Technology Transformation · Applied AI & Governance

Chris Holinger

Leaders bring me in when a transformation has to land, not just get designed. I drop into complicated rooms, raise the hard problems, facilitate decision making, and get work shipped. Transformation, org design, and now AI, with controls that hold.

  • Founder, Result Horizon
  • Founder, PainLog
  • San Francisco Bay Area
  • Senior Advisor to the CTSO, Group 1001
Proof

Three things that shipped

$40M

Technology transformation

Planned, oversaw, and executed a transformation program as Chief of Staff to the Office of the CIO at a multi-entity insurance and financial-services group, 2023–2025.

120,000

Laptops in under 90 days

Led multiple workstreams involving 200+ people in a bank-wide vulnerability remediation program at PwC, including a full desktop replacement.

1

Builder, end to end

Founder, PainLog. Built it first for myself, then to build with frontier LLMs, designed with HIPAA requirements, and now offer it free for anyone who needs a clean symptom record to share with their doctor.

How I govern AI

Autonomy is earned, one rung at a time

Most organizations will put AI agents to work before they have the controls to govern them. I designed and run a governed multi-agent system for my own advisory practice, and through Result Horizon I've built a model that could be used in regulated industries. Agents climb this ladder only against a reviewed track record.

  1. Rung 0
    ProposeThe agent drafts; a person decides and acts.
  2. Rung 1
    Reversible actionsThe agent acts only where every action can be undone.
  3. Rung 2
    Named safe domainsStanding permission in a defined lane, with controls enforced in code.
  4. Always
    Human-onlySends, payments, deletions, and anything that exposes data wait for a person, every time.

Around the ladder: sensitive data lives in separate compartments behind retrieval gates, agents that read untrusted input are restricted from sending, and near-misses are logged to a hazard register, most with a rule or a code check against a repeat.

Career

Twenty-plus years, buyer side and advisor side

  1. Group 1001 · Senior Advisor to the Chief Technology & Security Officer

    Advisory seat, not a line role: advise the CTSO on technology and security strategy and operating cadence. The organization spans about 250 people across the group's operating entities.

  2. Group 1001 · Chief of Staff, Office of the CIO

    Made the CIO's agenda happen, and planned, oversaw, and executed the $40M technology transformation program.

  3. Result Horizon · Founder & Principal

    CIO/CTO advisory, transformation, and AI strategy and governance for regulated industries.

  4. Engine No. 1 · Head of Technology

    Built the firm's technology from launch, through four new lines of business and growth from under 5 to over 50 people.

  5. PwC · Senior Associate to Director

    Cloud transformation, IT service management, and CIO advisory; ran PwC's global alliance with Amazon Web Services, 2016–2018.

Credentials

Study and certification

  • BlueDot · AI Safety Fundamentals: Governance · 2023
  • ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity · 2023
  • AWS Technical & Business Professional
  • ITIL v3 Expert
  • MIT Sloan Exec Ed · 2005
  • Union College · B.A. English
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Bring me the work that needs to move

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