Adam Horner Email & Phone Number

Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland County, SE

I help CTOs evolve from overwhelmed problem-solvers to confident, strategic leaders by focusing on the part most struggle with: leadership transformation.✔ But leading isn’t just about strategy, is it? It’s about freeing yourself from daily firefighting, empowering your team, and bridging the gap between technical priorities and business objectives.That’s.

Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland County, SE

Scaling a startup is challenging – balancing innovation with operational efficiency often leaves technology leaders stretched thin. Hiring a full-time CTO isn’t always feasible, but achieving the leadership and guidance you need is essential for growth.That’s where I come in.As your fractional CTO, I work alongside your team to:👉 Refine your technology.

Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland County, SE

I’m Adam Horner, a CTO with over 30 years in the tech industry and the host of The CTO Playbook — the podcast dedicated to helping CTOs excel. Perfect for CTOs and tech leaders navigating the complexities of their roles, each episode offers clear insights, innovative strategies, and practical advice from top leaders in tech. With my extensive experience.

At Kindred, we’re on a mission to make life easier for parents. Our mobile app is designed to help parents quickly and easily find and plan family-friendly activities — whether it’s a weekday, weekend, or holiday.As a husband-and-wife team, we’re bootstrapping Kindred from the ground up. As CTO I bring 30 years of software development expertise. Combined.

London, England, GB

Having recruited a CTO into Tabeo and completed the succession plan, I continued my work as an advisor and coach for technology, product, and leadership.

London, England, GB

I advised Tabeo on a project to upgrade their core financial service platform and assisting in the recruitment of a permanent full-time CTO.

Goteborg, SE

Continuing my CTO role on a fractional basis.

Goteborg, SE

• As a key member of the Exec team reporting to the CEO, define and implement company strategy, improve leadership and management capabilities, and present at board meetings
• Led and architected a technology transformation from legacy “overgrown prototype” hardware and software stack to a modern AWS cloud-first microservices infrastructure that is scalable, secure, efficient, and much.
• Successfully restructured engineering into multiple full-stack development teams to increase velocity
• Foster close collaboration between team leaders, DevOps, engineers, designers, operations, and product owners while simultaneously transitioning to a hybrid home-office working model
• Redesigned the technical recruiting process to attract and retain top engineering talent
• Created, trained, and embedded standards and processes running a pragmatic agile development approach to ensure software quality, code maintainability, and platform reliability

Goteborg, SE

• In parallel with the CTO position, I was the acting CPO for 18 months (CPTO), leading engineering, devops, product, and design teams, in addition to a key operational team. Almost 50% of the company reported through to.
• Validated the technical and product acquisition theses for 2 separate acquisitions, Quedro, a real estate CRM and CDP acquired 2021, and Brandkeeper, a media asset management platform acquired 2022
• Oversaw the technical due diligence and product integrations of Quedro and Brandkeeper, with a focus on compatibility between technologies, teams, and methodologies. The combined group now offers a complete marketing.
• In conjunction with the CEO, prioritised and refined the product roadmap, validating both the direction and the details through customer feedback and request validation
• The headcount growth across the business needed a new leadership layer, which required new leadership skills. Best practices from my team leads were adopted across the business
• This position culminated by hiring Adfenix' first dedicated CPO, to whom I handed off Product and Design.

Göteborg, SE

I advised DB24 on their software development, technology and engineering team strategy as they prepared to scale globally.

Bradley Stoke, Bristol, GB

• Replaced the CTO and took on the mandate to lead software development, technology infrastructure, legacy outsourced applications, internal user support, data warehousing, and innovation
• Restructured development team, expanded infrastructure support team, and reshaped two major technology outsourcing projects to balance the IT budget
• Instigated a major refresh of the data warehouse, data collation, and quality management to improve group wide business intelligence
• Promoted mentoring and staff development within the technology function at all levels

Bradley Stoke, Bristol, GB

• In a new role for the company, assessed the people, processes and technologies in the group looking for optimisation
• Modernised internal communication, leveraging tools like Microsoft Teams, Sharepoint, and Outlook to reduce reliance on email

London, England, GB

• Satago is the free cashflow solution that gets businesses paid faster, identifies risk, and advances payment on invoices. Satago is now a principal component of TruFin Plc.
• Served as company director and CTO with responsibility for all engineering and technology. The core technology platform built during my leadership is fundamentally the same platform in use today and licensed by.
• Pitched the business to investors and got accepted to Seedcamp, the best-known early-stage startup accelerator in Europe, forming the kernel of the $1m USD seed round
• Recruited and developed the team starting from 2 founders to 15 employees, through several funding rounds, product pivots, and different revenue models
• Led the team to develop the product from functional prototype to sophisticated FinTech platform providing vital business finance to a growing active customer base. Built a unique risk scoring engine to offer an.
• Principle architect and DevOps. Introduced pragmatic agile techniques, CI/CD and code quality culture, unit testing, git flow, code reviews and knowledge sharing as well as mentoring the developers

London, GB

• Mentored startups in the London FinTech space as they competed to be accepted in to the 2014 StartupBootCamp FinTech accelerator program.
• Focused on technical aspects, mentored and acted as a sounding board for new founders
• Leveraged my own experience of belonging to and benefiting from Seedcamp (another accelerator programme) with Satago.

Denver, Colorado, US

• First Palantir engineer hired in the UK, helped grow the UK & EU team to over 80 staff in 40 months
• Ran sales and sales support for major government customers through the entire sales cycle from first touch, technology demos, closing, and full implementation
• Built lean project teams with employees and contractors to create novel solutions to customer challenges on tight timescales
• Performed big data integration (ETL) from disparate data sets, near real-time synthesis, and custom technical development on multiple customer projects on-site to construct SME reports from information in the field
• Built, satisfied accreditation, deployed, and trained users on complete server/client networks running Palantir to comply with the demanding UK military information security and cryptography standards
• Organised analyst training and trade-craft education for users new to Palantir

Guildford, Surrey, GB

• Team leader responsible for all database development and DB testing on Detica’s largest project to date, a multi-year, multi-company project run by a consortium, building new national security capability for the UK.
• Built and led a team of database developers, mostly recruited from outside the consultancy
• Responsible for hiring, training, DB development methodology, processes, team structure, quality control & standards, deployment and test management
• Detica was acquired by BAE Systems shortly after I left the business

Instructor of Kung Fu in London's Docklands, teaching Fujian White Crane kung fu. I was a part time assistant instructor for a few years before going full time. My martial arts skills were far superior to my business skills, but as a first taste of being an entrepreneur it was invaluable.

Guildford, Surrey, GB

Senior Consultant working on technical delivery projects in the government and financial services business units. On the job training in advanced Oracle database skills like OLS, VPD, PKI & cryptography, data modelling, information security and accreditation.

London, GB

Recruited and managed development team working on the company intranet. Introduced role-based security to ensure data confidentiality and integration with Microsoft Office for ease of use.

New York, NY, US

Worked on high-profile projects including a web-based financial reporting application on an oracle database, a real time web-based F/X trading application, and various internal applications in London and Frankfurt.

Beng, Computer Science

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