About Consilium Solutions
Trusted judgment.
Governed support.
Disciplined follow-through.
Consilium helps leaders reduce risk, make better decisions, and improve operations where technology, operations, data, and risk meet.
Who We Are
Consilium Solutions helps leaders make defensible decisions where strategy, operations, and risk intersect. We treat data, process, and risk as operational systems that leaders can govern and continuously improve.
Our approach turns complexity into clear, actionable insight that teams can execute and measure. By combining experienced judgment with disciplined operational methods, we help leaders focus on what truly matters, support decisions with decision-grade evidence, and manage risk without turning the business into a compliance machine.
What We Are
- Trusted outside advisor
- Governance, escalation, and decision support
- Scoped recurring coverage
- Retained leadership guidance
- Time-boxed, decision-focused engagements
- Practical structure and disciplined follow-through
- Vendor-neutral, outcome-led support
- A force for clarity under pressure
What We Are Not
- A generic MSP
- A commodity cybersecurity vendor
- A co-managed helpdesk
- A field-services business
- A staff-augmentation firm
- Day-to-day IT operations
- A tool-first consultancy
- AI-first hype
Consilium works alongside internal teams and outside providers while retaining responsibility for governance, escalation coordination, decision support, and clearly scoped advisory and improvement work.
Mission & Vision
OUR MISSION
To partner with clients to improve decision-making and organizational resilience. By treating data, process, and risk as systems that can be governed and improved, we enable leaders to operate with clarity and confidence — so they can #ThriveInChaos.
OUR VISION
To build a focused, high-trust firm that helps leaders improve decisions and resilience through repeatable, high-integrity solutions — designed to outlast any single individual through shared standards, strong trust, and responsible stewardship.
Core Values
The principles that govern how we work.
Decision Making
We help leaders make better decisions under uncertainty by clarifying the real decision, risk, tradeoffs, evidence, and ownership.
Dependability
Trust is earned through consistent execution, clear communication, and transparent follow-through when challenges arise.
Excellence
We hold a high standard of rigor and clarity, delivering work that stands up to scrutiny and measurably improves operations.
Innovation
We continuously refine how teams work by testing ideas quickly and applying modern methods thoughtfully — without chasing hype.
Stability
We help organizations build stable operational foundations through repeatable processes and sound governance so they can move faster with less unmanaged risk.
Consistency
We deliver a recognizable Consilium standard across principals, advisors, employees, contractors, partners, artifacts, and engagements.
Our History
Consilium Solutions traces its roots to the 1990s with Carl Douglas and Associates in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where our founders developed analytics tools and process-improvement solutions for manufacturing and textile companies. That experience reinforced a lasting insight: organizations rarely need more data—they need reliable insight tied to the processes and risks that drive outcomes.
Following significant market disruptions in the early 2000s, our founder transitioned into public service, gaining two decades of operational leadership experience in high-stakes military environments.
Today, Consilium Solutions operates as a South Carolina-based LLC (formed in 2020) and registered in South Carolina in 2025. The firm is rooted in the leadership experience of its two principals, both service-disabled combat veterans. Consilium intends to pursue designation as a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business.
Consilium Solutions works with organizations operating under high decision pressure that need clarity, discipline, and operational resilience. We focus primarily on lower-middle maturity organizations, typically with 50 to 500 employees, that face growing operational complexity and data sprawl but lack the bandwidth or neutral guidance to regain control.
Who We Serve
Our core geographic footprint includes South Carolina, Western North Carolina, and North Georgia. We also deliver remotely where fit, trust, and working cadence are clear.
The Leaders
Carl A. Young
Carl A. Young is the Founder, CEO, and Partner of Consilium Solutions, a veteran-led advisory and governed-support firm helping established operating companies turn complexity into disciplined decisions. Carl’s background spans senior military, enterprise architecture, data strategy, cybersecurity, governance, and commercial CIO leadership.
He served as Department of the Army Enterprise Architect, Department of the Army Chief Data Strategist, and Army National Guard Enterprise Architect, supporting complex technology and information environments at significant scale. He was the principal author of the 2019 Army Data Plan and helped shape enterprise-level approaches to making data visible, accessible, understandable, trusted, interoperable, and secure.
Carl later served as CIO for ATC Development, a development, construction, and multifamily housing management firm, where he applied executive technology leadership in a private-sector operating environment. He holds CISSP, PMP, CBCP, and ITILv4 Foundations credentials.
At Consilium, Carl sets the firm’s decision-first advisory standard, helping Clients clarify risk, evidence, tradeoffs, ownership, and action.
Dan Snowdall
A retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel with nearly three decades of expertise in cyber, signal, and information systems. Dan’s extensive background includes serving as Lead Program Manager for the $2.4 billion National Cyber Range Complex.
Jason LaClair
Jason servers as Consilium’s Chief Growth Officer and director of marketing. He is a retired Chief Warrant Officer Four with over 30 years of combined uniformed, civilian and DoD (DoW) contractor experience in intelligence operations, program management and business development. Jason has worked at every level of portfolio management and business development/growth from small businesses to Fortune 500 corporations.