Chief Executive Officer in Germany

• Founded, built and ran the agency; supported its sale to KNSK Group.
• Responsible for consulting, new business, operations and interdisciplinary teams.

Appointed by investors to lead a critical turnaround and scaling phase for the DACH business unit of an automotive platform preparing for Series B.

• Stabilised and transformed a fractured regional team, building cohesion, autonomy, and leadership trust
• Reignited key client relationships, restoring operational continuity and driving revenue acceleration
• Increased profitability to 10% EBITDA within 2 months; scaled MRR by 1.6x within 4 months
• Improved Gross Margin from 37% to 42% in under 3 months
• Executed cross-functional strategies across commercial, operational, product, and legal
• Rebuilt management structure and hired key leadership to support long-term growth
• Negotiated SLAs and influenced product roadmap based on customer feedback and field data

• Scaled truckoo from inception to a profitable 8-figure business, led a team of 20 colleagues, sold vehicles to 23 countries in MEA
• Responsible for launching and scaling the supply-side of the truckoo marketplace: acquire and retain key accounts (> 50 vehicles in fleet), manage SEO & SEA to reach smaller customers, build partnerships with branded or independent truck repair shops (current: 350 across Germany), engage in strategic partnerships (e.g. Deutsche Leasing AG)
• Played a key role in shaping the product roadmap, driving product strategy and direction in close collaboration with my C-Level colleagues
• Built and managed investor relationships, successfully securing funding across three investment rounds
• Led the finance function, managing the monthly and annual financial reporting and managing collaboration with external tax advisors
• Led the HR function, managing recruitment and termination processes while driving company culture, team engagement and employee events

• Management of more than 38 interim and crisis assignments in over 15 industries (project volume: 50 to 155.000 employees).
• Responsibility for stabilizing payroll operations and developing ICS concepts.
• Management of digitalization initiatives and harmonization of time management systems.

• SEA
• SEO
• Tracking & Analytics
• Data Feed Management

• Developed healthcare and webinar platforms using React, Ionic and GraphQL.
• Built scalable frontend applications in close collaboration with designers and backend teams.

• Strategic support for an AI tool for automated creative productio
• Sparring partner for product vision, market strategy, and go-to-market

• Used OpenCode and AI-assisted software engineering to design, implement, refactor, test, and document an end-to-end RAW/SDTM/ADaM pipeline in R for Dr. Falk Pharma (07/2026), including metadata-driven transformations, automated validation rules and QC, traceability, and reproducible clinical outputs.

• Founded the online education company CareerFoundry in 2013.
• Built the first version of the product and grew it to €25M yearly revenue, 150 employees, over 1000 human teachers.
• Launched an AI tutoring service, raised €10M investment, and managed a board of international investors.

AI Agent SaaS

Founded and built an AI agent SaaS for automated customer support and lead qualification, including implementation with pilot customers.

• Service → product transformation: productization from the agency into an independent AI agent SaaS. The starting point was a specific customer problem; the product was developed together with the customer.
• Developed and launched AI agents for website inbound, lead qualification, and customer service, reaching €8K MRR.
• Structured and led a remote team across engineering, LLM ops, and customer enablement.
• Case PTC Auto (e-commerce on Shopify): connected an AI support agent to the store, automated product data & support workflows, reducing workload by ~10–15 hours per week per support employee.
• Set up GDPR-compliant data processing for the AI agents: data processing agreements, deletion policies, and customer data storage locations.
• Assessed agents against the EU AI Act (risk class, transparency requirements) and built them accordingly.
• Addressed customers’ compliance and security requirements (questionnaires, evidence, contracts) to make sales possible in the first place.
• Built technical safeguards into the product to prevent agent misbehavior: hallucinations, escalation to humans, and logging.

• Founded and lead a consulting firm specializing in ISO 27001 and integrated management systems, advising organizations on certification readiness, governance frameworks and compliance structures.
• Support technology companies in implementing ISO-based management systems and risk management frameworks to strengthen information security and regulatory compliance.

Workflow-automation SaaS for operations teams (Berlin, 120 people); full-time freelance engagement reporting to the CEO: an initial 12-month interim mandate, extended twice through the AI build-out; owned product for one squad and coached the other product managers on process.

• Led generative AI (LLM) integration into the core product: from LLM-powered steps to natural-language workflow authoring and step-level automation suggestions, plus AI-managed dynamic workflows, shipped behind eval gates with human-in-the-loop fallbacks: AI-drafted workflows grew to 31% of all new workflows, and median time-to-first-workflow fell from 3 days to 4 hours.
• Packaged the AI capabilities as a usage-based add-on priced on executed automation steps, working with sales and marketing on positioning: ~€800K added ARR in the first year, and adopting accounts churned 1.8 pp less.
• Owned the roadmap end to end: replaced feature-request-driven quarterly planning with an outcome-based rolling roadmap built on quarterly bets and explicit kill criteria, presented monthly to the executive team and quarterly to the board.
• Rebuilt the product-management operating system: weekly customer-discovery cadence incl. workshop facilitation, RFC/decision-doc reviews and a single quarterly metrics narrative; coached four product managers, one promoted to senior during the engagement.
• Closed the engagement as scoped: hired and onboarded the permanent VP Product, handed over the process playbook and roadmap, and exited on schedule in June 2026.