Fractional CIO & CTO
Own the roadmap, vendor governance, and infrastructure direction, with budget and board reporting that a technical and a non-technical audience can both trust.
Learn moreFractional CIO · CTO · Virtual CISO
Executive technology leadership for companies in motion.
Most companies have someone managing their technology. We lead it, owning the strategy, the security posture, and the hard calls, at a fraction of a full-time executive.
One accountable owner
Strategy → delivery
- 01Strategy & roadmapBoard-ready decisions, owned
- 02Security & compliancePosture governed, not assumed
- 03Spend & vendorsThe portfolio under control
- 04DeliveryExecution, not just advice
The Gap
Most companies have someone managing their technology. Few have someone leading it.
Management keeps the lights on. Leadership decides which lights to build. When no one owns the whole, the gaps show up in predictable places:
- Decisions get made reactively, vendor by vendor, incident by incident, with no one accountable for the whole.
- Security is assumed, not governed. Gaps surface during an audit, a breach, or a customer's questionnaire. Never before.
- Spend creeps. Overlapping tools, auto-renewals, and shelfware accumulate because no one owns the portfolio.
- Growth outpaces the architecture. What worked at 50 people quietly breaks at 400, usually mid-migration.
- AI arrives in pockets, without guardrails, validation, or a clear view of the cost and risk it introduces.
We lead it. One accountable owner for strategy, security, spend, and delivery. Senior enough to make the call, embedded enough to see it through.
Why Iron Path
Not a consultancy that leaves, an MSP that sells boxes, or a full-time hire.
Most options hand you a strategy deck and disappear, push the products they resell, or cost a full-time executive salary. We do none of those.
Senior · hands-on
The people who assess are the people who fix.
A principal owns your account start to finish. No deck-and-disappear, no handoff to junior staff.
Independent
Advice, not a product to sell.
We don't resell hardware or chase logos. When the honest answer is "you don't need us yet," we say so.
Accountable
We stay until it's working.
We name the business risk, then work beside your team to fix it, measured by outcomes, not hours billed.
What we do
Three practices, one accountable partner.
Engaged individually or together. Each is led by a principal, never handed to a junior.
Virtual CISO & Security
Direct a real security program: control frameworks, third-party risk, compliance and cyber-insurance readiness, and clear accountability when incidents happen.
Learn moreApplied AI & Automation
Put AI to work on high-volume operational work (support tickets, security findings, routine requests) with a human on the trigger, built and run in production with real guardrails.
Learn moreHow we work
How we start depends on where you are.
For most companies, a fixed-scope assessment is the right first step: a clear picture before any long-term commitment. When something is already on fire, we skip the wait.
1
~4 weeks · fixed scope
Readiness Assessment
Stakeholder interviews, environment and security review, and a vendor audit, delivered as an executive briefing with prioritized findings and an action plan. No ongoing commitment required. The typical start.
2
Ongoing engagement
Lead & Execute
We take ownership of the roadmap and drive it: governance, the security program, vendor decisions, and delivery. Accountable for outcomes, not hours.
3
Retained
Steady State
Senior leadership on call, board-ready reporting, and continuous improvement, scaled up or down as the business moves.
Urgent?
A failed audit, an active incident, or a migration mid-flight: we start immediately and run the assessment in parallel. Get in touch
Not ready for a full assessment? Take the free 2-minute readiness self-check
Selected work
Five engagements, in the client's own terms.
Anonymized to protect confidentiality. Every number below is real.
0Major nonconformities
35%Faster help-desk resolution
ISO 27001 recovery after a leadership gap
A company lost its security leadership ahead of a recertification audit. We stepped in, rebuilt the program, and carried it through: recertified with zero major nonconformities, and cut help-desk resolution time 35% with AI agents and a rebuilt knowledge base.
Read the case study
400Users in 60 days
$500K+Vendor savings
Post-acquisition integration across 12 offices
After an acquisition, we unified 400 users across 12 offices in 60 days, migrated the datacenter to AWS, stood up a 10-person team, and eliminated more than $500K in annual vendor spend, with no disruption to the business.
Read the case studyThe principals
You work with the people who do the work.
Iron Path is deliberately small and senior. Two principals lead every engagement. No layers, no handoffs to junior staff.
Founding principal
Technology & operations
A technology executive with over a decade of IT leadership across cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and enterprise operations: ISO 27001 certifications, post-acquisition integrations, and cloud migrations.
Principal
Security, risk & compliance
Cybersecurity governance, risk, and compliance advisory: security program assessments, control testing, and audit readiness aligned with ISO 27001, 27701, 42001, and SSPA.
When an engagement needs a specialized skill, we bring in specialists we've worked with and trust, onboarded under our own governance and access controls, never a faceless bench.
- Senior by default. A principal owns your account, start to finish.
- Always reachable. Direct access to the people making decisions.
- Selective. We take on a limited number of engagements at a time.
Who we work with
Companies with real technology stakes and no one leading them.
Typically 10 to 1,000 employees: past the point where technology can run itself, before the point where a full-time executive team makes sense.
- Private equity & portfolio companies
- Professional services
- Healthcare & life sciences
- Financial services
- SaaS & technology
- Manufacturing & logistics
- Post-acquisition integrations
Contact
Start with a conversation, not a pitch.
Tell us where technology is holding the business back: a stalled migration, a looming audit, an AI project that never shipped, or just the sense that no one is truly leading it. We'll tell you, honestly, whether we can help.
No sales funnel. No lead pipeline. Confidential.