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Hire an interim CIO in Greece and Cyprus

The corporate IT seat held properly for a period: systems, vendors, security and budget owned by someone who has run them before.

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Most Greek and Cypriot mid-market companies run on an IT manager and a ring of local vendors. An interim CIO takes the enterprise IT seat for a period, the systems the business runs on rather than the product it sells. The seat is usually needed when:

An ERP has to be replaced and nobody inside has done it
A merger leaves two system landscapes to make into one
NIS2 makes management accountable for cybersecurity, and the owner wants IT owned properly
IT contracts nobody has reviewed, renewing every year on the same terms

The interim CIOs on Hellenic Talent are elite professionals who have been CIOs and IT directors of banks, telecoms operators and industrial groups, or ran core system programs from the client side. They leave behind a roadmap, renegotiated contracts and a permanent IT director.

What does an interim CIO actually do?

Own the IT estate and set a roadmap the business signs
Run the core system program from the client side, requirements to go-live
Renegotiate the IT vendor contracts: scope, service levels and renewals
Put security governance in place so management can answer for it
Split the IT budget into keeping the lights on and changing something
Structure the IT team and decide what stays outsourced

How to choose the right interim CIO

What to test in the first conversation, whoever you end up hiring.

Has exited an IT contract
Has renegotiated or left an IT outsourcing contract and can point to the clause that decided it.
Splits run from change spend
Shows how they separate the cost of keeping systems running from the cost of changing them, line by line.
Decides in-house or outsourced
Can explain which IT services they kept in-house and which they outsourced in their last seat, and why.