Credentials

# Roles, education, and recognition

## Current roles

- Senior Partner — Fortium Partners Fractional and interim CIO, CTO, and CISO engagements, November 2017 – present. Advisory clients also include Gothic Landscape (2020), Motum (2022), Indigo Studios (2019 – 2020), 4Discovery (2018), and TVG-Medulla (2020). [Work with me](https://briangreenberg.net/fractional-cio-cto/).
- Founder — General System Dynamics LLC Security and AI advisory, software, and research, 2008 – present. [gsysd.com](https://gsysd.com).
- Adjunct Faculty — DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media, January 2019 – present. Courses: Information Assurance, Cybersecurity, Risk Management, Privacy, Governance, Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity.
- Board of Directors — Resilience Chicago nonprofit providing advocacy, trauma therapy, and prevention services to survivors of sexual violence.

## Awards & nominations

- FuturistCIO Award, 2025 Presented by CIOMeet and the Chicago CIO Community (Ecce Futurum)
- CIO of the Year — Nominee Presented by SIM Chicago, AITP Chicago, and the Executives' Club of Chicago
- Business of IT Facilitator of the Year Award
- Business of IT Advocate Award
- Dell Champion & Dell Champions Ambassador Multiple speaker awards; 50+ engagements
- Multiple-award-winning LAN Manager & Systems Architect Motorola, 1990s

## Education

- M.A., Whole Systems Design / Systems Theory & System Dynamics Antioch University Seattle
- B.S., Philosophy & Applied Computer Science Illinois State University
- Organizational Leadership The City College of New York
- Entrepreneurship / Entrepreneurial Studies Founder Institute
- Applied Computer Science & Music Harper College

### Recognition

- Forbes Technology Council Member Invitation-only community for senior technology executives
- Fundamentals of Agentic AI: Business Implications and Ethical Insights LinkedIn, 2025
- Introduction to Prompt Engineering for Generative AI LinkedIn, 2023

Areas of expertise

Cybersecurity Strategy & Zero Trust Digital Transformation & AI Integration IT Operations & Infrastructure Data Protection, eDiscovery & Litigation Readiness Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery SOC 2 Compliance & Governance Systems Thinking & System Dynamics Interim CIO/CTO Leadership & Turnaround

Full career history on [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/bjgreenberg).

Career history · 1988 — present

## The whole arc

Thirty-plus years, from the LAN room to the boardroom.

- 2024 – 2026 **Chief Information Officer & Operating Committee member** — RHR International
- 2016 – 2024 **CTO & Founder** — LawRise Inc.
- 2021 – 2024 **Chief Information Officer** — Beyond Indigo Pets
- 2017 – present **CIO/CTO, Senior Partner & Strategic Advisor** — Fortium Partners
- 2011 – 2024 **CIO/CISO & Strategic Advisor** — Akrete Communications, through General System Dynamics
- 2022 **Interim Chief Information Officer** — Deft
- 2018 – 2022 **Guest Lecturer** — Loyola University Chicago
- 2020 – 2021 **Interim Chief Information Officer** — PJ SOLOMON
- 2018 – 2019 **CTO & Strategic Advisor** — Ends+Stems
- 2019 **Strategic Advisor & Interim CTO** — Corsearch (Mechelen, Belgium)
- 2019 L**IT Assessment** — Lift Brands
- 2018 **Interim Chief Technology Officer** — American Dental Association
- 2015 – 2017 **Enterprise Architect · Business Strategist · Evangelist** — Dell
- 2016 **Guest Lecturer (Business Communications / Improv)** — Roosevelt University
- 2012 – 2013 **VP of Technology Operations** — Total Attorneys
- 2008 – 2012 **Founder, Chief Technologist & CEO** — General System Dynamics
- 2005 – 2008 **Manager, Data Protection, Storage & Backup Engineering** — Citadel Investment Group
- 2005 **Senior Consultant — Data Storage Architect** — Bloomberg
- 2004 – 2005 **Senior Consultant** — GlassHouse Technologies
- 2003 – 2005 **Adjunct Professor of Philosophy** — William Rainey Harper College
- 2004 – 2005 **Senior Data Storage Consultant** — Capital One
- 2002 – 2004 I**Founding Partner** — ITDoc's-to-Go!
- 2003 **Senior Data Storage Consultant** — The Hartford
- 2000 – 2002 **Senior Architect** — StorageNetworks, Inc.
- 2001 – 2002 **Senior Consultant (expatriate, Tokyo)** — Fujitsu
- 2000 – 2001 **Senior Consultant — Data Storage Architect** — Microsoft
- 2000 **Subject Matter Expert** — iGeneration
- 1999 – 2000 **Senior Systems Architect** — Grange Insurance Group (Seattle; now GranWest)
- 1990 – 1998 **LAN Manager · Senior Systems Administrator · Instructor** — Motorola, Inc.
- 1989 – 1991 **Collegiate Representative** — IBM
- 1988 – 1989 **Sales & Systems Specialist** — Inacomp, Inc.

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