They fail when operating models, governance, and decision rights can’t keep pace with complexity — and no amount of new tooling fixes a structural problem.
Ananias advises boards, executive teams, and investors on the decisions behind technology, data, and AI investment. What distinguishes the practice is the combination of advisory depth and operational credibility: transformation led from both sides of the table, as consultant and as operator.
Practice
Board and executive advisory
Enterprise architecture, technology roadmap, and digital investment priorities. Counsel to boards and executive teams on where technology investment should go and how it should be governed.
Investor due diligence
Technology and digital strategy diligence for investors evaluating consumer-sector positions, including acquisition assessment.
Operational advisory
Regional operating model and location strategy for omnichannel and supply chain operations across Asia-Pacific.
About
David Li
David Li is the founder of Ananias. He has spent twenty years in technology leadership across North America, the Middle East, and Asia — most recently running the regional technology estate for a global prestige beauty group across eleven Asia-Pacific markets, covering point of sale, enterprise applications and architecture, data and analytics, cloud operations, security, and vendor management.
Earlier he built and led Accenture’s Hong Kong data and AI practice, working with banks, insurers, a sovereign wealth fund, and global consumer brands, and served as global head of data and AI at a listed industrial manufacturer.
He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an M.S. from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He is a certified solution architect on both Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, and holds the CISSP in information security. Based in Hong Kong. English, Cantonese, Mandarin.