Assess
Every engagement starts with a structured scoping conversation. We define the expertise your situation requires before any team is assembled.
Our Team
A senior team matched to your specific challenge.
Silver Compass fields a senior team matched to your specific challenge. A team that arrives calibrated to your situation. It does not learn on your time.
The Model
A Senior Team Built Around Your Problem
Silver Compass builds the team outward from your situation. Every engagement draws from our network of senior technology practitioners who have held the roles your challenge requires: former CIOs, CISOs, architects, program managers, and AI governance practitioners.
We start with your problem. We define what expertise it requires. Then we assemble accordingly. Most consulting firms work the other way: they staff from whoever is available and fit the problem to the team.
Silver Compass has operated this model for seven years. Engagements are led at the senior level, with expertise matched to your industry and your specific situation. You are never handed off to a junior team after the sales conversation.
Our Founder
Rich DeJong
Founder | CEO | Principal Advisor
Silver Compass reflects what Rich DeJong learned from 25 years of solving these problems from the inside, and what he wished had been available to the organizations he served before he built it.
Rich has spent his career in the roles our clients are navigating: CIO, CISO, CTO, and COO across healthcare, higher education, financial services, managed services, and professional services. He brings that background directly to AI governance engagements.
“I built Silver Compass for the executive who needs the right answer fast, not a 90-day discovery process that produces a slide deck.”
How We Work
Assess. Match. Deliver.
Match
We draw from a network of senior technology executives across IT assessment, architecture, cybersecurity, AI strategy and governance, program management, cloud infrastructure, M&A integration, and executive advisory.
Deliver
The matched team executes with senior leadership at every level. Every engagement has a named senior lead. You always know who owns the outcome.
Our Capabilities
Senior Expertise Across the Full IT Leadership Stack
AI Strategy & Governance
Practitioners who have led AI initiatives from strategy through production.
CIO / CTO Advisory
Former CIOs and CTOs who have navigated leadership transitions, board conversations, and technology roadmap decisions.
CISO / Cybersecurity Advisory
Security executives who have led compliance gap assessments, incident response, and regulatory readiness.
Enterprise Architecture
Architects who have designed and delivered at enterprise scale, from stack decisions to infrastructure modernization.
Program & Project Management
Program leaders who have delivered complex, multi-workstream technology initiatives.
Cloud & Data Center
Engineers who have executed large-scale cloud migrations, data center transitions, and business continuity planning.