Mount Digital — Executive Technology Leadership
Executive Technology Leadership
"If you're hiring us purely as technologists, you're only getting half of what we can deliver."
— Jim Glass, Founder
We take complex, high-pressure technology environments and create order and clarity. This is accomplished with velocity because the entire practice runs on AI as its operating system.
The Approach
AI is a structural shift
"Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple."
— Sir Richard Branson
AI is reshaping how businesses operate at a foundational level. Previous technology cycles gave organizations years to get ready. AI is on its own timeline. The barrier to entry is deceptively low, and without the right architecture underneath, it falls apart when you try to operationalize it.
Getting there requires leadership. We bring an operator's perspective to every engagement — readiness work across telecom, industrial distribution, and enterprise consulting — government, national intelligence, and global delivery.
Behind every engagement is a team of trusted talent — years of collaboration — configured to the scope, embedded from the start, accountable to the outcome.
How We Work Together
Four ways to engage — all starting with a conversation
Fractional CIO / CTO
Ongoing executive technology leadership without a full-time hire. We partner directly with executive leadership to set strategy, build operating discipline, govern vendors, and oversee delivery.
Best for: Growth-stage or mid-market companies where technology decisions are compounding faster than the team can absorb.
90-Day Platform & AI Readiness Assessment
A focused 90-day engagement: we audit your technology landscape — applications, infrastructure, data systems, vendor relationships — assess platform architecture, technical debt, and operational risk, then map where AI creates real value versus where modernization needs to happen first. Whether you're consolidating post-acquisition, rationalizing legacy stacks, or evaluating a major platform decision, you get a sequenced modernization roadmap: what moves now, what gets deferred. Roadmaps come with business cases and numbers.
Best for: Organizations that know they need to modernize but don't have a clear, sequenced plan.
Project-Based Delivery Leadership
Executive sponsorship and hands-on leadership of a defined initiative: platform strategy, enterprise unification, operational structuring, or greenfield standup. We bring the team and the accountability to land it.
Best for: Organizations with a critical initiative that needs experienced leadership to execute.
M&A Technology Diligence & Integration
Pre-acquisition: we evaluate the target's platform, score risk, and identify where value will leak. Post-close: we design the integration roadmap, lead consolidation, and drive time-to-synergy — including transition service agreement negotiation and unwind, the operational work that turns a closed deal into an independent, self-sustaining operation. Our team has been through eight-plus acquisitions from the inside and evaluated 70+ targets across enterprise and telecom platforms.
Best for: PE/VC firms, acquirers, and portfolio companies where technology is central to the investment thesis.
Telecom and MVNO platform engagements — including greenfield builds, OSS/BSS standup, and carrier consolidations — are covered in a separate capabilities overview.
Where It's Been Done
Results across telecom, consulting, industrial distribution, and financial services
AI in Practice
Mount Digital doesn't advise on AI from a distance — the entire practice runs on it. An AI-native executive operating system drives market intelligence, technology diligence, vendor analysis, and delivery governance across every engagement. The leverage isn't speed — it's running five workstreams simultaneously without scaling headcount to match. AI in production at Virgin Mobile handled 81% of customer interactions without human intervention — years before most organizations had a pilot.
Building Organizations That Deliver
At Rexel USA, the mandate was one nobody had successfully executed before: unify all operating banners under a single enterprise platform for the first time in company history. The result — operating costs down roughly 30%, a rationalized vendor landscape, and an engineering function transformed from cost center to growth engine. At Rivet Logic, a nearshore delivery organization serving enterprise, government, and national intelligence clients was built from the ground up — and ultimately acquired by Capgemini. At Virgin Mobile, a mobile video delivery optimization drove a 32% increase in data traffic. The teams built in these engagements don't turn over.
M&A, Integration & Consolidation
Virgin Mobile Latin America required four country launches in rapid succession — Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru — standing up full customer, billing, and service platforms under aggressive timelines while helping secure over $170M in PE and strategic investment. When T-Mobile acquired Sprint, Mount Digital was brought in specifically because every phase of that consolidation cycle had been navigated from the inside — not just the technical integration, but the operating continuity across platforms and teams.
Background
The career arc
Mount Digital was founded by Jim Glass, who entered telecom on the deal team of a $440M wireless joint venture — building the OSS/BSS platform from scratch before the ink was dry on the deal. That operation was acquired by Virgin Mobile USA, where Glass took over technology delivery across all prepaid brands through the Sprint consolidation.
Virgin Mobile then tapped him to build their Latin American technology operation — standing up the brand across four countries, raising over $170M, and running a 200+ person organization. When T-Mobile acquired Sprint, Glass was brought in because he'd been in the room for every phase of that consolidation cycle — not as an observer, but as the operator who built and integrated the platforms underneath it.
After telecom, that operating discipline carried into global consulting — building and leading delivery organizations through an acquisition by Capgemini. Most recently, Glass led enterprise technology transformation at Rexel USA — unifying a highly distributed operating model under a single platform for the first time in company history.
The thread across all of it: walking into complexity and creating order.