Financial Services · Virtual CTO

Virtual CTO — ExecutiveLeadership, Flexible Engagement.

Our team brings real hedge fund CTO experience — $1M+ budget ownership, 20+ vendor relationships, team building and strategic roadmap delivery. The expertise of a $300K+ executive, without the overhead.

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What We Bring

Operator Experience.
Not Advisory Theory.

Budget Mastery

$1M+ annual IT budgets managed. We know where to invest and where to cut.

Vendor Authority

We've managed Eze Castle, RFA, IBM, and SHI as infrastructure partners — and worked with Bloomberg AIM, Charles River, and FlexTrade as trading platforms — from the buy side.

Team Building

Scaled engineering teams during growth phases. Hiring, org design, culture.

What We Deliver

Full-Spectrum IT
Leadership.

Every engagement is led by a practitioner who has held the Director of IT seat at a regulated fund — not a generalist consultant working from a playbook.

  • IT Strategy & Roadmap Development
  • Technology Due Diligence (fundraising, M&A)
  • Vendor Selection & Contract Negotiation
  • Board-Level Reporting & Technology Governance
  • Annual IT Budget Planning
  • Team Hiring & Management
  • Incident Management & Crisis Response
  • Technology Transition Planning

Our Credentials

13 Years Running
Hedge Fund IT.

$1M+

Annual IT Budget

20+

Vendor Partners

2→10+

Team Scaled

13 yrs

Fund Operations

Hedge Fund Infrastructure Partners

Eze CastleRFAIBMSHIAWSAzureGoogle Cloud

Engagement Models

We Engage the Way
You Need.

Monthly Retainer

Most Popular

Ongoing strategic leadership, board reporting, vendor oversight. Consistent presence without full-time overhead.

Project-Based

Flexible

Technology assessments, migration planning, due diligence. Defined scope, clear deliverables.

Interim CTO

Crisis & Transition

Full-time engagement coverage during transition periods. Continuity when you need it most.

New to Chadsel LLC?

$500 Credit for New Clients.

New clients receive $500 toward any service. No obligation — just a straightforward way to start working together.

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Common Questions

What managers ask about virtual CTO engagements.

What does a virtual CTO cost compared to a full-time hire?

A monthly retainer runs a fraction of full-time CTO compensation, and scales with need. You get senior leadership without the salary, bonus, and benefits load of a permanent executive.

Which vendors have you actually managed?

Eze Castle, RFA, IBM, and SHI as infrastructure partners; Bloomberg AIM, Charles River, and FlexTrade as trading platforms — negotiated and overseen from the buy side, managing $1M+ annual IT budgets.

Can you support technology due diligence for fundraising or M&A?

Yes. We prepare data rooms, answer allocator DDQs, and have built architectures that became differentiators in institutional due diligence.

Interim or fractional — which model fits?

Fractional (monthly retainer) suits ongoing governance; interim covers a departure or transition full-time until you hire. We do both, and can bridge from one to the other.