About Us
About Us
We are a team of world-class IT Executives who are passionate about optimizing technology, systems, processes, and people to improve business outcomes. Our clients are mid-market companies who have both the opportunities and challenges of their larger competitors. We provide experienced IT and business leadership that helps them attain their vision and outsmart or outmaneuver their competitive giants.
Our approach is simple – to bring the most experienced and proven IT leaders to our clients on a fractional, interim, or project basis to help them:
- Gain clarity about their options and opportunities
- Invest wisely in ways that maximize their competitive advantage
- Manage their IT operations with confidence
Our Values
We started TAG CXO to bring together a carefully selected team of world-class executives who have a similar belief system. Our culture and values drive how we work and relate together and with our clients. We believe in:
- A philosophy of stewardship: of people, processes, systems, and products
- Being passionate for continuous improvement
- Embracing positive conflict
- Being bold in vision – but pragmatic in execution
- Making each decision based on creating value for our clients
Our Team
Paul Theisen
Founder, Principal, and Fractional CIO
A tenured executive leader, Paul brings over 30 years of experience across a spectrum of industrial markets serving asset heavy enterprises in commercial and specialty construction, global manufacturing, energy, and the utility industries.
Zach Poth
Chief Operating Officer
Zach is a seasoned Sales and Operations Executive with over 15 years of progressive experience in business process development and people management.
Bryan Kearney
Bryan is passionate about helping mid-market executives build and sustain a framework and process for technology alignment to business objectives.
Ed Escobedo
Ed is a passionate and skilled problem solver. Through focused leadership, Ed helps mid-market organizations build and align their internal technology and cybersecurity systems and processes, leading to positive transformation and operational excellence.
Steve Phillips
Lisa Baldwin
Fractional Executive CIO
Lisa is a global-minded IT leader who brings world-class insights – gained from 30 years of experience – to TAG CXO clients. She has a track record of transformation and modernization with paramount, luxury brands such as Tiffany and Co., Coach and IBM.
Joe Oddo
Fractional Executive CIO
Joe Oddo takes challenges head on, reverse engineering solutions to drive top business performance and integrate technology solutions to deliver the best results. Joe is a firm believer in forward-thinking strategy, and implements technology plans that future-proof performance.
Steve Phillips
Lisa Baldwin
Fractional Executive CIO
Lisa is a global-minded IT leader who brings world-class insights – gained from 30 years of experience – to TAG CXO clients. She has a track record of transformation and modernization with paramount, luxury brands such as Tiffany and Co., Coach and IBM.
Practice Directors
Darin Howard
Analytics
Darin’s leadership and years of business intelligence experience enable him to design and develop solutions that deliver timely and trusted information, helping organizations make better decisions critical to their success.
Dan Streufert
Practice Director, IT Infrastructure Services
Dan is a proven and experienced, enterprise IT leader with a passion for process enablement and business/IT transformation in rapid-growth organizations. An entrepreneur at heart, Dan’s personal drive and curiosity have honed and complemented his soft skills with deep technical knowledge.
Kim Wineland
Practice Director, Program Delivery
Kim Wineland knows that the right systems deliver enhanced organizational performance and potential for superior achievement. For over 20 years, she has been an unwavering advocate for transformative technology and a masterful program management and business transformation leader.
Scott Carlson
Practice Director, Cybersecurity Services
Scott Carlson is a highly skilled and experienced Information Security advisor with 30 years of experience, adept at identifying risks and developing solutions. He enjoys cracking difficult problems and seeking out hidden solutions that deliver the most secure data management. Scott is a complexity simplifier, translating the technological jargon associated with Information Security into “human speak” so that all team members and leadership are confident in decisions
Kevin Lee
Practice Director, Cybersecurity Services
With more than 35 years as a consulting practice leader and executive with a background implementing a wide range of operational and IT solutions for some 80 different clients, Kevin brings extensive experience and uncommon acumen to the table.
Dan Streufert
Practice Director, IT Infrastructure Services
Dan is a proven and experienced, enterprise IT leader with a passion for process enablement and business/IT transformation in rapid-growth organizations. An entrepreneur at heart, Dan’s personal drive and curiosity have honed and complemented his soft skills with deep technical knowledge.
Strategic Partners
Jim Williams
Senior Advisor, Human Resources & Labor Relations
Jim brings over 30 years of Human Resources, Change Management, and Executive Coaching in a diverse set of organizations concentrating on utilities, mining, heavy construction/ maintenance, and municipalities. In his role as a consultant and business coach, Jim will ask powerful questions without judgment.
Kim Moulton
A diverse career of over 30 years focused on people through Health, Safety & Wellness, Human Resources, and large-scale Change Management / Cultural transformation initiatives allows Kim to influence and guide an organization, its leaders and those who get the work done.
