Built on 25 Years of Financial Services Expertise
Jana is built on the BearingNode Knowledge Graph (BNKG), incorporating financial services expertise, framework iterations, and lessons learned. This institutional memory gives our senior consultants rapid pattern matching and comprehensive context that graduate-heavy models simply cannot provide.
Jana has completed financial services information security validation and is cleared for production use in regulated environments. She's not vaporware — she's actively delivering on live client engagements today, supporting discovery, analysis, and framework implementation with full human oversight.
Meet the visionary behind our vision
David McGrath Innovation and Technology Strategy Leader
David McGrath is a visionary leader with over 30 years of experience driving innovation, technology strategy, and digital transformation across global financial services and technology organizations. His expertise in leveraging emerging technologies to create tangible business value aligns perfectly with BearingNode's mission in data, analytics, and AI consulting.
Jana AI Consultant
Not a tool. A team member
At BearingNode, we've inverted the consulting pyramid. Instead of a traditional consulting firm, where partners pitch the work and graduates deliver it, our senior practitioners do the majority of the delivery.
Jana is the engine that makes that economically viable. She replaces the layers of junior staff that traditional firms rely on, so our clients get the expertise they're actually paying for, throughout the engagement, not just during the pitch.
Unleash Your Potential
David's unique blend of technical acumen, strategic foresight, and hands-on leadership experience makes him an invaluable asset to BearingNode's Advisory Board. His track record of establishing innovation labs, driving ecosystem strategies, and delivering transformative technologies will help BearingNode navigate the complex landscape of Data, Analytics, and AI consulting.
In today's rapidly evolving tech landscape, the ability to harness data, analytics, andAI for strategic decision-making is not just an advantage–it's a necessity. I'm excitedto bring my experience in innovation and technology strategy to BearingNode,helping to shape a future where data truly drives better decisions."-David McGrath
David McGrath
Innovation and Technology Strategy Leader
David McGrath is a visionary leader with over 30 years of experience driving innovation, technology strategy, and digital transformation across global financial services and technology organisations.
Eddie Short
Chief Data, Digital and AI Officer
Eddie Short is an accomplished executive with over 30 years of experience working with leading-edge Digital, Tech, and AI across EMEA, Middle East, Asia, and North America. A seasoned C-suite leader who excels at partnering with executives to create transformative value through Digital and Technology-enabled change.
Dr. Mark Turkington
Risk Management & Financial Crime Specialist
Dr. Mark Turkington is a distinguished senior consultant and Board adviser with extensive expertise in leveraging technology to manage risk, particularly within heavily regulated industries.
Sam Beacock
Strategy & Market Development Expert
Sam Beacock is a seasoned strategy consultant with extensive experience driving innovation and strategic transformation across global financial services and technology organisations.
Mark Timbs
Interim Chief Information Officer & Business Transformation Executive
Mark Timbs is a seasoned technology leader with extensive experience driving digital transformation, turnaround initiatives, and strategic technology delivery across global, multi-billion revenue organisations. With over 15 years of C-suite leadership experience, Mark excels at building high-performing technology teams and delivering transformational change in complex business environments.
Barry Green
Data Strategy & Business Transformation Leader
Barry Green is an accomplished data strategy leader and author with extensive experience helping complex organisations turn data ambition into practical reality. Co-author of Data Means Business, Barry brings deep expertise in data and analytics leadership, operating model design, and the organisational conditions required to make data a genuine driver of commercial value.
Barry Green
Data Strategy & Business Transformation Leader
Barry Green is an accomplished data strategy leader and author with extensive experience helping complex organisations turn data ambition into practical reality. Co-author of Data Means Business, Barry brings deep expertise in data and analytics leadership, operating model design, and the organisational conditions required to make data a genuine driver of commercial value.
Battle-Tested, Not Prototype
Jana has been in production use for over 12 months and has evolved through multiple versions from v1.0 through to v2.4 and counting each iteration sharpening her capabilities and extending her reach across the BearingNode operating model. Her current version supports deep integration with other BearingNode systems, such as M365 tenant, CRM and GitHub via MCP's. Also, the fully revamped BearingNode Knowledge Graph, including multi-layer framework governance, pattern-stage instrumentation, and real-time design decision capture. She accelerates discovery, analysis, and framework implementation across the BearingNode Knowledge Graph, a live Graph database, based operating model containing thousands of interconnected nodes spanning capabilities, requirements, metrics, job roles, policies, vendors, and compliance standards.
David's unique blend of technical acumen, strategic foresight, and hands-on leadership experience makes him an invaluable asset to BearingNode's Advisory Board. His track record of establishing innovation labs, driving ecosystem strategies, and delivering transformative technologies will help guide BearingNode to in navigating the complex landscape of Data, Analytics, and AI consulting."In today's rapidly evolving tech landscape, harnessing data, analytics, and AI for strategic decision-making is not just an advantage–it's a necessity. I'm excited to bring my experience in innovation and technology strategy to BearingNode, helping to shape a future where data truly drives better decisions."-David McGrath.
Former Head of Innovation, Research, and Ecosystem Strategy at Pay.UK
Global SVP of Innovation & Technology Strategy at Telenor Digital
Led innovation initiatives at Lloyds Banking Group and Salesforce
Launched a €327M valuation SaaS-based Digital Identity & Trust business atNokia
10+ years of Board and Advisory experience, including current roles at BritishGliding Association and Kubeark
Key Highlights
How Jana Works
Jana operates under the direct supervision of senior practitioners who have the tacit expertise to know when an output is wrong. This is the critical distinction: traditional firms delegate AI-assisted work to junior staff without the domain knowledge or oversight to validate the output. BearingNode does the opposite — our most experienced people direct and validate everything Jana produces.
She augments, she doesn't replace. Jana is positioned as institutional memory and acceleration, not as a replacement for human judgement. She makes our senior consultants faster, more thorough, and more consistent by:
Built for regulated environments
Jana was built for financial services, not retrofitted for it. Identity is managed exclusively through your existing corporate directory — no separate user database to breach, no manual provisioning cycle, every access logged and traceable.
Memory, not just search
Most AI tools retrieve text chunks. Jana retrieves relationships. Her knowledge layer connects a regulatory obligation to the business capability it affects, the design decisions that shaped it, the stakeholders who owned them, and the prior engagement patterns that informed them. That multi-hop reasoning is what separates a research assistant from a team member who has been in the room.
Access control that fits consulting
Most platforms assume a flat org chart. Consulting doesn't work that way. Jana supports the layered relationships real engagements produce BearingNode, a partner firm, and that firm's own clients with project-level permissions that can lock sensitive work to named individuals regardless of broader team access.
Your engagement model, your choice
Some clients want self-service. Some want embedded consultants. Some want API integration into their own AI stack. Most want a combination that changes over time. Jana supports all of these, with the same commercial protections, IP safeguards, and knowledge continuity underneath regardless of channel.
Every output is observable & traceable
Most AI tools are black boxes — you ask, they answer, and there's no record of how they got there. Jana is the opposite. Every framework change, every design decision, every recommendation she produces is logged with who authorised it, what changed, why it changed, and what it affects downstream.
