Board Director and AI Operator
Building What Comes Next.
I help executives and boards turn emerging technologies and complex systems into business outcomes.
Profitable Growth Acceleration through Emerging Technology
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Ways to work together
Open to board director roles, executive diagnostics, selected speaking engagements and project or fractional work.
Board director roles
Technology and risk committees. Companies where artificial intelligence and emerging technologies have become a board-level question and the board needs someone who has shipped it, not someone who has read about it.
Start a board conversationExecutive diagnostics
A focused diagnostic that tells you the truth about a stalled or unproven artificial intelligence program: whether it reaches production, what production requires, and which of talent, data, governance or the operating model is the real constraint. It can become the turnaround.
Book a diagnosticSelected speaking engagements
Harvard Club CIO Summit. Grace Hopper. Invited keynotes in Chile and Mexico City. On artificial intelligence, human ingenuity, and what happens to expertise when anyone can query a sophisticated model.
Topics and availabilityProject and fractional work
I am always open to the right challenge and fractional or project based work. I have a proven framework, methodology and playbook to deliver an emerging technology AI assessment and make actionable recommendations for how to rapidly scale profitable growth.
Start a project conversationBoard references
“Any organization bringing in outside director and advisory leadership should want Sherry’s thinking in the room.”
“She was someone I recruited when a troubled project needed to be turned around, and she delivered with high success while building trusted client relationships.”
“Sherry provides strong leadership and valuable customer satisfaction. Most importantly, she delivers real solutions that result in real business success.”
Board experience
The board asks whether the AI plan is real. I’ve been the executive on the hook for the answer. Now I know exactly what to ask.
Open to board director seats. Public, private and nonprofit.
I’ve built it, not governed it from a distance.
AI capabilities built and scaled at IBM, Genpact and Deloitte, including a consulting business taken from zero to a $200 million-plus revenue engine. I know what it costs, what it breaks and how long it really takes, because I carried the number.
I can tell a plan from a slide.
Cognitive computing, conversational AI and now agentic systems, put into live operations, including Watson in healthcare across Africa. CoffeeCakes.com, which I founded, still runs as a working laboratory for what agentic commerce actually does to a business.
I put technical risk in front of executives in language they can act on.
Model risk, organizational risk and human risk are three different problems, and most boards are only shown the first. Enterprise architecture and regulated industry, with named references on record from chief information officers, partners and general managers.
Current board roles
Advisory Board Member, Women in AI Leadership
University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Membership is by invitation only, based on personal and professional accomplishment. The board reviews the program, advises faculty and students, and links industry to academia. Term March 2026 to March 2027.
View the credentialAdvisory Board Member, Executive Education Programs
Zschool
I bring the practitioner’s view to the curriculum: applied AI, operating models, governance, adoption and measurable business value, so what executives learn reflects what the market actually requires.
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Conversational and cognitive artificial intelligence in live operations at Genpact, years before the current wave.
The Frontier Institute for Applied Futures
I co-founded the Frontier Institute for Applied Futures, an independent nonprofit focused on helping people and society prepare for accelerating technological change, with Lisa Katz, who is Co-Founder and Chief Research & Impact Officer, and Katie Lisowski, who is Co-Founder and Chief Programs & Partnerships Officer. It runs Horizon2044.org: designing today for the first truly AI-native generation.