Fortium Partners has joined ZRG. The combination gives mid-market companies access to executive technology leadership with global reach behind it.
Your company may not need a full-time technology leader (CIO, CTO, CISO) yet. Or it just lost one. Either way, it already needs executive technology leadership with the credibility to lead and the continuity to last.
The gap between the technology decisions a business is making and the executive leadership it has in place is the problem Fortium was built to solve. CEOs recognize it the moment someone names it. That recognition now comes with more options.
Fortium Partners has joined ZRG, the fastest-growing global talent advisory firm. Fortium will integrate into ZRG's Interim Solutions and Project Consulting business, bringing CIO, CTO, and CISO leadership (fractional, interim, and project based) to a platform with global reach and full service talent advisory capability.
Fortium has spent more than a decade on a straightforward conviction: mid-market companies deserve the same caliber of technology leadership that Fortune 500 companies take for granted. The numbers reflect what that conviction built.
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180+ Named CIO, CTO, and CISO Partners |
400+ Client organizations served |
32 U.S. states and internationally |
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$400B+ Combined client annual revenue |
$1T Assets managed by PE firms served |
90+ Industries served |
There are two distinct moments when organizations discover they have a technology leadership problem.
The first comes gradually. Technology decisions outgrow the org chart. The CEO, CFO, or COO realizes that someone needs to think and lead like a CIO, even without that title in place. This is the Technology Leadership Credibility Gap.
The second comes abruptly. A technology executive departs. The organization faces months of search process, institutional knowledge walking out the door, and strategic momentum at risk. This is the Technology Leadership Continuity Gap.
Fortium was built to close both. ZRG adds the depth, reach, and platform infrastructure to close them faster, across more markets, with broader capabilities behind every engagement.
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FRACTIONAL · CAPABILITY ACTIVATION The credibility gap Technology decisions are executive-level. The executive technology leader is not in the seat yet. Activate proven CIO, CTO, or CISO leadership with the executive presence and C-suite credibility to lead the agenda before a full time hire exists or makes sense. |
INTERIM · TRANSITION CONTINUITY The continuity gap Technology leadership existed and then departed. Maintain executive technology judgment, institutional knowledge, and strategic momentum through every transition, with a national bench behind every engagement. The model avoids single-person dependency and six-month search delays. |
The TLaaS™ (Technology Leadership-as-a-Service®) model means Fortium, now within ZRG, owns the function rather than filling the seat. A Fortium CIO is a CIO. A Fortium CISO is a CISO. The role is defined by accountability and executive judgment, not hours per week.
“Fortium adds a focused capability in an area that matters across the firm. It strengthens one part of our business, but the value does not stop there. This expands what we can deliver through ZRG as a full service talent advisory platform by connecting interim technology leadership with the broader search, consulting, and embedded recruiting solutions clients increasingly need.”
- LARRY HARTMANN, CEO, ZRG
“Technology leadership is a business capability decision, not a hiring event, and how you deliver it is inseparable from the culture behind it. Fortium was built on both: the conviction that companies need executive technology leadership with the credibility to lead at the C-suite and the continuity to last through every transition, and a working style built around people who operate closely with clients, execute without unnecessary complexity, and earn trust over time. That is exactly what we found in ZRG.”
- BURKE AUTREY, PRESIDENT, FORTIUM PARTNERS - a ZRG company
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FOR CEOs You now have access to a platform that can activate CIO, CTO, or CISO leadership before a full time hire makes sense and sustain it through every transition, backed by ZRG’s expanded offerings. Your Fortium Managing Partner relationship does not change. The depth and speed behind every engagement does. |
FOR CEOs You now have a bridge between no executive technology role and permanent leadership in place, with the ability to define what that permanent role should look like before launching the search. Fortium's fractional and interim leadership, combined with ZRG's executive search expertise, covers both gaps and the transition between them. |
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FOR OPERATING PARTNERS AND MANAGING PARTNERS The ability to activate CIO, CTO, and CISO leadership at the right maturity stage and maintain it through leadership transitions is now connected to ZRG's full service talent advisory platform. One relationship covers fractional, interim, and permanent leadership without gaps in capability or momentum. |
FOR EXECUTIVE SEARCH MDs Fortium's integration into ZRG's Interim Solutions business enhances their complementary capability for client relationships. Technology leadership gaps that cannot wait for a permanent search, and transitions where interim leadership is the right bridge, now have a solution connected to ZRG's global platform. |
Acquisitions are announced regularly. The question that matters to clients is whether the people and work they depend on remain intact.
The Fortium Managing Partners your teams work with are not changing. The working style (close collaboration, execution without unnecessary complexity, trust built engagement by engagement) is what ZRG found compelling about Fortium. It is not a pre-deal artifact. It is the culture.
What expands is what Fortium can bring to every engagement: ZRG's Zi data platform, access to ZRG's full service talent advisory solutions, global reach where the work requires it, and organizational transformation support when the technology leadership question connects to broader people and performance challenges.
“Companies are making more nuanced decisions about leadership than they did even a few years ago. In technology, especially, the question is often not whether they need senior leadership, but what kind and in what shape. Fortium has built a model around that reality: bringing experienced operators into the business in a way that is aligned to the actual need, not a default org chart.”
- MARK VINER, LEADER, INTERIM SOLUTIONS AND PROJECT CONSULTING, ZRG
The technology leadership market has matured around a range of genuine solutions. Executive search connects organizations to the right permanent Technology Leader when the role is defined and the business is ready to hire full-time. Independent practitioners bring focused personal expertise directly to client teams. Marketplaces provide access to broad pools of executive profiles. MSPs offer technology guidance within their managed service models. Each addresses a specific moment and a specific kind of need well. What most organizations discover, however, is that their technology leadership challenge does not arrive as a single defined moment. It spans the period before permanent leadership exists, the transitions that follow when it departs, and the continuous need to own the function.
Those models solve different fragments of the problem. No single alternative closes both the Credibility Gap and the Continuity Gap, owns the function rather than placing the person, or gives CEOs and PE operating partners a technology leadership model backed by a national bench, without vendor agenda or single-person dependency risk.
Fortium was built to be the firm that does. Joining ZRG extends that capability.
If you are already a Fortium client, the options available to you just expanded. If you are not yet working with Fortium, a conversation with a Managing Partner starts with diagnosing which gap your company is actually facing.
Press Release: To read ZRG's announcement, please click here.
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Diagnose your technology leadership gap Find out whether your company has a Credibility Gap, a Continuity Gap, or both, and what the right model looks like for where your business is going. OR Take the Technology Confidence Index (~ 2 mins.) to discover actionable steps to leverage technology for business impact. |
About Fortium Partners
Fortium is a Technology Leadership as a Service® (TLaaS) firm that closes both the Technology Leadership Credibility Gap and the Technology Leadership Continuity Gap. Headquartered in Dallas, Fortium operates across the U.S. and internationally with more than 180 named CIO, CTO, and CISO partners serving 400+ organizations across 32 U.S. states and internationally. As a pure play technology leadership firm with no vendor agenda, search bias, or consulting pull-through, Fortium gives CEOs, CHROs, boards, and PE operating partners access to proven executive technology leadership before the role exists, through every transition, and for as long as the business needs it. Fortium is now part of ZRG.
About ZRG
ZRG adds a complementary foundation: a data platform (Zi) that combines talent intelligence, candidate insights, and process optimization; retained executive search, embedded recruiting, consulting, and advisory solutions; and global reach across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The combination is a structural expansion of what technology leadership as a service can deliver.