Leadership & Advisory Board

Founder & CEO of OpStack, building automation that lets you “manage 50,000 servers as easily as 50.” Former Executive Director of Technology Operations at KPMG US (built NIST 800-171 federal compute environments; drove availability from 95% to 99.9%), CTO for Global Infrastructure at Credit Suisse First Boston, and Principal Technology Architect at Bankers Trust, where he delivered the world’s highest-capacity cash-trading platform at 99.99% availability. Two decades of IT strategy and architecture consulting across financial services, healthcare, and aerospace. Evan advises Bastion One on scaling verifiable, audit-ready traceability into the most complex regulated environments.

VP, Practice Lead BTA Americas at SAP, returning to SAP after leading EAM portfolio strategy and enablement at Hexagon Asset Lifecycle Intelligence. His earlier SAP career spanned nearly 16 years in VP roles across Asset & Service Management, IoT Business Innovation (SAP Leonardo), and SAP HANA Services global strategy. A data-driven product and go-to-market leader with deep international experience, Tom guides Bastion One on product strategy, market dynamics, and the regulatory and cultural nuances of trustworthy AI governance worldwide.

Chief Technology Officer at OpStack since 2019. Formerly Director of Automation, Monitoring & Cloud at KPMG US, with infrastructure leadership roles at Dealertrack and NCH — where he cut critical outages by 99% and led modernization migrations. Earlier, a senior consultant at ABeam and President of Solus Technologies, delivering custom software across finance, healthcare, and waste management. David advises Bastion One on complex systems, data management, and operational efficiency for the AI Traceability System.

Americas CEO at Arkyn after nearly 21 years at SAP in leadership across sales, partnerships, engineering, and product strategy. He helped lead SAP’s mobile and AI initiatives, the Sybase and Syclo acquisitions, and SAP’s global partnership with Apple, and has since raised capital and scaled ARR in enterprise software. Josh advises Bastion One on enterprise systems and emerging tech — IoT, machine learning, and AI-driven transformation.

Founder of Celebration OnPoint, with 20+ years in enterprise technology and cloud transformation. During two decades at Microsoft he led commercial and specialist teams including a $420M+ business with 21 consecutive quarters above target, and was a foundational Azure and Data & AI specialist for U.S. Health & Life Sciences (Epic, Oracle/Cerner, Stryker). A former HL7 International voting member, author of Billion Dollar Sales Secrets, and service-disabled veteran. Joe advises Bastion One on compliance, traceability, and cryptographic validation as autonomous agents move from pilot to production.

Managing Director at OpStack with 20+ years across cloud infrastructure, DevOps automation, observability, and AI-enabled workflows. At KPMG he built a large-scale SaltStack platform for thousands of servers and multi-datacenter Splunk infrastructure via Ansible; earlier roles at Dealertrack, HRsmart, and JAB Wireless spanned automation, monitoring, and high-availability operations. AWS Solutions Architect – Professional, Splunk Certified Architect, and SaltStack Certified Engineer. Jered advises Bastion One on telemetry, observability, and the infrastructure to take AI traceability from open-source foundations to production.

Partner & Managing Director at OpStack and a principal architect of multi-cloud automation frameworks, with 16+ years in Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, and security response. Formerly Associate Director of Cloud & Automation at KPMG US and Infrastructure Manager at Dealertrack. Built NIST-compliant, state-approved secure networks for the Ellis County Sheriff’s Office (Linux/OpenVPN, Xen virtualization, Zenoss telemetry, forensic NAS). Jared advises Bastion One on automated deployment, IaC workflows, and secure cloud isolation for enterprise systems of record.