IT Strategy Consulting – Maximize Your Technology Potential

Accelerate innovation with Toptal’s IT Strategy Consulting. We assess your business objectives and technology landscape, create strategic implementation plans, and deliver IT frameworks that position your organization for long-term success.
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Clients Served
35,000+
Total Vetted Professionals
30,000+
Toptal Total Projects Delivered
85,000+
Years in Business
15+

TRUSTED BY LEADING BRANDS AND STARTUPS

Our Services

Toptal IT Strategy Consulting Services

Navigate digital complexity with strategic IT services designed to align your technology infrastructure, innovation plans, and operational goals for maximum business impact.

Digital Transformation Consulting

Drive business growth by modernizing processes, technologies, and culture through tailored digital strategies.

IT Infrastructure Assessment

Evaluate current infrastructure to identify risks, close gaps, and guide modernization opportunities.

IT Infrastructure Optimization

Optimize your IT infrastructure to boost performance, reduce costs, and ensure seamless operations.

IT Solutions Consulting

Identify and implement technology solutions that align with your business needs and drive significant competitive advantage.

Cybersecurity Strategy and Planning

Develop a robust cybersecurity strategy to protect your business from threats and ensure compliance.

IT Support Advisory

Streamline IT operations and support with expert advisory services that enhance efficiency, reliability, and scalability.

IT Strategy

Align technology investments with business objectives through long-term IT strategies that enable growth.

Technology Roadmapping

Translate IT strategy into phased, actionable roadmaps that prioritize innovation, scalability, and delivery timelines.

Enterprise Architecture Design

Architect scalable, resilient systems that align business needs with technology infrastructure.

Cloud Strategy Consulting

Build secure, cost-effective cloud strategies that enable flexibility, scalability, and innovation.

IT Governance and Compliance

Establish policies and frameworks that support regulatory compliance and operational accountability.

IT Budget and Cost Optimization

Analyze and optimize IT spend to drive efficiency and ensure strategic resource allocation.

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PARTNERSHIP THAT WORKS

How We Deliver IT Strategy Consulting Services

Our IT strategy consultants, with experience at leading companies, develop and deploy tailored solutions to meet your business needs and unique industry demands for sustainable results and long-term success.

1

Discover

A leader from our team works with you to understand your business challenges, pain points, and strategic goals to uncover new opportunities and identify the options to reach your objectives.
2

Define

Toptal leaders collaborate with your team to define your specific goals and service needs, evaluating multiple approaches and aligning requirements with your strategic objectives to define the best solution.
3

Develop

We will create your unique project timeline, process, and first drafts, whether you’re building an enterprise IT roadmap or planning a digital transformation initiative for your business.
4

Deploy

Toptal will get to work, tracking quality assurance, handling project management, and maintaining the delivery schedule.
Matthew McNaghten
Matthew McNaghten
Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice Lead

As Toptal’s Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice Lead, Matt focuses on helping clients address critical issues and drive value across their enterprises. He brings 35 years of senior-level consulting experience, having held leadership roles at Cognizant, Accenture, IBM, and Deloitte.As Toptal’s Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice Lead, Matt focuses on helping clients address critical issues and drive value across their enterprises. He brings 35 years of senior-level consulting experience, having held leadership roles at Cognizant, Accenture, IBM, and Deloitte.

Previously At

Deloitte
CUSTOMIZED SOLUTIONS

IT Strategy Solutions That Drive Impact

Toptal delivers leading IT strategy consulting through its diverse talent network and flexible delivery models. We implement the right skills at each project phase, blending expertise from various roles for seamless execution.
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Comprehensive project delivery, tailored to your specific requirements.
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Matthew McNaghten
Matthew McNaghten
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Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice Lead

As Toptal’s Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice Lead, Matt focuses on helping clients address critical issues and drive value across their enterprises. He brings 35 years of senior-level consulting experience, having held leadership roles at Cognizant, Accenture, IBM, and Deloitte.

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Experience

35+ Years

Rachael Karaffa
Rachael Karaffa
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Delivery Manager

Rachael serves as a Delivery Manager at Toptal with a focus on leading diverse global teams in developing innovative solutions for our clients. She works across multiple disciplines, including technology, marketing, and management consulting. Rachael specializes in managing people and client relationships, process optimization, and driving teams toward optimal business outcomes.

Previously Managed Client

Experience

9+ Years

Joan Yang
Joan Yang
Verified Expert in Engineering
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20+ Years

of Experience

IT Strategy Consultant

Joan is an enterprise architect who excels in providing technology and architecture visions that align with business priorities and corporate long-term strategy. With over 20 years of hands-on experience working as an IT professional, she has established herself as a leader, advisor, collaborator, educator, and influencer in the area of architecture design.

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Pedro Clark
Pedro Clark
Verified Expert in Project Management
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14+ Years

of Experience

IT Project Manager

Pedro is an award-winning PMO senior project manager and customer service leader who has delivered projects for top tech companies such as Google, Apple, AT&T, TMO, and Verizon and worked as a PM consultant at Stanford and MIT. He has experience as a regional head, trainer, PO, and Scrum master. Pedro is a certified PMP, Azure, and ITIL Agile coach with a talent for leading teams globally and defining processes and tools. He speaks four languages and has represented his companies in 15+ countries.

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Joe Bagdon
Joe Bagdon
Verified Expert in Engineering
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31+ Years

of Experience

IT Security Advisor

Joe is a seasoned security and infrastructure engineering professional with experience performing application and network assessments, writing and enforcing policies, providing defense for an enterprise environment, and administrating infrastructures. He has in-depth knowledge of information security, information technology, and information warfare. Joe is a competent Python programmer, adding automation and integration that reduces workloads.

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Vanessa Wood
Vanessa Wood
Verified Expert in Engineering
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10+ Years

of Experience

Information Security Developer

Vanessa is an energetic and highly competent Certified Information Systems Security and Project Management Professional (CISSP, PMP). She has spent 10+ years successfully directing complex technical programs for companies like Salesforce, Microsoft, and Boeing. Vanessa also has an excellent track record demonstrating leadership abilities, executive decision-making, complex problem-solving, detailed project planning, and effective communication.

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Mark Castagneri
Mark Castagneri
Verified Expert in Engineering
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17+ Years

of Experience

Cybersecurity Specialist

Mark is a risk assessor, program manager, security operations engineer, and architect with more than 17 years of experience implementing risk reduction initiatives. He has a deep understanding of various security frameworks and tools. Mark has successfully developed budgets, risk-informed roadmaps, and project plans and has led multidisciplinary teams to effectively reduce risks and demonstrate compliance with standards, as confirmed by third-party auditors.

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Emiliano Angieri
Emiliano Angieri
Verified Expert in Engineering
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11+ Years

of Experience

Cloud Engineer

Emiliano is a cloud engineer with more than 11 years of experience with Amazon Web Services architecture. He helps customers with cloud migration and adoption, designs cloud-native solutions, and migrates existing workloads to containerized infrastructure. Emiliano is an expert at creating reproducible infrastructure, reducing infrastructure costs, improving infrastructure security availability and performance, and automating the software delivery process.

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UNRIVALED EXPERTISE

Our Talent Has Worked With Top Companies

Having previously worked with these leading global companies, our talent brings valuable insights and expertise to deliver world-class outcomes.

McKinsey & Company
BCG
Bain & Company
Goldman Sachs
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Toptal Ranked #1 Most Reliable Professional Services Company in America

Newsweek and Statista’s rankings were based on an independent survey of more than 2,400 decision-makers at Fortune 500s.

Newsweek's Most Reliable Companies in America 2026 ranking. Toptal is ranked #11, the highest-ranked professional services firm.
1Microsoft
2IBM
3Amazon
11Toptal
12Adobe
33Accenture
39Deloitte
66Cognizant
80McKinsey & Company
101KPMG

Highest ranked across all industries

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Methodology for the Rankings

How likely the respondent is to recommend the selected company to others.

Measures the convenience of interaction with the company and efficiency of processes.

Measures the company’s cost-effectiveness and quality relative to price.

Measures whether the company consistently meets or exceeds expectations in quality and timeliness of deliverables.

Measures the company’s ability to consistently fulfill commitments and maintain customer trust.

OUR THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

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Chas Stikeleather

Chas Stikeleather

10 Years of Experience
Chas is an artificial intelligence and data analytics leader with experience at Bain & Company and Toptal. He has spent most of his career helping Fortune 500 companies, private equity firms, and SMBs across industries get the most out of their data. Chas holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Stetson University and a master’s degree in analytics from North Carolina State University.

Previously at

Bain & Company
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