Michael Thurman is a Business Architecture and Digital Transformation Executive with over 20 years of experience leading large-scale enterprise modernization, cloud strategy, and emerging technology initiatives across healthcare, finance, and technology sectors.
As Vice President of Strategy and Innovation at Cloudforia and Founder of Beyond Quanta, Inc., Michael specializes in bridging business strategy, enterprise architecture, and intelligent automation to drive measurable transformation. He delivers end-to-end solutions across CRM, CPQ, CLM, ERP (SAP S/4HANA, BRIM) and multi-cloud ecosystems (Azure, AWS, GCP) that enhance scalability, compliance, and profitability.
His expertise spans business process design, cloud architecture, governance frameworks, and data-driven transformation, integrating AI, predictive analytics, and blockchain to empower smarter, more autonomous enterprises.
Michael is recognized for delivering Big 4–level consulting quality with the agility of a boutique firm — transforming complex operations into strategic, future-ready business systems.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
BEYOND QUANTA, INC.
President & Chief Technology and Innovation Officer | 2023- Current
- Founded and lead a hybrid consulting and incubation firm focused on enterprise transformation, business architecture, and emerging technologies.
- Guide organizations through modernization of CRM, CPQ, CLM, ERP, and data ecosystems to enable scalable, measurable growth.
- Develop and incubate blockchain platforms for decentralized health and financial data ownership.
- Partner with enterprise clients to integrate AI, automation, and predictive analytics into core business strategy.
CLOUDFORIA
Vice President, Strategy and Innovation | 2025– Current
- Drive enterprise strategy and architecture initiatives that connect business goals with advanced cloud, CRM, and automation solutions.
- Bridge business architecture and emerging technology to accelerate transformation programs.
- Oversee modernization efforts across Salesforce, SAP S/4HANA, BRIM, and connected enterprise platforms.
- Collaborate with executive leadership to design scalable operating models and governance frameworks.
CVS HEALTH
Executive Director of Transformation & Enablement - Pharmacy Services Finance 2005 - 2022
- Pharmacy Services - Finance innovation and transformation leader with a span of control over product development, business and technical architecture, change management; operational excellence; process design and improvement; training, and leadership development. Key collaborator and thought leader tasked with synthesizing the organization’s business and technical vision, then funding planning, developing, and executing best-in-class products in predictable, agile DevOps frameworks while achieving short and long-term goals.
- Ecosystem lead PSS Aligning for Profit, a CVS Health executive initiative with a mission to drive improved client profitability across the PBM, $163B PBM book of business. The program leadership responsibilities include leading a cross-functional matrix team of 36 IT resources, 16 product managers, 68 business managers, and program budget, contracting, and procurement oversight.
- Enterprise business and technical owner for PSS Finance Transformation program responsible for the modernization and digital automation of all back-end accounting and financial systems built in SAP S/4, Enterprise HANA, Profitability and Performance Management (PaPM), Analytics for Cloud (SAC) and migrated to Microsoft Azure High Trust Cloud. Responsible for leading the transformation of the PSS general ledger, sub-ledgers, client P&L actuals, budget, and forecasting processes. The PBM Finance Transformation program is a 4-year program that began in 2020, with a total capital spend of $22M and an ROI of $100M.
- Enterprise solution business owner and architect of PBM Finance Client Contract Management (CCM) ecosystem built in Salesforce and Conga CLM program implemented in 2018 and used contract and implemented the $163B PBM book of business. The PBM Finance CCM program is a 4-year program that began in 2018, with a total capital spend of $18M and an ROI of $42M.
- Financial stewardship and management of the annual PSS Finance IT $42M capital portfolio, including $16M operational expenses.
- Founded and leads the following teams: PSS Finance Product Development, PSS Finance Business Architecture, PSS Finance Operational Excellence (FOX), PSS Finance Change Management, and PSS Finance Training & Leadership Development.
- Guides and directs business architecture, technical process improvements, business product owners, proof of concept, data modeling, as well as design and development of the turnkey workflow automation applications, advanced predictive analytics and predictive financial models utilizing data science, machine learning and AI for client contracted pricing, financial forecasting, product utilization trends and insights.
- Directs, trains, and mentors employees in designing, developing, maintaining, and optimizing core business systems, databases, business
Core Keywords: Business Architecture • Enterprise Transformation • Cloud Strategy • Digital Modernization • CRM/ERP Integration • AI & Automation • Blockchain Innovation • Governance & Compliance • Fractional Executive Consulting • Technology Leadership
