Senior technology executives partnering with boards, investors, and leadership teams to navigate your AI transformation, complex transitions, and transformative growth.
Seeing what others don't is where it starts. The art is the pivot: turning that insight into a new strategy and guiding the business through the move that creates tremendous growth and market leadership. We have made that pivot ourselves, as the operators who led and advised some of the largest technology companies in the world.
We find the move that changes the trajectory, a direction the market has not yet priced in, anchored in what you already own rather than a borrowed playbook.
A pivot is only worth making if it compounds. We size the growth and the market position on the other side, then build the path to it.
Pivots fail in execution. Our operators have led transformations at scale, and sequence the change so it lands without breaking what works.
We assemble experienced teams from an extensive network of senior executives to deliver focused, four-to-six-week engagements, from AI readiness assessments to full strategic transformations.
Strategic M&A advisory including innovative spinout models and venture-based development for technology companies.
Product development strategy, go-to-market planning, board creation, and messaging to position companies for successful public offerings.
Guiding enterprises through AI adoption, platform modernization, and complex technology transformations with structured maturity frameworks.
Proprietary AI Maturity Index assessing enterprise AI adoption across ten operational domains, from exploring to compounding, with actionable investment sequencing.
Rapid intervention with restructuring strategies, communications plans, and operational stabilization for companies in transition.
Technology-focused due diligence evaluating product roadmaps, AI maturity, portfolio gap analysis, and market opportunity for investors and PE sponsors.
Our proprietary index places an organization across ten operational domains and five stages of adoption. We identify the stage you are in, the stage you believe you are in, and the sequenced investment that closes the gap.
AI is discussed more than deployed. Curiosity and early pilots, no operating model yet.
Isolated wins. Tools in pockets of the organization, value not yet repeatable.
AI enters real workflows, with governance, ownership, and measurement attached.
Repeatable value across functions, funded and managed as a deliberate program.
AI reshapes the economics. Each capability makes the next one faster and cheaper.
Knowing your stage is just the start. The real value is the order of moves. We tell you which AI investments earn their keep today, and which can wait. Where are you on the index?
We never mistake AI enthusiasm for AI evidence.
Boards and investors hire us for the difference.
Anyone can read a roadmap. We assess AI posture from the evidence in the technology itself, the same rigor we bring to investor diligence.
We measure where AI is actually authoring work and creating value, not where a slide says it does.
We separate shipped capability from roadmap intent, so a board funds reality rather than ambition.
Where AI sits in the cost base, and the supply-chain, intellectual-property, and key-person exposure beneath it.
The assets and capabilities already in the estate that the organization has not yet put to work.
We run this with proprietary diagnostics built over years of advisory work, so the read is fast, specific, and grounded in what is actually there.
We pride ourselves in seeing what others don't. Our engagements are designed for speed, clarity, and actionable outcomes.
Rapid immersion into your technology landscape, AI readiness, competitive position, and strategic objectives to identify hidden opportunities and risks.
We pull from our network of CTOs, CEOs, and CSOs to build a bespoke team matched to your specific challenge.
Four-to-six-week engagement delivering outside-in marketplace analysis and technology trend evaluation.
Concrete recommendations with clear execution roadmaps, not slide decks that collect dust.
That independence is the point. Our recommendations carry no vendor incentive, no delivery bias, and no reason to make the work larger than it needs to be. We answer to your interests and the evidence, and nothing else.
From scaling startups to Fortune 500 transformations, our advisory work drives measurable results across both private and public companies.
Guided strategic alternatives consultation, marketing and messaging development, and board creation in preparation for IPO, which transitioned into a competitive acquisition process.
Three-year engagement covering corporate strategy, board and management structure, product roadmap review, and brand positioning.
Developed IPO preparation plan that evolved into a competitive bidding process among strategic acquirers.
Structured a three-year growth plan addressing product strategy, organizational design, and management staffing.
Designed digital strategy creating a new product development structure for accelerated innovation.
"Technology is the greatest enabler the world has ever known, but it's never the technology that solves the problem. It's always the people."Michael Capellas, Founder & CEO
Our team brings decades of operating experience at the highest levels of global technology companies.
Founder & CEO
Four-time CEO. Former CEO of Compaq, President of HP. Led MCI, First Data, and VCE. Lead Independent Director at Cisco and Cellebrite, and a board member of privately held Altana AI (Chair) and NumberOne AI.
Managing Partner
30+ years in technology leadership. Former CTO of VCE, Acadia, and Dell EMC Converged. U.S. Army Intelligence. Patent holder.
Managing Director
25+ years in marketing and advertising, tech-focused, including HP, Samsung, and T-Mobile.
Managing Director
30+ years in global operations. EVP at Virtustream, former EVP Global Services at VCE, VP Storage Managed Services at EMC.
Whether you're navigating an AI transformation, preparing for a liquidity event, or seeking strategic clarity, we're ready to help.
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