Tech Executive Advisory for New Technology Executives
Empowering Rising Executives to Navigate Their New Roles Through Strategic Insights and Advisory
Elevate Your Leadership: Technology Executive Advisory for Today's Rising Executives
YOU ARE A NEW RISING EXECUTIVE who was promoted to VP Engineering/CTO or VP Product/CPO. You're at the helm of a critical and high-value department in your organization—a significant achievement.
Yet, with great power comes great responsibility, especially when facing ambitious business objectives. Success hinges on effective strategies: crafting SMART objectives, developing a focused roadmap, optimizing team structures, securing executive support, ensuring stakeholder transparency, and beyond.
Discover how our Technology Executive Advisory (TEA) can be your compass in navigating these challenges.
Building an Optimized Tech Department
Creating SMART, Tech-Driven Goals
Forging Partnerships Between Tech and Business Leaders
Solving Critical Problems in Technical Organizations
The technology market has been evolving at an exceedingly fast pace over the last few years. Technology executives have had the primary challenge to properly manage the different aspects of development which are beyond just the technology. We’ve spoken to many leaders, and they found these specific challenges.
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Assess Your CTO Skillset
Don’t leave your leadership growth to guesswork. Swiftly master the art of technology leadership with Sphere’s streamlined CTO Assessment Framework. Custom-designed for ambitious CTOs and CEOs, this tool offers a rapid path to identify and enhance the key skills essential for a CTO’s success.
What You’ll Find:
- Essential Skill Categories: Dive into vital areas like People Management, Leadership, and Technology Skills.
- Skill Proficiency Roadmap: Understand and develop the right skills for different team sizes – from small to very large.
- Customized Development Plan: Rate your skills, identify growth areas, and align them with your team’s needs for targeted improvement.
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Executive Tech Advisory Group Tracks
Sphere offers tech advisory via one—or both—tracks below, depending on your organization’s immediate needs, current stage of growth and overarching business goals.
R&D and Business Alignment Track
Enabling seamless collaboration between business, product and tech teams across the entire organization.
- Goal Setting: Creating organization-wide tech goals (derived from overarching business goals) and setting proper KPI measurement instruments
- Stakeholder Management: Establishing stakeholder visibility into the tech investment via OKR’s, visualization of product roadmaps and establishing processes to ensure product quality
- Performance Management: Building personal growth development plans for existing team members, and creating opportunities to identify and retain top talent
Organization and Team Structure Track
Creating hyper-functional technology teams with minimum dependencies and bottlenecks.
- Departmental Structure: Building cross-functional and independent departmental teams with business goal independence of at least 85%
- Organizational Scaling: Founding or restructuring of the technical team organization to be scalable/modular, adoption of successful team org methodologies and processes
- Hiring A-Players:Bringing on managers and individual contributors to the team, based on established Situational Behavioral / WHO methodology
Executive Tech Advisor Highlight: Boris Korenfeld
Global CTO, Tech Leader and Trusted Partner
Boris Korenfeld is a highly experienced tech industry professional and leader, with experience in companies such as Google, Gett Taxi, HP Software, and OpenWeb. He has solved multiple overarching challenges for these organizations, including R&D Scaling (from 70 – 200 global team members), departmental processes/methodologies, organizational architecture and more—ultimately enabling change management for multiple companies around the world.
By The Numbers: World-Class Software Development Consulting
We understand that choosing the right software development company can be a challenge. With over 15 years of experience and hundreds of satisfied clients, we have the market-proven experience and software solutions to fit your needs. See some of the success stories for and check out our client testimonials.
Working With Sphere: Your Global Partners
Great work comes from great partnerships, and some of our partners are among the best companies in their industries. Our partners’ brightest minds worked with our own: Sphere’s senior engineering, development and leadership talent to create solutions that redefined their business.
But, you don’t have take our word for it. Hear it straight from our world-class partners.
GettGett is the European market leader of on-demand mobile transportation, delivery and logistics. They worked with our team to create an online, API-based system to accept and process delivery orders from the multitude of vendor partners.
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GrouponGroupon is a world-leading experiences marketplace, allowing consumers to discover fun things to do and local businesses to thrive. They approached our team to build a self-service API, enabling third-party providers to integrate with Groupon 50% faster.
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CreditNinjaCreditNinja is a leading online lender offering more affordable personal loans for borrowers with low credit scores. They worked with our developers and database engineers to create a loan approval workflow, including custom integrations with their third-party services.
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Proclivity SystemsProclivity Systems is a leading, smart advertising platform that connects brands to healthcare professionals and patients. We worked with Proclivity Systems to help create their core LayerRx platform; utilizing our comprehensive analytics and engineering experience.
Core Capabilities- Software Development
- UI/UX Design
- Data Analysis
- Data Engineering
Tech Advisory Success Highlight – Pangea Universal Holdings
Pangea approached us to assess their current utilization of internal and external developer resources toward optimizing development velocity and business goal alignment.
Sphere was brought on to specifically address the following key pain points:
- Top leadership visibility towards the progression of development towards business/product goals and creating revenue-driving features faster
- Cost Efficiency versus Growth: Addressing concerns such as “Not growing fast enough” and “Unable to scale our teams to the project effectively”
- Co-mingled Resources: Single individuals typically wear many “hats” / have inter-dependent responsibilities and manage different aspects of the product
We conducted a multi-week workshop with Pangea, conducting interviews with each stakeholder and their various development teams to identify weaknesses in their current organizational structure.
The end result was the execution of a transition plan: an accelerated plan of action on how to get their internal and external teams to their end state within a few months.
- Creating a squad-based model, with minimum interdependencies and with each team having uniquely-defined goals and deliverables that all directly contributed to the main project
- Employing a separate Sphere-based squadunder the same model
- Directly assisting with the transition—providing expert tech advisory to Pangea’s leaders to achieve re-organization
Featured Team Members
Boris Korenfeld
Global CTO & General Manager of Tech Practices
Boris has held various roles since 2000 and worked for several of the world's leading organizations, including HP Software, Gett Taxi, and Google. He helped build a variety of products in different domains and led high scale tech teams to success. He is passionate about leadership, change management and innovation; using his experience in these areas to make an impact to global businesses.
Leon Ginsburg
Founder and CEO
A digital innovations leader, technologist, investor, and entrepreneur, Leon founded Sphere Software in 2005 to revolutionize the delivery of remote teams. He has a passion for people, products, processes, and technologies that not only perform well, but also are human-centric and meet the needs of the user.
Igor Meltser
Vice President Engineering & Technology
Igor has extensive technical and operational experience, spending the last 15 years of his career in various Healthcare-related IT roles. With almost 20 years overall in small entrepreneurial and large global tech-forward organizations, Igor leads cross-functional teams to design and deliver innovative high-tech solutions to aid in the continuum of care. He holds a Master’s Degree in Information Systems Technology, Networking and Security, and two Bachelor degrees in Computer Science and Information Systems from DePaul University. Igor previously held a CCNA certification and had successfully completed a SAFe Foundations bootcamp program.