Put an independent CIO-level voice at the executive table.
Direct, recurring support for boards and leadership teams facing major IT decisions, transformation pressure, portfolio value creation, or governance gaps.
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The mandate starts with the decision, owner, time window, and evidence that could change the answer.
Scope, exclusions, evidence access, and uncertainty are made explicit before conclusions are presented.
Sven leads the work directly and closes with clear ownership, decisions, and next actions.
Strengthen executive judgment
Independent challenge, clear decision ownership, and a visible governance cadence without transferring day-to-day operational accountability.
Need
C-Level Advisory fits recurring technology decisions that require senior challenge but not day-to-day operational control. It gives the board or executive team a direct, independent view on investment, risk, delivery, vendors, and governance.
Ownership
The advisory role clarifies options, assumptions, dependencies, ownership, and consequences. It does not become a shadow executive role or blur accountability for decisions that remain with the appointed leadership team.
Cadence
The engagement works through a defined rhythm of decision preparation, portfolio and risk review, challenge, escalation, and follow-through. Relevant evidence is reviewed before meetings so executive time is used for decisions rather than status reporting.
Escalation
If an issue requires deeper assessment, direct intervention, or temporary operational authority, that change is made explicit and scoped separately. Advisory remains useful because its boundary is visible.
Decision dossier
The useful boundary is visible before the work begins: the decision, the evidence, what is excluded, and what happens next.
The recurring technology, investment, risk, governance, and delivery decisions that need independent senior judgment without appointing a full-time CIO.
Executive decision support, governance cadence, transformation challenge, investment and vendor decisions, risk escalation, leadership coaching, and accountability follow-through.
Day-to-day operational management, acting as a shadow executive without authority, implementation staffing, or legal and regulatory opinions.
Board and leadership material, budgets, roadmaps, risk and delivery reporting, contracts or proposals relevant to the decision, and direct access to accountable stakeholders.
An agreed cadence keeps decisions, ownership, risks, and follow-through visible; heavier assessment or intervention work is scoped separately when needed.
Timing
Ongoing / retainer
Delivery owner
Every mandate is led directly by Sven Van Roosenbroek. Specialist involvement, when needed, is made explicit in scope.
Commercial model
Usually a monthly retainer with an agreed decision and governance cadence.
Thirty minutes is enough to establish fit, the right depth, and the next responsible step.