Our recommendation
Why we recommend Zerneth.
Recommended for a founder or CEO who needs a second in command rather than an assistant. For nine years she was Director of Operations and Country Manager at MVT Canada, running Asian and Latin American delivery across more than 100 virtual assistants and 120 clients while owning executive reporting, resource planning, budgets, cost control, compliance and strategic partnerships.
Since then she has run the full client and VA lifecycle at NinjaVA — intake, matching, onboarding, performance support, retention and offboarding — and now supports a Dublin executive search boutique on senior corporate appointments. Seventeen years, every one of them remote since 2013, with full-cycle recruitment, client success and operations leadership all in the same person. Strongest fit for an outsourcing agency, a professional services firm, or any founder-led business that has outgrown the founder doing operations personally.
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The assessment
English and writing
Fluent written and verbal English, evidenced by the work rather than a certificate. She owned executive reporting and leadership meeting rhythms for a Canadian CEO for nine years, which means writing briefings senior people act on. She currently prepares candidate CV reports for a Dublin executive search boutique placing senior corporate affairs appointments in top Irish companies — client-facing written output at a standard that boutique will not compromise on. She has also managed guest outreach and expert-panel submissions to Rolling Stone Culture Council, Fast Company and Forbes Council, and worked as a WordPress content editor and SEO writer earlier in her career. Her own CV is the most precisely structured on the roster.
Remote readiness
Every role on her CV since 2013 has been remote, across Canadian, Australian, Irish and US clients. At MVT Canada she led Asian and Latin American operations simultaneously, which means holding delivery together across time zones as a daily discipline rather than an occasional adjustment. She has built the infrastructure remote teams depend on, SOPs, playbooks, scorecards, dashboards, escalation paths and follow-up cycles, at both MVT and NinjaVA. Her toolkit is deep and current: JobAdder and ATS platforms, Airtable, Monday.com, Notion, Asana, ClickUp, Jobber, HouseCall Pro, LinkedIn, Apollo, RocketReach, plus ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity.
Cultural fit
She translates decisions into accountable execution, which is the whole job of a Chief of Staff. Her own description of the MVT role is the tell: partnering with the CEO and founders to turn vision and strategic priorities into operating plans, owners, deadlines and measurable outcomes, then monitoring high-priority initiatives and risks and escalating with clear context. She holds people to standards without needing to be the loudest voice — KPIs, SOPs, coaching, performance reviews, scorecards. Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt, a physics degree from Philippine Normal University, and a Q1 Top Team recognition with national QA scores between 92.5% and 100% behind it. She also knows the outsourcing industry from the inside, having built the recruiting, onboarding and client success functions that agencies run on.
English and writing
Fluent written and verbal English, evidenced by the work rather than a certificate. She owned executive reporting and leadership meeting rhythms for a Canadian CEO for nine years, which means writing briefings senior people act on. She currently prepares candidate CV reports for a Dublin executive search boutique placing senior corporate affairs appointments in top Irish companies — client-facing written output at a standard that boutique will not compromise on. She has also managed guest outreach and expert-panel submissions to Rolling Stone Culture Council, Fast Company and Forbes Council, and worked as a WordPress content editor and SEO writer earlier in her career. Her own CV is the most precisely structured on the roster.
Remote readiness
Every role on her CV since 2013 has been remote, across Canadian, Australian, Irish and US clients. At MVT Canada she led Asian and Latin American operations simultaneously, which means holding delivery together across time zones as a daily discipline rather than an occasional adjustment. She has built the infrastructure remote teams depend on, SOPs, playbooks, scorecards, dashboards, escalation paths and follow-up cycles, at both MVT and NinjaVA. Her toolkit is deep and current: JobAdder and ATS platforms, Airtable, Monday.com, Notion, Asana, ClickUp, Jobber, HouseCall Pro, LinkedIn, Apollo, RocketReach, plus ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity.
Cultural fit
She translates decisions into accountable execution, which is the whole job of a Chief of Staff. Her own description of the MVT role is the tell: partnering with the CEO and founders to turn vision and strategic priorities into operating plans, owners, deadlines and measurable outcomes, then monitoring high-priority initiatives and risks and escalating with clear context. She holds people to standards without needing to be the loudest voice — KPIs, SOPs, coaching, performance reviews, scorecards. Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt, a physics degree from Philippine Normal University, and a Q1 Top Team recognition with national QA scores between 92.5% and 100% behind it. She also knows the outsourcing industry from the inside, having built the recruiting, onboarding and client success functions that agencies run on.
Software they already use
- ApolloSales prospecting
- AirtableDatabases
- Monday.comTasks and projects
- NotionDocs and wikis
- AsanaTasks and projects
- TrelloTask boards
- ClickUpTasks and projects
- JobberField service
- HouseCall ProField service
- Google WorkspaceGoogle Workspace
- Microsoft OfficeMicrosoft Office
- SlackTeam chat
- ZoomVideo calls
- CanvaDesign
- MailchimpEmail marketing
Skills
- Chief of Staff
- Business Operations
- Operations Leadership
- Strategic Planning
- Executive Support
- Executive Reporting
- Full-Cycle Recruitment
- Talent Acquisition
- Executive Search
- Candidate Sourcing
- Client Success
- Account Retention
- VA Operations
- Team Leadership
- Performance Management
- Coaching
- KPI Reporting
- Dashboards
- SOP Development
- Process Improvement
- Playbooks and Scorecards
- Stakeholder Management
- Escalation Management
- Onboarding and Offboarding
- Payroll and Activity Audits
- Resource Planning
- Budget and Cost Control
- Compliance
- Negotiation
- Strategic Partnerships
- Lean Six Sigma
- JobAdder
- RocketReach
- CompanyCam
- Teams
- Typeform
- WordPress
- Hootsuite
- Buffer
- AI Tools
Résumé
If you hire Zerneth
You pay us one flat fee from $1,500, once, and pay Zerneth $10–12 an hour directly. Replacements are free for up to a year, depending on the plan.
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