Brother Called Me 'Just An IT Guy' - Until His Company Needed Their Chief Technology Officer

Brother Called Me 'Just An IT Guy' - Until His Company Needed Their Chief Technology Officer The conference room at Thompson & Associates smelled like expensive cologne and desperation. My brother Derek stood at the head of the polished table, laser pointer in hand, walking through his quarterly presentation with the kind of confidence that came from never being told no.I sat in the back row, laptop open, ostensibly taking notes. In reality, I was monitoring a system deployment across three continents while pretending to care about Derek's sales projections."As you can see," Derek gestured at the slide behind him, "our revenue growth has been exceptional. Twenty-three percent year-over-year, driven primarily by strategic client acquisitions and—"