Advisory for
Australian mid-market
executive teams.
I work with a small number of organisations at a time, alongside my executive role. Engagements are scoped, fixed in duration, and delivered by me personally — there is no delivery team behind this.
Start a conversationWho this is for
- Australian businesses roughly 50–500 people.
- Organisations with an IT manager or small team, but no CIO — and decisions that have outgrown the current structure.
- Executive teams being asked hard questions about cyber risk or AI by a board, an insurer or a major client.
- Businesses in regulated or sensitive sectors where getting technology wrong has consequences beyond downtime.
Who this is not for
- Anyone looking for a managed service provider. I do not run helpdesks or resell hardware.
- Organisations wanting a rubber stamp on a decision already made.
- Large enterprises needing a full delivery team — you want a firm, not an individual.
I am a full-time serving CIO. Advisory work is deliberately capped so that it stays genuinely useful.
IT & AI Readiness Assessment
Fixed fee · 2–3 weeks
A structured review of where your technology, security and data actually stand — and what to do about it in the next twelve months.
- —Executive interviews and a review of your current environment
- —Cyber maturity scored against the ACSC Essential Eight
- —An honest read on where AI will and will not pay off for you
- —A prioritised roadmap by effort and impact, costed at a high level
- —A written report and a live session with your executive team or board
You leave with a decision-ready plan you can take to a board — not a vendor pitch.
Cyber Maturity Uplift
Scoped per engagement
Getting a business from "we think we are probably fine" to a defensible, evidenced security position.
- —Essential Eight and ISO 27001 gap assessment
- —A remediation plan sequenced by risk, not by product
- —Governance, risk and incident response frameworks that people will actually use
- —Board-level reporting your directors can understand
Security you can evidence to a client, an insurer, an auditor or a regulator.
Fractional / Interim CIO
Monthly retainer · limited availability
Executive technology leadership for organisations that need the judgement of a CIO but not a full-time salary.
- —Technology strategy and roadmap ownership
- —Board and executive reporting
- —Vendor selection, contract review and negotiation support
- —Coaching and structure for an existing IT team or manager
A steady hand on technology decisions, without carrying another executive headcount.
AI Governance for Regulated Environments
Workshop or advisory
For organisations handling sensitive data — care, health, education, government-adjacent — that want AI without creating a privacy or compliance problem.
- —Acceptable-use and AI governance policy
- —Data residency and cross-border transfer review
- —Risk assessment for proposed AI use cases
- —Staff guidance that is practical rather than prohibitive
A position on AI you can defend to your board, your regulator and your clients.
Pricing is discussed openly on a first call once scope is clear. I would rather tell you an engagement is not worth running than sell you one that is not.
How it starts
A conversation
Thirty minutes, no charge, no pitch. You describe the problem; I tell you honestly whether I am the right person for it.
A written proposal
Scope, deliverables, timeframe and fixed price in writing before anything begins. No open-ended day rates.
The work
Delivered by me, to the agreed date, ending in a written report and a live session with your executive team.
Tell me what you are dealing with
If it is not something I can help with, I will say so and point you somewhere better.
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