Work with Mike
Board-level technology leadership, without a full-time hire.
A fractional CTO engagement gives your leadership team senior technology judgement on IT, AI and cyber risk: enough to make confident board-level decisions, no more than the business needs.
How an engagement works
Three steps. One clear owner of the technology agenda.
Most engagements start the same way: a clear-eyed look at what you have, then steady ownership of the decisions that follow.
Start with a technology audit
I review your technology landscape, contracts, suppliers and spending. You get a plain-English report on where you stand, what is working, what is not, and where the risk sits.
Take technology decisions off the leadership team's plate
I can attend your board meetings, manage your IT suppliers, challenge vendor proposals, and translate technology decisions into language the board can act on. The leadership team stops being the default technology owner.
Build something that lasts
I put governance, reporting and supplier management in place so technology is owned by the business as a function, with clear accountability and decisions that hold up over time.
What I help with
Three services, one frame of mind.
Whether the engagement is a strategy piece, a transformation programme or an assurance review, the brief is the same: pragmatic, commercially grounded technology leadership that speaks both board and engineering fluently.
Strategy
Clarify where technology, data, AI and cyber should support the business, and where they should not. Strategy engagements give you a roadmap that finance will sign and operations can deliver.
Transformation
Get teams shipping faster and more reliably, with fewer surprises and less noise. Transformation work is delivery, not slides: governance, supplier management, and the right shape of in-house and partner capability.
Assurance
An independent view of technology and cyber risk for boards before they sign, invest, or have to explain a major decision. Due diligence, technical reviews, and the briefing pack you wish you had been given before the meeting.
The ongoing option
A retained Virtual Technology Advisor.
For organisations that want a steady hand rather than a one-off review: a monthly retainer that keeps technology decisions owned, challenged and reported, board cycle after board cycle.
UK-wide and remote-first from a base in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, with in-person time for board meetings and key milestones.
Virtual Technology Advisor
Monthly retainer
On enquiry
- Quarterly board pack on technology, in plain English
- Vendor and renewal challenge: I run the conversations
- One named technology owner across all suppliers
- Cancel with one month's notice. No long-term contract.
Sized to sit within an established budget. The scope is set against what the business actually needs.
Not sure which of these fits? Start with a fit call.
A 20-minute conversation, no pitch. I will tell you straight whether a fractional CTO engagement is what you need, and if it is not, what kind of help is.