Role fit
Built for the highest seat you have open, not just the AI one.
Value creation, commercial diligence, and applied AI are one skill set here, not three résumés. Written the way the reqs are written, with the proof that carries each. The through line is the one Bain trained into me: results, not reports. Open to the right role, selectively, not urgently.
Value creation & diligence seats
Weighted to finding it and delivering it
Operating Partner, value creation (generalist)
Not AI-gated: carried by $20M realized in embedded operations, the ~$10M in-year margin case, and program governance run at CEO and CFO level across nineteen engagements.
Partner / MD, Commercial Due Diligence
Carried by Bain CDD and performance-improvement casework across eight industries, plus 1,000+ acquisition targets underwritten at Paradosi with IC-grade models I built, diligence with my own capital at risk.
Managing Director, Value Creation
Fund or advisory, carried by nineteen Fortune-100-scale engagements, $500M+ sized, $30M+ realized, delivery the C-suite signed off on.
AI leadership seats
Weighted to building it and keeping it running
Chief AI Officer, full-time or fractional
Enterprise AI ownership, carried by the operating model a top-5 insurer still runs on, plus the agentic orchestration and governance I run on my own production systems, the capability every 2026 CAIO req now asks for.
Head / VP of AI
Build the function, carried by practice-building from zero at Bain and a production multi-agent system architected solo.
Hybrid seats, the intersection priced in
All three capabilities in one chair
AI Operating Partner
PE portfolio value creation, diligence through ownership, carried by the realized P&L record and a fund playbook deployed with eight CFOs.
Forward-deployed / applied-AI leadership
Embed with customers, ship against their P&L, carried by AgentForge, SightForge, and a decade of client-embedded delivery.
How I work
- Outcome-first: every initiative carries a number and a named owner, or it doesn't start.
- Hands-on: I read the code, build the first version, and chair the executive review, the same person.
- Commitment, plainly: my ventures run on systems that don't need me at a desk. Everything I built there is the playbook I bring to you, tested on my own money first.
What I need to say yes
- Mandate: P&L accountability and the authority to ship, not an advisory lane.
- Altitude: operating-partner / MD / head-of-function scope.
A good fit
- A fund or board with a value thesis that names AI and a P&L to hold it against.
- A seat where finding the number, shipping the system, and owning the result is one job.
- Leadership that wants a scoreboard, not a status deck.
Not a fit
- An advisory lane with no authority to ship.
- Pilot programs meant to signal innovation rather than move a number.
- A pure research or platform-selection mandate with no delivery accountability.
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A short call to verify fit in both directions, not a sales call. References available on request.
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