Our SIP Team
Your Dedicated Resource

Lynn Terwoerds, MA
- Twenty-five years as a technology thought leader and cybersecurity risk strategist for large multi-nationals, who is applying next-gen standards to integrating the business agenda, customer criticality, and tech transformation
- Former Executive Director, Executive Women’s Forum on Information Security, Risk and Privacy
- Senior Director, Audit and Risk, for Oracle’s Global Healthcare Business Unit, leading a global team responsible for the Unit’s passing the annual external HIPAA audit
Improved the compliance posture of an acquired startup whose clinical trial solution was being used by large pharmaceuticals; orchestrated external customer audits of the Unit’s healthcare data and controls; instituted a mature incident response program; and closed security-privacy control deficiencies with acquired companies - At Barclays PLC in London, head of Global Security Architecture, Standards, and Engineering – focusing on global cybersecurity-IT risk management, large security program implementation, and regulatory compliance
Managed an £8.5M budget, overseeing managers across the U.K., Europe, the Middle East and Asia
Aligned security standards to ISO27001; led a £500K identity and access management project that included piloting a SOX application recertification tool - As Senior Security Strategist during ten years at Microsoft, involved at the forefront of global security incident response and crisis management as part of the early Microsoft Security Response Center; contributed to the inaugural Trustworthy Computing group
Program Manager, Security Response Center, addressing their largest incidents with Blaster, Sasser, Code Red, and Nimda; represented Microsoft at the IT-ISAC, and a sub-committee of the POTUS National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (DoD Top Secret security clearance) - Former Member, The President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee
- Board Director, First Fed (FNWB); Advisory Board for CONTAINN (cloud security and compliance); Chair, Northwest Maritime Center; Founding/Advisory Board Member, Executive Women’s Forum
- Founding Member, Cloud Security Alliance and Member, Cyber Future Foundation
- Early recipient of the NACD Directorship Certification
- M.A., University of Missouri-Columbia
- B.A., University of Toledo

Andy Sherman, A.B.
- Thirty years of sales leadership experience across global enterprises, startups, and turnarounds – helping companies accelerate scalable, sustainable growth by aligning Sales Strategy, Story, Messaging, Technology (AI), Process, and People
- Founder and Principal, Apex Growth Advisors, helping clients operationalize their go-to-market strategy involving the design and execution of AI-powered Sales Playbooks, building sales teams, and developing modern infrastructures
Enables and empowers teams for revenue performance acceleration in the current market context of volatility, disruption, and uncertainty - Founding Vice President, NaviSite, initiating and growing revenue to $100M in four years, resulting then in a successful IPO
Built from scratch, and scaled, a high-performing team to over 100 revenue operations professionals - Former Vice President of Sales, CEO, and turnaround leader at multiple venture-backed software and services companies, including Webevent and Centerstone Software, driving 2X revenue and strategic growth, and leading to successful exits
- Chief Operating Officer, Ntirety, a managed services firm. Drove sales and marketing acceleration, and led operations, to enable a successful acquisition by HOSTING
Later served as Chief Marketing Officer of HOSTING, a $100M managed services leader - President and CEO, Centerstone Software, accelerating growth via an overhaul of the GTM strategy, and an advanced product planning and development process, that then led to a successful exit
Tripled quarterly sales and doubled annual revenue. Guided major agreements, supported by the building of a professional services organization, that doubled the company’s overall business for three successive quarters - Earlier career included sales roles at IBM and Apple, twice earning a top-performing National Accounts District Manager award and later appointed to the corporate team to drive strategic account initiatives
- Completed IBM IT services and tech consulting development programs in Sales Training and Methodologies, IBM Needs Satisfaction Selling, Miller Heiman, SPIN Selling, and Solution Selling
- Recent certifications in Black Belt (BB), Simple Academy; Rhythm Maker Coach, Catipult.ai; and Sales Leader, Sales Xceleration®
- Founding Board Member and President, Friends of Harold Parker State Forest, supporting conservation and recreation projects
- A.B., Dartmouth College

Eliza Erskine, MA
- Principal, Green Buoy Consulting, providing Impact/ESG program design and implementation services to high-growth companies: ESG strategies, carbon footprint analysis, net zero strategy, and B Corp certification conformance
- Speaker at various industry events, such as Terra.do, 500 Startups, the Consulate General of the Netherlands, and the Connecticut Sustainable Business Council
- Subject Matter Advisor, Good.Lab; Executive in Residence, The Fashioneering Lab
- ESG Lead, Kara, focused on supporting venture capital investors and technology companies in streamlining their climate disclosures and ESG reporting processes
- Business Specialist, Federated Investors, providing operational and development support for local government investment pools valued at $76B
Created project and test plans for 25 issues annually; produced a statistics dashboard for reporting - Client Service, Massachusetts Municipal Depository Trust, demonstrating operational and implementation processes for current clients, including participating in business development and project planning
- Community Business Outreach Coordinator, New Generation Energy, responsible for the local+GREEN program to increase business owner and government engagement
- At MSCI (Morgan Stanley Capital International):
As ESG Client Services Associate, conducted training on multiple MSCI products; advanced internal projects while maintaining over 350 relationships
As ESG Analyst, covered the ESG metrics of approximately 350 small market capitalization companies to evaluate risk exposure, presented developing issues to the ESG Small Cap team, and provided feedback and edits on over 100 company profiles. - M.A., Sustainability and Environment Management, Harvard University (Extension School)
- B.B.A, Questrom School of Business – Entrepreneurial Studies & Business Law, Boston University

Yan Hai, M.A.Sc
- Over 18 years of progressive experience in the pharmaceutical, cannabis, medical device, and natural health products industries including scientific and quality management contributions to some 300 projects to date
- Knowledge and extensive experience within a range of quality and compliance matters including cGxPs, FDA and Health Canada drug, cannabis and medical device regulatory standards, and ISO frameworks
- A track record of success improving quality systems, interpreting new regulatory requirements, fixing gaps between quality systems and regulatory standards, implementing CAPA systems, and advancing quality processes to ensure compliance and cost effectiveness
- Held a variety of roles with global pharmaceutical leaders including Sanofi Pasteur, Novartis, Taro Pharmaceuticals and Thermo Fisher Scientific
- President and Principal Consultant – Innova Medipharm, Inc., specializing in regulatory compliance, quality assurance, and cGxPs services for the cannabis and pharmaceutical industries
- Client engagements include inspection readiness, auditing, SOP development, GMP and ISO qualification, quality management system alignment, deviation investigation, gap assessment and change control programs
- M.A.Sc, Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry & Biomaterials/Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada
- B.Eng., Chemical Engineering, Tongji University, China
“Art’s team works as a partner, not as a vendor of services. They ask the right questions, really understand the business, engage the relationship team, push back when appropriate, and deliver results that are right on target.”
Robert Posten
Co-Chairman, Comanche Holdings, LLC; Former President & Co-Chairman, Landis Strategy & Innovation.
