Partners

Our Partner Bench

The team behind Fractional C-Sweet's AI readiness practice — seven Tier One partners, one per discipline, each accountable for the pillar they lead.

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Tier One

Seven partners, seven disciplines.

Every engagement draws on the same bench. Practice leadership, training, diagnostics, M&A integration, compliance, cyber, and content — delivered by the practitioners who own each pillar.

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Joe Griffith

Fractional C-Sweet · Practice Leadership

Joe leads the practice and owns the client relationship end to end — forty years selling and delivering enterprise IT across Oracle, SAP, and Salesforce ecosystems, and forty years reading live rooms as a working DJ. He sets the strategy, assembles the right bench for each engagement, and stays accountable for the outcome.

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Dan Hughes

Claritee / AI Innovation Group

Dan leads the Training pillar of our partner bench, running Executive Briefings and Use-Case Working Sessions that get C-suite leaders hands-on with AI before it becomes a boardroom liability. His Innovation Lab cohorts turn AI curiosity into real, working prototypes.

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Cindy Phillips

Scientia Consulting

Cindy owns the Diagnostic pillar through her IMPACT® framework, which tells a company exactly where it stands on AI readiness — across six dimensions — before a single dollar gets spent on tools. She's the starting point for any serious transformation effort.

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Dave DeMarco

9990 Partners

Dave brings M&A execution and post-close tech optimization to the bench, helping private-equity-backed portfolio companies fold AI readiness into deal integration from day one instead of bolting it on later.

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Matthew Avellino, CIPP/US

Fox Rothschild LLP

Matthew is our named compliance advisor and a practicing lawyer at Fox Rothschild — the partner we bring in the moment AI governance, data privacy, or regulatory exposure surfaces. IAPP-certified and trained to think like a litigator, he helps us inoculate against case-law objections before they harden, bake defensible privacy language into proposals, and shape AI builds so they stand up to scrutiny rather than invite it.

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Kerry Kulp

Velaspan

Kerry leads Cyber implementation, translating AI adoption into real security posture with GRC-as-a-Service and managed deception defenses mapped to frameworks like NIST, HIPAA, and ISO 27001.

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Hannah Gabiana

Get the Hi

Hannah runs content and production for the practice, producing the “Reading the Room” podcast and executive media content that puts our partners and clients in front of the right audience — turning expertise into visibility.