The people behind CLEOS.
Three operators who’ve built, scaled, and governed inside the enterprise — and got tired of watching AI fail for the same preventable reasons. Together they form the board of the company solving the problem they each paid for.
Bryce Morrow spent two decades at the intersection of enterprise technology and C-suite strategy before co-founding CLEOS. As Chief Corporate Officer at The Beck Group — a $1.4 billion integrated architecture and construction firm — he built the rare combination of deep technical fluency and board-level authority that enterprise AI demands but rarely finds.
A Harvard Business School General Management Program alumnus, Bryce oversaw functions spanning IT, risk, legal, HR, and enterprise operations simultaneously. He brought CLEOS something no research-lab startup could replicate: he had lived every problem CLEOS solves, and he knew exactly what governance failure costs — because he paid for it.
Matthew Ussery is the rare technologist who has operated at the deepest layers of enterprise infrastructure across two continents and three decades — and come back with a founder’s instinct for what breaks at scale, and why.
Over 30 years spanning the US and India, Matt led enterprise transformations at MindTree and Aricent — global IT firms managing thousands of engineers and billions in contracts. As founder of Austen Consultants and CEO of AustenTel, he proved he could architect complex systems and bring them to market. At CLEOS, he is the technical soul: the architect of the persistent memory substrate, the governance hook system, and the infrastructure that makes 91% compute reduction a proof — not a claim.
Fred Perpall is one of the most consequential business leaders in America — an architect by training, a CEO by achievement, and a national institution builder by distinction. He arrived from the Bahamas on an athletic scholarship, earned a Master of Architecture from UT Arlington, and built a career that defies categorization.
As CEO of The Beck Group ($1.4B annual volume), Director of FedEx Corporation and Starwood Property Trust, and the 67th President of the USGA — the first African American and first Texan ever elected — Fred brings CLEOS the rarest possible credential: the view from inside a Fortune 100 boardroom, combined with the judgment of a firm builder who has reshaped major American institutions for the better.