About Tim
I help people see farther and move forward.
I'm Tim Maloney. I help leaders make sense of technology risk and do something useful with it. Since 2002 I've worked with executives to get more out of their technology while keeping its risks in check. Most of the job is taking something complicated and making it clear enough to act on.
What I do
Helping teams see their real IT risks and act on them
I'm a Director at Protiviti, and I've worked across a lot of different industries. The job usually comes down to one thing: helping a team see its real IT risks and act on them, with advice that fits how the organization runs instead of a framework borrowed from somewhere else.
Most of what I do sits in IT governance, risk, compliance, and the everyday processes that keep a strategy from falling apart. I've run IT and cybersecurity compliance programs for global companies, built risk frameworks from scratch, and turned governance reviews into roadmaps a leadership team will follow.
What I care about most is whether the thing still works once I'm not in the room. If the team can run it and explain why it's built that way, I did my job.
How I work
Three rules from the trail
Here's roughly how I operate. The framing comes from the trail, which won't surprise anyone who's spent time with me.
Finish the Leg
I ship. A plan is worth nothing until it runs, so I push it from idea to working system and then test it where it actually has to hold up.
Conditioned for the Terrain
I fit the approach to the ground we're on. What the situation needs sets the path, not whatever framework I reached for last time.
Share the Load
I build things other people can pick up. It's organized and written down, so a team can run it whether or not I'm there.
What I care about
Beyond the work
The mountain theme isn't only branding. Getting outside is how I reset: long days on real trails and room to think. Scouting matters to me too. I'm an adult leader and a merit badge counselor, which mostly means helping kids learn to plan something, see it through, and not bail when it gets hard.
