Board and Executive
Decision Governance
Helping boards and senior leaders govern accountability, decision ownership, and outcomes in environments where AI influence is already shaping how decisions get made.
Initiatives rarely fail because technology is missing. They fail because decision rights are unclear, accountability blurs over time, and governance structures do not scale with the pace of AI influence.
Boards are being asked to oversee AI decisions they were never equipped to govern. Executives are being held accountable for outcomes they do not fully control.
Hawksroost addresses the governance gap that most organizations do not yet have language for.
Focused on decisions.
Not tools.
Hawksroost works with boards and executive teams where data, AI, and digital decisions carry real accountability. Our work centers on how decisions are made, who owns them, how escalation works, and what happens when outcomes drift from intent.
We engage selectively. This work is designed for leaders accountable for outcomes over time, not organizations looking for a framework to file.
Decision Governance and Board Oversight
Making decision ownership, escalation, and accountability explicit where AI and digital influence are real.
Board and CEO Advisory
Confidential, selective advisory for leaders held accountable when AI investments succeed or fail.
AI Influence and Risk Governance
Governing how AI outputs influence financial, operational, and people decisions — including escalation and recovery paths.
Jay Hawkinson
Jay Hawkinson has spent 25+ years inside the organizations you are trying to govern. As the first functional Chief Data and AI Officer at Valmont Industries and head of a 60-person data and AI organization at Lamb Weston, he built these functions from scratch — in complex, industrial mid-market environments where decisions had real consequences and governance was not optional.
He has seen the same failure pattern repeat across boardrooms and executive teams: not missing technology, but missing clarity about who owns what decision, who escalates when something drifts, and who is accountable when outcomes diverge from intent.
Hawksroost exists because that clarity can be built — but it requires someone who has stood in the accountability position themselves.
Board Governance — premier director certification
CMU Heinz College — AI Governance for boards
CERT at Carnegie Mellon — cyber risk governance
Member — invitation-only senior technology executives
Data and Analytics leadership recognition
Business acceleration recognition
Valmont Industries · Lamb Weston · Belden · AFL Global
Practical Decision Governance
at Operating Scale
For organizations that need to translate governance design into operational reality, VTCDO provides the diagnostic tools, decision frameworks, and fractional leadership that move data and AI strategy from the boardroom into the business. Built on the same governance principles that guide every Hawksroost engagement.
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Diagnostic tools, decision frameworks, and fractional CDO leadership that move data and AI strategy from the boardroom into the business.
If the accountability question is real,
let's talk about it.
Hawksroost engages selectively. We have that conversation first.
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