Meet the Fractional Experts You Can Catch at Startup Boston Week 2026
- Stephanie Roulic
- 2 hours ago
- 5 min read
Sometimes your startup needs senior-level expertise. It just doesn’t need (or isn’t ready for) that person to be a full-time employee. That’s exactly why we created the Fractional Fair for this year’s Startup Boston Week on Tuesday, September 15 at Boston University.
The Fractional Fair is your chance to meet experienced fractional leaders and consultants across HR, finance, marketing, sales, operations, technology, product development, data, and more….all in one place.
Whether you’re trying to make your first hires, clean up your books, figure out your GTM motion, build a product, put better systems in place, or simply determine what kind of help you actually need, come meet the people who may be able to help.
P.S. don’t forget to register (for free!) right here.
Who You'll Meet at the Fractional Fair
People, HR + Talent
Karina Bensko — CultureKrew
CultureKrew provides fractional HR for fast-scaling founders whose people strategy hasn’t quite kept pace with the business. They help identify what’s broken, build the right HR foundation, and prepare companies for the day they’re ready to hire an internal Head of People. Best fit: startups and small businesses from Seed through Series B.
Sabrina Greenwood-Briggs — Sabrina Louisa Consulting, LLC
Sabrina is a Fractional CHRO providing both strategic and hands-on HR support for scaling companies. Her work spans onboarding, benefits, payroll, compliance, compensation, performance, offboarding, and more—particularly for founders and business leaders currently responsible for managing the people side of the company.
Paul Carroll — SkillStudio Consulting
With 45+ years of expertise, SkillStudio Consulting helps companies strengthen talent acquisition and retention. Areas of expertise include staffing models, recruitment strategy, employer branding, training and development, process optimization, automation, metrics, and vendor management.
Reilly DiPlacido — Triumph HR
Triumph HR helps startups get HR right beginning with hire #1. They work with founders before their first employee joins and continue supporting teams as they scale, with hands-on help across hiring, compliance, policies, employee relations, performance, and manager development.
Finance + Accounting
Phil Slabine — Not Dorks Accounting & Finance
Not Dorks provides managed accounting and finance support for early-stage and growth companies, combining bookkeeping, monthly close, and CFO-level guidance. Their work helps founders get a clearer handle on the numbers that matter—including cash runway, pricing, and building financial models they can actually trust.
Nathashali Ortiz — Ortiz Ledgerworks
Ortiz Ledgerworks provides fractional finance and accounting leadership specifically for Seed through Series B biotech and life science startups. They help scientific founders build financial infrastructure for scaling and fundraising, with support around clean books, investor-ready reporting, runway planning, grant compliance, budgeting, and burn-rate analysis.
Marketing, Sales + GTM
Satta Sarmah Hightower — Talented Tenth Media
Talented Tenth Media helps startups and growth-stage companies turn complex products and ideas into clear, compelling messaging. Founded by GTM content strategist and former journalist Satta Sarmah Hightower, the consultancy works with founders and marketing and technology leaders to build strategic storytelling and GTM content engines that support growth.
Jeff Kubick — Refactor Marketing
Refactor Marketing provides fractional marketing leadership for growth-stage B2B technology and SaaS companies that have achieved product-market fit but don't yet have a dedicated marketing leader. Jeff helps teams build the strategy, systems, and demand engines they need to scale.
David Grazio — Indirectly, Inc.
Indirectly brings expertise across SaaS technology, B2B sales, cloud marketplaces, alliances, partner strategy, and go-to-market execution. They work with technology providers and channel partners looking to accelerate channel revenue and build stronger strategic partnerships.
Brian Kostantin — Silverbranch Praxis
Silverbranch Praxis bridges the gap between GTM strategy and actually getting the work done. Led by Brian Kostantin alongside a bench of GTM practitioners, the firm provides fractional marketing, sales, and CX leadership, project engagements, and executive branding for ambitious founders, scaling CEOs, and mid-market companies.
Technology, Engineering + Data
Matt Basile — Good Measure Studios
Good Measure provides CTO-level support for companies that need a stronger technical foundation. That might mean building a new website, designing a product from zero, connecting systems, automating a manual process, or figuring out where AI actually belongs in the business.
Matthew De Remer — engineered LLC
Building hardware? engineered LLC provides fractional engineering leadership at the CTO, VP, and Director of Hardware levels. Matthew brings 25+ years of experience across product design and complex engineering challenges, with experience spanning medical devices, wearables, clean tech, surgical robots, and more.
Kyle Woodard — North Hills Product Development
North Hills Product Development supports startups and small companies from early engineering concepts through production release. The firm specializes in mechanical engineering while tapping into a broader network across industrial design, electrical engineering, human factors, software, and firmware—particularly for medical devices, biotech, consumer devices, and green tech.
Eric Louderback — Chestnut Hill Analytics
Chestnut Hill Analytics provides data science, machine learning, analytics, data visualization, and fractional CIO, CTO, and CDO services. Their team works across the startup ecosystem with particular experience in healthcare, financial services, sports, entertainment, higher education, and scientific research.
Operations + Executive Leadership
Bridget McNamara — Coral Strand Consulting
Coral Strand Consulting provides fractional operations management and executive support for early-stage biotech and life science founders. Bridget helps build the G&A infrastructure companies need before they're ready to hire for it internally, spanning operations management, executive support, infrastructure audits, and office and lab buildouts.
Brianna Schaeffer — Riseform Consulting
Riseform Consulting works with service-based businesses that have proven their business model but are still operating with delivery processes built for a much smaller company. Brianna helps build systems around the repeatable parts of the customer experience so teams can focus their time on the work that actually requires a human.
Bridget Snell — Fractionals for Impact
Fractionals for Impact is a fractional executive firm built specifically for nonprofits, social enterprises, and commercial social ventures. They provide experienced C-suite leaders on a part-time, on-demand basis to help organizations execute the initiatives that matter most to their social impact mission.
Tanya A. Zucconi — FASTx Partners
FASTx Partners provides fractional executive and strategic technology advisory support, with deep expertise in healthcare and FQHCs. Their multidisciplinary team works across technology strategy, AI adoption and implementation, governance, cybersecurity, finance, project management, operations, and organizational change.
You Don't Have to Know Exactly What You Need
That's part of the point.
Maybe you know you need marketing help, but you're not sure whether you need a consultant, a fractional CMO, an agency, or your first full-time marketing hire.
Maybe you're preparing to raise and suddenly realizing your financial infrastructure isn't where it needs to be.
Maybe you're about to make your first five hires and Google Docs officially isn't cutting it as an HR strategy.
Or maybe your startup has simply reached the stage where the founder cannot keep owning every function of the business.
The Fractional Fair gives you an opportunity to have those conversations face-to-face, learn what different fractional leaders actually do, and figure out what kind of expertise could make sense for your company right now.
