Executive technology leadership on the tenure the situation requires — full-time interim through a transition or turnaround, or fractional alongside your permanent team. Six interim technology-executive seats (five CIO/CTO, one IT Director) across power generation, healthcare multimedia, specialty insurance, investment management, and equipment rental. I stabilize, build the team, deliver the roadmap, and hand off clean.
The Problem
The moments a company most needs senior technology leadership are exactly the moments it does not have it: the CIO just left, the platform program is failing, the PE sponsor wants a transformation the current team cannot carry, or the company has outgrown the IT organization it built.
A search takes six to nine months. The business does not wait that long — and neither do the problems.
The Engagement
I step in as interim CIO, CTO, or IT Director — or as a fractional executive alongside your permanent team — with a consistent operating pattern: stabilize the immediate situation, stand up the governance and team the company actually needs, deliver the transformation roadmap, and hand off clean. Permanent successors recruited and transitioned in every engagement that called for one.
Operating model redesign: Not just running IT — rebuilding how the business plans, executes, and measures
Strategic-initiative leadership: ERP and platform programs, carve-outs and integrations, product and data platform builds, AI programs — the initiatives too critical to leave to the org chart
Team building: Recruiting, structuring, and mentoring internal teams that outlast the engagement
Hands-on delivery: I architect and, where needed, personally build; the role is operator, not caretaker
Defined exit: Interim means interim; success includes the handoff
Proof
Global 500 power generation division (Interim CIO, 3+ years): EBITDA from −20% to +10% after a 20-year history of losses; manufacturing cycle times from 8+ months to under 3; job estimating from 2–3 weeks to under 4 hours; operating model replicated to two additional divisions
PE-backed hospital and physician multimedia company (Interim CTO & Independent Board Member, 2 years): Oversaw a CEO transition; stood up IT and Data Science departments from scratch in under 4 months; MVP of the hospital data analytics product in under 3 months; development costs cut ~74%; sales revenue up 10%
Public specialty insurer (Interim IT Director): $250M Guidewire program stalled 12 months with no code delivered — reorganized the 25-person team; code in QA within 2 months; permanent IT Director recruited and onboarded within 6
Endowment and foundation investment firm (Interim CIO): Stood up and mentored the internal development team to autonomy in 6 months; two of its members went on to found Solovis — portfolio management software acquired by NASDAQ in March 2020
National rent-to-own franchise (Interim CTO): Crisis response after the sole IT director resigned — 54 undocumented databases documented in 2 weeks, operations triaged in 3, disaster recovery in place within a month; new IT organization stood up on Agile DevOps
Interim & Fractional CIO/CTO Leadership
Executive technology leadership for transitions, turnarounds, transformations, and mission-critical initiatives — interim or fractional.
