Independent technology leadership and oversight · Chicago Metro & Global (Remote)
The technology and security executive on your side of the table.
Your MSP, your software vendors and your carriers each bring an expert to the table. Tullio IT puts one on yours: executive leadership with 25+ years running enterprise IT and security, that checks the work, leads the hard calls, and signs its name to them. Independent, with nothing to resell.
Who it's for
Owners and CFOs of companies with 10 to 500 people that run on outsourced IT and have no CIO.
You're in the right place if
- Your cyber insurance application came back with questions
- Your MSP contract is up, or the price just went up
- A software or ERP project is late and over budget
- A lender, buyer or board wants proof your systems are under control
- A breach at a company like yours has leadership asking what would happen here
How it works
Leadership you can install, not just advice you receive.
Start with a fixed-fee answer. Keep the seat if it earns it. Every engagement runs on a single source of truth, with a documented control record behind the decisions.
A fixed-fee answer
A defined review with a written answer in weeks, priced before it starts.
An executive in the seat
Any seat on the IT leadership team, by the month, owning the outcome.
Standing reviews
Recurring checks that keep providers honest and the board informed.
Diagnose
Six ways to start.
Each one is a fixed fee, a defined scope, and a written answer you can act on with or without us.
Independent Provider Audit
Is your MSP, and the software and carriers around it, delivering what you pay for? Security, contract and performance, scored in one review.
See the offerIncident Readiness
If you were hit tomorrow, could you recover? A plan review and a tabletop, run by someone who has led a rebuild.
See the offer100-Day IT Diagnostic
The whole IT function scored, with a 100-day plan the owner can act on.
See the offerProject Rescue
A late, over-budget project assessed in 30 days, with a recovery plan or a clean exit.
See the offerSource-of-Truth Sprint
The plan for one governed system of record instead of arguing spreadsheets, so the board can trust its numbers.
See the offerVendor Selection Referee
An RFP run for the buyer, not the vendor: requirements, shortlist and contract terms.
See the offerLaunch
Starting a company? Start it right.
A new company's whole technology foundation, built in weeks and handed over with the keys. For new firms of 1 to 10 people.
Lead
Every seat on the IT leadership team.
Fractional and monthly, scoped to the hours you need, until you're ready to hire in-house, or indefinitely. Board advisory is available as a lighter seat.
Fractional CIO
The executive technology seat: strategy, budget, vendors and the roadmap, owned end to end.
See the seatFractional CISO
Security leadership with executive ownership: posture, controls, insurance evidence and incident command.
See the seatFractional CTO
The technology build seat: architecture, platforms, cloud and the engineering partners, owned end to end.
See the seatFractional Chief Data Officer
One owner for the data: master data, reporting and the governance that makes the numbers true.
See the seatFractional PMO Director
A program office that lands projects: portfolio, governance, change management and vendor cadence.
See the seatIT Owner's Rep
Independent oversight of a major project, from contract to go-live, on the owner's side of the table.
See the seatGovernance and AI assurance review
Board-defensible controls and cyber-insurance readiness, plus an inventory of where AI is used, with policy gates and the evidence auditors ask for, mapped to ISO 42001 and the NIST AI RMF.
M&A diligence and integration
The technology side of a deal: diligence before it closes, integration after, without losing the data, the controls or the operations in the cutover.
Disciplines
The whole IT function, covered.
Every seat and every review draws on the same disciplines, each one run in practice, not just advised on.
Business analysis
Requirements, process maps and design documentation, written so builders and vendors can be held to them.
Process improvement and automation
Manual work found, measured and automated, so the process runs the same way every time.
Project and program management
A PMO, a ranked portfolio and a delivery cadence on a time, money and resources framework.
Change management
A change advisory board and the people side of change, so new systems are adopted, not just installed.
Application development
Custom and packaged applications led from requirements to release, on standard pipelines, with code you own.
ERP and enterprise applications
ERP, CRM and HRIS owned end to end: selection, configuration, integration and support.
Business intelligence and data
Master data, a golden record and reporting the board can trust, every number traced to its source.
Information security
Identity and access, endpoint protection, vulnerability management, governance, risk and compliance, incident response.
Infrastructure and operations
Network, cloud and backup, run 24/7 with escalation and on-call coverage sized to the business.
IT service management (ITIL)
The full service lifecycle: incident, problem, change and request, run as one system.
Support and service desk
Service desk standards and service levels, and the MSP held to them.
Continual service improvement
Measure, review, improve, on a fixed cadence, so the gains last after the project ends.
Selected track record
A record built where errors carry real cost.
Manufacturing, public safety and corrections, higher education and state agencies, and owner-led firms. Environments where the systems have to stay up and the decisions have to hold up.
CIO, a national food manufacturer
Established the CIO function across six operating companies and roughly two dozen sites. Documented the cyber exposure before the incident, then led the 46-day rebuild after an international cyberattack: a secured network, endpoint protection across the estate, Microsoft 365, and plant-floor systems back in production. Built the security program and vendor strategy through a nine-vendor evaluation.
Deputy Chief Information Officer, Cook County Sheriff's Office
Five leadership roles in five years, from Director of Application Development through Director of Business Intelligence and CTO to Deputy CIO of a six-unit Bureau of IT. Ran 24/7 technology for jail operations, dispatch and field systems. Founded the first Business Intelligence practice in Cook County government, later elevated to a county-level office. Led the jail management system modernization and the data integration for the county hospital inside the jail complex, under health-privacy controls.
Director of IT, a multi-plant manufacturer
Ran enterprise IT for a group of about 900 employees across multiple plants, 24/7. Led the ERP replacement evaluation and carried it through a 36 percent capital cut to a final selection. Built the PMO, stood up a change advisory board within eight weeks, secured the plant-floor control networks, and wrote the four-year technology roadmap.
Center for the Application of Information Technologies, Western Illinois University
Two tenures starting in 1996. Built the center's first web presence, then custom learning-management platforms for Metra and the Illinois Department of Children & Family Services, and online-learning programs for Fortune 500 clients on the same hosted infrastructure.
Tullio IT, founded 2019
Senior leadership on every engagement, never a partner who sells and an associate who staffs. In 2026, built a new consulting firm's entire foundation, from brand to business phone. Specialists are brought in under Tullio IT when the work calls for it, and every finding is signed by the principal.
United States Air Force
KC-135 crew chief with Red X authority: the aircraft flew or stayed grounded on that inspection and signature. Where the standard started: do it right, write it down, stand behind it.
Partners we bring in
Elite Boutique Consulting Group
A Chicago boutique consultancy that connects select clients with the right partners across technology, healthcare and growth strategy.
Unite Technical Staffing
A Chicago technical staffing firm. When a client is ready to hire the in-house team, Unite finds the people.
Heirloom Heritage Co.
A commissioned heritage studio for family history books. Founded by Tullio IT's founder.
Tullio IT takes no referral fees from any provider it reviews.
Credentials held
- ISC2Certified in Cybersecurity
- PeopleCertITIL Foundation
- GoogleCybersecurity Certificate
Independent by design
Nothing to resell. Nothing to hide.
Tullio IT sells no hardware and no leases, marks up no software, and takes no referral fees from any provider it reviews. It never audits a service it provides. If that ever changes for a client, you hear it from us first, in writing.
The practice takes its name from Tullio John Borghi, its founder's grandfather, and the steadiness it is built to carry forward.
Tullio John Borghi · under the sign of Pisces
Design it right. Secure it. Sign your name to it.
Get in touch
Tell us what's keeping the systems, or the board, up at night.
A short conversation is the fastest way to know if there's a fit. No deck, no pitch. Just a direct read on the problem.