Our Team
Lior Weinstein
Founder & Head Trainer
Lior Weinstein is a serial entrepreneur and strategic catalyst specializing in digital transformation. He helps CEOs of 8- and 9-figure businesses separate signal from noise so they can use AI to drive new value creation, increase velocity, and leverage untapped opportunities. Lior is a tactical turnaround specialist with deep practical expertise in leadership, marketing, and software engineering. He rapidly distills complex strategies and accessible opportunities into a practical, actionable, and future-resilient road map. Lior has built and sold multiple technology companies and holds multiple machine learning and AI patents. His life purpose is dissolving people’s barriers to action so they can drive impact and pursue happiness.
Marissa Brassfield
Experience Designer & Member Concierge
Marissa heads up our learning and membership experiences at CTOx™, and is often the first point of contact for new Accelerator candidates. Since 2007, Marissa has served as a fractional COO and strategic communications director, helping mission-driven entrepreneurs and high-performance small teams around the world build communities, develop engaging learning experiences, and optimize internal systems for efficiency and effectiveness. Marissa partners with Lior on select 0-1 ventures, especially those that support the human side of technology and build a bigger future.
Marissa lives in Los Angeles. When she’s not working, she’s usually hiking or playing outside with her family and Rhodesian Ridgeback.
Chris Conway
Agile Coach & IT Product Developer
Chris heads up our technical “backstage” at CTOx™, and is another person new Accelerator candidates may meet. He is the founder and lead trainer of the IT Bootcamp, which has trained and placed thousands of professionals in business IT roles like Scrum Master, Business Analyst, QA Analyst, Project Manager, or Product Owner. Chris is a serial entrepreneur who has launched various companies in the tech and tech talent space, leveraging his background in IT product development, talent recruitment, and enterprise architecture.
Chris lives with his fiancee and their dog Bentley in Columbus, Ohio.
What Drives Us
Launched in January 2024, CTOx™ is built on the process-driven frameworks and fundamentals of our sister company CMOx®, which coaches and places Fractional Chief Marketing Officers (CMOx®). CMOx® Founder Casey Stanton met Lior Weinstein when he served as a fractional CMO for Lior’s agency Fortunian. The two developed a fast friendship after discovering their mutual alignment on the value of process-driven systems that enable inevitable growth, and later decided to collaborate to create CTOx to meet the growing needs of modern businesses.
Through CTOx™, we teach CTOs and CIOs the principles of building strong, data-driven technology departments along with the sales and marketing strategies fractional CTOs need to build their businesses. It’s a collaboration built on shared values and deep respective track records of getting results.
When you hire a Fractional CTO from CTOx™, you’re not just hiring a senior technologist, you’d also be getting backdoor access to a team of vetted technology strategists and leaders. When your business hits a tech roadblock, your Fractional CTO can come back to the team and strategize with us, utilizing years of experience with hundreds of businesses to come up with a breakthrough
Core to the CTOx™ approach is the CTOx Functional Technology Framework, which all CTOx’s learn in our program. We take their technology expertise and hone it into a structured, repeatable, proven process that will be applied to your business. Your fractional CTO from CTOx will make your business successful month after month, year after year.
