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Locate the pain
Most transformation stalls because the real friction sits below the org chart. We start where the budget, the bottleneck, and the decision-maker meet.
Newforge Advisory Partners works with technology firms and professional-services organisations to identify, shape, and execute high-value transformation — from the inside out.
Most transformation stalls because the real friction sits below the org chart. We start where the budget, the bottleneck, and the decision-maker meet.
An opportunity is only as good as its framing. We translate ambiguous mandates into scoped, fundable engagements that stakeholders can say yes to.
Strategy without execution is a deck. We stay embedded through the messy middle until the work is sold, staffed, and moving.
Helping organisations move from AI ambition to a sequenced, defensible roadmap — grounded in what the underlying platforms and teams can realistically deliver.
Working alongside consulting and technology firms to build credible pipelines into large enterprise accounts, with a clear read on where value and budget actually sit.
Untangling the processes, ownership, and incentives that quietly throttle execution at scale — and rebuilding them to move.
Advising a global professional-services firm on identifying, shaping, and qualifying AI transformation opportunities inside a major technology platform — translating insider knowledge of how the buyer operates into scoped, fundable engagements.
Built the strategy and engineering approach for evaluating AI capability at scale inside a leading technology company, delivering measurable annualised impact across a large, complex vendor and operations landscape.
Shaping operational-redesign opportunities around budget management and forecasting inside a large search and platforms organisation — locating where value and decision-making authority actually sit.
Client names withheld by agreement. Engagement details available under NDA where appropriate.
Stephen is a senior AI strategy and engineering executive who has spent his career at the intersection of AI transformation, operational redesign, and large-scale execution. At Google — where he has advised, sold in, and served directly over many years — he leads AI & engineering strategy, having designed a global AI evaluation framework now delivering $20M+ in annualised impact across a $300M+ vendor ecosystem.
Previously he was Trust & Safety Technology Practice Lead at Accenture, and built the TMT Engineering Services practice at Deloitte. Earlier in his career he founded and exited two ventures — wheretotonight.com, acquired in 2003, and NI Print Ltd.
He serves as a Board Director of Friends of Young Enterprise Northern Ireland and as an Executive Advisor to PhishCloud Inc. He holds an MSc in Information Management & Computer Science from Queen's University Belfast, and is based in Oakland, California.
Big organisations rarely have a strategy problem. They have an execution problem dressed up as one. Newforge exists to tell the difference — and to do something about it.
Newforge takes on a small number of engagements at a time. If you're shaping something that needs senior, independent counsel, start a conversation.