Enterprise — Board & Technical Advisory
A Technical Voice in the Boardroom
Senior technical judgment in the room — without a full-time hire. Independent board and advisory-board work, plus technical due diligence for investors and acquirers, pointed at the decisions where getting the technology wrong is the expensive mistake.
Fortune 500 experience: Costco · Hertz · Wayfair · Chick-fil-A · EY
What I Bring to a Board or Advisory Seat
- Technical due diligence — read a stack, a team, and a roadmap, and tell the board what’s real, what’s risk, and what it will cost
- Scaling & architecture judgment — when to split the monolith, when to hire, and the moment tech debt stops being technical and becomes a business problem
- Edge AI, computer vision, distributed & mobile — where the next products and defensible moats actually are, from someone shipping it now
- Build-vs-buy & CTO evaluation — including the honest read on whether current technical leadership can scale with the company
- Straight talk — I won’t soften what’s hard for the board to hear
How This Works, By Situation
One practice, but the terms genuinely differ by who's asking.
Enterprise & Growth-Stage Boards
An independent board or advisory-board seat, technical due diligence ahead of an investment or acquisition, or a standing CTO / technical-leadership evaluation.
Retainer, structured equity (post-seed+, with a defined realization path), or dividend-bearing seats.
Startup Boards
Open to it, but it starts with a conversation, not a self-serve offer. Equity-only only makes sense when the pairing is genuinely strong and the time commitment is realistic on both sides.
Where that alignment isn’t there, the standard fractional CTO engagement — paid — is the better fit than a token board seat.
Nonprofit Boards
Open to nonprofit board and advisory seats where the mission and the work genuinely align.
This operates differently — pro-bono or reduced-fee, not the standard retainer model.
Looking for hands-on technical leadership instead of a board seat? See Fractional CTO for Startups & Tech Growth or the rest of the Enterprise engagement tracks.
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Let's Discuss the Seat
Every board or advisory conversation starts the same way — tell me the situation, and I'll tell you honestly whether it's a fit and what it should look like.
Typically respond within one business day.