
Co-founder & CEO
Dana Whitfield
Dana spent seven years building fraud-detection and risk infrastructure at a mid-size payments company before co-founding Northwind in 2021 with Marcus Oyelaran. She leads client strategy and sets the bar for what “production-ready” means on every engagement.
Focus areas
AI strategy
risk & fraud systems
client delivery
02 · On the work
Dana Whitfield
In their own words
The question I ask on every engagement is boring on purpose: who owns this in month seven? If nobody can answer, we haven’t finished scoping.

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