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Hire an interim CTO in Greece and Cyprus

A technology leader for the gap or the inflection: someone who has owned architecture, engineering organisations, and vendor relationships before, and can referee the decisions your team cannot.

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An interim CTO takes the technology seat when a product organisation loses its leader or stops shipping, and owns the architecture, the engineering team and the vendors until a permanent CTO arrives. In Greece and Cyprus the moment usually looks like one of these:

The CTO resigns mid-roadmap and the team stops agreeing on priorities
A technical due diligence raises findings the buyer wants owned
A platform decision splits the team: rebuild, replatform or keep patching
The product stopped shipping at a pace the business can see

The interim CTOs on Hellenic Talent are elite professionals from senior industry technology roles, top consultancies and Big 4 firms. They know the realities of hiring engineers in Greece and Cyprus and the local vendor market well enough to be sceptical of it.

What does an interim CTO actually do?

Own the architecture decisions and settle the ones the team cannot
Reshape the engineering organisation, from structure to key hires
Sort the technical debt into what is urgent and what is noise
Own the vendor and outsourcing contracts, from terms to what actually ships
Get the product shipping again at a cadence the business can see
Explain technical risk to the board and work through due diligence findings

How to choose the right interim CTO

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

Has called rebuild or refactor
Has made the rebuild-or-refactor call on a live product and can explain what it cost and what it saved.
Has hired engineers here
Can say where the senior engineers they hired in Greece or Cyprus came from, and why they stayed.
Measures delivery, not effort
Tracks how long a change takes to reach users and how often releases break, rather than hours or story points.