Fractional COO and CTO: Someone in the Seat Who Can Operate on Day One.

Advisory COO, CTO and CIO leadership, and the functional depth beneath it — accountable to the board, present with the leadership team, and operating from the first week rather than the first quarter.

WHO THIS IS FOR

Mid-market and PE-backed companies with a gap between strategy and execution: the chair is empty, the incumbent has been outgrown by the business, or the sponsor needs an owner now rather than after a six-month search.

THE PROBLEM

A permanent hire is slow, and often more than the stage of the business needs. An advisor without operating authority can recommend but cannot decide. This sits in between — real authority, scoped to what the situation actually requires.

What the Work Covers.

• Operating cadence installed — the meetings, metrics and accountability that make a leadership team run itself
• Board-ready reporting: one version of the numbers, and a candid read behind them
• Org design and senior hiring, including recruiting and handing over to the permanent executive
• Functional leadership beneath the C-seat where the depth is missing
• A written assessment in the first eight weeks: what is actually wrong, what it costs, what order to fix it in

Engagements run on Genexis ARC, our four-stage method from readiness to run-rate. Where the control environment is in scope, the work references ISO 27001, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and SOC 2 criteria, so the control set is auditable rather than asserted.

Scope and fees are set on a fit call, once the shape of the problem is clear.