How we work
What to expect
The title says Chief Technology Officer. The job is really Chief Transformation Officer.
Mark McKee operates at the intersection of technology, people and business strategy, addressing the immediate challenges holding your firm back while building the foundations for what comes next. This isn't advisory from a distance. It's hands-on leadership that takes accountability for outcomes, not just recommendations.
Whether we're helping you navigate AI adoption, recover from a technology crisis, scale a platform, or rebuild a team, the approach is always the same: understand the real problem first, then deliver.
Our approach to CTO services is in building the team, the process, and the business credibility around the product, then making sure they outlast the engagement."
Mark McKee
Why Agile Mind is different
Our principles
Outcomes over activity
We measure success by what changes in your business, not by hours logged or slides presented. Every engagement starts with a clear definition of what success looks like — and we hold ourselves accountable to it.
No hype cycles
We cut through the noise. Automation is not AI. A chatbot is not a strategy. We help you distinguish between what's genuinely valuable for your business and what's a distraction, and we'll tell you plainly which is which.
Embedded, not advisory
We work alongside your team, not above them. That means getting into the detail, understanding your culture, and building solutions that your people can own and sustain long after we've moved on.
Breadth across the whole firm
Technology problems rarely live only in the technology team. Mark's ability to bridge C-suite, sales, operations, engineering and infrastructure means issues get surfaced and solved at the right level, not passed around.
Mark McKee
Having served as a technology managing director in global banking and as a hands-on CTO in high-growth startups, Mark McKee has operated at every level of the technology organisation, and in every kind of market condition.
That breadth matters. It means he can see patterns across the whole business that specialists miss. It means he sidesteps hype cycles because he's seen most of them before. And it means that when he tells you something needs to change, it's based on experience of what actually works in demanding, real-world financial services environments.
His track record spans FX, equities, crypto, commodities and payments. This has covered eTrading platforms, pricing infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud architecture, team building and AI adoption. Clients engage Agile Mind because they want better outcomes from their technology investment. That's what we deliver.