Quantum
Global
Services

Michael Dreiling · Founder & Principal

Interim CIO | Executive Technical Advisory

Onsite Within 7 Days · Driving Outcomes Within 2 Weeks

Senior technology leadership, available when you need it most. Michael steps into your organization as your Interim CIO within days — zero ramp-up, immediate executive impact.

Engaged by PE sponsors, operating partners, corporate boards, and CEOs facing CIO gaps, integration events, or special situations.

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Michael
Dreiling

Founder & Principal

MBA · MIS | BBA · Finance

Interim CIO Technical Advisory M&A Technical AI Adoption Digital Transformation Cyber Security

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$360M

Scale of Departmental Budget Managed

900+

Scale of technical team managed

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Michael Dreiling · Founder & Principal

MBA, Management Information Systems · BBA, Finance

Senior leadership, when and where you need it.

Two Fortune 500 CIO tenures. $130M in recurring run-rate cost-out — equivalent to roughly $1.3B of enterprise-value uplift at 10x EBITDA. $30B in global M&A integrations executed without business disruption, on both sides of the table — acquirer and acquired. Stood up the standalone IT estate for a $600M corporate carve-out, then consolidated IT shared services across a $4B four-company operating estate.

Michael Dreiling is a C-suite technology executive with over two decades of hands-on CIO leadership across global Fortune 500 enterprises and high-growth technology companies — bringing a rare combination of strategic financial acumen, business goal alignment, and emerging AI technology.

Quantum Global Services provides seasoned C-suite technology leadership on an interim and advisory basis — delivering the strategic clarity and execution rigor of a full-time CIO while a long-term permanent search is undertaken. Whether navigating a critical technology transition, standing up an AI capability, or bridging a leadership gap, we bring the experience to move fast and get it right.

Engagements typically begin within two weeks and are structured for impact from day one — no ramp-up, no learning curve.

Interim CIO Technology Advisory Board Advisory

Education & Credentials

MBA, Management Information Systems | BBA, Finance
References available upon request · All engagements handled with full confidentiality

Selected Engagements

A representative sample of prior deployments across industries. Client names withheld per confidentiality agreements with sponsors, boards, and portfolio companies.

Engineering Enterprise · $470M

Interim CIO — IT Stabilization & Transformation

Six-month engagement to lead and stabilize the technical organization, assess the IT organizational model and talent, align IT with business objectives, optimize enterprise architecture and project portfolio, and enhance cybersecurity. Established IT roadmap and operating model, upgraded talent, established new partners, renegotiated with suppliers, deployed Cloud-First FinOps, and hardened cyber security. Achieved $4M annual run-rate savings, returned $1.2M in CAPEX, gained organizational trust, improved data privacy regulatory compliance, and reduced cyber vulnerabilities.

Interim CIO Cloud-First FinOps Talent & Operating Model Cyber Hardening

Automotive Parts Manufacturing · $175M

Advisory — Digital Strategy & AI Efficiency

Four-month project to review digital strategy and AI efficiency. Deployed Copilot AI with RPA to process unstructured documents and trigger automated workflows and decisions, reducing manual processing 60%, accelerating decisions and saving $300K. Designed Agentic AI running a team of specialized agents across procurement, production, and finance to manage inventory levels and production schedules, and flag discrepancies between invoices, POs, and received quantities.

Copilot AI & RPA Agentic AI Process Automation Digital Strategy

Oil & Gas Energy Engineering · $650M

Advisory — Cybersecurity & Privacy Risk Program

Four-month project to review cybersecurity and privacy risks and controls. Developed plan to achieve ISO 27001 certification and NIST model adoption. By the end of the engagement, the firm earned its highest scores to-date on Penetration tests, Red Team exercises, Breach and Attack Simulations, and independent audit testing. Improvements in cyber controls yielded proposal wins on jobs against competitors with lower bids.

ISO 27001 NIST Red Team & SOC 2 Disaster Recovery

Industrial Services Carve-Out · $600M Divestiture

Carve-Out CIO — TSA Exit & Multi-Company Consolidation

Stood up the standalone IT estate for the divestiture of a $600M business from a strategic seller to a strategic acquirer. Day-1 ready, no operational disruption, exited the seller’s TSA on schedule. Subsequently consolidated IT shared services across four operating companies — $4B combined revenue, 14,000 employees, on a $30M budget — converging five legacy IT organizations into a single operating model. $12M annual run-rate savings on the consolidated estate.

Carve-Out TSA Exit Shared-Services Consolidation Cyber Standardization

What we do

Engagements are scoped to your specific situation — no off-the-shelf solutions.

Interim CIO

Step into your organization as a functioning Chief Information Officer — owning the technology roadmap, team, and vendor relationships from day one.

IT Strategy & Governance
Team Leadership & Hiring
Vendor & Budget Management

Typical engagement: 90–180 days · Available within 2 weeks

Deal & Integration Support

Tech due diligence, post-merger integration, carve-out & TSA exit, and post-incident cyber response — engaged on transaction-clock timelines for sponsors, boards, and corporate development teams.

M&A Tech Due Diligence
Post-Merger Integration
Carve-Out / TSA Exit
Post-Incident Cyber Response

Typical engagement: 60–180 days · Available within 2 weeks

Technology Advisory

Ongoing strategic guidance for boards, CEOs, and leadership teams navigating technology decisions, digital transformation, and emerging technology risk.

Board & Executive Advisory
Digital Transformation
Technology Risk & Security

Ongoing retainer or project basis · Available immediately

Interim CIO · Engagement Model

The 90-Day Sprint

Day-one readiness with no onboarding lag. Immediate C-suite stabilization, visibility, and impactful quick wins — structured across three focused phases.

Phase 01

Days 1–30

Diagnose

Zero-based budget review
Cyber risk heat map (NIST / ISO)
Vendor & contract concentration map
IT org & talent triage
TSA / integration backlog scan

DeliverableDay-30 situation report with red / yellow / green flags on cost, cyber, talent, and integration backlog.

Phase 02

Days 31–60

Analyze

Cost-out targets ranked by realizability
Cyber remediation backlog with owners
Cloud / FinOps baseline & spend story
ERP / app rationalization plan
Quick-win playbook for execution phase

DeliverableBoard-ready 60-day execute plan tied to the value-creation plan, with named owners and dates.

Phase 03

Days 61–90

Execute

Vendor renegotiations underway
FinOps discipline live; run-rate trending down
Cyber gaps closed against NIST / ISO benchmarks
Permanent CIO recruited or successor identified
Hand-off pack to sponsor, ops partner, or successor

DeliverableMeasurable progress on at least one P&L-relevant outcome before hand-off — cost reduction, cyber remediation, or talent upgrade.

Why interim leadership?

The best organizations don't wait for a perfect full-time hire when the business demands action now.

A permanent CIO search takes 4–6 months on average. In that window, technology decisions stall, vendor contracts lapse, and teams lose direction. The cost of the gap far exceeds the cost of the search.

Quantum Global Services steps in on day one with zero ramp-up time — bringing several decades of pattern recognition across industries that no new hire can replicate in their first year.

When the permanent hire is ready, we hand off a clean, documented, operating technology organization — and a leader set up to succeed.

Day-one productivity

No onboarding curve. Operational from the first week with immediate executive impact.

Proven cross-industry depth

Pattern recognition from multiple engagements means faster diagnosis and fewer costly experiments.

Clean handoff to permanent leadership

We build organizations designed to outlast the engagement — your permanent hire inherits a foundation, not a mess.

Fraction of the total cost

No equity, no benefits, no search fees. Pure executive output at a predictable engagement cost.

What clients say

Direct quotes from CEOs and board members following completed engagements.

Brought invaluable expertise and consolidated IT groups from multiple independent companies into a unified, high-performance organization — delivering efficiencies that exceeded our expectations.

CEO and Managing Partner

Environmental Services

Technology insight that was competent, consistent and forthright. Significant strides were made across all systems and the Audit Committee of the Board was particularly impressed with the Risk Assessments and remedial improvements to Cyber Security.

Chief Accounting Officer

Global Construction & Engineering

Arrived as an Interim CIO into a volatile organizational environment with the CIO role vacant, Board confidence low, critical company financial pressure and low alignment with operations. Analysis insight was gained within days, a new IT organization implemented within weeks and results beginning to bear fruit in 90 days. Trust restored based on open communications, timely decisions and delivering fast value.

CFO

Global Engineering

We avoided the under-provisioning of millions in unknown remedial technical debt costs to bring the acquired technical assets to necessary minimum standards.

CFO

Marketing Firm Acquisition · Pre-LOI Tech Due Diligence

Names and identifying details withheld per client confidentiality agreements. References available upon request.

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