0 ⇒ 1 ⇒ growth ⇒ excellence for B2B(2C) SaaS, platforms, and hybrid services with complex challenges and complicated ecosystems
Acquire, delight and keep your most valuable customers with effective big bet innovation at higher speed, lower cost, and lesser risk for stellar business outcomes.
Grow a people-first caring culture of excellence, learning, and ongoing improvement supported by a fitting adaptable structure to scale and sustain your success.
Digital Health · HRTech · EduTech · Tools for Thought · BI · AI/ML · Platforms · Social Interaction · Arts & Media · 🧠 known to acquire new domains at light speed · ❤️ wicked problems · both extraordinarily 👨🔬 analytical and 🪄 creative – excellent at connecting the dots 🗺️ · deep strategic thought 🔗 action-biased pragmatism · seasoned start-up executive, still unafraid of getting his hands dirty · Let’s go! 🚀
PS: Open to employment in the right setting.
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Polymath product pirate captain, building resilient human-centric companies from 0 to 1 to scale for over 20 years. Comes with a mosaic biography, a design degree, scars, grit, and some accolades. Incurably curious. Purpose-driven. First-principled. Neurospicy, yet sociable. Compassionately constructively contrarian. Easily impressed by competence coupled with care. Values above all others growth, courage, connection. Likes complex problems and therefore loves working with people ;-). Dislikes speaking about himself in the third person. My superpower is synthesis – connecting the dots to emerge a guiding vision even from the faintest signals within blinding noise. Product work is messy by nature. As your proven navigator in uncertain complexity, I’m here to make worthwhile futures happen.
It happens by building not only great products but also matching effective organisations with a humane backbone. I support by rallying inclusive teams around shared meaning, enabling them to translate business objectives and strategic goals into tactical achievements while zooming back and forth between the whole forest and its trees. Full situational awareness goes way beyond customers – and provides a stellar advantage.
My work approach favours a systemic perspective that integrates all functions and stakeholders in our ecosystem as far as possible, united by sound strategy, enabled by lean operations. I'm equally ready to pivot to quick tactical wins when pragmatism demands it. Still hands-on if required, I won’t shy from ‘menial’ tasks to support my teams in times of need.
Teaching, mentoring, and parenting taught me a lot. Amongst all that I deeply cherish seeing people grow, both professionally and personally. I firmly believe that enabling individuals with high agency is necessary for all sustainable success. This demands encompassing empathy, guiding not only the development of our products and business models but also the design of our organisations itself. Nothing exists in isolation.
I created my first digital product at age 13. Tracing my pre-professional teenage steps, I've been shaping digital products and culture for over 35 years of deep immersion. Of these I spent over 20 in high-impact roles as a lead contributor or product executive. Primarily I have helped to build purpose-led start-ups during longer engagements, alternating with consulting and fractional management for a variety of clients. Still a builder and grower at heart, I distinctly prefer the former’s fulfilling depth and impact. Thanks to the latter we additionally benefit from a breadth of insights drawn from various industries, organisational contexts, practices, and team cultures. I also onboard at lightning-speed. :) Like to see?
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