AI Governance: Unlocking Benefits While Avoiding Disasters
AI offers incredible productivity gains, but without proper governance, it can amplify disasters instead of solving problems. Here's how to get the benefits without the breakdowns.
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Ed Brownlee
CTO | N2CON
Ed Brownlee is CTO at N2CON, where he scopes technical solutions and leads internal service offerings. His approach is simple: make security, disaster recovery, networking, and software work together—not as isolated pieces.
His background spans enterprise QA at Compaq during the HP merger, networking consulting for IBM and H&R Block, and disaster recovery architecture. He saw how enterprise discipline could benefit smaller organizations and brought that perspective to the Bay Area MSP community.
He's worked alongside CEO Rick Hernandez for nearly two decades. That partnership shapes how N2CON delivers: practical solutions that avoid lock-in and stand the test of time.
Ed's strength is the 30,000-foot view—spotting silos, gaps, and dependencies before they become problems. As cloud adoption expands what needs protecting, he focuses on security that fits the whole picture.
The through-line: technology that serves the business.
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