Executive Technology Clarity
for high-consequence decisions.
IncreTech is an executive technology advisory firm that helps leadership teams navigate major technology decisions through independent analysis, structured assessment, and executive guidance.
Technology rarely fails because organizations lack options. It fails because important commitments are made before leadership has enough clarity.
We do not make technology decisions for our clients. We provide the facts, tradeoffs, risks, options, and executive context that let leadership decide with confidence.
Company names reflect Kevin Marefat’s prior professional experience and are not presented as current IncreTech clients, sponsors, or endorsements.
Every informed technology decision illuminates the next.
The name IncreTech was intentionally created by combining Increscent and Technology: progress through increasing clarity.
Like driving at night, leadership teams rarely need to see the entire road before moving forward. They need enough visibility to make the next important decision well. The right decision today reveals the road ahead tomorrow.
The IncreTech promise
Independent technology guidance before major commitments: acquisitions, modernization programs, AI initiatives, platform replacement, build-vs-buy decisions, and IT organization changes.
No implementation bias. No vendor agenda. No resale quota. Just structured analysis and executive guidance so leadership can make its own decision.
Where we provide Executive Technology Clarity
Focused advisory assessments designed for moments when leadership must decide whether to buy, build, modernize, replace, invest, reorganize, or pause.
Technology Due Diligence
Independent evaluation of technology risk, scalability, technical debt, team capability, security exposure, and post-close implications.
Software Platform Assessment
Assessment of current platforms, architecture, maintainability, data model, operational reliability, and readiness for growth.
Build-vs-Buy Analysis
Structured comparison of custom build, SaaS purchase, platform replacement, hybrid approaches, cost, risk, timeline, and strategic control.
AI Readiness Assessment
Practical assessment of data readiness, governance, security, use cases, organizational readiness, and realistic AI value creation.
Technical Debt Review
Risk-based review of codebase, architecture, data, integrations, supportability, modernization burden, and the cost of delay.
IT Organization Assessment
Evaluation of leadership, team capability, accountability, delivery process, vendor dependence, operating model, and executive alignment.
Help your team win, serve, and retain more complex clients.
IncreTech supports MSPs as an independent, behind-the-scenes advisory and specialist resource — not as a competing managed-service provider.
We augment the capabilities an MSP already brings to the client. That can mean strengthening a proposal, helping frame a difficult customer technology decision, adding senior architecture or data expertise to a pursuit, or giving an account team additional depth when a client need falls outside the MSP's normal bench.
Your client relationship stays yours.
Add executive-level discovery, assessment, architecture, data, cloud, AI-readiness, and risk perspective to strategic pursuits.
Help clients clarify priorities, risks, roadmaps, and high-consequence technology decisions while the MSP remains the operational partner.
Bring senior enterprise architecture, cloud, data, governance, security, and modernization experience when specialized depth is needed.
IncreTech is not seeking to take over managed services, help-desk operations, recurring infrastructure support, or the MSP's customer ownership.
Technology Expert Witness Services
Independent technical analysis for attorneys and clients in disputes involving enterprise systems, cloud and data platforms, software delivery, cybersecurity and governance, and technology program execution.
A structured process without exposing the mechanics.
Every engagement follows a disciplined assessment method. The public framework shows the shape of the work; the scoring instruments, interview guides, risk models, and decision matrices remain part of IncreTech's internal delivery system.
Assessment outputs
Typical engagements
Fixed-scope assessments sized for executive momentum, not open-ended analysis. Each engagement is structured to support interviews, document review, analysis, synthesis, and executive decision-making.
Technology Due Diligence
4-8 weeks
Software Platform Assessment
4-7 weeks
Build-vs-Buy Analysis
3-6 weeks
AI Readiness Assessment
3-5 weeks
Technical Debt Review
4-6 weeks
IT Organization Assessment
3-5 weeks
For clients needing continued executive support after an assessment, IncreTech can provide limited-scope advisory retainers or interim technology leadership support without changing the primary focus of the engagement.
Why executives call IncreTech
No software resale or vendor commission. For MSP engagements, IncreTech works as an augmenting advisory and specialist resource—not a competing managed-service provider.
Recommendations are framed in business, risk, cost, timeline, and accountability terms.
Experience across banking, finance, healthcare, pharma, utilities, telecommunications, government, and retail.
Consistent assessment flow, interview discipline, scoring, and executive deliverables.
Meet the founder
Kevin Marefat founded IncreTech Advisory Services after more than 25 years leading enterprise technology initiatives for organizations including Apple, Charles Schwab, Union Bank, MedImpact, SDG&E, Cubic, SunRx, and Wipro.
IncreTech brings executive-level technology advisory and technology due diligence to middle-market leadership teams facing critical decisions about platforms, modernization, AI, technical debt, acquisitions, and IT organization effectiveness.
Bring us your hardest technology decision.
Whether you're evaluating a software platform, considering an acquisition, modernizing legacy systems, adopting AI, or determining the future of your IT organization, IncreTech provides the independent executive guidance needed to move forward with clarity and confidence.
Request a Technology Assessmentinquiry@incretech.com • (925) 217-1081
Independent technical analysis.
Clear, defensible explanations.
IncreTech provides attorneys and their clients with independent analysis of complex enterprise technology matters, translating architecture, data, cloud, security, software-delivery, and technology-program evidence into clear technical opinions grounded in the available record.
Complex technology disputes often turn on a simpler question: what actually happened, what evidence supports it, and what would a technically reasonable approach have looked like?
Engagements are subject to conflict review, scope fit, and availability. Opinions are based on the facts, evidence, and applicable technical standards of the matter.
Expert witness and consulting areas
Focused on the enterprise technology domains supported by Kevin Marefat's professional background.
Enterprise Systems & Architecture
System architecture, integration, modernization, scalability, resilience, technical debt, platform selection, and build-vs-buy decisions.
Cloud, Data & Database Systems
AWS, Azure, GCP, data platforms, migration, data warehousing, ETL, analytics, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Snowflake, Teradata, and related integration issues.
Cybersecurity, Privacy & Governance
Security architecture, access controls, data classification, de-identification, governance, disaster recovery, and technical considerations involving PCI-DSS, GDPR, FedRAMP, FISMA, HIPAA, and SOC 2 environments.
Software & Technology Delivery
Requirements, solution design, Agile/Scrum delivery, release planning, production readiness, CI/CD, vendor management, technical project execution, and failure analysis.
Data Migration & System Transformation
Migration planning and execution, source-to-target design, lineage, reporting continuity, data quality, integration dependencies, cutover risk, and operational impacts.
Technology Management & Operations
Enterprise technology leadership, team responsibilities, SLAs, high availability, disaster recovery, operating practices, outsourcing, vendor relationships, and governance.
Ways counsel can engage IncreTech
Support can be scoped to the needs and procedural posture of the matter.
Relevant qualifications
25+ years in enterprise technology spanning architecture, cloud, data, security, software delivery, and technology leadership across highly regulated and large-scale environments.
Enterprise experience
Professional engagements have included Apple, Charles Schwab, Union Bank, federal and state government clients, MedImpact/SunRx, telecommunications, banking, healthcare, and technology organizations.
Selected experience
Led or architected large-scale data and reporting migrations; privacy-preserving data architecture; cloud modernization; enterprise analytics; database and integration platforms; security and governance initiatives; high-availability operations; and cross-functional technology programs.
Technical domains
Education & credentials
M.S., Educational Media & Computer Science; B.S., Business Administration & Computer Science. Google Cloud Professional — BigQuery & Data Analytics; Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect; Harvard Cybersecurity specialization; Certified Scrum Master; SQL Server Administration; Oracle DBA Certified Professional.
Representative enterprise work
Data, cloud & migration
Led architecture for migration of financial reporting and analytics from Teradata to GCP BigQuery supporting 500+ downstream reports; coordinated AWS subscription-data pipeline modernization involving Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Snowflake, and Oracle GoldenGate.
Security, privacy & governance
Designed enterprise PII data-obfuscation architecture and privacy-preserving governance patterns; worked in PCI-DSS, GDPR, FedRAMP/FISMA and other regulated technology environments.
Enterprise operations
Directed application, BI, database, infrastructure, and SaaS operations; led local and distributed teams; worked with availability, resiliency, vendor, and SLA requirements.
Banking & regulated systems
Architecture and delivery experience in banking, financial services, healthcare/pharmacy benefits, government, telecommunications, and other regulated environments.
Discuss the technical issues in your matter.
Initial conversations can focus on subject-matter fit, conflicts, the technical questions at issue, available evidence, schedule, and the appropriate scope of work.
Contact IncreTech About an Expert Matterinquiry@incretech.com • (925) 217-1081