Niche Recruitment Solutions for Regulated AI Leadership
Helping mid-market financial, healthcare, and regulated organizations build AI governance and model risk leadership
Helping mid-market financial, healthcare, and regulated organizations build AI governance and model risk leadership

In AI governance and model risk leadership, we source proven executives including but not limited to Heads of AI Governance, Model Risk Directors, Responsible AI Leads, Model Validation Managers, AI Risk Managers, Quantitative Risk Directors, and Enterprise Model Governance Leaders.

At Skwara Advisory, we help mid‑market financial, healthcare, and other regulated organizations build leadership around AI governance and model risk. Our mission is to strengthen oversight of AI, analytics, and critical models by connecting these organizations with proven leaders in AI governance, model validation, and enterprise risk.

Our work is grounded in years of executive search, risk, and analytics experience across regulated industries. We focus on AI governance, model risk, and enterprise risk leadership for mid‑market financial, healthcare, and other regulated organizations. Our commitment to straight talk, discretion, and long‑term relationships guides every search, helping both clients and senior leaders build careers and teams that stand up to regulatory, board, and real‑world scrutiny.

We specialize in leadership recruitment for AI governance and model risk roles within mid‑market financial, healthcare, and other regulated organizations. Our goal is to help companies put the right people in charge of the AI, analytics, and critical models that drive decisions about customers, capital, and compliance. We partner with clients on a committed, high‑touch search model that gives them access to a mapped market, vetted shortlists, and clear communication from first briefing through acceptance. Leveraging modern research tools, a global support team, and a focused network, we work discreetly on behalf of both hiring leaders and senior candidates to ensure every move is confidential, well‑considered, and built to last.
Please reach us at joe@skwaraadvisory.com if we can answer any questions
Our expertise and global research team help mid-market organizations solve AI governance and model risk leadership gaps quickly mapping comprehensive candidate markets, delivering vetted shortlists, and ensuring hires that meet regulatory, technical, and strategic requirements.
Only 13–20% of executives are actively job hunting. The other 80% are passive so we focus on global research teams, modern tools, and targeted processes to identify and engage top passive AI governance and model risk leaders. We don't use job boards.
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We offer strategic staffing and fractional AI governance or model risk leadership to bridge gaps while you build permanent teams. Our goal is to help someone new every day so if we can't solve it directly, we'll connect you to trusted specialists.
Simsbury, Connecticut, United States
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