Cheri Hewlett, CPA
Technology & innovation executive · AI-native builder · P&L operator · U.S. Air Force veteran
cherihewlett.dev · linkedin.com/in/cheri-hewlett · github.com/cherihewlett-crypto · Los Angeles, CA
Executive profile
Technology and innovation executive with two decades across audit, advisory, enterprise SaaS, and the Office of the CFO — including the last four years building AI-native systems and strategies. Built and scaled a new enterprise platform line from concept to global market with full P&L accountability; led enterprise AI governance and agentic-workforce strategy; and personally architected production AI systems spanning zero-to-one prototypes, internal operating systems, and products serving a global enterprise base. Combines board-level strategy, domain depth, and hands-on engineering execution.
Executive impact
Platform builder
Scaled a new enterprise platform line from concept to market with full P&L across product, engineering, go-to-market, and customer success; delivered triple-digit organic growth for three consecutive years.
AI executive and engineer
Set enterprise AI governance and agentic-workforce strategy while personally designing and building the production systems behind it.
Board-level operator
Presented platform strategy and business performance to boards and investors; connected product strategy, competitive differentiation, and roadmap investment.
Office-of-the-CFO depth
Twenty years across accounting, audit, advisory, financial technology, and enterprise SaaS; CPA with PwC and Deloitte experience.
Professional experience
Senior Vice President & Global Managing Director, Platform & Product Strategy
- Own enterprise-wide platform and product strategy, including platform vision, competitive differentiation, and roadmap prioritization in partnership with cross-functional leadership.
- Lead AI governance and agentic-workforce integration across the enterprise platform.
- Present platform strategy and business performance to boards and investors.
Vice President & Head of Product, Financial Reporting Analytics
- Built and scaled a new Financial Analytics platform line from concept to global market with full P&L accountability across product, engineering, go-to-market, and customer success.
- Delivered triple-digit year-over-year organic growth for three consecutive years by defining product-market fit and differentiated value propositions across a global enterprise customer base.
- Reduced midmarket time-to-value through roadmap sequencing, deployment blueprints, customer advisory boards, and partner-ecosystem design.
- Partnered with PE-backed portfolio companies on investor reporting and financial controls across acquired entities.
Earlier BlackLine leadership roles
- Progressed across customer success, solutions consulting, product transformation, and product leadership; developed packaged deployment blueprints that materially reduced time-to-value.
Independent CPA Firm
Founder & Owner
- Founded and operated an independent CPA practice serving real estate investors and small businesses across tax strategy, 1031 exchanges, individual, corporate, and nonprofit returns, and bookkeeping.
Selected AI systems — built hands-on
heyEcho — Founder & Architect
- Architected a multi-agent operating system with registry-driven routing, persistent cross-session memory, fail-closed authority, and a verification layer that recomputes status from live evidence.
- Built 80+ edge-function API services with authentication, versioning, and lifecycle management.
- Production stack: Claude / Anthropic API, Supabase, Mem0, MCP tool orchestration, Next.js, and TypeScript.
Products and engines designed and written personally
- Intelligent Product Enablement — turns every shipped code change into the documentation, release notes, training, and field briefing it requires, behind a governed human-approval path, so release velocity stops outrunning the customer.
- Acquisition Integration Engine — compares capabilities across acquired technologies, flags the surviving implementation on evidence, and generates the dependency-sequenced migration plan that folds an acquisition into one platform.
- Autonomous Implementor — carries an implementation from the customer's stated problem through process analysis, generated configuration, and verification, tracking the promised return against the customer's own baseline.
- Roadmap Prioritization Engine — scores candidate investments on impact, strategic fit, feasibility, and signal, weighted by confidence and re-ranked as evidence arrives, for defensible go/no-go decisions.
- Compliance Knowledge Base — atomic rules carrying their own citations, so any answer can be walked back to the standard and the internal policy governing it by an expert who does not trust the model.
- Multi-Dimensional Orchestrator — one governed path for work entering by support case, use case, code change, or product area: registry-driven routing, fail-closed authority, and verification against evidence.
Live engineering record
- Recomputed from private repositories on every build rather than manually summarized: 16,983 contributions in the last year, 6,916 authored commits excluding bots and merges, 1,700+ merged pull requests, 131 live services in production, and 302 catalogued reusable capabilities.
View the live engineering record at cherihewlett.dev.
Leadership & domain expertise
Executive leadership: P&L leadership · enterprise platform strategy · product portfolio strategy · board and investor communication · global commercialization · partner ecosystem design
AI & data: AI product strategy · agentic AI and multi-agent orchestration · AI governance · LLM evaluation · RAG and vector memory · developer platforms and API product strategy · data activation
Finance & enterprise SaaS: Office of the CFO · financial analytics · enterprise SaaS · PE portfolio reporting and controls · audit and advisory · accounting and tax
Technology: Claude / Anthropic API · Gemini · Vertex AI · Google ADK · RAG and vector memory · Mem0 · MCP tool orchestration · Supabase · PostgreSQL · Next.js · React · TypeScript · Node.js · Deno · Vercel · GitHub Actions · LLM evaluation and governance
Speaking & writing
- Main-stage and industry speaking: BeyondTheBlack (2022–2026), BlackLine Investor Day (2024), SAP Sapphire Barcelona (2024), LWT Summit (2024), and Product Advisory Collective (2026).
- Podcast guest: Sounds Accurate and The Go-Live Gap.
- Published LinkedIn writing includes What's Next After Generative AI and The Death of Consolidation Systems.
Education, credentials & service
M.S., Accounting — Liberty University · B.S., Accounting & Computer Science — University of Maryland
Certified Public Accountant (Virginia) · U.S. Air Force Veteran · Strategic Advisor, Crux (London) · Board Member, G.R.O.W. Foundation