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Fractional CIO & CISO
The executive technology seat on a part-time basis — strategy, budget, vendors, and the security posture — owned end to end until you're ready to hire in-house, or indefinitely.
Fractional CIO & CISO · Chicago Metro
Enterprise IT and security leadership, without the full-time hire.
Tullio IT places a seasoned technology and security executive inside your business on a fractional basis — to steady operations, harden the environment, and make the calls a board can defend. Built inside the institution, proven from zero.
The practice
Leadership you can install, not just advice you receive.
Four ways the work shows up. Every engagement runs to a single source of truth, with a documented control record behind the decisions.
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Cyber resilience & incident recovery
Incident command and the rebuild that follows. The discipline of bringing a breached enterprise back online, then closing the gaps that let it happen — written down and auditable.
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IT strategy & operations
The unglamorous core: roadmaps that survive contact with a budget, infrastructure that holds, and operations that run without the founder in the loop.
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Governance & oversight
Board-ready controls for the risks now landing on the agenda — including how AI gets adopted safely. Grounded in security discipline, mapped to the standards your auditors already ask about.
Selected track record
A record built where errors carry real cost.
Public sector, manufacturing, and food — environments where the systems have to stay up and the decisions have to hold up.
2022–2023
First-ever CIO, a national manufacturer
Recruited to stand up the technology function. Led a 46-day enterprise rebuild in the wake of a nationwide cyberattack — the kind of board-defensible incident discipline now in demand across regulated industries.
2019–2022
Fractional CIO / CISO — Tullio IT
The practice itself: executive technology and security leadership delivered part-time to mid-market organizations that needed the seat without the headcount.
2012–2017
Deputy CIO, Cook County
Enterprise technology leadership at public-sector scale — roughly a $12M budget and 6,500 users across a complex, high-accountability environment.
1991–1997
United States Air Force
Where the operating discipline started: do it right, write it down, stand behind it.
ISC2 Certified in CybersecurityITILGoogle CybersecurityCISO FoundationsCISSP candidate
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.
How it works
Right-sized to the problem in front of you.
Fractional retainer
A standing share of the week. The ongoing executive seat — set hours, predictable cost, full ownership of the technology agenda.
Advisory
Lighter-touch counsel for a leadership team or board — strategy reviews, security posture, and the calls that need a senior operator's read.
Project & recovery
A defined engagement with an end date — a rebuild, a migration, an audit-readiness push, or incident response when it matters most.
Get in touch
Tell me 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.