PROFILE

An experienced executive offering exceptional business leadership and intellectual rigor to achieve quick results in fast changing environments. Two decades of experience in founding and building IT companies, and in structuring executive and operational teams. Thorough mastery of all strategic, operational, administrative and legal aspects of software technology and corporate HR, with special focus on recruiting, forming and leading software teams.

• Co-founded five German and Swiss IT startups, and served as CEO, COO or CTO in each of them.
• Recruited, employed and managed 100+ developers, led dozens of teams, served in all traditional and agile roles, coordinated stakeholders such as investors and agency clients.
• Successfully sold one tech company, orchestrated the acquisition of another in a trinational context.
• Introduced agile methodologies to multiple organisations (Scrum, Kanban, Business Model Canvas, Team Syntegrity).
• Effective mentor, known for presentation and team motivation skills.
• Professional Excel user, plus 30 years of part time programming experience. Can bridge the gap of understanding between non-tech executives and engineers.
• Master’s degree in German law, broad experience in handling corporate, employmentrelated, and contractual legal matters in Germany and Switzerland

OBJECTIVE

Seeking a position on the management team of a large organization or fast-growing startupup. Especially interested in taking on responsibility for structural or process-related changes, e.g. in an upsizing / downsizing / restructuring / turnaround scenario