CIO in a diversified professional services firm.
Accountable for technology decisions at the point where commercial priorities, delivery constraints and organisational reality meet.
About
Senior operating experience for consequential AI decisions.
Adapt2 is led by David Hanus, an enterprise technology executive, practice builder and hands-on AI practitioner. David works with leadership teams that need to turn AI ambition into an investable, governed program of work.
25 years enterprise technology
6,000+ hours AI
$20M+ practice built
The enterprise side
A track record across executive leadership, practice building and complex institutions.
Enterprise AI sits at the intersection of strategy, technology, investment, risk and organisational change. The operating experience behind the advice matters.
Partner at Versent, building the national data practice.
Built the practice from zero to more than $20M in revenue and a team of 70+, turning specialist capability into a repeatable national business.
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
Current AI practice that keeps the strategy grounded.
The practitioner seat matters because technical possibility, operating reality and executive accountability must remain connected.
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.
Proprietary operating methods
FitCheck, the AI Control Tower and the Lab–Registry–Factory model turn experience into repeatable decisions, artefacts and operating discipline.
Regulated environments
Practical work across sectors where the hard part is always the combination of regulatory sensitivity and commercial pace.
Credentials
Commercial, technical and organisational depth.
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.
Senior-led from diagnosis through decision.
Adapt2 stays close to the work and brings in specialist capability only where the engagement requires it. Clients retain direct access to the senior operator shaping the program.
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
Discuss the AI decision your leadership team needs to make next.
A focused conversation is the fastest way to determine whether the situation needs a FitCheck, an AI Control Tower or a smaller first move.