About Us
There is No Such Thing as a Technology Project
Only business projects enabled by technology. That belief shapes how JMA advises, what it recommends, and how it measures success.
Our Approach
JMA is a business advisory firm with deep technology expertise. We are brought in when the outcome matters, not only the delivery. Every engagement starts with your strategy, your goals, and your risk tolerance, and it is measured by the business value realized, not the systems installed.
The firm pairs a senior leadership team, each principal owning a practice and accountable for outcomes, with an established delivery network spanning the United States and India. That structure lets JMA bring senior judgment to the decision and full delivery capacity to the execution.
How We Work
We believe technology should serve the business, not the other way around. That belief shapes every engagement.
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Business first.
Strategy leads; technology follows.
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Outcome ownership.
Success is realized business value, not completed implementation.
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Commercial discipline.
Every investment is benchmarked and justified as a business case.
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Practical execution.
Recommendations have to work operationally, financially, and organizationally.
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Enablement.
We build capability that lasts rather than dependency on us.
Our Leadership
JMA’s principals lead the firm’s practices and own the outcomes of every engagement. Each heads a discipline, from strategic delivery and AI to finance transformation and commercial strategy, supported by the firm’s broader delivery network.
Harrison Lewis
Founding Partner
Harrison Lewis founded Jacob Meadow Associates on a single premise: there is no such thing as a technology project, only business projects enabled by technology. Across more than two decades as a CIO, CISO, CPO, and CDO for global consumer brands, he has been accountable for the outcomes technology was bought to produce, not the systems themselves.
He is the architect of JMA’s DAAEG framework, the firm’s discipline for treating technology as a capital allocation decision: define the investment thesis, assess the gaps, align the spend to business priorities, execute with accountability, and govern for realized value.
Harrison also serves as strategic advisor to Solutionara, a delivery partner with operations in the United States and India, a role that holds the firm accountable across both strategy and execution. He writes and speaks on technology as a business issue at harrisonallenlewis.com.
Ashwani Kumar
Partner, Strategic Delivery & Innovation
Ashwani Kumar leads how JMA’s strategy gets executed. An enterprise architect with more than 20 years delivering large transformation programs, he turns complex operating problems into roadmaps that consolidate systems, reduce cost, and hold delivery to measurable results.
He works directly with CXOs across retail, healthcare, and financial services, where he has led multimillion-dollar programs judged on operational efficiency, compliance, and revenue rather than implementation milestones. His role ensures that what JMA recommends can actually be executed, operationally, financially, and organizationally.
Janet Peterson
Principal, Finance & Accounting Transformation
Janet Peterson leads JMA’s finance and accounting transformation work. She helps executives turn financial data into decisions and build the controls and reporting discipline that keep a growing business in command of its numbers.
Her perspective comes from more than two decades advising private companies on the practical side of finance: financial statement preparation, GAAP, and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. She pairs that with a teaching practice in accounting and finance at the college level, which keeps her close to the fundamentals that executive decisions rest on. Janet holds an MBA in Finance from NYU’s Stern School of Business, where she was a Stern Scholar, and a BS in Accounting from Providence College, earned magna cum laude.
At JMA she applies that depth to finance transformation and advisory work, measured by the business value it produces.
Kushal Raju
Head of AI Strategy & Solutions
Kushal Raju leads AI strategy and solutions at JMA. His work joins applied research with practical engineering: research roles at NASA and the SETI Institute, applied AI at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and peer-reviewed publications in IEEE, AIP, and Springer.
At JMA he is responsible for putting AI to work where it produces measurable results, on a clear principle: AI serves the business decision, not the other way around. He leads development of the firm’s proprietary platforms, including TrueNorth™, the Knowledge Base™, the Diagnostic Tool™, the Benefit Realization Framework™, and D-GaaS™, and applies them to make delivery faster, more consistent, and accountable to outcomes.
Robert Baha
Director of Business Strategy
Robert Baha leads business strategy and commercial growth at JMA. He brings nearly two decades at the intersection of healthcare and business strategy, with a record in market access, business development, and strategic change that has to hold up in complex, regulated industries.
Before JMA, he spent more than 18 years in the medical device and pharmaceutical sectors, in leadership roles at Indivior, Philips, Pacira, and Kimberly-Clark, where he led multimillion-dollar commercial efforts and brought new diagnostic and therapeutic products to market. At JMA he designs and executes the commercial and operating strategy that connects client growth objectives to how the work actually gets delivered.
Senior judgment, full delivery capacity.
The principals above set strategy and own outcomes. Behind them, JMA fields delivery teams through an established partnership with operations in the United States and India, led by Harrison’s role as strategic advisor to Solutionara. Clients get senior accountability on the decision and the people to execute it at scale, without the overhead of a large firm.
The DAAEG framework
DAAEG is JMA’s business value governance framework. It is how we hold a technology investment accountable from the decision to the realized return.
- Define: establish the investment thesis and the expected return.
- Assess: identify the operational gaps, inefficiencies, technical debt, and risk exposure.
- Align: align investments, governance, operating model, and execution priorities.
- Execute: deliver with operational accountability and measurable discipline.
- Govern: sustain accountability and continued value realization.
DAAEG is not only a delivery method. It is how the firm governs business value.
An approach built around your business.
Let’s identify where technology can produce measurable business impact for your organization.