Major changes to the corporate structure
- Merger: consolidating several IT organisations
- Carve-out: separating IT under time pressure
- Acquisition: unclear IT risks and integration costs
When IT turns critical
Interim CIO for private equity-led groups of companies, medium-sized groups of companies or divisions within corporate groups
Major Corporate IT Maneuvers (Carve-Out · Merger · Acquisition) │ IT jeopardises business │ IT leadership crisis
Triggers and causes
IT that jeopardises the business
- Business-critical system outages
- Failed transformation, legacy crisis
- Compliance breaches (NIS2, DORA)
IT leadership crisis
- Vacancy: CIO position unfilled
- Resistance to necessary change
- Performance issues, key staff leaving
Initial situation
You need support
Describe your situation in three minutes — confidential, no obligation. You will receive a first assessment within 24 hours.
Describe your situationYou need a specific result
Name the goal and the time horizon — carve-out, turnaround, transformation. You will receive an honest feasibility and effort assessment.
Define the outcome
Direct benefits
What you concretely gain
Liability protection
Interim CIO as a de-risking strategy
NIS2 (in force since 12/2025, personal management liability under section 38 BSIG), DORA and the EU AI Act make IT compliance a non-delegable board duty. A compliance-assured IT transformation led at C-level is the operational de-risking strategy for managing directors and boards.
Code of conduct
Binding standards in every mandate
Confidentiality, independence and objectivity, accountability for results, no conflicts of interest, knowledge transfer to the permanent successor as a fixed part of every mandate — committed in writing.
Read the code of conductImmediately available
C-level IT competence without a lengthy recruitment process — filling a CISO role takes 4–6 months.
No employment-law risk
No severance payments, no notice periods, no social-security obligations.
Proven RoIM
Return on interim management: up to a factor of 50 in turnaround mandates (Heuse study).
Objective and independent
No career agenda inside the company, no internal alliances.
Focus on results
Unlike the provider model, no interest in unnecessarily extending the mandate.
Knowledge transfer included
Handover to the permanent successor is a fixed part of every mandate.
Impact, measured in numbers
3.5m EUR
saved — stopped projects that delivered no return
18 → 1
major incidents — business-critical IT stabilised, critical outages to 0
350m EUR
carve-out rescued — disputes defused, TOM established
−35%
operating cost — target operating model, productivity +30%
+1.2–1.7
exit multiple — IT strategy for a PE-owned clinic group
Why Hilderts?
The difference between value destruction and value creation
Transformation DNA
35 mandates in 26 years — carve-out, post-merger, turnaround. Organisations steered through technological upheaval, not just administered.
Measurable EBITDA impact
Operating costs −35%, exit multiple +1.2–1.7, 39m EUR receivables collected — impact investors can verify.
Entrepreneurial perspective
7 years running his own company, 4 years as CEO — P&L thinking instead of a tech silo, advice at eye level with management.
Breadth and depth
Over 10 industries, DACH to Southeast Asia, upper mid-market to corporate divisions — proven methods from other industries included.
Future-ready IT
Cloud-first, AI-supported strategy frameworks, NIS2/DORA-proof — the logical answer to tomorrow’s challenges.
Successor included
Outcome instead of attendance: knowledge transfer and onboarding of the permanent CIO are a fixed part of every mandate.
Trusted by
A selection of organisations served
Personal
In 90 seconds: who I am and how I work
I take on IT responsibility where things get hard — in special situations, under time pressure, with high stakes. My benchmark is not presence but impact: stable IT, protected investments, a capable team and a successor ready to take over.
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