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Interim and fractional CIO, CTO and transformation leadership

When you need a programme or transformation director who has genuinely done it before at scale, we step in as interim or fractional leadership and take the weight, without the cost or delay of a permanent hire.

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£13bn
Largest programme led
19 yrs
Delivering transformation
5
Continents delivered across
When you need it

The moment between people is the riskiest

A director leaves, a programme outgrows its leadership, a board loses confidence, or a critical phase needs someone who has genuinely done it before.

These are the moments when a permanent hire is too slow and doing nothing is too costly. Interim leadership fills the gap with someone who takes a grip from day one.

The roles

Leadership we step into

Programme or transformation director

End to end accountability for a major programme, from mobilisation or recovery through to delivery and handover.

Project director

A grip on a single critical project, its plan, scope, budget and suppliers.

Fractional leadership

Senior oversight a few days a month for boards and teams that need the experience but not a full time seat.

What you get

Experience you cannot hire quickly

Proven at scale

Project Director on the NESO separation and the £9bn Energy Bills Support Scheme, Global Transformation Director on the BP Pulse rollout.

Independent

Vendor independent and outcome focused, so the advice you get serves your programme, not a software vendor.

INDEPENDENT ASSURANCESix lenses on everyprogramme we assureIndependent of the supplier, evidence based,and reported straight to the sponsor.Gateway reviewsPMORecoveryScopeScheduleCostRiskQualityBenefitsAssurance
The roles we fill

Fractional CTO, fractional COO, interim CIO and transformation director

A fractional CTO or fractional CIO gives a growing business senior technology leadership for two or three days a week: the roadmap, the vendor decisions, the security posture and the hiring plan, without a full time salary. A fractional COO does the same for operations when the founder has outgrown running everything personally. An interim CIO or interim IT director covers a gap, leads a specific change or steadies a function after a departure, usually full time for six to twelve months. An interim transformation or programme director takes accountability for a named programme from mobilisation to benefits.

Every role is filled by someone who has held it before, on a day rate or a fixed monthly retainer, with no agency margin in between.

Track record

The roles behind the offer

Global Transformation Director for the BP Pulse EV charging rollout
Project Director for the NESO separation from National Grid
Project Director for the £9bn Energy Bills Support Scheme
Largest programme led £13bn, delivered across five continents
Chris delivered a significant global transformation programme for the key BP Pulse rollout. A highly complex programme with many moving parts, but PEF created a sustainable scalable structure and executed to time and budget.Jeff McQueen, Global VP, BP Pulse
Common questions

Interim leadership questions, answered

What is a fractional CTO?

A fractional CTO is a senior technology leader who works for an organisation part time, for example two days a week, providing strategy, architecture and delivery leadership without the cost of a full time executive.

How do we hire a fractional CTO?

Define the outcomes you need over the next six to twelve months, agree the time commitment and decision rights, and choose someone who has done the job at your scale and stage.

Interim or fractional, what is the difference?

Interim is a full weight, hands on leadership role for a defined period. Fractional is senior oversight a few days a month. We do both.

How quickly can you start?

Days, not months. That is the point of interim leadership.

What does it cost?

We agree the day rate and the number of days up front, set to the role. Far less than the cost and delay of the wrong permanent hire.

What size of programme?

From single critical projects up to programmes worth billions. We have led at both ends.

Do you replace our team?

No. We lead and steady what you have, and leave capability behind rather than a dependency.

Get experienced leadership in place fast

Tell us the gap you need to fill and we will tell you honestly how we would step in and what it would take. No obligation.

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