Find the risk. Fix the platform. Install the margin.

Senior operators for PE-backed and complex enterprise environments. Adaptable digital transformation, delivered.

Platforms we deliver across
Selected client environments

Delivered where stakes are real.

Roku
Media & Technology

Workday HCM and Financial Management at scale.

Sutter Health
Healthcare

Workday across a multi-entity health network.

BeOne Medicines
Life Sciences

Workday for a global clinical-stage biopharma.

The motion

One engagement, three practices.

Not three services. A single arc, delivered in order.

01PE & Risk

Find the risk

Quantified IT risk against a transaction clock.

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02Enterprise

Fix the platform

Deployment and remediation across Workday, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Veeva, Microsoft Azure, VMware, and SD-WAN.

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03AI Value Creation

Install the margin

Operating leverage, measured in margin.

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PE & Risk

Where PE IT risk actually lives.

A quantified risk register, delivered before the transaction clock runs out. Here’s the ground we cover.

What we cover

4–6 week engagement · pre-close or first 90 days post-close
Deliverable: ranked risk register with remediation cost & timing
Platform & spend

Misclassified IT cost, vendor concentration, duplicate contracts, untracked renewals.

License posture

Over-purchasing, seat right-sizing, edition downgrades, renewal leverage.

Security exposure

Active threats, ransomware posture, patching and segmentation gaps.

Cyber insurance gap

Coverage vs. actual blast radius — limits, exclusions, and pre-loss conditions.

Integration & cutover

Platform sprawl, migration readiness, open cutover debt across entities.

Shadow IT

Undocumented SaaS, unmanaged endpoints, unapproved vendor data flows.

RISK REGISTER · SAMPLE FORMATNDAMISCLASSIFIED SPEND●●●●●VENDOR CONCENTRATION●●●●○LICENSE RIGHT-SIZE●●●○○RANSOMWARE POSTURE●●●●●CONTRACT OVERLAP●●○○○SHADOW IT●●●○○Figures redacted · full sample available under NDA
Fig. 02 — Register format, values redacted

How the engagement runs

  1. Week 1

    Scope & access

    Data room review, stakeholder interviews, platform inventory.

  2. Weeks 2–3

    Deep-dive

    Contract and license audit, security posture assessment, integration walk-through.

  3. Weeks 4–5

    Register build

    Findings ranked by cost, timing, and remediation path.

  4. Week 6

    Walkthrough

    Deal-team readout. Post-close owners named per register item.

Field notes

Situations GroupA has sat in.

Names withheld. Scope and outcomes, real.

Workspace imagery

Mid-market healthcare roll-up, first 90 days post-close.

What we did

Six-week value-risk assessment. Surfaced $1.1M in overlapping SaaS spend.

Outcome

~$400K annual run-rate eliminated by month five.

Implementation imagery

~$600M operator, 14 months into a Workday deployment 40% over budget.

What we did

Senior lead took over as interim program owner. Re-baselined scope and owned cutover.

Outcome

Production cutover completed 11 weeks after engagement. Month-one close in Workday.

The team

The people you talk to do the work.

Principal
Jake Hastings

Founding-era principal at GroupA since 2009. Over 25 years in consulting and IT services, spanning sales leadership, operations, and enterprise delivery. Before GroupA, served as VP of Sales and Consulting Services at Adam Jacobs Associates where he opened the West Coast operation, and held director-level sales and operations roles at TechLink Systems and Qualis Consulting — building client practices, recruiting teams, and working directly with CIOs and MIS directors on IT strategy.

Enterprise cloudDeployment & implementationClient strategyBusiness development
Education
University of Richmond — Robins School of Business
Business Development & Service Delivery
Jason Gotchall

Leads business development and service delivery at GroupA, partnering with customers to align technology initiatives with meaningful business outcomes. Career built across small and mid-sized businesses — from early-stage startups to multibillion-dollar enterprises — spanning both infrastructure and software environments. Focused on helping organizations modernize, scale, and compete in the rapidly evolving age of AI through practical, outcome-driven technology investments.

Client partnershipsTechnology strategyAI integrationOperational leadership
Education
University of Nebraska — Finance
IT Audit & BCDR
Peter Schabinger

Leads IT audit and BCDR engagements for PE-backed portfolio companies at GroupA. Delivers infrastructure and cybersecurity assessments, business impact analyses, and remediation frameworks to executive and investor stakeholders — the work that determines whether IT becomes a purchase price adjustment or a clean pass in buyer diligence. Over a decade at Commvault Systems, including time as a Resident Support Engineer embedded with enterprise customers, across healthcare, financial services, and biotech — building the hands-on infrastructure depth that makes his assessments specific, not theoretical.

Risk assessmentInfrastructure auditCybersecurityBCDRDiligence readiness
Education
University of Chicago
Certifications
Commvault MVP · Commvault Master · MCSE · MCSA · Pursuing CISA (ISACA)
Business Operations
Nikki Zucker

Runs GroupA's operational backbone — business development through MBE/SBE certifications, employee onboarding, contracts, compliance, payroll, benefits, and internal systems. Manages the day-to-day operations that keep the firm running while the delivery teams are in the field. Over three years at GroupA building the processes and infrastructure behind a growing consulting practice.

OperationsMBE/SBE certificationsOnboardingComplianceInternal systems
Education
Boston College — Early Childhood Education & Child in Society
Lead Recruiter
Carissa Page

Leads talent acquisition at GroupA, sourcing the senior practitioners who staff client engagements. Background in education leadership — served as Founding Principal at Impact Public Schools in Seattle, Principal at Manhattan Charter Schools in New York, and Phase Leader at St. Francis of Assisi in London — before moving into recruiting. The experience of building teams from scratch in high-accountability environments translates directly to identifying operators who can deliver at enterprise scale.

Talent acquisitionTechnical recruitingTeam buildingInterviewing
Education
Willamette University
Recruiter
Chris Chitwood

Strategic IT recruiter with deep roots in enterprise banking. Spent 23 years at Wells Fargo as a Senior Technology Business Services Consultant and Project Manager, followed by enterprise portfolio management at MUFG. Brings two decades of hands-on experience navigating the full SDLC lifecycle, which means he understands the technical roles he recruits for from the inside — not from a job description.

IT recruitingTechnical project managementEnterprise bankingSDLC
Education
Arizona State University — Finance
Credentials & compliance

Built to pass diligence.

Government

SAM.gov
Registered federal contractor
GSA Schedule
IT Professional Services
NAICS 541512
Computer Systems Design
CAGE & UEI
Assigned · on record

Security & compliance

SOC 2 Type II
Controls audited annually
ISO 27001
Information security certified
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