Technology Strategy & Executive Advisory

When technology decisions matter most,
you need someone
you can trust.

e3 Advisory brings 25 years of leading technology initiatives for growing organizations, combined with deep client relationships and AI-orchestrated delivery. We don't send reports. We build partnerships and own outcomes.

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Larry Davis

e3 Advisory · Est. 2000

25+

Years Leading Technology Initiatives

200+

Client Organizations Served

Dozens

of Entity Consolidations Managed

100+

Countries Reached

About Larry Davis

Twenty-five years of showing up
as a partner.

I founded e3 Advisory on a simple conviction: the companies that need strategic technology leadership most are often the ones who can't justify a full-time CIO. PE-backed firms mid-transition. Growing enterprises with fragmented infrastructure. Organizations where technology decisions fall to whoever sounds most confident in the room.

I step into those situations and stay. Not as a consultant who hands you a roadmap and disappears, but as someone who owns the outcome alongside you. Twenty-five years of building and leading technology-driven organizations gave me the judgment I bring to every engagement today.

At the core of everything I do is a belief that technology strategy is ultimately about people. The teams who execute it, the leaders who fund it, the customers whose lives it touches. That belief shapes every decision I make.

Est. 2000

Profotos

The origin story that changed everything.

Before fractional CIO was a category, I built one of the world's first curated photography platforms, assembling over 700 of the world's leading photographers from more than 100 countries. Steve Bloom. David Leeson. Amos Nachoum. A personal introduction, written by hand, for every single one of them.

With zero marketing budget, Profotos.com grew to over one million monthly visitors. Adobe, HP, and Kodak came to us with advertising contracts. The platform attracted angel investor interest and explored an IPO track in 2001.

It was a masterclass in relationship building, platform thinking, and scaling something from nothing. That foundation informs every engagement I take on today.

1M+ Monthly Visitors Adobe · HP · Kodak 100+ Countries 700+ Photographers IPO Explored 2001

What
we
do.

Three disciplines. One trusted advisor. We stay in the work — not just the strategy.

Technology Strategy & Executive Advisory

CIO-level thinking without the full-time overhead. We own your technology roadmap and sit at the executive table — including Fractional CIO, vCIO, IT governance, board-level reporting, and technology due diligence for PE portfolio companies. We align every technology decision to your business goals, your budget, and your growth trajectory.

Infrastructure & Security

Hardening the foundation your business runs on. Multi-entity Microsoft 365 consolidations, Entra ID and identity management, business email compromise remediation, cloud infrastructure rationalization, and security posture assessment. We handle the complexity so you can operate with confidence.

Digital Operations & AI Transformation

Rationalizing how your organization operates digitally, from web infrastructure to AI-assisted workflow automation and digital vendor management. Built on 25 years of real platform experience, not theory. We identify where technology creates genuine leverage and build systems that scale with you.

We've rebuilt how advisory work
gets done.

Most advisory firms deliver experience. We deliver experience orchestrated by AI, with faster insights, tighter execution, and a modern delivery model designed to help clients move faster with greater confidence. AI isn't a feature we offer. It's the operating system behind how we think, triage, build, and communicate. You get executive-caliber output at the pace your business demands.

AI-Assisted Triage

Client requests are analyzed, categorized, and routed intelligently — so nothing falls through the cracks and every issue is addressed with the right priority, the right context, and the right person.

Automated Delivery Pipelines

We build automation into the delivery model itself. Documentation, reporting, approvals, and communications flow without manual bottlenecks, giving our clients a faster and more consistent experience.

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Strategic Intelligence Layer

AI amplifies our advisory thinking by surfacing patterns, accelerating research, and generating insights that give clients a faster path to better decisions. We think faster. You move sooner.

Human at the Center

Technology amplifies our work. It never replaces the relationship. Every AI-assisted output is reviewed, shaped, and delivered by someone who knows your business personally. The relationship is always the product.

Selected
work.

04 Engagements

Live Events · PE-Backed · Global

Multi-Entity M365 Consolidation for a Major International Events Company

A PE-backed live events organization operating across dozens of legacy entities is unifying its infrastructure ahead of a major international contract tied to one of the world's largest sporting events. We're engaged as fractional CIO, conducting the technology assessment, shaping migration strategy, and guiding BEC security remediation alongside the client's internal team.

Multi-Entity Consolidation BEC Remediation Major Live Events Fractional CIO

Apparel & Accessories · E-Commerce · National Brand

Long-Term Digital Advisory for a National Wholesale & Retail Brand

A nationally recognized apparel and accessories brand with deep wholesale roots and a growing direct-to-consumer presence engaged us as a long-term digital technology advisor. Over several years we have guided platform strategy across e-commerce, ERP integration, and digital operations, helping the brand navigate Shopify, NetSuite, and the complexity of managing wholesale and retail channels from a single technology foundation. The relationship is ongoing and built on trust earned over years of consistent delivery.

Long-Term Advisory Shopify / NetSuite E-Commerce Strategy ERP Integration

Photography · Platform · Global · Est. 2000

Building a 1M-Visitor Global Photography Platform from Zero

Before social platforms existed, Profotos.com became the world's premier curated photography destination with 700 elite photographers from over 100 countries and a personal introduction written for every one of them. Zero marketing budget. Over one million monthly visitors. Advertising contracts with Adobe, HP, and Kodak. Angel investor interest and an IPO-track conversation in 2001.

1M+ Monthly Visitors 100+ Countries Adobe · HP · Kodak IPO Explored 2001

Financial Services · Compliance-Aware · Regional

Compliance-Aware Digital Presence for a Regional Financial Advisory Group

A regional financial advisory group needed a modern web presence built to strict compliance requirements while projecting executive-level credibility. We delivered a fully custom static site with compliance-aware content architecture, a custom modal video system, and a mobile-optimized experience that performs and lasts.

Compliance Architecture Custom Video System Static HTML Mobile Optimized

Here's how
we think.

Executives don't hire a vendor for a checklist. They hire judgment. This is the framework we bring to every engagement, the lens we use to evaluate risk, prioritize investment, and report to leadership.

Assessment Framework

Before any recommendation, we map the current state across infrastructure, security, vendors, and team capability so every decision starts from ground truth, not assumption. Our assessment methodology surfaces what's working, what's at risk, and what needs to change first.

Risk Evaluation

We rank technology risk against business impact rather than technical severity alone, so leadership can see clearly which issues threaten revenue, compliance, or continuity. Risk is always presented in the language of the business, not the data center.

Governance Philosophy

Technology decisions need an owner and a process. We establish the governance rhythm, defining who decides, who is informed, and how it is documented, so progress doesn't depend on any one person and your organization can scale without chaos.

Board & Investor Reporting

CFOs and PE sponsors need clarity, not jargon. We translate technical reality into the language of risk, cost, and opportunity that drives real decisions — delivering board-ready reporting that builds confidence and eliminates surprises.

AI Strategy & Adoption

We help organizations separate genuine AI opportunity from noise, identifying where automation creates real leverage, where it adds risk without return, and how to build an AI adoption roadmap your team can actually execute.

M&A & Integration Readiness

For PE-backed and acquisitive organizations, we assess technology and infrastructure as part of the deal lens, surfacing integration risk before it becomes a post-close problem and building the roadmap that makes integration actually work.

The advisor model.
Not the
vendor model.

Relationship first, always

Every engagement begins with genuine curiosity about your business. We invest in understanding before we advise. Our clients don't feel like accounts — they feel like partners. That's not a tagline. It's how we've sustained relationships for twenty years.

We own the outcome

We don't hand you a roadmap and disappear. We stay in the work — holding the strategy, managing execution partners, reporting to your leadership — until the outcome is real and the value is measurable. If it isn't working, we say so.

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Executive-level communication

We translate technology complexity into business language. CFOs, COOs, and PE sponsors get clear and honest reporting, never a smokescreen of technical jargon. You always know exactly where you stand and what comes next.

Built on 25 years of trust

Our longest client relationships span two decades. We are not optimizing for the engagement fee. We are building something you will still value in ten years. That long view changes how we make every decision.

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Technology is only as powerful as the relationships built around it. My job is to earn your trust first, then make your technology worthy of it.

Larry Davis, Founder & Principal Advisor

Let's start
a real
conversation.

No pitch deck. No pressure. Just an honest conversation about where you are, where you want to go, and whether we are the right fit to help you get there. Most engagements start with a single call.

Email larry@e-3design.com

Based in Somerset, Pennsylvania · Serving Organizations Nationwide

Engagements Fractional CIO · Technology Assessment · Advisory Retainer

Typical First Step 30-Minute Discovery Call · No Obligation

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When technology decisions matter most, you need someone you can trust.

Twenty-five years of showing upas a partner.

The origin story that changed everything.

Whatwedo.

We've rebuilt how advisory workgets done.

Selectedwork.