Advisory you can put in front of a board.
Northbridge AI, Cyber, GRC & Risk Advisory LLC was founded on a simple observation: the organizations that most need senior security leadership are often the ones least able to hire it. I give regulated and high-growth companies the strategy, governance, and incident response capability of a full CISO function — delivered on demand, at a scale that fits.
Senior security leadership, without the full-time overhead.
I’m a security and risk executive with more than twenty years across professional services, global insurance, and regulated industries. Northbridge is my independent practice, and I lead every engagement personally — no hand-offs to junior staff.
Build, govern, and defend your security program.
I serve as your fractional CISO, stand up AI governance, align you to frameworks like NIST CSF, ISO 42001, and the NIST AI RMF, and lead the response when an incident hits — with board-ready reporting at every step.
Make senior security leadership accessible — before risk becomes a crisis.
Most organizations carry the same regulatory obligations and threat exposure as enterprises, without the budget for a full-time CISO. I close that gap, so audits, customer questionnaires, and breaches are met with confidence instead of scrambling.
Principles behind every engagement.
Meet Bennie L. Cleveland Jr.
Northbridge is led by a senior security and risk executive with deep experience building and running programs in regulated industries — from healthcare and finance to government and high-growth technology. Engagements are led personally, so clients get seasoned judgment from day one.
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Thirty minutes with me could change how you think about your risk.