Neil Kaufman

About Neil Kaufman

Neil Kaufman is a high-energy, passionate and versatile CIO/CTO executive, with 20+ years at the C-Level, and a proven track record of successful business and technology leadership, demonstrable ROI, and successful delivery and transformation outcomes across multiple industries - Health Care, Insurance, Software/SaaS, Private Equity, Financial Services, Technology Solutions and CIO/Advisory Consulting. His CIO/CTO experience spans from Fortune-100, to midrange companies, to the emerging organization – and from IT leadership, to product development, to solutions delivery. Neil has assembled and led diverse global teams, putting high value on people, decisiveness, transparent communication, and precise alignment to the business. Neil is a strategic partner with strong relationship skills, focused on teamwork and building and delivering innovative IT strategies and solutions aligned with business goals. Partnering with CEOs, his peers, clients and vendor partners, Neil exemplifies strong leadership, problem-solving and results-oriented capabilities to deliver high-value impact to the bottom line. Neil is a recognized strategist, turnaround leader, and transformation expert, successfully executing major transformational IT change initiatives and organizational change management. Quick to react to the pandemic, executing complete and secure remote workforce solutions to enable uninterrupted productivity.

Experience

1. Senior Partner CIO

   Fortium Partners

   Jan 2021 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Fortium Partners is an IT turnaround and technology services firm providing world-class IT leadership to clients focused on finding solutions to complex technology issues or difficult-to–solve operational challenges. Fortium serves public and private companies across a variety of industries, placing expert project teams and operational leadership in technology-related roles. Fortium Partners have 25 or more years of technology experience, most recently in a senior leadership role. Interim CIO and CTO roles, M&A, Due Diligence, Post Merger Integration, Carveouts.Neil joined Fortium Partners with more than 30 years of technology leadership, and the last 20+ in the C-Suite. His forte is driving business transformation through delivery of digital solutions with an emphasis on quality. He has successfully worked in a range of environments from Fortune 100 to mid-market to emerging enterprises including private equity-owned companies. Most recently, Neil served as Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of AdminaHealth, LLC. AdminaHealth offers a cloud-based invoice consolidation, reconciliation, and payment management SaaS solution to the health insurance/benefits industry. Neil established an agile-at-scale approach, building out the initial technology organization to support custom product development in the cloud and set up a talented team of developers, quality assurance, DevOps and customer success staff. With the launch of the new product in 2020, his technology team migrated legacy customers, achieved HITRUST/NIST certification, and rapidly onboarded new customers to scale the business.Areas of Expertise: Transformational CIO/CTO, Turnarounds, Technology Leadership Executive, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)/Cloud Offerings, Software Product Strategy and Execution, M&A IntegrationIndustry Focus: Hospital & Healthcare, Computer Software (SaaS), Insurance, Financial Services, Information Technology and Services, Banking

Education

• Wayne Valley High School

  College Prep

• Rutgers University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science

• Project Management Institute

  Project Management Certification Training, Project Management

• University of Phoenix

  MBA, Technology Management

• AXELOS

  ITIL v3

Skills

• Strategy
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Saas
• Marketing
• Team Building
• Management
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Business Development
• Sap
• Vendor Management
• Integration
• Data Warehousing
• Professional Services
• Business Intelligence
• Sdlc
• Start-Ups
• Leadership
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Finance
• IT Strategy
• Project Management