A trusted partner you can grow with.
Blair Carlisle is a global leader in IT risk management, cybersecurity, compliance, and AI advisory. We help clients identify, quantify, and manage cyber risk — so they can focus on what they do best with clarity and confidence.
“Our mission at Blair Carlisle is to help our clients focus on the things that they do best by providing risk advisory, cybersecurity, and compliance services to remove fear and uncertainty in an ever-growing threat landscape.”
Our team of highly-specialized advisors and consultants has diverse backgrounds across many industries and has performed engagements with companies of every size, from Fortune 500 clients to Silicon Valley tech startups. Many of our new clients come to us after the frustration of working with the largest firms and consultancies in the world, having learned that bigger isn't always better.
The truth is that highly-qualified and talented people are in short supply and you don't always get the A-team from big firms. That's what makes Blair Carlisle different — our clients get the A-team every time, and a stable long-term partner that delivers superior results. We are a relationship-oriented company, and we tend to have years-long relationships with our clients.
Senior practitioners. Long-term relationships. Honest advice.
You get the A-team
Many of our clients come to us after frustration with larger firms — having learned that talent matters more than headcount. At Blair Carlisle, every engagement is staffed with senior practitioners. No junior associates on client work without supervision.
Relationships over transactions
Our client engagements tend to last years, not months. We invest in understanding your business, your risk posture, and your regulatory environment. That continuity makes us more effective advisors — and better partners.
We operate what we advise
Our AI Advisory practice doesn't just consult on AI governance — we run production AI systems in our own firm. When we help you govern AI, we're drawing on direct operational experience, not playbooks assembled from vendor white papers.
Ethics, non-negotiable
Confidentiality is of utmost importance. We do not identify clients as a matter of course. We give you honest assessments, even when the honest answer is uncomfortable. That's the only kind of advisory worth having.
Thirty years of technology risk advisory.
Blair Carlisle's roots go back to the early 1990s, when CEO Pete Rife founded Zero One Communications — a technology integration and consulting firm specializing in system architecture, security, and deployment. In 1998 he founded Rife Consulting Group, a dedicated technology risk advisory practice. In 2020, as the firm expanded its AI advisory capabilities and grew its principal team, Rife Consulting Group was rebranded as Blair Carlisle.
Today, Blair Carlisle operates at the intersection of cybersecurity, compliance, and enterprise AI — advising private equity portfolios, healthcare organizations, and mid-market enterprises from our Columbus, Ohio headquarters.
Our people reflect our diverse experience: former healthcare CIOs, data scientists from global consultancies, fractional CISOs who have built programs from scratch, and auditors who have reviewed controls for organizations of every scale. That breadth of experience, paired with a senior-practitioner staffing model, is what allows us to deliver the A-team on every engagement.
Meet the team.
Senior practitioners. Diverse backgrounds. One standard: the A-team on every engagement.