CIO Partners
Leading Principals
Joe Gross, President and Managing Partner
Firm Overview
CIO Partners is 100% focused in technology leadership searches across all industries and corporate sizes, from startups to Fortune 100 organizations. Founded by a former CIO, we are uniquely positioned to provide access to exceptional, aligned technology leaders for our client partners.
It’s well known that hiring organizations experience the most difficulty in hiring for their technology roles. These positions require a different approach. While some other firms may excel in placing CEOs, CFOs, and COOs, we specialize in and understand the uniqueness of the top technology roles. As result, CIO Partners has established strong national brand recognition among senior technology leaders and has been recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Executive Recruiting Firms.
Since our founding in 2001, our cornerstone belief has been that building deeper relationships with clients and truly understanding their technology, vision, and culture results in a more effective recruiting process. This unique, value-based approach became the foundation of the company’s industry-leading CIO RightHireSM process, used to match the top 5% of technology professionals with the right organizations.
Through our CxO Professional NetworksSM, we have built and developed global networks of CIOs and CTOs. These active memberships are comprised of 2,000+ technology leaders in industry-based, domain-based and regional networking groups. It is because of these cultivated talent communities that we are typically able to present our candidate slate within 3 weeks of engagement and complete a search in 8-12 weeks (not months), with an average of 6-8 candidates submitted.
For a list of some of our client success and the roles we have filled, click here.
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News Briefings
CIO Partners Recruits Chief Information Officer for RaceTrac
CIO Partners has helped to recruit Ameet Shetty as the first chief information officer of RaceTrac. Mr. Shetty joins RaceTrac from financial services firm Equifax, where he had been its chief data officer since 2024. He also spent three years as CIO for Pilot Company, one of RaceTrac’s top travel center competitors, where he led enterprise...
CIO Partners Retained by Trupanion to Fill Senior Technology Position
CIO Partners has been retained by Trupanion to lead their search for the role of vice president of technology operations, located in Seattle. Reporting to the chief information officer, the vice president is responsible for overseeing IT infrastructure, systems, and service delivery functions and for ensuring optimal performance, security, scalability, and availability of IT services...
CIO Partners Seeking New IT Leader for RaceTrac
Chief information officers (CIOs) are increasingly in demand today due to the accelerating pace of digital transformation across industries. As organizations strive to harness emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, cybersecurity frameworks, and data analytics, the CIO has become a critical figure in driving this change. Modern CIOs are no longer just IT...
CIO Partners Tapped by Reworld Waste to Lead Search for Chief Information Officer
Chief information officers (CIOs) are increasingly in demand today due to the accelerating pace of digital transformation across industries. As organizations strive to harness emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, cybersecurity frameworks, and data analytics, the CIO has become a critical figure in driving this change. Modern CIOs are no longer just IT...
CIO Partners Seeking Chief Information Officer for Walker-Miller Energy Services
The chief information officer is considered one of the most strategic roles in any organization. Still, recruiting within the function remains challenging, as skilled C-suite IT professionals are among the toughest to find, and move. CIO Partners is currently at the closing stages of recruiting a new CIO for Walker-Miller Energy Services. Walker-Miller is seeking a visionary...
CIO Partners Assists University of Vermont with CIO Search
CIO Partners recently assisted in the recruitment of Kellie Campbell as chief information officer of the University of Vermont (UVM). Executive director Barry Cressley led assignment. “This is an exciting time to bring an energetic and collaborative new leader to UVM, especially with new technologies rapidly emerging and important IT projects underway on campus,” said interim president Patricia Prelock....
