Rob Niles is a Fractional Chief AI Officer and Partner at Odyssey Partners Consulting, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, serving mid-market organizations across the United States. With 25 years of enterprise architecture experience, Rob works with leadership teams in manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, and logistics who are serious about AI but want to get the foundation right before they build.

For mid-market companies asking whether they're ready to invest in AI, Rob's answer is consistent: structured understanding has to come before the roadmap, before vendor selection, and before governance. He designs AI education and readiness programs that build level-appropriate literacy across entire organizations — from frontline teams to the C-suite — so that investment decisions are made by people who understand what they're actually deciding.

Rob brings deep expertise in AI strategy, cloud architecture, Microsoft 365, networking, and cybersecurity to every engagement. If your AI investments aren't producing the return you expected, the problem likely started earlier than you think.