Leadership & philosophy

Senior leadership with a bench that actually builds.

Founded by Nick Parece. We bridge boardroom technology strategy and hands-on delivery, from the roadmap to production.

  • Fractional CIO advisory
  • PE & M&A systems integration
  • Hands-on production delivery
Nick Parece, founder of SynthaSystems

Nick Parece

Founder & Principal · Fractional CIO

Executive credentials

  • 25+ years leading technologyInfrastructure, enterprise systems, data and security for fast-growing companies.
  • 15+ acquisitions integratedIncluding five-plus while leading enterprise IT, business systems and security at a commerce technology company through $500M+ in revenue.
  • Led technology teams of 1 to 34Built technology organizations from the ground up, and stepped into established ones to reorganize and mature the teams around delivery.
  • Fractional CIO todayTaking AI-driven software development from experiment to enterprise-grade delivery for growth-stage and PE-backed companies.
Track record

Our track record by the numbers.

  • 25+years leading technology
  • 15+acquisitions integrated
  • SOC 2environments built and maintained
  • 1–34person technology teams led
Operating principles

How we think.

Principle 01

Systems serve the business plan

Every recommendation ties back to revenue, margin, risk or the exit.

Principle 02

Prove it before cutover

Migrations reconcile to the row; nothing goes live on trust.

Principle 03

AI with guardrails

Move at AI speed, with the review, testing and security an auditor expects.

Domain experience

Industries we've led technology in.

  • Private equity portfolios
  • Consumer & DTC brands
  • Ecommerce
  • Food
  • Health & wellness
  • Water filtration
  • Precision manufacturing
  • Marketing agencies
  • Higher education
  • Global printing
  • Third-party logistics & shipping
The bench

Specialists, staffed to each engagement.

Senior practitioners, staffed to each engagement and led by Nick.

  • Nick leads every engagement personally
  • Specialists join when the work calls for them
  • The same delivery gates on every build

Application Development

Web and mobile apps, built AI-first and shipped to production.

  • Full-stack & iOS
  • CI/CD
  • Automated testing

NetSuite ERP

Implementations, integrations and clean-up for NetSuite.

  • Configuration
  • SuiteScript
  • Finance process

DevOps / Systems Engineering

Data and identity migrations, cut over cleanly.

  • Tenant consolidation
  • SSO & directory
  • Cloud infrastructure
Confidential advisory

Meet Nick to talk through your technology roadmap.

Fractional leadership, a systems review before a transaction, or engineering that needs to move faster: start with a conversation.