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Navigating Success:
Your Strategic Partner
Since 2001, SFG Partners have successfully enabled clients to leverage their technology investment to increase revenue, improve customer engagement, reduce cost and improve security posture.
Our Vision is to be the fusion point of transformation strategy and technology for the future of sustainable business value.
Our mission is to help companies navigate the ever-changing technology and business landscape, solving for optimization and efficiency to deliver meaningful results.
Our mission is to help companies navigate the ever-changing technology and business landscape, solving for optimization and efficiency to deliver meaningful results.
Our Services
Address challenges with personalized solutions. Our consulting process delivers expertise, collaboration, and client-centric strategies for success.
Interim and Fractional leadership ( CIO, CISO, CTO)
Focused On Applying Team Leadership to Expand Experience & Success. This practice emphasizes the personal attention and unique experience of our partners. We focus on team cohesion and coaching to scale experience and shift team performance.
Lead technology strategy
Strengthen security oversight
Drive digital transformation
Cybersecurity Strategy & Execution
Broad & Deep Confidential Experience across Industries. Our largest practice focuses on responsive, knowledgeable, confidential guidance across the ever-changing security landscape. This practice covers the span of Board concerns and briefings to hands-on urgent remediation assistance.
Assess security vulnerabilities
Develop risk mitigation plans
Implement advanced protections
Digital Strategy and Transformation
Empowering Companies to be Business Innovators. Our foundational Transformation practice covers discontinuous events such as Mergers & Acquisitions, Restructures, Business Model Digital Strategy Adoption, Infrastructure & Applications Technology Platform changes, and ERP migrations.
Align technology with strategy
Optimize digital operations
Drive business innovation
AI
Grounded AI Solutions that Drive Measurable Impact and Scalable Innovation
Strategic AI Roadmaps
High Value Use Case Development and Assets
Workforce Optimization and Empowerment
Private Equity
From market entry strategies to partnership development, we act as catalysts for your growth journey.
Value Creation
M&A Execution
Exit Planning
Rapid Assessment
We conduct a swift yet thorough evaluation to identify key challenges, opportunities, and strategic priorities, ensuring a data-driven foundation for success.
Identify critical gaps
Analyze business performance
Assess strategic opportunities
Mobilization
We align stakeholders, establish clear objectives, and deploy the right resources to drive momentum and ensure a seamless execution.
Align key stakeholders
Define strategic objectives
Deploy essential resources
Shift
We implement lasting change by embedding new strategies, optimizing processes, and ensuring sustainable growth for long-term success.
Implement strategic changes
Optimize key processes
Ensure sustainable growth
Our Team:
Catalysts of Success
We help executive-level leadership better leverage technology, establish organizational agility, position for change and execution. Our experts are real-world, CIOs, CISOs and CTOs, who have helped build and scale disruptive companies. We work in start-ups and large companies, managing billion-dollar budgets and driving technology and strategic business outcomes to help you scale.
Ken Crafford
Tech entrepreneur and ERP expert with 30+ years leading digital transformation, global IT projects, and high-growth ventures across tech and enterprise systems.
Valerie Kwiatkowski
Senior tech leader and strategic partner with 20+ years driving growth through enterprise solutions, global IT strategy, and cross-functional alignment.
Maureen Vavra
Transformation leader and turnaround coach guiding IT strategy, change management, and leadership development across sectors from finance to healthcare.
Lars Rabbe
Veteran CIO and global IT leader with 40+ years driving large-scale systems, M&A, and cloud transformations across top tech, finance, and retail companies.
Joseph Frascati
IT and product leader with experience scaling startups, leading enterprise transformation, and launching SaaS and IoT products.
Elinor MacKinnon
Proven CIO and transformation leader with deep expertise in scaling regulated businesses, digital strategy, and IT leadership across healthcare and finance.
Greg Higham
A customer-focused Silicon Valley technology executive, Greg has enabled growth for business of all sizes across many industries, from public companies to start-ups.
Ron Pollard
Seasoned CIO and digital leader with global experience in IT, procurement, and e-commerce, driving transformation and growth for top B2B and B2C brands
Benjamin Dai
Technology strategist specializing in AI, data, and health tech, driving innovation and enterprise transformation across Fortune 100 companies and research.
Reed Kingston
Tech entrepreneur and transformation leader with Big-4 roots, guiding execs through enterprise architecture, digital strategy, and high-impact change.
Our Principal Executives provide deep, specialized experience to StrataFusion across a variety of industries, bringing a unique capability to extend our services to serve our clients' specialized needs.
Erich Escobar
Brad Pollard
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Jason Hengels
Liz McAndrew
Michelle Morrison
Ryan Wolff
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Ted Michon
Tiffany Smith
The StrataFusion business model incorporates the option for our partners to move between industry and consulting at the executive level. When requested by our clients, StrataFusion Partners assume executive management roles as interim or full-time employees of an enterprise. The following StrataFusion partners are currently engaged full-time in industry.
Edward Wustenhoff
CTO and tech entrepreneur with deep expertise in IT strategy, infrastructure, and product direction—guiding startups and enterprises through scalable, future-ready solutions.
Billy Hinners
Tech entrepreneur and former CIO with deep experience in product direction and digital strategy—helped lead Sunrun to IPO, earning patents and a DOE SunShot award along the way.
Sharon Mandell
Tech entrepreneur and CIO with deep experience in digital product strategy—Currently CIO of Juniper Networks
Steve Zoppi
30+ years of experience in the tech as CTO and CIO at leading Silicon Valley firms including Internet2, TiVo, and Hotwire
Our Emeritus Members are former StrataFusion executives who have left a lasting impact on the firm. Their legacy of leadership, innovation, and client service continues to shape our values and inspire our ongoing work.
John Dick
StrataFusion co-founder with 25+ years in tech leadership, product direction, and interim CIO/CTO roles—guiding enterprise IT, internet platforms, and high-growth teams.
Mark Egan
Cybersecurity and IT transformation leader helping companies scale securely while mentoring future tech leaders through top-ranked education and training programs.
Our all important support team covers all the bases from HR to Finance.
Amy Jors
Responsible for oversight of StrataFusion financial processes.
Karyn Guarascio
Responsible for StrataFusion's financial processing including billing, receivables, payables and payroll.
