Enterprise AI Strategy • Management Consulting • M&A & Board Governance
Scaling AI and enterprise transformation with measurable P&L impact.
Chris Elliott is an Enterprise Architecture, AI Strategy, and Supply Chain executive with 20+ years of leadership spanning management consulting ownership, Private Equity M&A advisory, Global Board governance, and Fortune 50 technology transformation across 46 countries.
Consulting Breadth + Operating P&L Discipline + Practical AI Execution
Unlike career-single-company executives or purely theoretical advisors, Chris combines nearly a decade as a management consulting shareholder advising Private Equity and Fortune 500 clients with hands-on executive leadership—delivering multi-year AI roadmaps, complex post-merger ERP/WMS integrations, and multi-million-dollar cost and revenue-cycle turnarounds.
Defining and executing multi-year enterprise AI foundations across 46-country global operations, finance, legal, compliance & supply chain
Former Management Consulting Shareholder advising PE-backed 3PLs, Fortune 500s & mid-market leaders on M&A diligence & 90+ site networks
$9M+ OpEx target via cloud ERP/WMS, $6M+ annual bad-debt reduction via Revenue Cycle modernization & multi-instance ERP consolidation
Elected Global Board of Directors officer (Roundtable Chair) & 20-year leader in the premier international supply chain council
Executive Scope & Value Creation
Bridging boardroom strategy and operational execution.
Explore how 20+ years of management consulting, Private Equity M&A advisory, and Fortune 50 leadership align across industry domains, AI and ERP platforms, and board-level governance.
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Operating & Industry Domains
AI, ERP & Core Platforms
Strategy, Consulting, M&A & Board
Executive Leadership, Consulting & Board Governance
From management consulting partner to Fortune 50 AI & architecture strategy.
Over 20 years of leadership spanning management consulting ownership, Private Equity M&A advisory, multi-million-dollar operational turnarounds, Global Board governance, and enterprise-scale AI transformation.
Multi-Year AI Foundations & Global Roadmaps
Partnering with CEOs, Presidents, and Global/Division CIOs to define and execute 3-year enterprise AI, cloud, and ERP modernization foundations across manufacturing, supply chain, finance, legal, and compliance.
Diligence, Post-Merger Integration & EBITDA Impact
Nearly a decade as a Management Consulting Shareholder ($4M+ originated) advising PE-backed 3PLs and enterprises—paired with operating turnarounds delivering $9M+ OpEx targets and $6M+ annual bad-debt reduction.
Global Board Stewardship & Keynote Authority
Elected Global Board of Directors officer (Roundtable Chair, 2020–2022), Global Conference Committee leader, and speaker translating AI and supply chain transformation into boardroom strategy.
Career Progression & P&L Impact
Partnering with the Global CIO, Division CIOs, and business leaders to execute the multi-year AI technology foundation and 3-year global strategy. Scaling AI and cloud across finance, legal, compliance, customer support, and supply chain; directing a multi-instance Tier-1 ERP consolidation across nuclear, manufacturing, pharmacy, and distribution; architecting enterprise DSCSA track-and-trace; and leading portfolio rationalization to lower TCO.
Led selection and architecture for the company’s first unified cloud Supply Chain ERP and WMS platform targeting $9M+ in annual OpEx reduction. Directed cloud modernization of a 25-year-old Revenue Cycle Management platform enabling $6M+ in annual bad-debt reduction, and built the multi-year M&A integration roadmap for an acquired DME provider.
Originated and delivered $4M+ in new client engagements across Fortune 500 and mid-market enterprises. Advised Private Equity-backed 3PLs on M&A diligence and network design; architected a 90+ site final-mile delivery network; built a cold-chain D2C 3PL operation from bid to multi-site expansion; led U.S. Government cloud distribution design; and delivered multi-year ERP/WMS implementations across healthcare, chemicals, liquor, and beverage distribution.
Managed warehouse engineering, facility consolidation, and $85M in annual multi-modal transportation spend (90,000+ shipments) for a North American private fleet. Delivered $1.7M in verified 3-year private fleet savings leading two $1M+ routing/GPS transformations and ERP upgrades, building on frontline experience supervising 35+ drivers and staff in dedicated 3PL operations.
Board Service, Advisory & Education
Global Board of Directors & 20-Year Council Leadership
Board GovernanceElected to the Global Board of Directors as Roundtable Chair (2020–2022) across two decades of executive leadership including Vice Chair, Global Conference Committee member, Spring Forum Chair, and Past Chapter President.
Management Consulting Shareholder & Private Equity M&A Advisor
Executive AdvisoryOriginated and delivered $4M+ in consulting engagements for Fortune 500 and mid-market enterprises—advising Private Equity-backed 3PLs on M&A diligence, designing 90+ site final-mile networks, and leading regulated ERP/WMS rollouts.
Conference Keynotes, Forum Chair & Executive Panels
Keynote & PanelEngaged by industry conferences, Private Equity summits, and executive roundtables to share practical playbooks on scaling enterprise AI solutions, modernizing legacy ERP/WMS estates, and driving measurable supply chain ROI.
Advanced Engineering & Systems Optimization Foundation
Academic FoundationMultidisciplinary academic foundation combining physical materials science, thermodynamic systems modeling, and quantitative supply chain operations research from a premier Tier-1 research institution.
Applied Technical Edge
Executive judgment backed by hands-on building.
Boards and investment committees are inundated with AI vendor pitches. Because Chris actively builds and benchmarks local agentic microservices and computer vision systems, he brings unfiltered technical discernment to capital allocation, vendor diligence, and enterprise execution.
Local Agentic Workflows & Microservices
Hands-on design of containerized local LLM orchestration, open-weight model evaluation harnesses, and asynchronous Python/API microservice pipelines running on local Linux infrastructure.
Boardroom advantage: Enables rigorous build-vs-buy diligence, accurate token unit-cost modeling, and zero-trust data sovereignty governance.
Computer Vision & Biomechanical AI
Full-stack mobile video capture and AI-driven motion and kinematic analysis software built with modern web and cross-platform frameworks.
Boardroom advantage: Grounds edge-AI, automated warehouse vision, and physical-world sensor telemetry strategy in direct software engineering reality.
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