Speaking & Media

Board credibility, value creation, and the unsexy middle.

I speak to technology leaders, CEOs, and private-equity operators on building board credibility, sequencing technology investment across a PE hold, and the operational work that separates real transformation from transformation theater.

Selected engagements
April 2026
Building Board Credibility
Nashville CIO Council

A 45-minute keynote on PE board dynamics, the difference between presenting to a board and performing for one, and what senior CIOs wish they had known earlier in their careers.

2024
Turning Technology into Revenue
eClinicalWorks National User Conference

On-stage conversation with Girish Navani, CEO of eClinicalWorks, in front of approximately 11,000 attendees. On making technology investments that produce measurable business outcomes.

Topics I speak on
Customer's P&L First, Ours Will Follow

For CEOs, boards, and technology leaders. Why the best technology investments show up in the customer's economics before they show up in the company's, and what it takes to run a technology function that grows revenue instead of just reducing cost. Built around a career spent in clinics, on sales calls, and in distributor showrooms.

The Board Deck Nobody Asks For

For CIOs, CTOs, and CDIOs who present to boards. How to build the deck that earns credibility instead of the one that just gets delivered. Based on twenty years of board meetings across PE-backed and public companies.

Technology Investment Across the PE Hold

For PE operating partners, portfolio company CEOs, and CDIOs. How technology investment priorities should shift across early, middle, and late phases of a hold period, and why most portfolio companies get the sequence wrong.

The Unsexy Middle

For executive audiences. Why most digital transformations fail in the operational gap between strategy and execution, and what separates the companies that compound value from the ones that stall.

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