CMBYND and Orion Governance Collaborate to Accelerate Trusted Data and AI Adoption

TORONTO, ON and SAN MATEO, CA — [August 20, 2026] — CMBYND, a purpose-built strategy and transformation consulting firm, and Orion Governance, a leading provider of AI data fabric solutions, today announced a strategic partnership to help enterprises accelerate trusted data and AI adoption.

The partnership combines CMBYND’s practitioner-led advisory and operating model expertise in the financial services industry with Orion Governance’s advanced Enterprise AI Data Fabric platform to help accelerate customer adoption of AI and support regulatory obligations.

“Organizations are adopting AI at an unprecedented pace, but many still lack the trusted data, transparency and governance needed to scale it responsibly,” said Chris Crowe, Chief Executive Officer at CMBYND. “Governance cannot be an afterthought. By combining our strategic advisory and operational design expertise with Orion Governance’s powerful data intelligence technology, we can help enterprises strengthen trust in their data, understand critical data dependencies, manage change more effectively and accelerate AI adoption with greater confidence and control.”

“The combination of Orion’s technology with CMBYND’s deep business expertise in the financial services industry is a great win for all our financial services customers in the UK and Canada” said Ramesh Shurma, CEO at Orion Governance. Working together, we can enable enterprises to gain end-to-end vertical and horizontal lineage, reduce operational risk, accelerate compliance efforts, and establish accountability and model explainability.”

About CMBYND CMBYND is a consulting partner unlocking transformation across organizations. Trusted for its insight, creativity, and expertise, CMBYND combines strategy and delivery through an agile, AI-enabled model to help clients modernize, scale, and succeed in compliance, risk, data, and technology-driven transformations. Headquartered in Toronto, CMBYND serves a global client base across financial services. For more information, visit www.cmbynd.com.

About Orion Governance Orion Governance is an innovative provider of AI data fabric software, specializing in real-time data quality and enterprise metadata management solutions. Orion’s platform automates data cataloging, active data lineage that includes field-level transformation details and horizontal lineage for more than 70 technologies out-of-the-box.  It provides a single-pane view of information flow that is vendor, platform, technology and cloud-agnostic, empowering organizations to accelerate cloud migration, ensure regulatory compliance, and build trusted foundations for enterprise analytics and AI. For more information, visit www.oriongovernance.com.

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