Advisory / Leadership
Interim CTO
Full-time executive continuity, for a fixed term. The company keeps moving while you run the search properly instead of desperately.
When this is the right instrument
- The CTO left, and the search will take two quarters you cannot afford to lose.
- A transition — merger, carve-out, replatforming — needs an executive who has done it before and leaves when it is done.
- The board needs technology represented now, by someone with no interest in keeping the seat.
How it differs from fractional
An interim mandate is exclusive and full-time; while it runs, this seat is the job. That exclusivity is also why the engagement is scoped carefully before it starts — an interim executive who takes the seat lightly does damage precisely because the company is at its most exposed.
The exit is the point
An interim CTO who makes themselves indispensable has failed. The term is fixed, the handover document is a first-class deliverable, and success is measured by how little the incoming CTO has to reverse-engineer. We hold the seat; we don’t squat in it.