Threshold Digital
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[ Interim & Fractional Leadership ]

Put Someone in the Seat Who Has Already Held It.

Interim and fractional CIO, CISO and VP Engineering — a three-time CIO who leads the business outcome and commands the technology underneath it. Senior leadership through transition, search or scale, on your terms.

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[ Where It Shows Up ]

Four situations. All of them familiar.

A leadership seat is open, or about to be

A departure, a search that is running long, a company scaling past the leader it has.

A value creation plan has no owner

The plan exists; nobody senior is accountable for the technology side of it.

A deal is closing

Acquisition, merger or divestiture, and the technology diligence, integration or separation needs someone who has done it before.

A strategy exists and is not executing

No owner, no dates, no funding line.

[ The Timeline ]

Thirty days for a baseline. Ninety to a strategy.

Target one area, or the whole transformation. The assessment is a deliverable, not a sales call.

Thirty days

Where the organization stands

Enough to make decisions with.

  • People
  • Energy
  • Structure
  • Capabilities
  • Capacity
  • Spend
Ninety days

The deeper read, and a strategy

  • Organizational productivity and structure
  • Leadership potential: who leads change, who is strongest running the line
  • Appetite for change and resistance to it
  • Impediments to success, including business partner engagement
  • Spend detail and potential cost optimization
Beyond

Fine-tune the strategy, then execute it

  • Business prioritization
  • Technology selection
  • Implementation and operationalization (o16n)
  • Funded programs with owners, dates and phases
  • Internal operations enabled
[ Two Natures ]

Transformer or operator — know which seat you are filling.

Transformational leaders teach and are comfortable with change in every dimension. Operational leaders run a closed loop of continuous improvement. Two different roles, two different people, and putting the wrong one in the seat is expensive. Knowing which one the company needs is most of the hiring decision.

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[ How We Engage ]

Senior leadership, on your terms.

Every engagement is structured around full delivery, not just recommendations. We stay in the seat until your organization can operate independently and confidently.

Mode 01

Strategic Advisory

Assessment, strategy, roadmap and governance. For a client who can execute internally.

Mode 02

Embedded Delivery

Hands-on program leadership inside your teams, owning outcomes while building internal capability.

Mode 03

Interim Executive

Fractional CIO, CISO or VP Engineering through transition, acquisition or rapid scaling.

[ Where the Work Actually Lands ]

What the seat covers.

Executive and board partnership. Continuity through the search. Coaching for growth. Handover to the permanent hire. A seat holder who reads the tech stack well enough to turn it into deliverables your business partners actually want.

Interim / Fractional CIO, CISO, VP Engineering

For a duration, with a scope. Concrete and purchasable.

IT Strategy & Operating-Model Direction

Run IT as a business — the financial and project discipline is its P&L.

Organizational Design & Resourcing Strategy

Structure, span and layers, enablement, the transformer-or-operator call.

Board & Executive Advisory

Board, audit committee and investor engagement from someone who has answered to them.

M&A and Divestiture Technology Diligence

Diligence and playbooks, cost and difficulty, the benefits case, the people picture, stranded cost.

Technology Financial Operations & PMO

Budget transparency, showback and chargeback, program structure with owners and dates.

CIO
30+
Years in business and technology
750+
People led
15+
M&A transactions
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[ Ready to cross the threshold? ]

Are You Ready!

Before the reorganization, the hire, or the strategy deck — the honest read. Thirty days will tell you.

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