CIO & Technology Advisory · Dubai

Where Strategy
Meets Execution

Senior technology advisory for CEOs, CFOs, and boards navigating ERP transformation, AI programs, and operating model decisions that carry real commercial weight.

Our Philosophy

The Operator's Advantage

"Companies rarely lack ambition. They lack a senior operator who has been board-accountable — someone who knows where vendors underdeliver and what the risks look like from the inside."

Operator, Not Consultant

25 years of board-level accountability — owning budgets, leading teams, and delivering programmes that appear in the P&L. Not frameworks. Results.

Global Reach, Regional Fluency

Operating across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia for some of the world's largest global organisations — with deep fluency in conglomerate and family-owned governance structures that define this region.

Execution-Anchored

Every recommendation is filtered through the question a board should ask: does this work at scale, under pressure, with the team and resources actually available?

Advisory Services

Where We Engage

Oravio works at the intersection of technology strategy and business delivery — across nine domains where the stakes are highest.

IT Operating Model

In-house vs. outsourced delivery decisions, vendor selection and sourcing strategy, shared services design, IT governance frameworks, and operating model transformation — built for the organisation's actual context, not copied from a textbook.

Data Strategy & Architecture

Enterprise data strategy and operating model — centralised vs. federated governance, data platform architecture (cloud, lakehouse/warehouse), master data management, lineage, and data quality — building the foundations on which AI and analytics deliver commercial value.

AI-Driven Transformation

Enterprise AI and ML programmes built on governed data — not pilots. Demand forecasting, predictive analytics, intelligent automation, and GenAI governance applied at scale, with repeatable MLOps delivery and model lifecycle management.

ERP Transformation

SAP S/4HANA and Oracle EBS programmes that deliver measurable savings — not just go-lives. From business case through multi-country rollout and post-implementation governance.

M&A IT Integration

Pre-acquisition technology due diligence and post-acquisition integration — infrastructure consolidation, ERP harmonisation, data migration, and business continuity through the transition period.

Cybersecurity & Cloud

Global SOC design, NOC consolidation, cloud migration strategy, and multi-jurisdiction compliance — anchored to risk reduction and infrastructure efficiency, not security theatre.

Organisational Change Management

Technology programmes fail at the people layer, not the system layer. Business readiness assessment, stakeholder engagement, change strategy, communication frameworks, and training design — ensuring transformations land and stick across complex, multi-geography organisations.

Programme Recovery & Benefits Realisation

When a transformation is off-track or a go-live has not delivered expected value — diagnosing root causes, resetting programme governance, rebuilding stakeholder confidence, and closing the gap between system capability and actual business performance.

Board & Executive Advisory

Translating technology investment into business language for non-technical boards — sharper decisions on major commitments before the contract is signed. Available as Advisory Retainer, Project-Based engagement, or Interim / Fractional CIO.

About

The Principal

Jaroslaw Pietraszko — Founder, Oravio

Jaroslaw Pietraszko is a senior technology executive and advisor with 25 years of board-level IT leadership across FMCG, manufacturing, and distribution.

Most recently serving as Group CIO at one of the world's largest privately-owned FMCG groups, he delivered technology transformation across 50+ countries on 5 continents, reporting directly to the Board.

Prior to that, he held senior IT leadership roles at a global industrial company across EMEA, spanning over two decades of continuous cross-border technology leadership — including major acquisition integrations and large-scale ERP rollouts across Europe and the Middle East.

50+
Countries
25yr
Leadership
Europe · Middle East
Africa · Asia
Operating Regions
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Let's Talk

Whether you are about to make a major technology commitment, or in the middle of one that is not going as planned — reach out directly.

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