Fractional CTO support in Durham, delivered by Richard J. Keenlyside - a senior technology operator with three decades of board-level leadership across UK and international businesses. Durham is home to one of the UK's leading universities with a growing tech and life sciences spin-out base, a substantial county council and public sector footprint, and financial services back-office operations stretching from Newton Aycliffe to Aykley Heads.
Durham is a short drive from the Tees Valley home base - on-site days, board attendance and informal site visits can be arranged at very short notice, including half-day slots.
Travel and on-site: 20 to 30 minutes from the Tees Valley base by road. Direct LNER service from London Kings Cross (~2h45). Combines naturally with Newcastle and Teesside into a single North-East visit.
Long-standing presence in the wider County Durham area as part of North-East engagements. The county's public sector, financial services and university ecosystem overlaps naturally with the North-East industrial and executive network Richard has worked within for three decades.
SaaS, platform and product-led companies that need technical leadership but don't yet warrant a full-time CTO - particularly during scale-up phases or pre/post-acquisition.
Durham is a short drive from the Tees Valley home base - on-site days, board attendance and informal site visits can be arranged at very short notice, including half-day slots.
Long-standing presence in the wider County Durham area as part of North-East engagements. The county's public sector, financial services and university ecosystem overlaps naturally with the North-East industrial and executive network Richard has worked within for three decades.
SaaS, platform and product-led companies that need technical leadership but don't yet warrant a full-time CTO - particularly during scale-up phases or pre/post-acquisition.
Most Fractional CTO engagements run for an initial 90-day discovery period followed by an ongoing leadership cadence. Typical outcomes include: A target-state architecture you can actually deliver against; Engineering team topology and culture suited to the next stage of growth; Predictable product delivery cadence with clear measures; Technical due-diligence readiness ahead of fundraises or exits.
20 to 30 minutes from the Tees Valley base by road. Direct LNER service from London Kings Cross (~2h45). Combines naturally with Newcastle and Teesside into a single North-East visit.
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