Built by a CIO. Run like one.

Most growing companies — the ones between 50 and 500 employees, between their first hires and their next funding round — are making technology decisions without the expertise those decisions require.

Not because they don't care about technology. Because they don't have a CIO. And they don't have a CIO because the traditional model was designed for enterprises, not for companies at their stage.

A full-time CIO at scale makes sense. The scope justifies the overhead. At a 50-person professional services firm, that calculation doesn't work — but the need for technology leadership is just as real. The company needs someone who can evaluate vendors, build a security posture, design the infrastructure that supports the next stage of growth, and hold the technology function accountable to outcomes. It doesn't need a $300,000 executive and the organizational structure that comes with one.

That's the gap Aeolus was built to close.

We operate as the CIO function — not consultants who deliver a report and leave, not an MSP keeping the lights on, but the technology leadership that makes the decisions that compound. Every engagement is structured around outcomes. Every client relationship is built on the premise that technology should be a growth lever, not a cost center.

Van Murray

Van Murray founded Aeolus after two decades of building, buying, and operating technology-dependent businesses. He's sat at the table where the decisions get made — M&A due diligence, board-level risk reviews, investor readiness assessments — and watched the same failure mode play out at company after company: great operators running blind because their technology was never treated as a strategic asset.

Aeolus brings CIO-level thinking to companies that aren't ready for a full-time CIO — and in most cases, never need to be. Our model is designed to give you the leverage without the overhead: a seasoned technology executive embedded in your business, accountable to outcomes, and structured to scale with you.

We're not a managed service provider. We're not a staffing firm. We're the CIO function — fractional, integrated, and built for the way modern SMBs actually operate.