Press kit
Cijara Group at a glance.
Everything a journalist, partner, or event organizer needs to describe the practice accurately: who we are, what we do, and the credentials behind the work. For interviews or comment, write to contact@cijaragroup.com.
Company overview
Cijara Group is an AI advisory practice for small and mid-size businesses. The practice helps clients choose AI tools that fit their size and industry, implement them safely, and independently assess the vendors behind them after deployment.
The firm works as a bench of senior principal consultants rather than a single advisor. Its people bring more than 120 years of combined experience from tier-one financial institutions, federal regulators, Big Four audit, defense, and healthcare - and clients work directly with those practitioners, with no junior handoff.
Cijara Group is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and serves clients across the United States, with particular depth in regulated industries such as community banking and healthcare.
- 120+ years of combined experience
- Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Goldman Sachs
- FTC, EY, Deloitte, defense, and healthcare environments
- Risk, legal, privacy, security, audit, and regulatory leadership
Practice domains
Six domains, each led by a senior principal consultant. More about the practice.
25 years
Third-Party & Software Supply-Chain Risk
AI vendor reviews, shadow-AI discovery, software supply-chain exposure, and practical oversight of subcontractors and downstream providers.
Credentials: CISA, CRISC, MBA
22 years
Model Risk & Banking Regulatory Alignment
Model risk management, AI underwriting governance, examiner readiness, and closing supervisory findings.
Credentials: CFA Charterholder, FRM
22 years
AI Security Architecture & Zero Trust
Data isolation, third-party LLM controls, secure delivery pipelines, identity boundaries, and safeguards against agent-driven data loss.
Credentials: CISSP, CCSP, AWS Security - Specialty
20+ years
AI Legal, Privacy & Regulatory Policy
AI and privacy obligations, vendor contract terms, data-processing agreements, and controls that prevent client data from being reused for model training.
Credentials: J.D., CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM
20+ years
Healthcare & Life Sciences AI Governance
HIPAA, FDA Software as a Medical Device, patient-data lineage, clinical copilots, and healthcare AI vendor risk.
Credentials: Ph.D., Health Informatics, CISA, CHPS
15+ years
Enterprise Risk & Governance Systems
Risk taxonomies, model and tool inventories, governance systems of record, regulatory remediation, and decision-ready reporting.
Credentials: Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
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