Fractional CTO support across the M62 corridor, delivered by Richard J. Keenlyside - a senior technology operator with three decades of board-level leadership across UK and international businesses. The M62 corridor - Liverpool, Warrington, Manchester, Leeds, Hull - is one of the densest industrial and logistics belts in the UK, with substantial manufacturing, retail distribution and PE-backed mid-market activity.
On-site days planned across multiple corridor sites in a single week - typically combining HQ with a distribution or manufacturing site visit. Remote cadence between visits.
Travel and on-site: M62 corridor engagements typically use Manchester or Leeds as the anchor day, with Liverpool and Hull added as half-day visits.
Multiple multi-site engagements have run along this corridor - Co-operative Food (Manchester HQ, distribution North), Pork Farm Foods (Yorkshire production), and retail clients with Northern logistics footprints.
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.
On-site days planned across multiple corridor sites in a single week - typically combining HQ with a distribution or manufacturing site visit. Remote cadence between visits.
Multiple multi-site engagements have run along this corridor - Co-operative Food (Manchester HQ, distribution North), Pork Farm Foods (Yorkshire production), and retail clients with Northern logistics footprints.
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.
M62 corridor engagements typically use Manchester or Leeds as the anchor day, with Liverpool and Hull added as half-day visits.
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