CIO in a diversified professional services firm.
Operating at the point where technology decisions, commercial priorities, and organisational reality all meet.
About
Enterprise technology depth, plus the practitioner seat in AI.
I’m David Hanus, the person behind Adapt2. After 25 years across enterprise technology and the last several focused hard on AI, I work with CIOs, CDOs, and strategy leads on AI programs that need to work in practice, not just on paper.
25 years enterprise technology
6,000+ hours AI
Founder + operator
The enterprise side
Senior enterprise technology work across complex environments.
The enterprise record matters because this work sits at the intersection of strategy, architecture, delivery, governance, and executive decision-making. It is not AI theatre layered on top of a thin operating background.
Partner at Versent, building the national data practice.
Built the practice from zero to more than $20M in revenue and a team of 70+, with the operating pressure that comes from growing real client work fast.
Leadership roles across Transurban, Australia Post, NAB, and ANZ.
Strategy and architecture work in organisations where governance, scale, and long-lived systems are real constraints, not slideware.
The AI side
Hands-on depth from building and shipping.
The practitioner side is not an add-on. It is the part that keeps the strategy honest.
6,000+ hours of AI work
LLMs, agents, production systems, and the governance and data-foundation questions that decide whether the work survives first contact with reality.
AI-first startup experience
Founder of a funded AI-first startup, with the product, customer, and delivery pressure that comes with actually shipping the work.
Proof-of-work demos
Retained plugin and workflow demonstrations that show how ideas translate into concrete tools, not just conceptual positioning.
Regulated environments
Practical work across sectors where the hard part is always the combination of regulatory sensitivity and commercial pace.
Credentials
Formal training, operator experience, and current practice.
Accounting, finance, and computer science.
B. Commerce (Accounting & Finance) and B. Science (Computer Science).
Leadership, change, and futures thinking.
Melbourne Business School futures thinking, plus INSEAD programs in leadership, innovation, organisational change, and communications.
Still in the work, not commenting from a distance.
Currently completing Anthropic’s architect certification while working with enterprise buyers and consulting partners across Australia.
Based in Melbourne
Based in Melbourne, working across Australia with enterprise buyers and consulting partners who need a senior operator who can both shape and prove the work.
What happens next
Ready to apply enterprise-grade AI to your workflows?
If the mix of enterprise depth and practitioner AI work is the gap, a working session is the fastest way to see whether the situation needs a review, a blueprint, a validation sprint, or a smaller first move.