Who I am
Bio:
board and bench, in the same conversation. I translate an executive's risk tolerance into an architecture decision, and a data scientist's failure mode into a number the CFO can act on. A pure engineer can't hold the executive frame. A pure advisor can't reach the failure mode. That's the gap I fill.
My background is engineering first. PhD in chemical engineering, early work in high-consequence process environments where failure wasn't a bug ticket — it was a shutdown. That discipline followed me into data science, machine learning, and eventually AI governance, where I spent time at PwC leading work on the highest-risk AI workflows in financial services. That work became the foundation of what PwC now sells as Model Edge.
I've built AI functions from zero, stood up governance , and worked the deploy/don't-deploy seat in healthcare — advising on what should and shouldn't be built before capital moves. I work in regulated environments because that's where the judgment actually matters. Anyone can ship a model. Not everyone can defend it.
I don't take permanent roles or let anyone own my judgment. I go as deep as the outcome requires — and hand off something that runs without me.
Contact me. Let’s start a conversation.
Ben
What clients, partners, collaborators and trainees sounds like when things work as intended:
“Nobody knows how to do this, so I called you.”’
“It’s good to know somebody who can speak science, and tech, and human”
”You’re a lifesaver.”
“…you actually take the time to learn their business and lives… that can only be done from the inside.”
“I need your help.”
“If you come back this way, call me first.”
“You’ve become one of my favorite people.”
”My kid was chanting your name in the car.”
”Just the right amount of swagger”
“You are one tenacious [censored].”
“Your team has the best data scientists in the whole organization.”
”I sing your praises daily.”
“I’m starting a new business. You’re the second person I called.”
“My neighbor needs your help.”
”I got promoted early because of you, again.”
”You are the most skilled ‘hammer dropper’ I have ever heard. How do you do that?”
“You’ve been a tremendous positive influence in my life.”
”Thank you for challenging our way of thinking. You have given us much to consider.”
“You remain so composed when everybody around you is stressed out.”
“You have such a calming presence.”
“I wish everybody working on these ethics problems had your wisdom.”
And also, a few Badges of Honor from when independence and integrity were not welcome:
“This isn’t a fit.”
“When I say there is an emergency, you have to drop what you are doing and wait.”
“If you were professional, you would just take my word for it.”
“Your work got slagged during the re-org.”
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