Technology

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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Companies rarely plan for an empty technology seat. It happens anyway: a CTO resigns mid-roadmap, a technical due diligence raises findings the buyer wants owned, a platform decision splits the team, or a product organisation simply stops shipping. An interim CTO steps into that moment and takes the seat: the architecture, the engineering organisation, and the vendor relationships, with accountability for what they produce.

The interim CTOs on Hellenic Talent are elite professionals from senior industry technology roles, top consultancies, and Big 4 firms. They know how technology gets built and bought in Greece and Cyprus: the local vendor market, the realities of hiring engineers here, and what owners and boards need to hear about technical risk.

What does an interim CTO actually do?

Own the architecture decisions and settle the ones the team cannot
Assess and reshape the engineering organisation, from structure to key hires
Review the platform and technical debt, separating what is urgent from what is noise
Own vendor and outsourcing relationships, from contract terms to delivery
Get a stalled product organisation shipping again at a cadence the business can see
Translate technical risk into terms the board and investors can act on
Work through the findings of a technical due diligence in a credible order

How to choose the right interim CTO

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

Held the technology seat
Has run an engineering organisation, not only advised one.
Same situation, different company
Has faced your inflection before: a rebuild, a replatform, a due diligence, or a scaling wall.
Credible in both rooms
Can hold their own with vendors and with engineers in the same week.
Plain language for owners
Explains technical trade-offs in language an owner or board can act on.
Sceptical about local vendors
Knows the Greek and Cypriot vendor and engineering market well enough to be sceptical.