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About

Product leadership built on pattern recognition, not guesswork.

For 11+ of his 18+ years in product, Gabriel has worked almost entirely inside identity, fraud, and compliance data — first at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, then at Equifax. The pattern across both: turn a regulatory requirement into a funded, shippable product, not just a defensible one. This practice exists so a company can get that judgment in the room without committing to a full-time executive hire.

Gabriel Fontaine
The Belief

Most product problems aren't a headcount problem.

They're a judgment problem — no one senior enough in the room to make the call, own the tradeoff, or say no to the wrong roadmap item. A full-time VP hire takes months and a six-figure bet. Fractional leadership gets that judgment in the room in weeks, scoped to exactly what's needed.

The Practice

Embedded, not advisory-from-a-distance.

This isn't a slide deck handed off at the end of a sprint. At LexisNexis and Equifax, that meant sitting in standups, reviewing real specs, and owning the roadmap the same way a full-time leader would — the same standard a fractional engagement runs on.

Principles

How every engagement runs.

Scoped, not open-ended

Every engagement starts with a written scope and a defined end state — the same discipline behind a $6M funded platform roadmap — so success is never ambiguous.

Decisions made in the open

Roadmap tradeoffs and their reasoning get documented where the team can see and challenge them — the same governance instinct behind the Purpose View data framework built at Equifax.

Built to leave

Every engagement ends with a documented playbook and a team that can run it without a fractional leader in the room.

Right-sized, always

If a fractional engagement isn't the right tool for the problem, that's the first thing Gabriel will say.

18+ Years leading product Spanning NTT, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, and Equifax — the last 11+ almost entirely in identity, fraud, and compliance.
45 People led through Agile transformation A cross-functional product and engineering org at LexisNexis, with direct throughput accountability for multiple years.
$6M Funding secured for a 3-year roadmap Personally authored and pitched the business case for the Risk Defense Platform's 3-year evolution at LexisNexis.
69% Cloud cost cut in a live AWS→GCP migration Directed the RAE & DIT suite's migration at Equifax with zero downtime, on a $4M managed budget.

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