The people behind the programme

Small by design.
Senior by necessity.
Founders-led. Every time.

Every engagement led by a founder. No junior analysts. No handoffs.

2
Founders
Senior
Practitioners only
20+
Collective years in FS
100%
Client-facing seniority

The people behind EAIC

Small by design. Senior by necessity.

EAIC deliberately operates without a large bench of junior consultants. Every Sentinel engagement is led by Declan or Austin — not handed off to analysts after the first meeting. That constraint is intentional: board-level governance work requires board-level experience, and the clients we work with can tell the difference.

As EAIC grows, this page will introduce the wider team. We hire practitioners — people who have delivered transformation inside regulated organisations, not just advised on it from the outside. If that describes you, we'd like to hear from you.

Founders

DE

Declan Ellard

Co-Founder & CEO

20+ years delivering enterprise transformation across financial services, energy, logistics, gaming and retail — including HSBC and major FTSE 100 organisations.

linkedin.com/in/declane ↗
AS

Austin Sharpley

Co-Founder

Financial architecture of AI governance — the conviction that risk scores without monetary values are opinions, not decisions. Built the Sentinel Capital Allocation Engine.

linkedin.com/in/austin-sharpley ↗

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