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Fusing strategic transformation and technology execution - shifting the future of business
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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.
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Our Services

Address challenges with personalized solutions. Our consulting process delivers expertise, collaboration, and client-centric strategies for success.
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"Elevated to industry leaders."

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
our process
Step 1

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
Step 2

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
Step 3

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

Partners
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.
FOUNDER/PARTNER

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.
PARTNER - interim cio & CTO, AI & Data Strategy

Benjamin Dai

Technology strategist specializing in AI, data, and health tech, driving innovation and enterprise transformation across Fortune 100 companies and research.
partner - Interim CIO, IT & Digital Transformation

Elinor MacKinnon

Proven CIO and transformation leader with deep expertise in scaling regulated businesses, digital strategy, and IT leadership across healthcare and finance.
PARTNER - interim cio, Private equity

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.
PARTNER – CIO, Startup IT & Emerging Technology

Joseph Frascati

IT and product leader with experience scaling startups, leading enterprise transformation, and launching SaaS and IoT products.
partner - Interim CIO, M&A, Large Scale Systems

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.
Partner - Business and IT Strategy Integration, Digital Transformation

Maureen Vavra

Transformation leader and turnaround coach guiding IT strategy, change management, and leadership development across sectors from finance to healthcare.
partner - Digital Transformation, Enterprise Architect

Reed Kingston

Tech entrepreneur and transformation leader with Big-4 roots, guiding execs through enterprise architecture, digital strategy, and high-impact change.
partner - Chief Information Officer, Chief Purchasing Officer

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
Interim CIO, Technology Entrepreneur, Digital Transformation

Valerie Kwiatkowski

Senior tech leader and strategic partner with 20+ years driving growth through enterprise solutions, global IT strategy, and cross-functional alignment.
Principals

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.

Information Security, Architecture Principal

Erich Escobar

Interim CISO, IT Security, Technology Entrepreneur

Jason Hengels

Project Management, Product Management, Program Management

Michelle Morrison

network Security, Architecture Principal

Ryan Wolff

Program Management, Project Management, Product Management, Data Modeling/Tools/BI

Ted Michon

alumni

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.

IT Infrastructure Strategy & Management, CTO & Technology Entrepreneur

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.
Technology Entrepreneur, Technology Product Direction, Technology Management, Interim CIO and CTO

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.
Interim CIO, Technology Entrepreneur, Digital Transformation

Sharon Mandell

Interim CIO, Technology Entrepreneur, Digital Transformation

Steve Zoppi

emeritus

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.

Technology Management & Product Direction, Interim CIO and CTO

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.

PArtneR - Digital Transformation, M&A, Information Security

Mark Egan

Cybersecurity and IT transformation leader helping companies scale securely while mentoring future tech leaders through top-ranked education and training programs.
support team

Our all important support team covers all the bases from HR to Finance.

Controller

Amy Jors

Responsible for oversight of StrataFusion financial processes.
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Accounting Manager

Karyn Guarascio

Responsible for StrataFusion's financial processing including billing, receivables, payables and payroll.
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The StrataFusion team has been a pleasure to partner with. They bring the skills, resources, and experience required to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery, which was imperative for a substantial carve-out such as ours. As the executive responsible for the overall SMO effort, knowing I had a world-class partner handling the IT portfolio was reassuring and the results did not disappoint. I'd welcome the opportunity to work with the StrataFusion team again in the future.
Matt Kinard, Vice President of Global Operations, Everfox
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Our Mission

Innovation in Action:
Our Mission Revealed

Our mission is to help companies navigate the ever-changing technology and business landscape.
Solving for optimization and efficiency to deliver meaningful results.

Join us as we unfold a future where businesses not only survive but thrive, and success is a continuous evolution. Welcome to a mission that goes beyond statements—it's a promise of crafting a future where your success is our mission.
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SFG Community Service

StrataFusion partners have built successful careers across industry helping business grow, primarily in technology related areas. Now, having established a partnership of trusted advisors to serve a spectrum of clients, it’s especially gratifying to contribute our expertise and passion to organizations in the community. This is where our collective experience and know-how is put to use to help create change in the lives of others.

FOR PROFIT BOARDS

• Beeline Connect, Inc
• Coginiti Corp
• Solutions Partners, Inc.
• Till Mobile Corporation

NON-PROFIT BOARDS

• CIO Scholarship Fund
• Samaritan House IT Advisory Committee
• Small Scale Farms - Africa
• USS Hornet ACHF

Animal Welfare

Partner Lars Rabbe has helped foster the use of Technology for 16+ years to gain interoperability between funding organizations, shelters and technology partners, with successes in five key areas: adoption, education, search healthcare, and connecting networks.

Mentoring

Our team provides mentoring for promising students and managers to various nonprofit and development organizations including YearUp, USF Alumni Mentor Program (AMP), high school STEM and robotics programs, Women Unlimited International, The Merritt Cybersecurity Program and the USS Hornet.