Monthly Active Users (MAU), average session duration, content-completion rates 2. Partnership Growth: Number of new defense/government alliances secured, sponsorship revenue booked 3. Product Velocity: Time from feature concept to launch, adoption rates of new releases 4. Member Satisfaction & Retention: NPS/CSAT scores, churn rate 5. Operational Efficiency: Time-to-decision on key initiatives, cost per active user Tracking and rapidly iterating against these metrics will demonstrate the impact of your lean, data-driven operating model. Let me know if you’d like any additional detail before Wednesday’s call. Best, J*****e

Hi P*****k, At a high level, our Data & Analytics team runs a cloud-hosted warehouse into which we ingest platform, content and engagement data via managed ETL pipelines (a mix of open-source orchestration and hosted connectors). Transformations and validations occur upstream so that our BI layer,built on a leading analytics platform,can refresh dashboards daily. On data governance we have: • A centralized data catalog and lineage tracking to ensure everyone knows what’s in each table • Role-based access controls and sandbox environments for secure self-service • Automated quality checks and a lightweight approval workflow for new data models For the content and UX teams, we expose curated data marts and “explore” views in the BI tool so they can run ad-hoc analyses, build custom queries and track their own KPIs without touching raw source tables. New metrics or deeper dives are routed through our analytics ticketing process, where our Data & Analytics partners scope and deliver requirements in sprint cycles. Happy to walk through more of the tech under the hood on Wednesday, or connect you directly with our Head of Data & Analytics if you’d like an even deeper dive before then. Best, J*****e