About
David J. Fusco
Founder & Principal, Motore — the advisory practice of David J. Fusco Consulting LLC.
Background
David works at the intersection of artificial intelligence, enterprise technology, cybersecurity, and organizational transformation.
His career spans executive technology leadership, higher education, enterprise architecture, applied AI, cybersecurity, and advisory work. He has worked both inside organizations, accountable for technology decisions and their consequences, and alongside them as an advisor.
That combination shapes how Motore engagements are run. Recommendations are made with an understanding of what it takes to implement them — the internal constraints, the competing priorities, and the difference between what an organization intends to do and what it is currently able to do.
Areas of expertise
Where the work concentrates
AI Strategy & Transformation
- AI readiness
- AI strategy
- Use-case prioritization
- Generative AI
- Agentic AI
- Governance
- AI operating models
- Implementation roadmaps
- Executive decision support
Process & Operational Intelligence
- Process discovery
- Workflow analysis
- Operating model assessment
- Automation opportunities
- Human + AI workflow design
- Repetitive work identification
- Process redesign
- Operational efficiency
Technology & Enterprise Architecture
- Enterprise architecture
- Technology strategy
- Cloud
- Cybersecurity
- Data strategy
- Systems integration
- AI infrastructure
- Platform modernization
- Technology risk
AI for Investors & Portfolio Companies
- AI diligence
- Technology diligence
- AI readiness assessments
- Value-creation opportunities
- Portfolio company strategy
- Operational improvement
- Technology risk
- 100-day planning
Approach
How the work is done
Practical application
The test of any recommendation is whether the organization can act on it. Work is scoped to what can realistically be executed given the constraints that exist, not the ones that would be convenient.
Business outcomes
Technology decisions are evaluated against what they change for the business — cost, capacity, quality, speed, risk — rather than against the sophistication of the approach.
Systems thinking
Strategy, process, data, systems, security, people, and governance are treated as one interdependent system. Changing one without accounting for the others rarely holds.
Understand the organization first
Before introducing technology, the work is to understand how the organization actually operates: where decisions are made, where effort concentrates, and what has already been tried.
Strategy and implementation
Strategy that ignores implementation reality produces documents. Implementation without strategy produces activity. Useful advisory work stays connected to both.
Human judgment remains central
AI changes how work is produced. It does not remove the requirement that someone understands the result, is accountable for it, and can explain it.
Speaking & executive education
Sessions for leadership teams and educators
David is available for briefings and sessions that help leadership teams reach a shared, specific understanding of what AI changes for their organization — and what it does not.
Sessions are developed for the audience and the decision at hand rather than delivered from a standard deck.
- Executive briefings for leadership teams and boards
- Leadership sessions on AI strategy and technology risk
- Working sessions and workshops with functional teams
- AI strategy sessions for investors and portfolio company management
- University and professional education on AI, technology, and cybersecurity
Interested in working together?
Whether the question is strategic, operational, architectural, or investment-related, the first step is a conversation about what you are trying to decide.
- Advisory engagements
- Diligence support
- Executive briefings
- Workshops and education