IT Leadership & Operations
- CIO and Interim CIO responsibility
- Responsibility for IT and agile Product IT, including roadmaps, backlogs and releases
- Business continuity, operating model and governance
- Organisation, budget, sourcing and cost
CIO & Interim CIO | Executive IT Leadership
Bridging CriticalIT Gaps.
Stability in motion. Executive responsibility for IT — in ongoing CIO leadership as well as in M&A, restructuring, crisis situations and critical transformations. Sharpen strategy. Secure operations. Drive change with impact.
Executive Responsibility
Leadership when IT becomes strategic or business-critical
Four areas of expertise combine ongoing or interim IT leadership with transactions, transformation, risk and resilience.
M&A & Separation
- IT due diligence
- Carve-out, separation and TSAs
- Day 1 readiness
- Post-merger integration and integration planning
Transformation & Modernisation
- Legacy replacement and target architecture
- Cloud and infrastructure modernisation
- SAP and enterprise platforms
- Programmes, portfolio and value delivery
Risk & Resilience
- Cybersecurity and crisis management
- Business continuity and disaster recovery
- IT audits, ITGC and compliance
- PCI DSS, ZAIT, DORA and NIS2
Engagement Situations
When I take responsibility
When a CIO role must be filled effectively, a transaction secured or change led under increased pressure to act.
Lead the CIO function
Take on end-to-end strategic and operational IT responsibility on a permanent or interim basis and develop the organisation with clear direction.
Secure a transaction
Manage due diligence, carve-out, Day 1 and integration alongside ongoing business operations.
Lead change
Guide transformation, restructuring or crisis situations with a clear assessment, robust decisions and a stable execution cadence.
Experience & Context
Relevant scale. High-availability environments.
Leadership responsibility in high-availability and regulated organisations — with substantial scale and international experience.
Industry Experience
Experience in high-availability and regulated industries
Practical leadership in environments with high operational relevance, transaction dynamics and demanding governance requirements.
Aviation
Travel
Payment Services
Financial Services
Approach
The first 90 days
In ongoing CIO roles, I structure the first 90 days. In critical transitions, stabilisation begins within the first 72 hours.
- Critical transition: first 72 hours
Clarify the situation and secure stability
Make risks, open decisions and operational dependencies transparent and restore immediate ability to act.
- By day 30
Establish leadership and control
Align mandate, priorities, governance and leadership cadence around a shared basis for decisions and execution.
- By day 90
Embed execution and development
Anchor accountabilities, the roadmap and visible risk and value levers for operations, organisation and change.
Contact
Let us assess the situation.
A confidential initial discussion clarifies the starting point, objectives and possible next steps.
My professional roots as an engineer are in steel structures and bridge construction. Today, I connect business, technology, leadership and execution.
Confidential Executive Profile
Executive Profile
A concise two-page profile is available for specific mandates, transactions and executive discussions.
The protected download currently contains the German-language version. An English profile is available on request.