Senior technology & transformation · New Zealand

You run the business.We run the technology.

Most growing businesses have technology, vendors, and good intentions, but no one senior owns the direction.myCIO is that owner.

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Independent. In the room. NZ owned.

You know the feeling. The signs the gap is already costing you.

AI is on the agenda, but nothing has moved.

Pilots tried, nothing stuck. The businesses that cracked it are further ahead every month.

The business runs on what is in people's heads.

Knowledge lives with a handful of senior people. When one leaves, something goes with them.

Nobody owns the technology direction.

Decisions land with whoever is closest to the problem. Everyone owns a piece, so nobody owns the result.

Vendor contracts renew because nobody has time to review them.

Nobody checks what you are paying or whether the terms still make sense. Vendors are counting on it.

If any of these sound familiar, your technology is likely costing you more than it should. That gap does not close on its own.

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We're not another MSP that checks with the team and gets back to you.

Or a service desk you're forever following up with. We're in your business day in, day out, holding the standards firm so the age-old noise of IT disappears.

One senior team accountable for the outcome
Vendors held to account from day one
No lock-in, not even to us

One client saved over $500k in a single competitive vendor review.

The first thing most owners notice when we come in: vendors that finally answer to someone.

What we do

Four ways we take the weight of technology off you.

Pick one, or all four. Most clients start with Fractional CIO and add the rest as the roadmap calls for it.

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Fractional CIO and strategic advice

A senior team owns your technology direction, and holds your vendors to account.

  • A senior team that owns your technology direction
  • A rolling roadmap, reviewed every quarter
  • Vendors directed and held to their commitments
  • Board-ready reporting on risk, spend, and progress
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Technology consulting

Independent advice on cloud, Microsoft 365, networking, and the data underneath it.

  • Cloud strategy, Azure and AWS, workload placement
  • Microsoft 365 configuration, licensing, and identity
  • Secure networking: SASE, zero trust, multi-site
  • Data and knowledge foundations that make AI useful
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Projects and delivery

Phased transformation programmes, scoped, led, and owned end to end.

  • Programmes scoped, led, and owned end to end
  • Foundations fixed before anything is built on top
  • AI readiness, Copilot rollout, workflow automation
  • Every initiative measured against a business outcome
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Security and operations

The controls, monitoring, and response your board expects, running quietly in the background.

  • Posture assessment against NIST and SMB1001
  • Managed detection, response, and vulnerability management
  • Incident response, rehearsed, not improvised
  • Board and insurer-ready risk reporting
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The team

No account managers. No junior handoffs. The names on the door are the people in your business.

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Elton McDowall

Co-founder and Director
Fractional CIO leadership

20+ years across strategy, security, governance, and technology leadership. Elton turns the complex stuff into decisions that make sense to owners, CFOs, and directors. Plain language, no jargon.

Elton also sits on the board of Tael Solutions, named Emerging Advisory Firm of the Year at The Gap Reunion 2025. Real directorship, real accountability for business outcomes, and the view from the other side of the table.

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Michael Nicolle

Co-founder and Director
Strategic technology & transformation

15+ years delivering technology across ANZ organisations in food processing, medical, retail, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing. Stalled projects, expired vendor relationships, broken trust. That is where the work starts.

Led technology programmes across multiple ANZ organisations: full infrastructure architecture, nationwide networks, and operational resiliency. Delivered, again and again.

You focus on running the business. We own the technology, and keep it out of your way.

See how we work

Thirty minutes. You leave knowing exactly where you stand.

Half an hour, no slide deck. You get an honest read on where your technology stands and what to do about it. If we are not the right fit for you, we say so.

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Prefer email? hello@mycio.co.nz