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## What CIO Phil Dundas says helps technology executives lead at enterprise scale

DevFeed: [What CIO Phil Dundas says helps technology executives lead at enterprise scale](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-separates-true-enterprise-leaders-from-strong-tech-execs-63212.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.cio.com/article/4228528/what-separates-true-enterprise-leaders-from-strong-tech-execs.html>)

Author: Dan Roberts

Published: 2026-10-01T09:30:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [CIO](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/cio.md>)

Topics: [engineering-leadership](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/engineering-leadership.md>), [balancing technical and leadership roles](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/balancing-technical-and-leadership-roles.md>), [AI Infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-infrastructure.md>)

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### AI overview

AlTi Global CTO Phil Dundas describes how technology executives can grow into enterprise leadership. He discusses building trust and sound data foundations for AI, delegating while retaining accountability, choosing which decisions require close involvement, and giving teams enough context to act independently. His examples also highlight the need to adapt technical solutions to business users and to create a team culture where people can question one another and raise concerns safely.

### Source excerpt

New technology executives often discover the skills that made them successful early in their careers can be the very things that limit their success as a CIO, particularly as the scope, complexity, and expectations of the role expand. Few leaders understand that evolution better than AlTi Global CTO Phil Dundas, my recent guest on the Tech Whisperers podcast. Leading technology inside some of the world's most complex financial organizations, Dundas has repeatedly had to rethink what his job requires of him. That has meant learning when to get into the details and when to stay out, replacing control with context, creating genuine accountability and empowerment without leaving people unsupported, and measuring his success less by the problems he solves personally than by the capability of the organization he builds around him. Those lessons are particularly relevant as CIOs take on broader mandates and lead organizations that operate with increasing speed. Navigating this environment requires a leadership system that enables good decisions, accountability, innovation, and execution to happen at scale. That starts with trust, which Dundas sees as the foundation for client relationships and innovation. Here, Dundas shares some of the hard-earned shifts that helped him make that transition, as well as the leadership practices he believes separate true enterprise leaders from strong technology executives. Dan Roberts: Trust is a thread through everything you do. How does it shape the way you approach innovation, especially with AI? Phil Dundas: Wealth management is a trust business. I love the line that trust arrives on a bicycle and leaves in a sports car. It takes years to earn and moments to lose. The relationship between a client and their advisor sits at the center of that trust, and it is underpinned by the data and information the client sees. So client trust depends on data trust, and data trust depends on the people and the discipline behind it. I'm impatient to