Executive Consulting
Fractional leadership and strategic advisory for regulated enterprises navigating AI adoption, compliance complexity, and capital efficiency — including distressed company turnarounds. Built on two decades of operational execution in healthcare technology and cybersecurity.
Core Services
Every engagement is grounded in operational reality — not frameworks on a slide. The work is structured to produce auditable outcomes, not activity reports. These are the four domains where we bring the most leverage.
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CEO, COO, CISO, or Chief Trust Officer capacity on a fractional basis — including distressed company turnarounds. Designed for companies that need executive-grade judgment and accountability without full-time overhead. Engagements are structured, time-bound, and outcome-oriented.
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Operational and financial discipline for growth-stage companies. Revenue architecture, investor readiness, unit economics, and strategic cost structure informed by building and scaling a venture-backed company from zero to exit.
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End-to-end HIPAA operationalization — not checklists, but working programs. Risk assessment, BAA architecture, technical safeguard design, HITRUST alignment, and audit-readiness across cloud environments. Compliance as operational discipline.
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Practical AI governance for regulated enterprises — shadow AI detection, model inventory, risk scoring, policy frameworks, and executive dashboards. Built for CISOs, compliance leaders, and legal teams who need defensible programs, not aspirational ones.
Background
The credibility behind this work comes from having built the infrastructure, navigated the audits, raised the capital, and led the teams — in regulated environments where the cost of getting it wrong is measured in patient safety, regulatory action, or enterprise trust.
Bowen & Company was founded to solve a problem the healthcare industry was unwilling to acknowledge: cloud infrastructure was being adopted without the governance architecture to make it defensible under HIPAA. As Founder and CISO of ClearDATA, we built the category from scratch — multi-cloud security, compliance automation, and healthcare-specific controls — scaling to $68M revenue with zero data breaches across the company's entire operational history. We raised $82M from institutional investors including Norwest, Humana, and Merck, and executed a successful exit.
Before that, we built DirectClarity during the Accountable Care era — a clinically integrated network platform that connected approximately 50,000 physicians and helped health systems form the care coordination infrastructure required under emerging ACO models. Another structured exit. The pattern across both companies is the same: identify a governance or infrastructure gap in a regulated market, build the operational architecture to address it at scale, and execute with precision.
We also execute turnarounds for distressed companies — stepping into leadership roles where accountability is absent, operations have broken down, or the board needs an operator who can stabilize, restructure, and create a path forward. The same discipline that builds companies from zero applies directly to restoring ones that have gone off course.
Today, that same architecture is being applied to AI governance through Control Layer AI — helping regulated enterprises build AI programs that are auditable, transparent, and defensible under emerging regulatory frameworks. Our advisory practice runs in parallel, bringing this operational model directly to leadership teams that need it.
Engagement Models
Engagements run on monthly commitments — structured to produce measurable outcomes without long-term lock-in. Equity consideration available for fractional executive and board-level arrangements.
Advisory
Ongoing strategic counsel on a retained basis. Board-level narrative development, investor positioning, regulatory strategy, and executive decision support.
Fractional
Part-time executive presence with full accountability. CEO, COO, CISO, or Chief Trust Officer roles structured around your specific needs and growth stage.
Project
Scoped, time-bound engagements with defined deliverables. HIPAA program builds, AI governance frameworks, investor readiness packages, and compliance audits.
Get in Touch
If your organization is navigating AI governance, compliance complexity, or leadership transitions — and you need a team that has operated at this level before — reach out.
Or reach out directly at chris@ibowen.co
Based in Scottsdale / Phoenix Metro. Engagements are national. Response within one business day.