Fractional C-level & executive consulting

Proven operators.
Faster outcomes.

Fractional CPO, CTO, CMO, and GM leadership for founders through established enterprises.

Senior operators who have done the job before — in the seat, owning the outcome, and focused on getting you there sooner. Plus management transformation and AI enablement.

Fractional CPO Fractional CTO Fractional CMO PM/PMM/GTM Consulting
Cockpit view of a race car at speed
30+
Years building, scaling, and transforming software & security businesses
$10M → $500M+
Four private-equity-backed businesses scaled
85%
Faster time to market delivered as a product & technology leader
Days
To senior leadership in the seat — not the six-month executive search

Why Caldermont

Executive horsepower, before the executive hire.


01

Operators, not advisors

We take the seat, own the number, and do the work — not a deck about the work. A proven operator embeds with your team and is accountable for the outcome.

02

Faster by design

A fractional engagement puts senior leadership in the seat in days, at a fraction of the cost, without the six months an executive search takes.

03

Built to hand off

Every engagement ends with a stronger team, a documented operating system, and a clean transition to your full-time leader on your timeline.

What we do

Three practices, one measure: your outcomes, reached sooner.


Fractional leadership

A proven operator in the seat

Fractional CPO, CTO, CMO, and GM engagements. Part-time retainer, full accountability for the function's outcomes, and a hiring plan that graduates to your full-time leader.

Management transformation

Rebuild how leadership operates

Operating cadence, decision rights, planning and prioritization, cross-functional handoffs, and the metrics that prove the new system is working.

AI enablement

One fast, coordinated organization

The productized practice: the AI-Enabled Organization curriculum, the prd-writer skill, and the 6-week rollout that teaches every team to hand work to the next with zero rework.

Fractional CPO

Product strategy, roadmap, and PM org design and coaching.

Fractional CTO

Architecture, engineering leadership, technical hiring, and delivery.

Fractional CMO

Positioning, demand generation, brand, and the marketing org.

PM/PMM/GTM Consulting

To solidify good practices, execution and acceleration.

About

The firm and the operator behind it.


Caldermont Management is a fractional C-level and executive consulting firm. We place proven operators into the leadership seats a company needs before it can justify — or attract — the full-time hire: Chief Product Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, and General Manager.

Alongside fractional leadership, we run management-transformation engagements that rebuild how leadership teams plan, decide, and execute, and an AI-enablement practice that turns scattered AI experiments into one fast, coordinated organization.

The firm is led by Robert (Bob) Joseph Shaker II, an AI-forward product and technology executive with more than 30 years building, scaling, and transforming cybersecurity and software businesses — most recently as Chief Product and Technology Officer at ActiveState, and across four private-equity-backed businesses scaled from $10M to more than $500M.

Every engagement is measured the same way: the outcomes you were already working toward, reached sooner.

Principal

FounderRobert Joseph Shaker II
Emailrshaker2@caldermontmanagement.com

Engagement model

  • Project or Retainer based, full accountability
  • Within your systems and policies
  • Built to hand off to a full-time leader

Contact

Tell us the outcome. We'll shorten the path.

Tell us the outcome you're after and the timeline that matters, and we'll come back with the shape of an engagement and who would take the seat.