Our Team

We build content engines, not decks

Brand and content. Data and research. Production at scale. Advisory inside global firms. Each member of the team built a piece of what CVA now does. The breadth is intentional, not incidental.

The team

Range, by design

Every engagement staffed by the right team, with the right skills.

Todd Brownrout

Todd Brownrout

Founder & Managing Partner

Former CEO of Madras Global, the 1,250-person content production firm acquired by Deloitte in 2021. Earlier senior leadership at the Los Angeles Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Andrew Chan

Andrew Chan

Co-Founder & Partner

Former Deloitte Digital practice lead in data science, customer segmentation, and marketing technology. United States Army Reserves Officer.

Molly Watson

Molly Watson

Executive Advisor, Client Strategy

Former Chief Operating Officer at Tierney Communications (Omnicom) and first CMO at IndeVets following private equity investment. Forty years across agency and client-side marketing leadership.

Joining 2026

A new partner

Joining 2026

The partner team

The team around the team

Production, engineering, and specialist capacity we bring to engagements when the work calls for it. Sized to the question.

Production partner

AI-augmented content production at studio scale.

When an engagement needs execution and not just advice, we work through an established production partner that combines studio craft with AI-native workflows. Campaigns, brand assets, video, design, and rich media at a speed and economics legacy production cannot match. We design the operating model. They execute against it.

  • Campaigns, brand assets, video, design
  • AI-augmented studio workflows
  • Near-shore studio for efficient pricing
Case study: Creative production at scale for a high-volume consumer brand
Engineering partner

Enterprise engineering capacity for custom platforms and integrations.

When the work requires building something custom, we work through an established engineering partner with deep content-tech experience. Multi-developer teams that can stand up platforms, integrations, and AI-native systems on real timelines, sized to the engagement and unwound when it ends.

  • Custom platforms and integrations
  • AI-native systems and tooling
  • Multi-developer teams on real timelines
  • Content-tech depth from prior platforms
Case study: An independent readiness review for a self-built production platform
Specialist network

Senior domain experts on call for the work that needs them.

Some engagements call for narrow expertise: pricing, data governance, legal, financial operations, vendor selection, M&A. We bring in senior specialists from a network we have built over decades, sized to the question. No bench cost when you do not need it. The right person in the room when you do.

  • Pricing strategy and unit economics
  • Data governance and privacy
  • Legal and financial operations
  • Senior operating talent on demand