John Elliott

John Elliott is Global Technology Advisory Services Lead at Thoughtworks, where he works with boards and executive teams on the governance, operating, and investment decisions required in an AI-enabled enterprise. His perspective is shaped by a career spanning McKinsey, Accenture, and senior product and platform leadership roles at Qualcomm, Openwave, and Verizon- across moments when new technologies outpaced existing governance models. John’s point of view is that AI does not primarily create a technology governance problem, but a decision-making one: boards must shift from episodic oversight to continuous stewardship of how strategy, operating models, and technology co-evolve. His work focuses on helping leaders govern for coherence, accountability, and long-term value as AI becomes embedded in how organizations think and act.