AI advice for the people who run the business.
NuVant is an AI advisory firm in Dallas, Texas, founded by Chandra Dhandapani for CEOs and executive teams.
Built for business leaders.
Most AI advice is written for technology leaders. NuVant was built for the CEO and the executive team, who are responsible for business outcomes, and decide where the money and the people go.
NuVant Clients
Meet the founder.
Chandra Dhandapani
Founder & CEO
Chandra has built her career helping companies achieve differentiation, growth, and efficiency by leveraging data and technology. As the first Chief Digital & Technology Officer at CBRE, she transformed the world’s largest real estate services company, into an innovative tech-enabled company. She has enjoyed moving seamlessly across technology and business leadership roles and led a $22Bn services business, serving clients in over 100 countries. During her 17 years at Capital One, she progressed through technology, business and operational roles, led digital transformation for the Financial Services division and built an in-house innovation accelerator which continues to operate today. Most recently under her leadership as CEO, Magnit Global, a global leader in contingent workforce management received the coveted ‘Elite Performer’ recognition for AI innovation. She serves on the board of Northern Trust Corporation and is a Certified Director of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD).
She created NuVant to provide clarity in an often-confusing AI landscape and bridge the enormous gap between the high potential of AI and real business outcomes.
Steve Flamm, CPA
Chief Financial Officer
Steve Flamm serves as Chief Financial Officer of NuVant, bringing more than 25 years of financial and operational leadership experience across emerging technology, founder-led, middle-market, and private equity-backed companies where he has served as CFO, COO, Interim CEO, and Fractional CFO.
His approach begins with understanding how a business operates and creates value, then building the financial visibility needed to support better decisions. He works alongside leadership teams to align growth objectives, operational capabilities, and capital requirements.
Throughout his career, Steve has helped companies accelerate growth, improve profitability, raise capital, supported successful acquisitions and business exits, and improved financial and operational performance across technology, aerospace, manufacturing, construction, distribution, and professional services.
Steve is the founder of Crownhill Capital and a Certified Public Accountant in Texas. He holds a B.B.A. in Finance and Accounting from the University of Cincinnati.
What NuVant believes.
Start with the business decision.
An AI idea earns a place when it moves a growth target, a margin or the operating plan. Not before.
Work through your people.
Your teams know the business. They own the work, and they keep what they learn.
Measure outcomes, not activities.
One priority, measured against where you started, is worth more than ten pilots.
Based in Dallas, Texas.
See how an engagement runs
Start with a conversation.
Bring the decision your leadership team keeps coming back to. We will start with the business.