Our team

The people you talk to do the work.

Senior operators across consulting, business development, and delivery. Every engagement is led by someone who has run the platform or the deal-side role before.

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

How we staff

Engagement leads stay on the project end-to-end — no hand-off to a delivery pool. Specialist operators are added as the work requires them, drawn from a network assembled since 2009. Hiring is led by a dedicated technical recruiting function so the right senior is matched to the right platform and sector.

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