Final decision-maker
Companywide AI strategy and enterprise architecture
EXECUTIVE IMPACT
Set a higher technical standard. Earn enterprise trust. Turn that trust into growth.
Todd Bernson is Chief AI Officer at BSC Analytics and a member of the executive leadership team. He is the company's final decision-maker for AI strategy and enterprise architecture and leads its transition toward a product-led business centered on the ARIAD suite.
Todd translates the same consequential decision for every required audience—from a CFO evaluating AI economics and ROI to an application team resolving architecture and delivery constraints—without losing accountability, technical truth or business context.
Current Mandate
Current Executive Mandate
Todd leads enterprise AI and technology portfolios where business value, security, auditability, customer trust and operational accountability must be designed together. He is the final decision-maker for companywide AI strategy and enterprise architecture and owns executive accountability for ARIAD product direction, AI, technology, marketing, delivery timeline and quality.
Impact
Detailed Impact
Converted technical trust into $22 million of contracted value across ARIAD's first two enterprise agreements.
Todd developed the first enterprise customer relationship over two years and led the technical sales work that converted it into a $4 million, two-year agreement. He then established the executive and technical confidence behind a separate $18 million, three-year agreement. Together, the two agreements contribute $8 million of BSC's 2026 revenue.
Expanded a strategic enterprise relationship from two concurrent teams to 11.
Between March and December 2022, Todd held both the technical relationship and growth mandate as the engagement reached 220% of its five-team year-end target. He served as senior technical authority across a delivery footprint of approximately 50 BSC professionals and engaged roughly 100 client engineers and technology leaders.
Built the senior technical leadership system behind repeatable delivery.
Todd founded BSC's Solution Architecture function and scaled it from one architect to nine. Today he leads approximately 30 people across Product and Solution Architecture, including 10 direct and approximately 20 indirect reports across three organizational layers.
Executive judgment grounded in architecture at Fortune 500 scale.
Todd coauthored AWS-published guidance for a Fortune 500 financial-services platform spanning 72 Amazon EKS clusters, more than 86,000 pods and over 6,000 nodes.
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Current Leadership Domains
Enterprise AI and architecture
Sets companywide AI strategy and enterprise architecture as final decision-maker, connecting investment, governance and production accountability to measurable business outcomes.
ARIAD product direction and commercialization
Owns executive accountability for ARIAD product direction, AI, technology, marketing, delivery timeline and quality while serving as principal technical partner to sales leadership.
Product and Solution Architecture organizations
Leads approximately 30 people across three organizational layers, including the nine-person Solution Architecture function he founded to raise delivery standards, mentoring and customer engagement.
Technical sales and executive advisory
Translates complex technology into executive trust, quantifiable ROI and deliverable commitments for C-suite leaders and technical teams in regulated industries.
Operating Model
How Todd Operates
Business value before best-practice theater
Technology decisions must connect to measurable outcomes, not abstract frameworks disconnected from operating reality.
Accountability before autonomy
Governed production capability requires explicit ownership, operational controls and evidence—not unconstrained experimentation.
Credibility at every altitude—from CFO to application team
The same consequential decision must remain intelligible, technically truthful and accountable across every audience.
External Proof
Selected Writing and Technical Proof
Credibility
Independent Recognition
- AWS Ambassador
- Top AWS Ambassador — #1 North America 2022, #2 Global 2023, Top North America 2024
- 2023 AWS Certification All-Star
- AWS Ambassador Global Summit Speaker
- Forbes Technology Council member
- 10 active AWS certifications
- MBA, Winthrop University
- U.S. Marine Corps infantry veteran, meritoriously promoted twice
Technical Proof
Additional Technical Proof
Selected presentations and reference implementations that demonstrate continued technical depth without displacing the commercial and organizational story.
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