Dylan Dias

Chief Alliances Officer Fractal

Last Reviewed: September 18, 2026

Executive Summary

Dylan Dias is Chief Alliances Officer at Fractal, the AI and analytics company, where he runs the firm’s worldwide partnerships with the major cloud providers. It is a role with real commercial weight in the services business: a consultancy’s standing with Microsoft, AWS, and Google determines which engagements it is invited into, what technical certifications and competencies it can claim, and how much co-selling support it receives, and Fractal’s growth strategy has leaned heavily on being a preferred partner across all three hyperscalers rather than one. Dias came into the company through acquisition rather than hire. He was Chief Executive Officer of Neal Analytics, a Bellevue, Washington consultancy built around the Microsoft Azure stack, and when Fractal acquired it in January 2022 he moved into the alliances seat, which is a natural extension of what running a partner-led consultancy had already required of him.

Career Highlights

• Chief Alliances Officer at Fractal, named on the company’s official leadership team, with responsibility for global cloud and technology partnerships.
• Led Neal Analytics as Chief Executive Officer through its acquisition by Fractal, announced 11 January 2022.
• Neal Analytics under his leadership was a Microsoft Gold consulting partner of more than 200 people spanning the United States, Canada, and India, with clients including PepsiCo and Microsoft and technology partnerships with Intel, Nvidia, and Databricks.
• Its practice covered the Azure stack, data science, machine learning, IoT and edge computing, business intelligence, application development, migration and modernisation, and automation.
• Has represented Fractal publicly on its AWS Generative AI Competency, showing an alliances remit that spans the hyperscalers rather than sitting only with Microsoft.

Professional Journey

Dias’s visible career centres on Neal Analytics, the consultancy founded in 2011 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, in the immediate orbit of Microsoft’s Redmond campus. He served as its Chief Executive Officer. The business was built as a Microsoft-first practice: a Gold consulting partner whose work ran across the Azure stack and out into data science, machine learning, IoT and edge computing, business intelligence, and application modernisation. By the time of its sale it employed more than 200 people across the United States, Canada, and India, counted PepsiCo and Microsoft among its clients, and held partnerships with Intel, Nvidia, and Databricks.

On 11 January 2022, Fractal announced its acquisition of Neal Analytics. Fractal, an AI and analytics firm with roots in India and a substantial North American business, framed the deal in terms of two gains: AI engineering and cloud-first capability on Microsoft’s multi-cloud ecosystem, and geographic presence in the Pacific Northwest and Canada. Dias’s own comment on the deal emphasised the people rather than the technology, describing it as a chance to work alongside like-minded practitioners transforming businesses with cloud, data, and AI.

Since the acquisition he has held the Chief Alliances Officer role at Fractal, appearing on the company’s leadership team. The job is the institutional version of what he had been doing at Neal Analytics, where partner standing with Microsoft was the foundation of the whole business. At Fractal the remit is broader and explicitly multi-cloud: he has spoken publicly on behalf of the firm’s work with Amazon Web Services, including its attainment of the AWS Generative AI Competency, a designation AWS grants to partners with demonstrated generative AI delivery experience. That pattern, a Microsoft-native operator now speaking for the company’s AWS and Google relationships as well, is the clearest available signal of how the role has been defined.

Education

No education could be established from any acceptable source for this profile. Aggregator summaries place him at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, but that claim could not be verified against a primary or editorially controlled source and is not asserted here.