FOR BOARDS & LISTED COMPANIES · AI-FIRST OVERSIGHT

AI is now a board-level risk. Govern it like one.

Former CTIO & Chief Product Officer, Hotelbeds Group (HBX) · Operator in Cinven, CPPIB & Platinum Equity portfolios · CIO of the Year — CIONET 2018

Boards are accountable for AI before most can explain it. I give non-executive directors clear oversight of AI risk, controls and value — grounded in an operator who has actually run the platforms, carve-outs and migrations underneath.

€8B+

Platform revenue enabled

€550M+

Business case delivered

1,400+

Applications migrated

What I Do

From AI Ambition to Operating Reality

Clear scope. Defined timeline. Measurable outcomes.

AI Oversight & Board Assurance

Board-ready visibility into AI risk, controls and value — translated out of the jargon so non-executives can challenge, govern and approve with confidence.

AI Risk & Governance

A governance model that stands up to regulators, auditors and shareholders: policy, model risk, controls and clear lines of accountability for enterprise AI.

The Operator Behind the Advice

Not a theorist. €8B+ in platform revenue, real carve-outs and migrations delivered — so AI guidance is grounded in what actually ships, not what sounds good in a deck.

I also work with Revamp Advisors, a boutique advisory company alongside other high-profile ex-CIOs.

Operator-Proven at Scale

What Operating It Actually Looks Like

AI ambition is easy to declare. The proof is in the operating layer underneath it — the workforce redesigns, platform migrations, carve-outs and cost take-outs I have actually delivered at scale.

Technology Stack

GenAI & LLMs Agentic AI / Multi-Agent RAG & Vector DBs LangChain / LlamaIndex Model Context Protocol (MCP) Fine-tuning & RLHF MLOps / LLMOps AI Evals & Guardrails Agentic SDLC / AI Copilots AWS · Azure · GCP Databricks & Snowflake Kubernetes Python DevSecOps

Sectors

Travel & Hospitality

Hotelbeds Group, Awaze/TUI

Financial Services

Lloyds Banking Group

Media & Broadcasting

BT Sport

Industrial & Testing

SGS

Engagement Models

Three Ways to Work Together

Fractional / Interim Executive

Part-time or full-time technology leadership for 3–9 months.

Advisory Project

Focused 4–12 week engagement with defined scope and deliverables.

Leadership Coaching

One-to-one coaching for technology leaders navigating transformation.

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For Boards & C-Suite Leaders

The Operator's Briefing

A private quarterly communiqué on enterprise AI governance, agentic delivery, and the value-creation levers behind real transformation — curated for board members and operators. Not a newsletter.

Álvaro de Nicolás

Álvaro de Nicolás

Private equity-grade technology execution. Carve-outs, post-merger integrations, and AI-enabled operating models.

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Revamp Advisors

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