Aaron PaitExecutive operatorRésumé
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Executive operating profile

I turn complex, high-consequence environments into disciplined execution.

I am a North Carolina-based enterprise leader shaped by hyperscale technology, global healthcare, consulting, military intelligence, and 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. My next chapter is broader ownership of strategy, operations, transformation, and enterprise outcomes.

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01 / Operating contribution

Where I create value

My career has centered on the enterprise layer where strategy either becomes execution or disappears into organizational friction. I build the operating cadence, decision paths, cross-functional alignment, and accountability that let complex organizations move.

01

Enterprise transformation

Turn strategy into an operating system that survives contact with the organization.

  • Operating models and decision rights
  • Cross-functional workstreams and governance
  • Process, technology, controls, and team alignment
  • Benefits tracking without bureaucratic drag
Relevant evidence

At AMI Expeditionary Healthcare, consolidated five operational applications onto one Salesforce platform, improving efficiency by approximately 15 percent and reducing annual run-rate cost by more than $100,000.

02

Operationalizing complexity

Make complicated, distributed systems legible, accountable, and repeatable.

  • Executive-level trade-off decisions
  • Metrics that reveal action, not activity
  • Distributed and regulated operations
  • Issue ownership, escalation, and closure
Relevant evidence

Built and ran enterprise technology and risk operations across a global healthcare footprint, then applied the same execution discipline within Salesforce government cloud environments.

03

Technology-enabled operations

Translate technology investment into operating leverage, resilience, and business velocity.

  • Enterprise platform strategy
  • Vendor, budget, and investment discipline
  • Regulated customer expectations
  • Technology translated into business outcomes
Relevant evidence

Owned an approximately $3 million operating budget, global technology procurement, and enterprise platforms while serving as the first Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer for a $400 million healthcare provider.

04

Leadership under consequence

Bring calm judgment, direct accountability, and adaptive execution when the stakes are real.

  • Leadership with incomplete information
  • Influence without relying on hierarchy
  • Board and senior-executive communication
  • Mission focus through uncertainty
Relevant evidence

Twelve years in the United States Marine Corps, including Scout Sniper and counterintelligence roles, followed by executive accountability in global healthcare and hyperscale technology.

The transition, directly

Cybersecurity is part of the experience. It is not the destination.

Senior cybersecurity leadership is enterprise operations through a high-consequence lens. It requires understanding the business end to end, calibrating growth and risk, allocating finite resources, deciding with incomplete information, and moving legal, engineering, product, finance, compliance, operations, and executives toward one outcome.

02 / Scope and progression

Experience built for broader ownership

The pattern is consistent: enter difficult environments, make the system understandable, align leaders around a decision, and build the mechanisms that carry execution through.

$400M

enterprise scale

First Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer for an international healthcare provider.

2,500

employees supported

Technology and operating responsibility across a distributed global workforce.

15+

countries

Enterprise operations across 15+ countries and complex, high-risk international environments.

$3M

operating budget

Signing authority across software, vendor, infrastructure, and enterprise technology decisions.

67%

risk reduction

Measured improvement after building the enterprise security and compliance program.

15%

efficiency gain

Delivered by consolidating five operational applications onto a unified Salesforce platform.

76

intelligence professionals

Led distributed professionals in high-consequence military intelligence operations.

12

years of Marine service

Infantry, Scout Sniper, and Counterintelligence/Human Intelligence leadership.

Career progression

Each chapter added a different form of operating range, from consequence and ambiguity to advisory discipline, direct enterprise ownership, and execution at hyperscale.

  1. 2006-2018United States Marine Corps

    Leadership under uncertainty

    Served across infantry, Scout Sniper, and Counterintelligence/Human Intelligence roles. Led professionals and missions where judgment, trust, and disciplined execution were nonnegotiable.

    What carries forward

    Judgment, accountability, adaptability, and decisive execution.

  2. 2018-2021Enterprise consulting

    Structured problem solving

    Advised enterprise clients at Aon and Cognizant on risk, operating models, acquisition diligence, integration, and technology transformation.

    What carries forward

    Executive synthesis, transaction perspective, and operating-model discipline.

  3. 2021-2022AMI Expeditionary Healthcare

    Enterprise ownership

    Served as the first Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer, reporting to the Chief Executive Officer and Board with budget, team, platform, vendor, and operating accountability.

    What carries forward

    Direct ownership of people, capital, systems, risk, and measurable outcomes.

  4. 2022-PresentSalesforce

    Hyperscale execution

    Operate across government cloud, MissionForce, Public Sector, and enterprise security partners, translating regulatory complexity into business guidance and cross-functional execution.

    What carries forward

    Influence at scale, regulated-cloud judgment, and enterprise coordination.

  5. 2026-2028Duke Fuqua

    General-management breadth

    Pursuing an Executive Master of Business Administration with deliberate emphasis on strategy, finance, capital allocation, and broader enterprise leadership.

    What carries forward

    A stronger economic and strategic toolkit for wider operating responsibility.

  6. NextBroader ownership

    Enterprise outcomes

    Seeking the strongest credible executive fit with meaningful decision rights, measurable accountability, and room to grow toward general management.

    What carries forward

    The full stack: consequence, consulting discipline, executive ownership, scale, and financial judgment.

03 / Potential fit

Open to the strongest executive-level fit

I am open to the strongest executive-level fit where the mandate includes meaningful decision rights, measurable outcomes, and a credible path toward broader enterprise or general-management ownership.

01

Strategy and operations

Translate executive priorities into operating plans, decisions, metrics, and closure.

02

Enterprise transformation

Align process, technology, governance, people, and incentives around a measurable future state.

03

Business operations

Build the cadence and cross-functional mechanisms that improve execution and operating leverage.

04

Integration

Coordinate dependencies, decision rights, escalation, and benefit realization across enterprise change.

05

Operating Chief of Staff

Extend an executive's operating capacity while owning substantive initiatives and enterprise follow-through.

06

Technology-enabled operations

Connect enterprise platforms and investment choices to better economics, resilience, and delivery.

07

Special strategic initiatives

Take on ambiguous, consequential mandates that cross organizational boundaries and require closure.

08

Broader operating leadership

Own a wider result with decision rights spanning functions, capital, teams, and enterprise performance.

04 / Executive profile

Range grounded in accountability

Aaron Pait is an enterprise operator whose career has centered on complicated systems, consequential decisions, and accountable execution. He served 12 years in the United States Marine Corps before moving into enterprise consulting, global healthcare leadership, and Salesforce government cloud. He has reported directly to a Chief Executive Officer and Board, owned a multi-million-dollar operating budget, built enterprise functions, led cross-functional transformation, and advised senior leaders in regulated environments. His objective is deliberate: apply deep experience in technology, resilience, governance, finance, and execution to broader enterprise responsibility.

Operating premise

The role title matters less than the mandate: real decision rights, measurable accountability, and a consequential enterprise outcome.

Based in Eastern North Carolina and connected to the Raleigh-Durham market, I am open to select internal and external conversations where the work calls for judgment, synthesis, alignment, and execution.

Education

Duke University, Fuqua School of Business

Executive Master of Business Administration candidate

Class of 2028

North Carolina Wesleyan University

Bachelor of Science, Accounting, with Honors

2025

Board and fiduciary leadership

  • Former Treasurer, Chief Financial Officer, and Director, USMC Scout Sniper Association
  • Founding board member, AMI Global Assistance

Selected credentials

  • National Association of Corporate Directors Directorship Certification
  • Certified Information Systems Security Professional
  • Certified Information Security Manager
  • Global Information Assurance Certification Strategic Planning, Policy, and Leadership
  • Scaled Agile Framework Practice Consultant

A focused conversation

If the mandate is consequential, let's compare notes.

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