One Integrated Governance Partner
Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Stewardship, Critical Data Element Identification, and AI Governance delivered under a single operating model, so nothing falls between separate vendors.
About Thornevale Group
Data governance, quality, and stewardship. Under one accountable partner.
Thornevale Group is a specialized data governance, data quality, and data stewardship advisory firm that helps organizations establish trust, accountability, and control across their most critical business assets.
Our Purpose
Governance as a strategic business capability.
We help leaders build sustainable governance capabilities that improve decision-making, reduce risk, accelerate transformation initiatives, and strengthen regulatory readiness.
Through integrated Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Stewardship, Critical Data Element Identification, and AI Governance services, we transform governance from a compliance exercise into a strategic business capability.
We work directly with the executives accountable for governance outcomes. That means senior-level guidance, practical operating models, and the hands-on stewardship work that keeps governance running long after the strategy is approved.
Leadership
Lucas Honore
CEO & Founder
Lucas brings deep enterprise governance expertise across tier-one banking, corporate finance, and global operations. His notable leadership includes :
- Elevate Credit (Dallas, TX) the enterprise data governance program by implementing the core data catalog, classification rules, enterprise business glossary, and automated data retention policies.
- BNP Paribas (NY): Architected and established a greenfield data governance program from the ground up.
- Johnson & Johnson (New Brunswick, NJ): Directed a global facilities data quality initiative across multi-region operational datasets.
- First Bank of Beverly Hills (CA) : Designed and operationalized a foundational data stewardship program from scratch.
He founded Thornevale Group to bring that practitioner experience directly to the executives accountable for data — without layers of junior staff. He personally leads every engagement.
Platforms: Microsoft Purview · Collibra · Informatica
Certifications: CISM (ISACA) · CompTIA Security+ · CompTIA Network+ · Scrum
Practitioner-Led Experience
A decade of hands-on governance work.
The engagements below describe the founder's prior professional experience, not Thornevale Group company contracts.
Thornevale Group is led by Lucas Honore, a data governance practitioner with 10 years of experience. Before founding Thornevale, he built a data governance program from the ground up at BNP Paribas New York, designed and implemented the data governance program at Elevate Credit, led a facilities data quality initiative at Johnson & Johnson, and supported data initiatives at Silicon Valley Bank.
Certifications: CISM, Security+, Network+, PSM (Scrum).
Why Thornevale Group
Three reasons executives choose us.
Practitioner-Led Experience
10 years of hands-on experience leading data governance, stewardship, quality, and metadata programs across regulated industries.
Senior-Level Engagement
Every engagement is led personally by our founder. No bait-and-switch staffing and no junior-heavy project teams.
How We Work
Principles that guide every engagement.
Outcomes Over Output
We measure success by the trust, accountability, and risk reduction we create — not by deliverables that sit on a shelf.
Executive Visibility
We give leadership an objective view of governance maturity, risk, and readiness so decisions are made with confidence.
Sustainable Capability
We build governance that lasts — embedded operating models, not one-time projects that fade after launch.
Headquarters: Dallas, Texas·SAM.gov Registration: Active·CAGE Code: 252B5·UEI: QS1BH9UHYAT5·NAICS: 541611 (primary), 541618, 541519, 518210, 561311·Business Size: Small Business, Texas LLC
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