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Description

Consultant and interim manager for digitalization and AI transformation. Entrepreneur with an exit, 14 years in regulated industries.

Most digitalization and AI projects fail not because of the technology, but because the end result is an isolated tool – not a system that actually supports daily work. I build systems that enable excellence. AI is a tool and a lever in this, not an end in itself.

I support companies as an interim manager or product owner in AI and digitalization transformations – from determining the current status, through architecture and implementation, to productive operation. I have built and managed several AI companies.

Many projects fail at the transitions between strategy, process, regulation, technology, and organization. An initiative only has an impact when five things work together: business process (understood from the inside), technology including AI (which supports the process), regulation (EU AI Act, DORA, GDPR – built-in from the start), organization (roles, routines, acceptance), and key performance indicators for steering.

All in one go: Strategy & economic viability, process & organization (Six Sigma Green Belt), architecture and implementation down to operations (Certified Scrum Master). From the executive board level to technical architecture – under one responsibility.

Collaboration: You decide how much responsibility I take on – as a sparring partner, as the person responsible for a defined project (Product Owner/Lead), or as an interim manager who takes on the whole task for a period and leads it to operational readiness. Accompanying, project-based, or interim.

I build independently of vendors, with a focus on data protection and European hosting – security and regulation by design (ISO/IEC 27001, BSI C5, GDPR, EU AI Act, NIS2; in the financial and insurance sector DORA, VAG, § 203 StGB).

Industries: Insurance, food, manufacturing/industrial electronics, leasing, rail freight transport, FinTech, and banking.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

German
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Hamburg (up to 50km)

Internationaler Lebensmittelkonzern
Senior Advisor AI Strategy & Product Innovation
AGRICULTURE
January 2024 - Today (2 years and 7 months)
Hamburg, Germany
At the beginning:Strategic consultant for the company-wide AI transformation of a group with several subsidiaries and competence building, including handover to self-responsibility.

Today:Strategic sparring and targeted competence building for top management and established AI coaches, 1 day per week.

AI Strategy & Organization:

• Conception and establishment of a central AI Hub as a competence center for the digital transformation of the entire group
• Development of an integrated KPI monitoring system with a Balanced Scorecard for ROI management of all AI initiatives
• Creation of a comprehensive data catalog (127 data points, 17 funnel stages, 18 source systems) as a basis for data-driven sales transformation
AI Product Development & Use Cases
• Management of over 20 strategic AI projects – from use case identification to proof of concept
• Structured identification and validation of over 50 AI use cases with quantified business value
• Development of AI solutions for intelligent document processing, enterprise search, and sales automation
• Data landscape analysis and consolidation strategy for fragmented system landscape (5 isolated systems, 70,000+ application recipes) Change Management & Enablement
• Orchestration of the GenAI rollout for over 150 employees, including training concept and governance framework
• Establishment of sustainable working methods and decision-making structures for AI use
AI Strategy digital transformation Management Consulting IT Project Management IT Strategy
Mittelständischer Industrieelektronik-Hersteller
Management Advisor
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
April 2025 - Today (1 year and 4 months)
Kiel, Germany
Consulting support for management in the digital transformation of a manufacturing company, 2-4 days per quarter.

Example topics:

• Conducting change workshops and developing a KPI system (54 existing KPIs evaluated, 12 new KPIs defined)
• Strategic process analysis to identify automation potential in quality management and manufacturing
• Evaluation and optimization of pricing strategy, including market and cost analysis to increase gross profit per transaction
digital transformation Management Consulting Pricing Quality Management AI Automation
Internationaler Versicherungsdienstleister
Senior Advisor AI Product Architecture
BANKING AND INSURANCE
May 2025 - September 2025 (4 months)
Köln, Germany
Architecture and product development of a multi-tenant SaaS platform for AI-supported claims processing in the German life and health insurance sector.

• Design of the document taxonomy (128+ document types) and the NER extraction schema (271 entity keys) for automated processing of insurance documents
• Development of the prompt engineering architecture for medical document chronology, classification routing, and structured output formats
• Conception of the event sourcing system architecture with RBAC/Keycloak for GDPR and DORA compliance
• Creation of the Product Requirements Document and scoping for MVP delivery
AI Product Development AI Automation Product Development Agile Project Management Regulatory Compliance