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How do you go from Director to CIO? Host Matt Peters, CEO of Fixify, sits down with IT executives who've made the climb to unpack the pivotal decisions, career-defining moments, and hard-won lessons that got them there. If you're a VP or Director of IT looking for practical advice to reach the C-suite, this is the podcast that finally focuses on your journey—not just the latest tech trends. Real stories. Real strategies. Real career growth.
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Signup to Generate a PitchHow do you go from Director to CIO? Host Matt Peters, CEO of Fixify, sits down with IT executives who've made the climb to unpack the pivotal decisions, career-defining moments, and hard-won lessons that got them there.
Climbing the Stack is hosted by Fixify. The show has published 20 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "What an acquisition really looks like from the CISO seat | Don Silva Sr." (27 October 2026, 31 minutes), "How radical transparency built a team that followed me for three companies | Robert Former" (13 October 2026, 33 minutes), and "Don't break into jail: How to present technology to the board | Brad Lontz" (29 September 2026, 31 minutes).
Climbing the Stack publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 36 minutes across 20 episodes.
Booking probability for Climbing the Stack is 29%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Climbing the Stack requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Climbing the Stack's contact route on record: public web form.
The strongest fits for Climbing the Stack are IT Services & Software Development. Climbing the Stack has a technology audience.
Fixify hosts Climbing the Stack, a technology podcast with 20 episodes published.
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Don Silva Sr. started on third shift pulling cables at Sun Microsystems and climbed to Chief Information Security Officer at Raintree Systems . What moved him up was realizing security leadership is a business role...
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Robert Former spent years losing the risk argument, until he found a way to say it in the language executives speak, dollars. As Chief Information Security Officer at Acquia , he uses the FAIR methodology to turn...
You can spot a CIO who has made the climb by sitting in on their leadership team, where you cannot tell who runs technology. Brad Lontz , EVP and Chief Information Officer at CSAA Insurance Group , got there by leading...
Darragh Curran spent 14 years helping Fin , formerly Intercom, grow from six people to around 1,400. His sharpest lesson for engineers now is that writing code has become the trivial part, while deciding what to build...
Kaarthick Subramanian says AI initiatives rarely fail on model quality. They fail on foundations, governance, and adoption. Now Chief Customer Officer and CISO at Atlas Systems, he treats every AI agent as an identity...
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<p>Matthew Sharp came up as a computer and electrical engineer, moved through independent testing and audit work, and then took a sales role he was convinced would be the devil's work. Four years selling specialized...
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Matthew Sharp came up as a computer and electrical engineer, moved through independent testing and audit work, and then took a sales role he was convinced would be the devil's work. Four years selling specialized...
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Fred Bret-Mounet , VP of Security, Compliance and IT / CISO at Accela, started his security career in 2001 at @stake, one of the handful of firms that invented security consulting. He was excellent at building Fort...
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<p>Fred Bret-Mounet, VP of Security, Compliance and IT / CISO at Accela, started his security career in 2001 at @stake, one of the handful of firms that invented security consulting. He was excellent at building Fort...
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<p>When Georgeo X. Pulikkathara joined iMerit Technology as CISO, the role came with infrastructure responsibility attached. His solution was to take the CIO title too and fund security controls directly from that...
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When Georgeo X. Pulikkathara joined iMerit Technology as CISO, the role came with infrastructure responsibility attached. His solution was to take the CIO title too and fund security controls directly from that budget...
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<p>Most enterprise AI rollouts start with a pilot team, a controlled use case, and a measurement framework. Chily Fachler, CIO at AppsFlyer, started by giving all 1,300 employees AI tools and telling them to build...
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<p>Guillermo Porcaro took a deliberate step down to join Medallia as the IT guy for the Argentina office, even after having already built and managed teams. He saw something in the culture worth betting on, and that...
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<p>Bryan Wise didn't start in IT. He started selling bicycles. After self-studying for his MCSEs in three months and bluffing his way into his first technical role, he's spent 30 years building through the ranks at...
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<p>Stacey Moore's path to Sr. VP of IT ran through Big Six audit, an MBA, seven years of management consulting, and five consecutive high-growth startups. That's not a typical IT career trajectory, and it shows in how...
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<p>The director-to-VP jump breaks most technology leaders. Rusty Atkinson saw it coming. After realizing he was an above-average engineer but never the head geek in the room, he made a calculated bet: leadership ability...
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<p>Kumud Kokal's career path defied his CPA father's expectations, pivoting from accounting to software engineering during the Internet's early days. Over 25 years, he built technical fluency across wildly different...
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<p>Bob Genchi's seven years at Gap Inc. became his "postgraduate education" in IT. He watched a major IBM outsourcing initiative that initially promised efficiency turn into a morale-destroying productivity sink. The...
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<p>Noni Azhar turned a consulting career into C-suite leadership by mastering what most IT leaders miss: the skill of making stakeholders believe your solution was their idea. As CIO at ProService Hawaii, he shares the...
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<p>Trevor Gregg supervises county IT operations and runs Columbia College's Google-funded IT pre-apprenticeship program. When he inherited a service desk with morale in the basement, he did something most IT leaders...
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