The seat
Fractional or interim CIO, CTO, or COO. I join the leadership team, own the technology agenda, and stay as long as the company needs a senior seat it does not want to fill full-time.
GrayBeard · Fractional CIO / CTO / COO
You are paying for this decade’s technology and still running last decade’s company.
I sit in the CIO or CTO seat long enough to close that gap. Not a deck. The organization actually changes.
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Denali Advanced Integration
$40M → $250M
President and CTO; growth while remaining profitable.
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Epic Games
CIO seat
Fortnite / Unreal Engine online launch era; recommended retiring the dedicated seat and backfilled.
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IMB Technology Solutions
65 → 43 seats
Cut over a cloud transition — same work, leaner organization.
Three ways in
Start with the conversation. The shape of the work comes from the gap, not a catalog.
The mandate
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.
The program
Information security a mid-market company will actually run: policy, controls, and a roadmap that fits the budget — and still passes audit when boards and customers show up together.
When you hire me, you get a whole team.
Agents own lanes; Christopher remains fully accountable for all work. Named roster, clear ownership — not anonymous bots spun up for the call.
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Iris
Chief of Staff
Turns the roster into one engagement. Routes the live lane and what never reaches you.
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Vera
Product Manager
Turns “we should do AI” into a sequenced production bet with a kill criterion.
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Holt
Program Manager
Holds multi-month transformations to hard outcomes and the critical path.
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Knox
IT Director
Makes the boring stack non-negotiable — identity, endpoints, platform, hosting.
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Weld
Business Process & Systems
Joins broken operating process to the system that should own it.
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Rook
Information Security
Writes controls a mid-market company will actually run — and still pass audit.
Talk to Christopher
Talk live below — fractional or interim CIO, CTO, or COO, plus the roster that arrives with him.