Data Governance Experts in Berlin

• Spearheading investor outreach and partnership development as founding MD, building the business case and technical narrative needed to attract initial funding and strategic collaborators in the digital health space
• Designing multi-agent AI systems for autonomous biosignal analysis, orchestrating LLM-based reasoning pipelines with domain-specific medical context to enable intelligent, clinical decision support

• Assessment of the existing reporting landscape and strategic bundling of needs
• Migration and consolidation of reports to Metabase, connected to ClickHouse as the data foundation
• Building and maintaining data pipelines

Stack: Metabase · ClickHouse · Appsmith · Airflow

• Designed, managed, and implemented the company’s operational, compliance, procurement, and financial strategy, ensuring alignment with rapid scaling and regulatory objectives.
• Built and scaled operational infrastructure across IT, HR, Finance, Procurement, and Compliance, supporting growth from 4 to 20 team members in 6 months.
• Oversaw financial management of OPEX, including budgeting, monitoring, and cost optimization to sustain high-growth operations.
• Developed and executed a procurement strategy, including vendor selection, negotiation, and performance oversight.
• Procured and managed external consultants (compliance, quality, regulatory experts) and orchestrated collaboration across internal teams and external partners to meet milestones.
• Implemented policies, SOPs, and business systems (compliance tracking, eQMS, payroll, vendor management, data governance) to support regulatory compliance and scalability.
• Managed and actively oversaw regulatory and compliance programs, embedding GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and ISO 27701 requirements into day-to-day operations.
• Directed the rollout of a Quality Management System (QMS) aligned with ISO 13485 to prepare for medical device and AI regulatory certifications.
• Led people and culture development, establishing onboarding, performance management, and cross-functional collaboration structures to scale the organization effectively.
• Established risk management and business continuity frameworks, including security controls, risk registers, and compliance safeguards.
• Engaged executive leadership, board, and investors to align operational strategy with corporate goals and market expansion.
• Enabled technology-driven operations, selecting and implementing digital systems (e.g., Drata, Qualio) to ensure compliance and efficiency.
• Scaled StratifAI’s operational backbone to support rapid growth and international market readiness.
• Achieved ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 2, GDPR, and HIPAA compliance within 6 months, enabling enterprise and healthcare partnerships.
• Implemented a QMS system aligned with ISO 13485, paving the way for regulatory approvals and positioning for upcoming ISO 13485 certification, CE-IVDR marking, and FDA clearance within 12 months.
• Designed and executed governance, procurement, and financial controls, ensuring efficient resource allocation and sustainable compliance.
• Established a culture of structured growth, integrating people, processes, and compliance frameworks to maintain operational excellence.
• Enabled StratifAI to confidently enter regulated US and EU markets, building the foundation for long-term expansion.

• Own strategy and roadmap for the payment orchestration and risk intelligence products serving enterprise subscription customers.
• Conduct deep workflow discovery and user interviews to redesign onboarding experience, resulting in 5× funnel throughput and 70% reduction in manual steps.
• Define PRDs for scalable data pipelines, fraud signals, and automation logic, improving insight accuracy and speed of decision-making by 30%.
• Partner with engineering, data, design, and security to ship 15+ enterprise features with 100% successful release quality.
• Introduce risk analytics dashboards and performance KPIs, reducing investigation time by 40% and improving visibility across teams.
• Lead prioritization of new capabilities, tech debt, and security initiatives (PCI DSS, access controls, auditability).
• Lead development of ML-based fraud detection models (regression, decision trees) to identify high-risk transactions, reducing chargebacks by 20%.
• Design end-to-end analytics dashboards (Tableau, Redshift) to visualise global risk exposure, cutting onboarding SLA from 2.4 days to 3 minutes.
• Partner with engineering and data teams to deploy scalable payment risk frameworks, enhancing compliance visibility and decision speed.
• Mentor analysts and data scientists through agile sprint cycles, embedding a data-driven culture across risk operations.

• Developed YourBestChance.io, an AI-powered career resilience platform that leverages advanced machine learning to provide personalized guidance and resources for users.
• Architected and implemented a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system supporting three languages, utilizing GPT-based large language models (including OpenAI and Grok variants) integrated with specialized vector databases for efficient semantic search and similarity matching.
• Built an interactive AI chatbot powered by generative AI and RAG pipelines to deliver real-time, context-aware responses and enhance user engagement.
• Optimized data pipelines and AI infrastructure for scalability, ensuring robust performance under increasing loads and reducing latency by 50%.
• Developed comprehensive AI strategies using ML and Gen AI to create customized growth plans; analyzed company data to identify strengths, weaknesses, risks, and opportunities for AI integration.
• Defined ethical frameworks for AI deployment, assessed workforce and leadership upskilling needs, and built phased action plans (short-, mid-, and long-term) with targeted AI integration recommendations.

• Product strategy & vision: Led campaign performance reporting platform serving 700+ partners, transformed manual MSTR-based weekly reporting to real-time self-service platform enabling partner autonomy and operational efficiency
• Strategic roadmap management: Led phased migration prioritizing Performance campaigns (70% revenue) ahead of Awareness and Engagement, driving iterative platform evolution aligned with objectives, partner feedback, GDPR compliance, and data retention policies
• User research & customer discovery: Conducted regular user interviews with partners to understand reporting needs, decision-making processes, and additional KPI requirements, translating insights into platform enhancements and feature prioritization
• Cross-functional leadership: Collaborated with Product Consultants, analysts, data engineers, frontend teams, and product marketing to execute seamless platform migration, reducing PC team size by 2 FTEs while improving service quality
• Scaled user adoption: Strategically onboarded partners starting with top 30 partner-program partners, expanding to all 700+ partner-program and wholesale partners through user education documentation, training coordination, and iterative feedback incorporation
• Data-driven product optimization: Implemented Google Analytics tracking and engagement monitoring, identified low-engagement features (report downloads, detailed links), deployed AppCues and re-education campaigns resulting in 40% weekly engagement rate
• KPI standardization & governance: Led cross-functional initiative to standardize KPI definitions and formulas across reports, dashboards, and ZMS platform, defined North Star metrics and essential KPIs for each campaign objective ensuring consistent measurement and decision-making

• Consulting and advisory services for the AI space on product management, strategy, AI models, AI infrastructure
• AI Product Lead for Ringier AG:
• BliKI chatbot for Blick.ch - live, tens of thousands of users
• AI Forge journalist tooling for Blick.ch - live, hundreds of internal users
• Floorian automated ad floor price optimization system - pilot ongoing
• Freelance CTO for an AI-as-a-Service company focusing on automated trading solutions
• AI Agent calls people on the phone at scale, converses to achieve specific goals, and takes action based on how the conversation
• AI Trading bot based on transformer time-series model forecasting future asset prices

• Designed and implemented end-to-end data workflows (BigQuery + PowerBI), transforming raw datasets into executive dashboards used for KPI monitoring
• Queried and transformed large-scale datasets using Google BigQuery to support analytical use cases and insight generation

• Maintain internal GDPR documentation and manage data access controls within digital systems.
• Train users on privacy protocols, recordkeeping, and document management standards.

• Teaching content marketing strategy, planning, execution, and performance measurement.
• Training in storytelling, tools, and the use of artificial intelligence.
• Conducting courses for hundreds of participants.

• Analysis and harmonization of master data
• Analysis of product and customer portfolios and KPI identification
• Preparation and harmonization of raw material master data for migration
• Marketing and customer support as well as organization at real estate agencies

• Development of a cloud security strategy
• Implementation of cloud security governance to comply with ISO/IEC 27017 and the CSA CCM
• Creation of a management system to control cloud security with a focus on process design as well as roles and responsibilities
• Definition of security measures to safeguard cloud solutions
• Conducting requirements analyses and defining the scope for cloud security projects
• Achievements: Established an effective NIS2-compliant cloud security governance that meets industry-specific requirements and effectively minimizes cloud security risks

• Designed and implemented the company's end-to-end data architecture, including ingestion, modeling, and BI layers.
• Developed modular and reusable dbt models to support product, finance, and marketing analytics.
• Introduced data governance practices and metadata management, improving trust and discoverability across teams.

• Responsible for the first customer launch in 2021 and for continuously growing the customer base
• Built and led a high-performing product team (3 PMs, 3 UX designers)
• Set up cross-functional teams in agile product development using SCRUM
• Formulated and translated overarching product strategies, analyzed market trends, and defined product requirements and design
• Transformed product development toward business value and user centricity by professionalizing processes and prioritization methods
• Established targeted communication with stakeholders inside and outside the company
• Supported regulatory approval with the KBV and gematik