About

Dave McCann and McCann Advisory LLC

McCann Advisory LLC, was founded in January 2023, a focused company but with a diverse client purview reflecting the core interests of its founder Dave McCann, an ex-Amazon VP of Engineering over 7 AWS Services for 8 years. The company is a boutique specialist technology and business process consulting firm as well as a consultant to charities - focused on 4 specific business process or technology architecture domains, staffed by Dave McCann and a handful of affiliate expert consultants with complementary domain depth in each area.

McCann Advisory accepts 3 types of clients, on very specific engagement terms:

  1. First, larger west coast US charities who have a programmatic focus on reducing Homelessness or mitigating the risk of homelessness - currently in California, Oregon, or Washington. As of January 2025, three of the primary ones are: a)United Way of Orange County CA, b) the United Ways of California – a staewide collaborative, and c) the Low Income Housing Institute of Seattle,  – who operate over 70 buildings and 20 Tiny Home Villages in Washington. Throughout, McCann Advisory provides technology guidance, program guidance, and in some cases donations and fund-raising assistance.  
  2. Our second group of clients are software technology businesses, primarily emerging or at-scale cloud software companies, building cloud-based software services on underlying foundational Amazon Web Services components. Typically in at least a B stage or later, these clients deliver value added services on top of AWS native services, in domains such as Cloud Operations, Disaster Recovery and Resilience, Networking and Security, and Business Applications.
  3. The third client group using McCann Advisory and Dave McCann’s 30+ year technology and engineering experience are Venture Capital and Private Equity funds, seeking advice during investment assessment stages, or in team-building and/or post-funding scale up. In this domain, McCann Advisory recently signed an exclusive 2025-2027 contract with Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV). 

All 3 client groups leverage McCann’s industry expertise, his proven engineering leadership, and his broad all-around business acumen - fed by multi-year stints as a VP/GM at AWS - via Microsoft, IBM, and Unisys. Over the years, Dave has also led four venture-backed software companies and gained substantial domain knowledge of key industry verticals including Healthcare (HCLS), Government, Not for Profit, Financial Services, and the huge Cloud Software industry itself. As engagements evolve, Dave brings on select affiliate consulting partners who can add skills to a domain and a depth of expertise which further helps his clients.