CTO Coaching & IT Positioning

I am very happy to have worked with Gavin. He gave me a very clear description of the already developed infrastructure, made many excellent suggestions regarding future development, and helped recruit staff who would take over the infrastructure maintenance from the external contractor.

Despite coming from a very different knowledge domain, I found it very easy to interact with Gavin. He was always very professional, keen to answer my (sometimes naive) questions in depth, listened to my concerns and responded with very useful suggestions.

I very much recommend Gavin to anyone who needs professional advice on IT issues, cloud infrastructure, and AI, and I hope to work with him again in the future.

Dr Bartlomiej Waclaw, Head of R&D, Ogibiotec

Overview

Ogi Biotec is a fast-growing biotech company that has developed a product with an outsourced development function and an MSP for internal IT. They have now achieved a scale where they have hired a new Head of Research who will transition to CTO and need to solidify and undertsand their hosting and internal IT ready for larger customers.

We were brought in to address critical scaling gaps in Ogi Bio's IT infrastructure, security posture, and operational readiness. This engagement delivered tangible outcomes: a structured security framework, clear infrastructure documentation, a defined organisational roadmap, and hands-on coaching that has accelerated the new leader into a CTO role from a highly-skilled but separate knowledge domain.

Services Delivered

Original Objective: Stabilisation and value protection - addressing immediate pain points and operational risks constraining growth, while establishing structures and safeguards to protect enterprise value.

This consisted of:

• CTO Coaching & Relationship Management
• Recruitment support of new infrastructure staff
• Staffing roadmaps, skills matrices and organisation growth roadmaps
• Product and hosting scaling analysis and plans
• Full infrastructure, hosting and product security review with prioritised task list for improvement

The core delivery was as much about supporting relationship development and building confidence though. The new CTO needed the tools and understanding, but also needed to feel confident with supplier relationships, that the new infrastructure hire would support what he needed to do and that the forward plans aligned with his strategy for the company. We recognised all of this was as important as the technical analysis.