GrayBeard · Fractional CIO / CTO / COO
I join your leadership team and integrate people, process, and technology until that gap closes. Not a deck. The organization actually changes.
Denali Advanced Integration
$40M → $250M
President and CTO; growth while remaining profitable.
Epic Games
CIO seat
Fortnite / Unreal Engine online launch era; recommended retiring the dedicated seat and backfilled.
IMB Technology Solutions
65 → 43 seats
Cut over a cloud transition — same work, leaner organization.
Start with the conversation. The shape of the work comes from the gap, not a catalog.
Fractional or interim — COO, CIO, CTO, or President when that is the seat that fits. Same work either way: join the e-team, integrate people, process, and technology, and stay as long as the company needs a senior seat it does not want to fill full-time.
A defined transformation — cloud, cost, AI, or a rebuild of how technology work gets done. Fixed outcome, fixed window. I run it until the organization matches the new design.
Governance, risk, and compliance a mid-market company will actually run — AI governance, information security, risk management, and controls that fit the budget and still pass when boards and customers show up.
Agents own lanes; Christopher Gerhardt remains fully accountable for all work. Named roster, clear ownership — not anonymous bots spun up for the call.
Iris
Chief of Staff
Turns the roster into one engagement. Routes the live lane and what never reaches you.
Vera
Product
Turns “we should do AI” into a sequenced production bet with a kill criterion.
Holt
Delivery
Holds multi-month transformations to hard outcomes and the critical path.
Knox
Technology Infrastructure
Makes the boring stack non-negotiable — identity, endpoints, platform, hosting.
Weld
Operations
Joins broken operating process to the system that should own it.
Rook
Risk & Compliance
Writes controls a mid-market company will actually run — and still pass audit.