Practice leadership, training, diagnostics, M&A integration, compliance, cyber, and content — delivered by the practitioners who own each pillar.

Joe Griffith
Practice Lead / Forward Deployed Engineer
Forward deployed engineer, 40 years in enterprise IT. My work happens at the board and executive-team level: I sit with leadership, find where the strategy stops turning into working systems, and I close that gap — hands on the build myself, and with an advisor bench I pull in for build scale, change management, and driving adoption through to measurable ROI.

Dan Hughes
Principle AI
Dan is founder of Principle AI, building practical AI capability inside construction, manufacturing, and distribution companies. He leads the Training pillar of our bench — executive briefings, AI 101, use-case identification, and champion development — then stays hands-on through workflow mapping, build, and coaching so adoption sticks. 125+ workshops delivered, 1,000+ people trained, 200+ client use cases, and 25 years in data, ERP, and operations.

Cindy Phillips
Scientia Consulting
Cindy owns the Diagnostic pillar through her IMPACT® framework, which tells a company exactly where it stands on AI readiness — across six dimensions — before a single dollar gets spent on tools. She's the starting point for any serious transformation effort.

Dave DeMarco
9990 Partners
Dave brings M&A execution and post-close tech optimization to the bench, helping private-equity-backed portfolio companies fold AI readiness into deal integration from day one instead of bolting it on later.

Matthew Avellino, CIPP/US
Fox Rothschild LLP
Matthew is our named compliance advisor and a practicing lawyer at Fox Rothschild — the specialist we bring in the moment AI governance, data privacy, or regulatory exposure surfaces. IAPP-certified and trained to think like a litigator, he helps us inoculate against case-law objections before they harden, bake defensible privacy language into proposals, and shape AI builds so they stand up to scrutiny rather than invite it.

Kerry Kulp
Velaspan
Kerry leads Cyber implementation, translating AI adoption into real security posture with GRC-as-a-Service and managed deception defenses mapped to frameworks like NIST, HIPAA, and ISO 27001.

Hannah Gabiana
Get the Hi
Hannah runs content and production for the practice, producing the “Reading the Room” podcast and executive media content that puts our advisors and clients in front of the right audience — turning expertise into visibility.