Michael Dreiling · Founder & Principal
Interim C-Level Business Technology Officer
Available Within Two Weeks
Senior technology leadership, available when you need it most. Michael steps into your organization as a functioning Interim C-Level Business Technology Officer within two weeks — zero ramp-up, immediate executive impact.
Michael
Dreiling
Founder & Principal
MBA · MIS | BBA · Finance
20+
Years C-Suite technology
leadership
50,000+
Scale of employees
supported
$130M+
Annual IT cost savings
delivered
$360M
Scale of annual IT
budget controlled
$500M+
Technology capital investments managed
600+
Scale of technical team managed
AI-Forward
Helping organizations harness AI to drive measurable business outcomes
Michael Dreiling · Founder & Principal
MBA, Management Information Systems · BBA, Finance
Michael Dreiling is an accomplished C-suite technology executive with over two decades of hands-on CIO leadership across global Fortune 500 enterprises and high-growth technology companies — bringing a rare combination of strategic financial acumen, business goal alignment and emerging AI technology.
Quantum Business Services provides seasoned C-suite technology leadership on an interim and advisory basis — delivering the strategic clarity and execution rigor of a full-time CIO while a long-term permanent search is undertaken. Whether navigating a critical technology transition, standing up an AI capability, or bridging a leadership gap, we bring the experience to move fast and get it right.
Engagements typically begin within two weeks and are structured for impact from day one — no ramp-up, no learning curve.
Education & Credentials
MBA, Management Information Systems | BBA, Finance
References available upon request · All engagements handled with full confidentiality
A representative sample of prior deployments across industries. Client names withheld per confidentiality agreements.
Engineering Enterprise · $600M
Interim CIO — IT Stabilization & Transformation
Six-month engagement to lead and stabilize the technical organization, assess the IT organizational model and talent, align IT with business objectives, optimize enterprise architecture and project portfolio, and enhance cybersecurity. Established IT roadmap and operating model, upgraded talent, established new partners, renegotiated with suppliers, deployed Cloud-First FinOps, and hardened cyber security. Achieved $9M annual run-rate savings, returned $2.5M in CAPEX, gained organizational trust, improved data privacy regulatory compliance, and reduced cyber vulnerabilities.
Automotive Parts Manufacturing · $300M
Advisory — Digital Strategy & AI Efficiency
Four-month project to review digital strategy and AI efficiency. Deployed Copilot AI with RPA to process unstructured documents and trigger automated workflows and decisions, reducing manual processing 60%, accelerating decisions and saving $400K. Designed Agentic AI running a team of specialized agents across procurement, production, and finance to manage inventory levels and production schedules, and flag discrepancies between invoices, POs, and received quantities.
Oil & Gas Energy Engineering · $850M
Advisory — Cybersecurity & Privacy Risk Program
Four-month project to review cybersecurity and privacy risks and controls. Developed plan to achieve ISO 27001 certification and NIST model adoption. By the end of the engagement, the firm earned its highest scores to-date on Penetration tests, Red Team exercises, Breach and Attack Simulations, and SOC 2 audit testing. Improvements in cyber controls yielded proposal wins on jobs against competitors with lower bids. Audit Committee Chairman noted “Audit Committee was particularly impressed with step-level improvements in the Disaster Recovery Plan, cyber risk assessments and vulnerability resilience.”
Marketing Firm · $85M
Advisory — M&A Technology Due Diligence
Two-month project to review and advise on M&A technology due diligence and post-merger IT consolidation planning. Identified integration risks and significant legacy technical debt that allowed for an additional $3.5M in negotiation allowances. Chief Financial Officer noted “We avoided the under-provisioning of millions in unknown remedial technical debt costs to bring the acquired technical assets to necessary minimum standards.”
Engagements are scoped to your specific situation — no off-the-shelf solutions.
Step into your organization as a functioning Chief Information Officer — owning the technology roadmap, team, and vendor relationships from day one.
Typical engagement: 90–180 days · Available within 2 weeks
Build and lead your organization's AI capability — from strategy and governance to tool selection, implementation, and change management.
Typical engagement: 60–120 days · Available within 2 weeks
Ongoing strategic guidance for boards, CEOs, and leadership teams navigating technology decisions, digital transformation, and emerging technology risk.
Ongoing retainer or project basis · Available immediately
Day-one readiness with no onboarding lag. Immediate C-suite stabilization, visibility, and impactful quick wins — structured across three focused phases.
Days 1–30
Zero-based budget review, project portfolio triage, cyber risk heat map, top-team assessment, and stakeholder listening tour.
DeliverableOne-page situation report with recommended path forward.
Days 31–60
Reset the IT operating plan against business priorities. Kill, defer, or accelerate active projects. Stand up the cyber remediation roadmap. Align spend to a lean budget.
DeliverableBoard-ready plan with named owners and dates.
Days 61–90
Begin executing top priorities personally. Make-ready for permanent CIO successor.
DeliverableMeasurable progress on at least one P&L-relevant outcome before handoff — cost reduction, cyber remediation, or talent upgrade.
The best organizations don't wait for a perfect full-time hire when the business demands action now.
A permanent CIO search takes 4–6 months on average. In that window, technology decisions stall, vendor contracts lapse, and teams lose direction. The cost of the gap far exceeds the cost of the search.
Quantum Business Services steps in on day one with zero ramp-up time — bringing several decades of pattern recognition across industries that no new hire can replicate in their first year.
When the permanent hire is ready, we hand off a clean, documented, operating technology organization — and a leader set up to succeed.
No onboarding curve. Operational from the first week with immediate executive impact.
Pattern recognition from multiple engagements means faster diagnosis and fewer costly experiments.
We build organizations designed to outlast the engagement — your permanent hire inherits a foundation, not a mess.
No equity, no benefits, no search fees. Pure executive output at a predictable engagement cost.
Direct quotes from CEOs and board members following completed engagements.
Brought invaluable expertise and consolidated IT groups from multiple independent companies into a unified, high-performance organization — delivering efficiencies that exceeded our expectations.
Technology insight that was competent, consistent and forthright. Significant strides were made across all systems and the Audit Committee of the Board was particularly impressed with the Risk Assessments and remedial improvements to Cyber Security.
Exceptional ability to interact and communicate across all levels of the organization. Rapidly synthesizing business information from diverse sources, analytical and strategic skills provided timely implementation of practical Operations oriented solutions.
Excelled in successfully navigating very challenging circumstances. Gained trust and confidence from all levels of our internal teams, senior management and external customers.
Strategic and thoughtful about the needs and objectives of the organization. Built high performing teams, optimized solutions and provided excellent leadership.
Arrived as an Interim CIO into a volatile organizational environment with the CIO role vacant, Board confidence low, critical company financial pressure and low alignment with operations. Analysis insight was gained within days, a new IT organization implemented within weeks and results beginning to bear fruit in 90 days. Trust restored based on open communications, timely decisions and delivering fast value.
Names and identifying details withheld per client confidentiality agreements. References available upon request.