Technology leadership for ambitious businesses

Targeted solutions to accelerate your business

Fractional CIO/CTO consulting and system solutions to scale with purpose in a rapidly changing world. What can we help you achieve?

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  • 25+Years of experience
  • $1.3BGrowth at Ambit Energy
  • 5Major industry awards
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Services

Solutions to scale with purpose.

Whether you’re a small start-up, mid-market, or a billion-dollar company, Quantum Executive is focused on helping businesses with ambitious goals.

Investment & Offering Assessment

As an investor or private equity firm, do you want a 3rd party assessment of an existing entity with your strategic interests in mind?

Our extensive experience in venture capital deal assessments, as well as corporate acquisitions on the buy and sell side, have proven our ability to rapidly obtain and digest information on a target organization and its tech platforms. This is what our clients want – and what sets us apart.

We will always provide a solid recommendation from a vendor-neutral approach.

We will assess:

  • System architecture and roadmap
  • Technology company business plans
  • Organizational structures
  • IT infrastructure

We will deliver:

  • Executive level report of findings and recommendations.
  • Connections to the right people to help you accomplish your goals.
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Fractional CIO/CTO

Want an accomplished professional with proven success to join your team, but don’t want all the overhead? Do you need an interim CIO/CTO?

We provide a professional perspective to both investors and executives as we come alongside to help an organization navigate the technology difficulties they face. You can rely on our vast experience to help your company make the critical decisions you need to move forward.

Whether you’re a small start-up, mid-market, or a billion-dollar company, Quantum Executive is focused on helping businesses with ambitious goals.

Consulting can be provided in several ways and customized to fit your needs:

  • At an hourly rate
  • As a monthly retainer
  • Project specific or salary-based for an interim role
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Hourly · Retainer · Interim

Turnkey Software Development

Do you need critical software developed and implemented from the ground up? Want to own your software and your destiny?

Our team offers a full-service approach to accomplish whatever your development needs are. From scope, specifications, and project management to MVP and full product development, we will accomplish your goals so you have full confidence in the end result.

The off-the-shelf SaaS delivery model often does not align with the strategic needs of an organization. Don’t force yourself into something that doesn’t fit. Custom software is no longer a complex, risky, and costly endeavor. The Quantum Executive team will complete your project in a cost-effective, controlled, and iterative manner to minimize costs and achieve results.

What you can expect:

  • We provide custom development and hosting at a very low cost
  • Tried and true methods based off years of experience
  • Focused timeline, incredible talent, dependable follow-through

We will deliver:

  • Software systems you own
  • A pass-through cloud infrastructure cost and transparent maintenance fee
  • On-going system modifications – if preferred
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Data Analytics & Management

Having a problem getting the answers you need out of your data? Do you have disparate sources of data that make it hard to centralize?

We have a long history of data analysis and management through data migrations, data centralization, data cleansing, and data model improvements. “Talking the talk” with different technology groups and business analysts enables us to move quickly and cost-effectively to provide you answers in existing data.

The Quantum Executive team can bridge the gap between data and reporting needs from the business to the technologists that manage the data. We have deep expertise in managing data migrations, data reporting integration, data modeling, and data cleansing.

Want to understand your situation and see how Quantum Executive can help?

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Technology Health Check

Concerned about your organization’s technology footprint? Want to grow your business but you’re limited by your current tech systems?

We provide real-world strategies to move your business forward in a world where so much relies on digital infrastructures. We step in and provide the information you need from a vendor-neutral view so that your business will achieve the results you want.

We will assess:

  • Software development lifecycle analysis
  • Workflow analysis for growth and automation
  • Overall digital footprint and underlying technology platforms
  • Vendor selection including cloud, software dev, hosting, hardware, etc.
  • Application roadmaps and options for replacement or upgrade
  • IT security profile

We will deliver:

  • Executive level report of findings and recommendations.
  • Connections to the right people to help you accomplish your goals.
Request a Tech Health Check

Project Launch & Rescue

Want to get a great idea to market? Want your product out the door in a really short amount of time? Or do you have a stalled project? Unsure of your options?

Don’t know where to start? Need to determine the cost of getting a project back on track?

We bring urgency to make ideas a reality. We will guide the way to a rapid MVP approach for system development and deployment, so that you know where to spend and what to expect. If you have an existing project under way, our team drops in to perform a rapid assessment and works with you to develop a strategy to move forward.

We will assess:

  • Product definitions and existing platform gaps
  • Team leadership, communication methods, and requirements management
  • Data models, integrity gaps, and project plans
  • Product and software development costs
  • Technology needs and timeline to launch

We will deliver:

  • Product definition document and key details for project success
  • Recommendations for technology platforms and vendors
  • Data model outline to support the product
  • Vendor/team selection and hiring recommendations
  • Project cost estimates
  • Timeline and requirements to accomplish launch
  • Ongoing oversight and support as needed
  • Coaching your existing team in their role to keep the project moving forward
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Case Studies

Client Results

See how we have helped real organizations solve real problems.

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$1B+

Ambit Energy grew to over $1 billion in annual revenue in just 7 years, reaching more than 1.3 million customers.

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About Us

Real-world experience in
business and technology.

John’s experience, and proven success, is the model by which we approach all of our clients to help them scale their companies to meet the demands of a fast-paced world.

John Burke, founder and president of Quantum Executive
Co-founder · Ambit Energy
“Never let good enough be good enough.”
John Burke Founder & President
$1.3B

Growth at Ambit Energy

  • $1B+Annual revenue
  • 7 yrsStartup to $1B
  • 1.3M+Customers

Founder and president of Quantum Executive, John Burke, played a critical role as a co-founder of Ambit Energy and helped grow the startup to over $1 billion in annual revenue in just 7 years, reaching more than 1.3 million customers. He was able to design and develop an enterprise system to support the rapid growth, in spite of many challenges the company faced.

Learn more how John took Ambit to over $1B.
25+

Years of experience

We have been helping both large and small organizations navigate change brought on by rapidly evolving technology for many years. Our real-world experience in business and technology has solidified a tried-and-true approach leveraging business strategy, planning, system architecture and organizational development.

Our approach

  • Business strategy
  • Planning
  • System architecture
  • Organizational development
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Major industry awards

Our efforts to help organizations grow and succeed have been widely recognized across the industry, and companies we’ve helped achieve high results have in return received high praise. Some of the major awards either we or the companies we’ve had the privilege to partner with have received include:

  1. 2010#1 on the INC Magazine’s Fastest Growing Private U.S. Companies
  2. 2011Dallas / Fort Worth SIM IT Executive of the Year
  3. 2017Dallas CIO of the Year – Inspire CIO
  4. Multiple yearsTop Places to Work in DFW – Dallas Morning News

Testimonials

In the words of the founders
we’ve built with.

    • Hyper-growth
    • IT leadership

    John Burke was the IT genius behind Ambit Energy.

    John Burke was the IT genius behind Ambit Energy. He engaged me early on to determine the needs for the business and drove the prioritization of IT projects across the business. John sought to include all players to ensure the end product was embraced, but tightly managed the scope in order to meet launch dates.

    When system vendors failed to deliver, John started from scratch, architecting, coding, and building back-office systems and an IT organization that ultimately became the envy of the competitive electrical utility industry. The team and systems that John built were the result of seeking to be the best, but not letting perfection become the enemy of our progress. Understanding how our resource limitations and operational demands could easily overwhelm and delay timely deliveries, John’s rule was, “Never let good enough be good enough.” He was always willing to circle back in time and improve previous systems, enabling Ambit to move forward with the critical software needed to manage our hyper- growth.

    I would endorse John Burke to anyone trying to assess, evaluate, upgrade or build state of the art systems or an IT organization. He was our CIO/CTO for 14 years, from our inception until the company sold in 2019. That is a rarity in today’s world and a testament to John’s ability, character and leadership skills. Over the years, we continuously layered more operational responsibilities to John, and he assumed numerous turn-around responsibilities after the departure of our COO.

    John’s talented senior team was incredibly loyal to him. They trusted him, and so did the senior executives. He is a good man.

    Jere Thompson, Jr.
    Jere Thompson, Jr.Co-Founder and CEO, Ambit Energy
    • Scaling
    • Keeps promises

    In a world full of firms who are experts in making promises, John has distinguished himself by keeping them.

    Whether you are an entrepreneur who needs assistance operationalizing your idea or a seasoned executive who needs help scaling or re-directing an existing business, John Burke can help you navigate your way to success. John has over thirty years of experience building, scaling, and managing technology to support the objectives of businesses of all sizes and in various industries. If you need a temporary CIO/COO or just clear, effective guidance, John can provide expert tactical or strategic plans to help you achieve your next level of success. I’ve never worked with anyone better at understanding the goal, defining the technology requirements for supporting it, and developing the plan and resources to execute it. In a world full of firms who are experts in making promises, John has distinguished himself by keeping them.

    Chris Chambless
    Chris ChamblessCo-Founder and CMO, Ambit Energy
    • Reliability
    • Scalability
    • Security

    I am certain an engagement with John Burke and Team Quantum will bring value to your organization just as it has ours.

    We set out to rebuild the entire infrastructure of our technology platform. Due to the financial nature of our business we had to address near perfect reliability, scalability, and performance; all with a laser focus on security. John and his team came in and helped us design a core system that met these requirements and provided flexibility to adapt to future market demands. We found great value not only in John’s technical capabilities, but also in his experience in and understanding that driving revenue is the ultimate end for most product development. His continued follow up and involvement with our team, when necessary, remains helpful today. I am certain an engagement with John Burke and Team Quantum will bring value to your organization just as it has ours.

    Alan Ward
    Alan WardFounder and CEO, Securely (Securely.io)

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