Understand the market
Research and work with investors, vendors and partners help us assess demand, compare alternatives and understand how technology reaches customers.
Business strategy.
Engineering expertise.
Working together.
Vation brings business strategy and engineering together. We work with investors, technology vendors, channel partners and end customers, helping leaders make informed decisions and build the systems to carry them out.
Experience across the technology ecosystem
Our clients fund technology, develop it, bring it to market and use it every day. Working across those roles helps us understand customer demand, commercial requirements and the realities of implementation.
Business experience. Engineering depth.
Our team brings experience in enterprise technology, commercial and channel strategy, AI, data and application development. We combine that experience so business priorities and technical decisions stay connected throughout the work.
Understand the operation
Work with business leaders and frontline teams shows us where systems fall short, how decisions get made and what needs to change.
Connect the two
Our strategists and engineers use both views to shape recommendations your business can act on and systems your team can run.
Keep learning from the people doing the work
Our advisory councils bring technology executives and channel leaders together to share experience and discuss emerging technology. Those conversations, alongside research and client work, help us test assumptions and understand changing priorities.
Work with a team that sees the whole picture
Our partners bring complementary experience in enterprise technology, commercial strategy and hands-on delivery. Through consultative engineering, that experience stays connected to the people testing, building and supporting your solution.
Our consultative engineering methodMeet our partners.
Joe O'Callaghan
Managing Partner & Co-Founder
Joe advises enterprise clients on technology decisions and business needs. His experience includes work with DaVita, CenturyLink, American Express, Comcast, Charter Communications and Optum.
Dave O'Callaghan
Partner & Co-Founder
Dave brings experience in senior technology leadership and enterprise consulting, including work with Hitachi, Cisco and VMware. His background also includes teaching at the University of Denver.
Jordan Loyd
Partner
Jordan works across AI strategy and development, product management, operations, business intelligence and go-to-market strategy. He helps startups and enterprise teams turn business priorities into practical applications of AI and technology.
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