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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.
Fixify hosts Climbing the Stack, a technology show with 15 episodes published.
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 securit
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 securit
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 Knox.
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 Knox.
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. I
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. I
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 whatever
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 read pa
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 companie
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 she l
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 wou
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 busines
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 experi
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 fram
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 never c
"How many IAM tickets do you close a day?" When Tom Quinn asked his team, the answer was "a lot." That non-answer cost them six hours just to compile basic metrics. Two weeks later: four hours. Two more weeks: one hour.
Most IT leaders spend their first week as CIO in meet-and-greets. Mark Settle spent his time sitting in quarterly sales reviews in Minneapolis—where executives looked at him confused, asking why he'd want to be there. Th
Most directors think the CIO job is about making bigger technical decisions. Karl Mosgofian discovered it's about learning an entirely different language: investment language. When your "perfect" solution reaches the CEO
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