Seasoned finance, operations and security leaders who join your team through a raise, rapid growth or a first security audit, and stay until it's time to hire full-time.
Finance · Fractional CFO
Driver-based models tied to actuals, a clear view of cash, and board reporting investors don't have to rebuild.
Operations · Fractional COO
The back office, operating cadence and hiring plan, built so the company can grow without the founder in every decision.
AI strategy
Most companies now need an AI strategy. We help you build one with care: where AI earns its place, what it costs, and the permissions and audit trails that keep people in charge.
Security · Fractional CISO
Enterprise buyers, banks and investors ask for proof. We design the controls, write the policies, prepare the evidence and stay with you through the audit, alongside the independent firm that issues the report.
Readiness typically takes six to twelve weeks.
SOC 2 and ISO 27001 readinessHow we work
Our senior professionals lead every engagement and bring in the rest of the team where the work calls for it, until your full-time hire is in place.
Track record
Decentralized finance borrowing and lending protocol
AI company preparing to raise
Digital asset infrastructure firm
Digital asset infrastructure company
Life sciences, direct-to-consumer
Sectors: AI and AI infrastructure, digital assets and fintech, cybersecurity, defense and dual-use, life sciences and deep tech, and charter-track banks and neobanks.
Leadership
Founding Partner
Former Principal in the Treasury Markets Directorate at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. COO and CFO in digital asset infrastructure. Member of the Bretton Woods Committee.
Brandon's career runs from equity capital markets and Treasury markets in Tokyo and New York to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he was a Principal in the Treasury Markets Directorate. He obtained a federal security clearance during his time at the Fed. He has since served as COO and CFO of a decentralized finance borrowing and lending protocol, and as COO of a digital asset infrastructure company, where he led AI enablement.
He is a board director of startups in compliance and AI, a member of the Bretton Woods Committee and its Future of Finance Group, and a member of the CFA Societies of New York and Los Angeles and of the American Solar Energy Society.
He invests in startup ventures and distributed energy resources, and his approach draws on the Buffett-Munger emphasis on fundamentals and first principles. He lives in New York with his wife and dog.
Founding Partner
Retired U.S. Coast Guard commander and naval aviator. Founder and operator of two direct-to-consumer life sciences businesses.
During twenty years in the U.S. Coast Guard, Bill held senior operations and strategy roles, including work on operations and human-capital issues for a 40,000-person force. A naval aviator, he held Chief Pilot and Chief of Operations roles, worked alongside the Deputy Commandant for Operations, and served as Deputy Chief of Strategy. He obtained a national security clearance during his time at the Department of Homeland Security.
A business founder and venture investor, he founded and operates two direct-to-consumer life sciences businesses and invests in early-stage companies. A student of John Boyd's OODA loop, he puts reconnaissance, risk and cost assessment ahead of execution.
He has written about micro-grids and the global energy transition. He lives in the San Diego area with his son.
Principal
Security leader across decentralized finance and enterprise technology.
Erik has more than a decade in security across decentralized finance and enterprise technology: security architecture, governance, assurance preparation, adversarial testing and the allocation of security resources. He has led security programs at venture-backed technology companies, rebuilt the security function of a digital assets business, guided SOC 2 and ISO 27001 programs, and served as a GDPR Data Protection Officer.
His experience includes protocol architecture, audit strategy, bug-bounty programs and penetration testing. At a global enterprise technology company he filed four U.S. patents. A former Linux kernel developer, he speaks at security conferences and founded the DEF CON group DC11331.
He lives in Paris and runs his family's coffee estate in El Salvador.
Insights
Nearly every company now uses AI. Few can find it in their earnings.
Digital assetsThe law lists what a reserve may hold. The harder questions are how much, for how long and where.
IndustryAmerica has the capital, and it has the technology. What it's short on is operating capacity.