Fractional and Interim CIO/CTO Leadership

When a regulated company needs a CIO or CTO, the options are a six-month executive search, a temporary contractor with no operating authority, or a senior executive who has held the role and can operate at full capacity from day one. Felaris provides the third option.

Our principals have served as VP and Director-level IT leaders at international enterprises, managing global teams across more than twenty countries in the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe. They have led ERP transformations, run FDA and EU MDR compliance programs, and presented technology strategy at board and private equity level.

Terminology: In the United States and Europe, this is delivered as a Fractional CIO/CTO engagement. In the Caribbean, the same engagement is delivered as Interim CIO/CTO. The work is identical.

Technology strategy that reflects what the business actually does, what it commits to do for customers and regulators, and what investment is justified. The output is a one-page strategy a board can approve and an operator can execute.

Growth-stage companies need senior technology leadership to scale infrastructure, implement new systems, and build IT capability. We guide technology decisions that support rapid growth without producing technical debt.

What you get:

Scalable infrastructure design

ERP and business system implementation oversight

Cybersecurity program development

IT governance framework

Team building and organizational scaling

M&A technology integration support

ERP implementations fail when business leadership and IT lose agreement on scope, schedule, or budget. Our CIO and CTO services provide executive oversight: program governance, vendor management, scope and change control, risk escalation, go-live readiness, and post-go-live stabilization.

In regulated environments (medical device, pharmaceutical, manufacturing), cybersecurity and regulatory compliance are executive responsibilities. Our leadership covers FDA compliance, EU MDR audit readiness, ISO 27001 certification, and incident response planning.

Systems downtime, capacity constraints, and service delivery gaps slow growth and create audit risk. Our IT operations leadership covers infrastructure strategy, disaster recovery, service delivery governance, and vendor management across distributed operations in the US, Caribbean, and Europe.

Organizations where AI is becoming a board-level priority can extend fractional CIO engagement to include AI governance and strategy through our Fractional CAIO service.

• Full-Time Interim: On-site or remote, 3-12 month engagements for complete CIO/CTO role coverage. Best for organizations in active transition, crisis, or major initiative execution.
• Fractional/Part-Time: 1-3 days per week for organizations needing strategic leadership without a full-time commitment. Ideal for growth-stage companies and post-restructuring environments.
• Advisory Retainer: Ongoing strategic guidance and decision support for existing IT leadership. Best for organizations with capable IT teams that need senior-level perspective and oversight.

Medical device manufacturing, pharmaceutical and life sciences, regulated manufacturing, warehouse/distribution, industrial manufacturing, growth-stage companies

• Executive departure or vacancy in CIO/CTO role
• Organizational restructuring or merger integration
• Rapid growth requiring immediate IT leadership scaling
• Operational crisis or performance issues requiring turnaround
• Major technology initiative requiring experienced program leadership
• Post-cybersecurity incident requiring recovery leadership