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AI Governance That Protects - and Accelerates

The EU AI Act is live. U.S. executive orders are tightening. Organizations without a governance framework are now a regulatory target. EWSolutions builds the accountability structures, risk controls, and compliance architecture that protect your AI investment – and reduce program costs by over 91%.

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Why EWSolutions

AI Governance Is Not Optional - It’s the Price of Enterprise AI

Regulatory Exposure Before It Happens

The EU AI Act, U.S. executive orders, and sector-specific regulations are rewriting the rules for enterprise AI. EWSolutions builds governance frameworks that satisfy today’s requirements and adapt to tomorrow’s - so compliance is built in, not bolted on.

Ethics That Hold Up Under Scrutiny

Responsible AI isn’t a values statement - it is an operational architecture. EWSolutions designs ethical frameworks with real enforcement mechanisms: model audits, bias controls, explainability requirements, and human oversight structures that function in practice, not just in policy.

Accountability Without Ambiguity

When an AI system produces a harmful output, organizations with no governance framework have no answer. EWSolutions builds the accountability chains, escalation paths, and documentation protocols that give your organization a clear, defensible position - before you need it.

Govern Now or Pay Later - at 3-5x the Cost

Organizations that establish AI governance frameworks proactively control their implementation timeline and costs. Those that wait face mandatory remediation under regulatory pressure - typically at three to five times the cost. EWSolutions named AI Governance its primary strategic focus for 2026 because the window for proactive action is closing.

Who Leads Every Engagement

The Authority Setting the AI Governance Standard

Every EWSolutions AI governance engagement is personally directed by David Marco, PhD, whose career defining the standards of enterprise data governance positions him as the natural authority for the field’s most urgent evolution: governing artificial intelligence at scale.

Where others are still drafting AI governance principles, David Marco, PhD is delivering operational frameworks – accountability structures, risk controls, and compliance architectures built from 28 years of enterprise program leadership at organizations where governance failure is not an option.

  • Pioneer in enterprise data governance - now leading the AI governance discipline
  • AI governance frameworks deployed across Fortune 500 companies and federal agencies
  • BIG Innovation Award recipient (2024) for leadership in AI & data governance
  • Author of the field’s definitive books on governance & enterprise data strategy
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David Marco PHD EWSolutions
David Marco, PhD

President & Executive Advisor, EWSolutions

Client Results

Governance Built for High Stakes.

EWSolutions has built governance programs for the organizations that cannot afford to get it wrong – federal agencies, Global 2000 enterprises, and healthcare institutions operating under the strictest regulatory scrutiny.
“As Chief Data and Security Officer at UHG’s Ingenix division, I engaged EWSolutions to guide us through a transition of our massive data sets and deploy a Data Governance framework. David Marco sent his top professionals to assist us. They blended with my staff, quickly gained the confidence of our business partners, and ensured all activities were focused on our immediate and long-term needs so ARRA and strict regulatory standards could be met.”

Ronald R. Schrimp, Sr.
SVP & Chief Data and Security Officer, UHG / Ingenix

“Mayo Clinic’s Enterprise Data Trust is already realizing palpable success from our cancer center projects, enabling analysis of clinical trial capture and accrual patterns, patient volumes, and clinical trial patient filtering. An infection analytics project standardized data definition and capture of infection-related case data across the enterprise – enabling a single standardized, enterprise-based reporting and analysis environment.”

Mayo Clinic
Enterprise Data Trust - Published in JAMIA, Scholarly Journal of Informatics in Health & Biomedicine

“David Marco and his company EWSolutions have consistently delivered successful Data Warehouse and Metadata Management implementations for several decades. Their unique blend of thought leadership and practical implementation is now leading the way in the rapidly evolving Data Governance arena. ASG has been very pleased with the results of combining EWSolutions’ methodologies and expertise with our world-leading metadata solutions.”

Ian Rowlands
Vice President of Product Management, ASG

“David Marco is a real visionary in data management. At the same time, he and the consultants at EWSolutions understand the everyday challenge of managing the enterprise’s data responsibly. Most practitioners can do one but not the other. EWSolutions has the skill and savvy to do both – as well or better than anyone I’ve met. They always worked in the spirit of partnership and were consistently flexible to the changing needs of our project.”

Stephen C. Grohovsky
Manager, Consumer/Product Services, Thomson Consumer Electronics

“Right from the start David Marco understood the business need and strategic technical challenges of our corporate initiative. The knowledge, breadth of skills, and versatility of EWSolutions provided the program management, technical support and mentoring which the data warehouse team needed to successfully implement the merged organization’s first reporting data mart – ahead of schedule.”

Monica B. Cunningham
Director of Information Resource Management, Harvard Pilgrim HealthCare

Our Services

AI Governance Consulting Services

Data Management

Data Management

The foundational discipline governing how your organization acquires, stores, and uses data. EWSolutions builds enterprise data management programs that reduce costs by over 91% and create the trusted data foundation every AI initiative requires.
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Data Literacy Consulting

AI and analytics investments fail when the people using them can’t interpret the outputs. EWSolutions builds data literacy programs that give your teams - from analysts to executives - the skills to work with data confidently and act on it decisively.
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Data Warehouse Consulting

Enterprise data warehouse architectures designed for scale, performance, and AI readiness. EWSolutions integrates your source systems into a governed, query-ready repository that reliably supports BI, reporting, and machine learning workloads.
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Metadata Management Consulting

Without a metadata strategy, data assets are invisible and unmanageable. EWSolutions builds the repositories, cataloguing frameworks, and governance policies that give your organization a complete, searchable map of its data.
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AI Governance Services

AI Data Management

AI models are only as reliable as the data they run on. EWSolutions builds the governed, quality-assured data pipelines, training data frameworks, and AI-ready architectures that turn your data investment into trustworthy, scalable AI outcomes.
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Common Questions

AI Governance FAQs

The questions CDOs, Chief Risk Officers, and Enterprise Architects ask most when evaluating an AI governance consulting partner.
AI governance is the set of policies, processes, accountability structures, and oversight mechanisms that ensure artificial intelligence systems are developed and operated responsibly, ethically, and in compliance with applicable regulations. It defines who is accountable for AI decisions, how models are audited and monitored, how bias is detected and corrected, and how AI usage aligns with organizational values and legal obligations. EWSolutions builds AI governance as an operational system – not a policy document.
Regulatory frameworks for AI are moving from proposal to enforcement. The EU AI Act is the most far-reaching regulation to date, but U.S. executive orders, sector-specific guidance from the FDA and financial regulators, and emerging state-level legislation are creating a rapidly expanding compliance landscape. Organizations that establish governance frameworks proactively control their implementation timeline and costs. Those that wait face mandatory remediation under regulatory pressure – typically at three to five times the cost.
An AI governance framework includes: an AI use policy and acceptable use standards, model risk management processes, bias and fairness monitoring protocols, explainability requirements by use case risk level, human-in-the-loop oversight structures, data governance controls for AI training data, regulatory compliance documentation, and executive reporting mechanisms. EWSolutions designs these as an integrated operational system – not a set of disconnected policies.
Data governance focuses on the accuracy, ownership, quality, and lifecycle of data across the enterprise. AI governance extends this to address how that data is used in model training, how models make decisions, how outputs are monitored and audited, and how AI-specific ethical and regulatory requirements are met. The two disciplines are deeply interconnected – AI governance without strong data governance is structurally incomplete. EWSolutions delivers both as a unified program when required.
Healthcare, financial services, insurance, federal government, and defense face the most immediate regulatory pressure. However, any organization deploying AI in hiring, lending, clinical decisions, law enforcement, or consumer-facing recommendations faces meaningful legal and reputational exposure – regardless of industry. EWSolutions has delivered governance programs across all of these sectors, including the FBI, Department of Defense, FAA, Mayo Clinic, and Fortune 500 financial services firms.
EWSolutions typically delivers an initial operating AI governance framework within 90-120 days – covering core policies, accountability structures, risk classification, and compliance mapping. Full program maturity, including monitoring systems and embedded stewardship, follows over the subsequent two to three quarters. Our proprietary methodology eliminates the extended discovery phases that inflate timelines at other firms, which is a key driver of our clients’ 91% average cost reduction.
The Window for Proactive Governance Is Closing

28 Years. 155+ Programs. Zero Failed Engagements.

The window for proactive AI governance is closing. Schedule a consultation with David Marco, PhD, and build the framework that protects your organization before regulators do it for you.

  • Regulatory-ready AI frameworks
  • Senior leadership on every engagement
  • Proprietary methodology - not off-the-shelf
  • GSA Contract Holder

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