Executive product leadership, without the full-time overhead.
Gabriel Fontaine brings 18+ years of identity, fraud, and compliance product leadership — including a $6M funded platform roadmap, an $8M+ enterprise sales pipeline, and a 45-person org led through Agile transformation — to the decisions that can't wait for a permanent hire.
The right level of seniority for the moment you're in.
Clearer decisions
Most product problems aren't a headcount problem — they're a judgment problem. Gabriel gets senior judgment in the room in weeks, not the months a full-time VP search takes.
Focused momentum
A scoped engagement built around what matters most right now — a stuck roadmap call, a vendor evaluation, a go-to-market decision no one senior enough was in the room to own.
Independent perspective
Close enough to the team to understand the constraints, independent enough to say when a fractional engagement isn't even the right tool for the problem.
Low ceremony. High signal.
Three ways to bring in senior product leadership.
Fractional Head of Product
Embedded part-time leadership for identity, fraud, and compliance product teams that need direction now — not a nine-month executive search.
Typically 2–3 days a week, retained monthly — roadmap ownership, team leadership, and stakeholder reporting included.
Strategy & Roadmap Sprint
A focused 2–4 week engagement that turns a regulatory requirement into a shippable, funded roadmap — the same way a $6M platform bet got made.
Stakeholder interviews, a prioritization pass, and a board-ready roadmap delivered with a live working session.
Interim Leadership
Full-scope coverage during a leadership transition — with the throughput accountability of running a 45-person org, not just advising one.
Full-time-equivalent coverage during a search or leave, with a structured handoff to whoever comes in permanently.
A running, sourced list of what's shaping the roadmap conversation.
Not commentary for its own sake — the trend pieces actually worth a product leader's attention this quarter. Expand any item to read the take in place.
Biometric Update
June 11, 2026
"Synthetic identity fraud has become an industrialized threat."
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Matches what I saw building credit-header and onboarding products: synthetic fraud is no longer a niche loss category, it's a roadmap-level design constraint.
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KYC360
January 7, 2026
"The competitive advantage will not come from 'more AI' alone."
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The right takeaway for anyone bolting AI onto a KYC/AML stack: auditability and data quality are the actual differentiator, not model size.
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PwC
February 16, 2026
Deepfakes and synthetic identities flagged as a top fraud trend as AI reshapes financial crime.
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This is exactly the device-intelligence and identity-signal territory worked at LexisNexis — the arms race hasn't slowed down.
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