[adam1davis]

This reminds me of "Rainbow's End" by Vernor Vinge: A "coordinator" is someone who combines the efforts of multiple people and this is where the "biggest and most famous money" will be (has been?) found. See page 50-51, http://books.google.com/books?id=WT-OXLZE2m8C&q=combine#...

[metageek]

That's "Rainbows End", actually. A statement, not a noun phrase.

[abecedarius]

Yeah, I wondered what a coordinator's work would look like concretely and imagined a kind of freelance product manager. Do you think that's way off?

[adam1davis]

In my mind it would be a combination of recruiter, product manager, and maybe architect