About Lee Yount, Jr.

For more than twenty years, Lee Yount, Jr. has worked where technology meets strategy — as a CIO and IT leader across manufacturing, healthcare, and government. He’s the person organizations call when the question isn’t “is it working?” but “are we doing the right things, for the right reasons, in the right order?”

Lee also knows the view from the owner’s chair. He’s built and run his own small business, so he understands first-hand what it’s like when every dollar and every hour has to count — and why a full-time, six-figure CIO isn’t realistic for most growing companies. That’s the gap he fills as a Fractional CIO (also called a virtual CIO, or vCIO): senior technology leadership, scaled to your budget, working alongside the IT team or MSP you already have.

Based in North Carolina and working with clients remotely nationwide, Lee brings enterprise-grade IT strategy to small and mid-size businesses — and partners with MSPs who want to offer that strategic layer to their own clients without adding an executive to payroll.

What shapes how I work:

• More than two decades of senior technology leadership across manufacturing, healthcare, and government.
• Certified Government Chief Information Officer — UNC School of Government.
• B.S. in Business Administration, Computer Information Systems — Western Carolina University.
• Strategy that pays for itself — including an in-house reporting dashboard that saved a client $80,000 a year and a platform migration that saved another $50,000 a year — see the results.
• Fluent in both worlds: able to talk shop with engineers and translate it into plain English for the people who sign the checks.
• A small-business owner myself, so I lead with what actually moves a growing company, not just what’s technically interesting.