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

Fractional Executive CIO

Bryan is passionate about helping mid-market executives build and sustain a framework and process for technology alignment to business objectives.

Ed Escobedo

Fractional Executive CIO/CISO/CRO

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

Fractional Executive CIO/CISO/CRO

Steve is a people-first leader who inspires and builds sustainable teams with an unrelenting focus on results. In his 25-year career as a CIO, Steve has set and delivered digital transformation strategies that propel innovation and top and bottom-line growth, as well as offer competitive differentiation.

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

Practice Director, BI/Reporting and
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.

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

Senior Advisor, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Health & Safety

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.

Mark Jones

Senior Consultant, Microsoft 365 Services

TAG can see the world very clearly. And looking at the unique nature of our business, they not only painted a picture of what can be, but began implementing steps to navigate the changes required to build a very robust and powerful IT program.

I really appreciated how refreshing it was to get very candid feedback, and timely feedback, in a very unvarnished, direct, but kind and honest way – that was extremely valuable to us. It helped us to make the decisions that we needed to make.

Paul, and his team at TAG CXO, helped Buesing identify the right set of IT strategies that align with our key business objectives, then went to work making practical improvements to our core systems, our infrastructure, our internal IT group, and our vendors.

With Fractional CIO services and enterprise-level expertise, TAG helped us to successfully overcome a huge lack of support from software developers and vendors.

Paul’s IT expertise is second to none, but what really sets him apart is his strategic approach. He took the time to meet with multiple members of our team to gain a clear understanding of our needs. Only then did he present a concise report of his findings and a comprehensive plan tailored to our specific requirements.

Get in touch
7000 N 16th St., Suite 120-167
Phoenix, AZ 85020
(602) 962-6200
info@tagcxo.com