“Hitting the ceiling” is a real thing in rapidly growing Product software organisations where the pressure of delivery becomes overwhelming at the expense of the ability to scale, grow, and meet the business vision. Having a “start-up mentality” is a great aspiration for your culture, but as businesses scale, changes need to happen to allow that rapid growth.

My passion is to help leadership teams and founders to rapidly break through those issues through robust business, product, and technology strategies owned by empowered leadership teams, and realised through highly effective delivery teams that have structure, processes and practices that can scale.

 I work directly with teams and individuals in an open and honest way, acting as the link between the business and technology teams, developing leaders at all levels within the organisation and ensuring changes are embedded and scalable. I work with businesses of c. 20-100+ people who are on a journey to rapidly grow but need help to put in place the fundamental building blocks that will get them there, and in doing so help create a successfully scaling business.

Key reasons why you should consider an Interim CTO:

• You have a clear idea of your business goals but no corresponding Technology Strategy to deliver it.
• You need help with growing your product and engineering function but are not sure where to start.
• You have too many product and engineering priorities and can’t navigate your way through them.
• You are trying to grow but face continual challenges with customers, delivery, quality, team structure, conflicts with processes, products or people.
• You are aiming towards a key event (Series B, PE investment) but need help ensuring the business is ready for it and can achieve it successfully.
• You are struggling to grow teams and keep your early stage momentum
• As a founder you find yourself too often down in the weeds!

Knowing how to navigate the next steps in your journey  to rapid growth is difficult and very easy to get wrong. Please take a look at the pages on this site which will hopefully give you some ideas and if they resonate with you, simply contact for me for a chat. I have an open and honest way of engaging (LINK) so for a couple of hours of your time, at no cost, I am sure your path through this journey will start to become clearer.

With over 12 years’ experience as a CTO across multiple sectors, working in businesses from small fast growing product businesses to established FTSE 100 corporates, prior experience in running and growing product and development teams from 10 to well over 100 people, and with a strong technical background I fully understand the challenges facing product and engineering teams on a daily basis.  I have the experience and coaching mentality to quickly engage with and empower your teams for success, my aim here is for your teams to be successful and ready to take on your next challenges.

My testimonials speak for themselves so  please reach out if you would like an initial coffee and a chat.

I look forward to hearing from you.