You've outgrown your IT provider, but you're not ready for a full-time CIO. That's the gap we fill: senior technology leadership for Series B–D companies and financial services firms, without the overhead of a full executive hire.
At a certain point, IT stops being a support function and becomes part of how the company operates, scales, sells, hires, protects data, and passes scrutiny. That shift often happens before there is a full-time CIO in place.
Thruxton & Kendall fills that gap with senior, operator-led technology leadership. We work with executive teams to bring order to your technology function. This is not outsourced IT or break-fix support. IT is experienced technology leadership, embedded where the company needs it most.
We work with companies where growth has outpaced the informal systems that used to be "good enough."
Series B–D companies, typically 75–300 employees, in sectors where technology has to support real-world complexity: hardware, manufacturing, fintech, insurtech, and other operationally demanding environments. These companies are often past the point where a break-fix MSP can carry the load, but not yet ready or structured, for a full-time CIO.
RIAs, wealth managers, family offices, insurance agencies, and financial services firms facing rising expectations around cybersecurity, data protections, vendor oversight, and operational resilience. These firms don't need technology theatre. They need a practical operating model that protects the business, satisfies scrutiny, and supports the way the firm already works.
Every strong engagement starts with a clear read of the current state. We assess your technology environment across infrastructure, identity, cloud, endpoints, service delivery, vendors, security posture, and team capability. You receive a practical roadmap that identifies what is working, what is exposed, and what needs to change first.
For companies that need ongoing leadership, we operate as your fractional CIO. That means joining leadership discussions, owning the technology roadmap, guiding investment decisions, managing vendors, supporting internal teams, and bringing executive discipline to the technology function.
Some clients need ongoing fractional leadership. Other need to stabilize the function, build the operating model, and eventually hire internally. When that time comes, we help define the role, support the search, prepare the organization, and transfer context cleanly.
Emily Roy has spent the last decade building and scaling enterprise IT organizations inside some of the fastest-growing companies in the country. As Director of IT Infrastructure & Platforms at Archer Aviation, she managed a $20M budget and a 40-person global team supporting roughly 1,600 employees through full production ramp.
Before that, as Head of IT at Rivian & Volkswagen Group Technologies, she worked with executive leadership to define the technology roadmap and operating model for the newly formed joint venture. At Rivian Automotive, she built and scaled a 35-person global IT organization across EMEA and North America, standing up infrastructure for more than 35 site launches and played an instrumental role in opening Rivian's 400-person software engineering hub in Belgrade, Serbia.
Thruxton & Kendall intentionally partners with select clients by design. The work requires context, judgment, and proximity to the business. That is how the work gets done right.
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