Digital & Technology Partner
Trusted sparrings partner to CEOs, CIOs, owners, family enterprises and PE firms — hands-on, board-grade, available without long-term overhead, instead extensive consultancy projects or just complementing those. Specialist in IoT platforms, cloud and legacy transformation, and agentic AI for customer and partner interaction, property management and energy sector.
"Partly grown up in Saudi Arabia, I learned that the world can be very different and beautiful — even when we don't yet know or understand it."
Recommendations
Full recommendations on LinkedIn. Statements from clients, principals and colleagues across 25 years.
Who I Serve
I work with decision-makers who need a trusted technology and organizational mind — without the complexity of a permanent hire, or who need someone who has genuinely done it at scale.
You’re driving a transformation — IoT platform build, property legacy system overhaul, cloud migration, or agentic AI rollout, team development — and need a second opinion from someone who has operated at the same altitude, without institutional overhead.
Hidden Champions and Mittelstand leaders — in IT management, property and energy services, industrial automation — who want to become more digital, resilient and international. Discreet, long-horizon partnership.
Interim CIO / CTO / COO mandates, technology due diligence, legacy system transformation and post-acquisition platform builds. Board-grade reporting. Munich · Frankfurt · Dubai · Singapore.
Career
Every role hands-on. Full details and case studies available on request.
Expertise
Hands-on experience across each area. Complementary advisory.
End-to-end IoT platform design and operation at scale — smart metering, property management systems, and industrial IoT. Cloud-native architecture on global hyperscalers, legacy system transformation, API-first design, microservices, and real-time data pipelines processing billions of events annually.
Practical deployment of generative and agentic AI in production — not pilots. Agentic customer interaction (automated service flows, intelligent billing, multi-channel), agentic partner interaction (field-service orchestration, portal automation), and AI-native software delivery across international engineering organizations.
Joint-venture leadership, subsidiary build-up, post-merger integration and carve-outs across Europe, the US and Asia. Technology due diligence for PE and strategic investors in building technology, energy services, and industrial tech. Corporate venture experience in Silicon Valley.
Re-financing, valuation uplift, cost-out and margin expansion. Full P&L at significant scale. Building international DevOps organizations with near- and off-shoring hubs in Southern and Eastern Europe. Experienced with banking consortia, supervisory boards, works councils, and investor-grade reporting.
Beyond the Mandate
Technology leadership without a sense of responsibility is not sustainable. People are making the difference. Always.
World-class education for rural Africa. Co-launched the "Open Academy" with Stanford University; scaled from 350 to ~10,000 learners per week. Applying the same platform-thinking used in enterprise IoT to educational access — a decade of commitment to equity through technology.
goodworkfoundation.org →Mentoring young professionals navigating career transitions and leadership challenges — investing in the next generation, not only in technical competence but in character and resilience. Based in Munich, connected globally.
icf-muenchen.de →Contact
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