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
Doing the right things right in times of uncertainty
get the management team on track, get the workforce on board with honesty and clarity, be engaging and accessible
Interim CIO & IT Management Consultant for larger medium-sized companies, PE-owned start-ups and medium-sized divisions of large corporations
Carve-out, post-merger, IT turnaround, transformation — led by someone who has done it 35 times.
Does this sound familiar?
When IT becomes the decisive factor
Three situations in which an experienced interim CIO makes the difference between value destruction and value creation.
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
Results that matter
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 an interim CIO?
Six reasons that convince
Available immediately
C-level IT capability without 4–6 months of recruiting — from day 1.
No employment-law risk
No severance, no notice periods.
Proven ROI
Return on interim management of up to 50×.
Objective perspective
No career agenda, no internal alliances.
Outcome, not attendance
Maximising impact, no interest in extending the mandate.
Successor included
Knowledge transfer and onboarding of the permanent CIO as a fixed part of the mandate.
Trusted by
A selection of organisations served
Carrier
ARTEMIS
Gazprom Germania
Oberlinhaus
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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The simplest route to a conversation is the best one. A call, an email or a meeting — and in 20 minutes we’ll know whether and how I can help.