Recruiter Brief

Hiring Dan Crane.

Executive AI, product and technology leadership for organisations moving from AI experiments to measurable operating outcomes.

Target Roles

  • GM AI Transformation
  • Head or Director of AI
  • Chief Information Officer (CIO)
  • CTO, CPO, VP Product and Technology
  • Head of Product AI or AI Products Leader
  • Head of Technology, Data and Innovation
  • Interim CTO or Technology Operating Partner
  • Board, PE, or technical due diligence advisor

Best-Fit Sectors

  • Financial services, superannuation, insurance
  • SaaS, vertical software, PE-backed scale-ups
  • Healthtech, EdTech, proptech, and government digital
  • Wagering, lotteries, sport, fan engagement, and regulated digital
  • Retail, hospitality, POS-heavy, and multi-brand operating groups

Not Looking For

  • Customer success, product success, or implementation-only roles
  • Generic IT operations mandates with no AI, product, platform, or transformation authority
  • Junior or stepped-down product roles without executive decision rights
  • Roles where AI is only a buzzword rather than an operating priority

The Short Version

What I bring into the room.

Board-level technology judgement, hands-on AI execution, product/platform operating depth, and a long history of turning ambiguous mandates into commercial systems. I have built teams, budgets, operating cadence and software.

Tatts Group

Proposed and built Tatts Online from board approval into an 80+ person digital division and $1bn annual-turnover platform in a regulated ASX-listed environment.

Presper Labs

Led a distributed team of six across five concurrent brands, delivering approximately 4x output and a 60% operating-cost reduction through AI-enabled workflows.

Platform Breadth

Current Cloudflare-native delivery sits alongside prior AWS, Microsoft Dynamics, enterprise SaaS, identity, integration, and high-availability operating experience.

Product Builds

Hands-on builder of production AI products including UpgradeTheSystem, RankAutomator, and NeuroNurish, choosing platforms and models to fit the mandate.

Strongest positioning angle

I help organisations that have reached the point where AI is strategically important but operationally messy. I bring product, technology, governance and delivery together so the outcome is measurable, not just experimental.

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Next Step

Send the mandate, role brief, or messy problem.

The fastest fit check is a short call with the decision context: authority, desired outcomes, timing, location model, and whether the mandate is permanent, interim, fractional, or advisory.

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