Board & Advisory
The advisor seat. Board and advisory work for companies, boards, and the funds backing them. Board-ready judgment on AI and security risk, without the day-to-day.
Advisory and board seats
AI security & governance advisor
Govern the AI you can't afford to get wrong.
Most AI governance gets written by people who never had to answer for it when it breaks. I have. I help boards and executive teams see which AI risks threaten the business, then stand up the governance that holds when auditors and customers start asking. You're hiring the advisor with the scars to prove it, who takes the virtual CISO or fractional Chief AI Officer seat when you need one.
Rock Lambros · The battle-hardened advisor founders, CEOs, and boards call when AI risk gets real
What I do
Three ways I plug in
Virtual CISO (vCISO)
When you need hands on the wheel. I take the CISO seat a few days a month, for boards that want answers before they are ready to hire one full-time.
How the vCISO work runsFractional Chief AI Officer
The executive who owns AI risk and opportunity across the company. I set the guardrails so your teams can move on AI without betting the business.
What a fractional CAIO coversWho I work with
The people who carry the risk
Mid-market and enterprise teams putting AI into production, the boards that answer for it, and the VC and PE firms with AI risk sitting across a whole portfolio.
Why me
Why a practitioner who helped write the standards?
Most AI governance advice comes from people who have only read about the failures. I help write the standards the field uses, from the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs to the Agentic Security Initiative, and I was the most senior information security leader at MarkWest through its ~$20 billion combination. The governance holds up because it comes from someone who has had to answer for it.
Start
Start with a diagnostic
A fixed-scope engagement that names your real AI risks and what to do first, before any retainer.