Deep thinking for your hardest technology problems.
Strategic thinking and operational depth from a technology executive, CEO, and board director who has built and managed mission-critical systems and led transformation at government and enterprise scale.
Syed Ahmed · Deputy Chancellor, UoW · Chair Digital & AI Advisory · ex-CEO Innowell · Est. 2014
Services
A structured two-week diagnostic that produces a clear picture of where an organisation stands with AI – maturity, gaps, and a prioritised set of next steps.
An 8–10 week programme covering AI strategy, governance framework, regulatory compliance pathway, and board reporting design. Produces a strategy that can be executed and defended – in the organisation, at the board table, and under regulatory scrutiny.
Ongoing independent technology and AI advisory for boards, audit and risk committees, and executive leadership teams. Retainer-based. The value is perspective from someone who has operated at both levels – accountable for delivery, and responsible for oversight.
A half-day working session on AI governance – what it is, how AI risk differs from conventional technology risk, and what effective oversight looks like in practice. Designed for organisations whose boards and executives need to govern AI well.
The approach
Advisory built on having done it – breadth, depth and perspective as a board director, executive and functional leader.
No gap between strategy and technical reality
Most advice fails at the handoff – where strategy meets the technology, where governance meets operations, where the board's expectations meet what the organisation can actually deliver. The practice draws on genuine technical depth alongside executive and governance experience.
Both sides of the table
The perspective that shapes every engagement comes from having been the executive accountable for delivery and the board director responsible for governing it. The questions that get asked, the risks that get surfaced, and the assumptions that get challenged look different from that vantage point.
Designed for handover
Engagements are short, focused, and designed to leave capability behind. The deliverable is an organisation that can execute with clarity and confidence.
Founded by
Over twenty-five years leading technology and transformation across healthcare, financial services, property, education and government. The practice has operated since 2014, taking advisory and interim executive engagements alongside C-suite roles.
Five years as CEO and Executive Director of Innowell – a life-critical digital mental health platform operating in acute clinical settings, where the accuracy, reliability, and oversight of AI decisions had direct clinical consequences. Governance was not a policy exercise – it was operational reality.
Deputy Chancellor of the University of Wollongong, chairing the Digital & AI Committee and overseeing major technology investment programmes globally. Non-Executive Director, Westmead Hospital Foundation.