I reboot your teams
out of crisis
Mission-critical interventions with 24/7 engagement. I take full control, stabilise failing human architectures, and hand back a team that works.
20 years
in senior
(corporate) leadership
15+ teams
and major led
to safety
+/- 6 months
typical mandate
length
Three ways to work together, depending on your emergency.
Crisis Remediation
For Senior Leaders whose project or team is repeatedly failing over critical deliveries or in fullfilling critical SLAs. I step in within hours, own P1s and major escalations, regain stakeholders' trust and re-establish a streamlined core-team able to cope again.
Interim Management
For Senior Leaders seeking to close leadership gaps during unplanned management transitions or radical restructurings.
I take control within a week, make hard tactical calls, sustain performance, and hand over cleanly when the time comes.
Project & Program (Re-)Launch
For Senior Leaders who need to drive a critical ramp-up, turnaround, or major delivery
— without the overhead of a full PM. I create initial structures and
coach one of your talents to lead the project to success.
High-stakes mandates in regulated industries.
From 4 to 400 FTE, from Europe to India,
I have been accountable for saving teams, project outcomes and million € budgets
in mission-critical environments where failure isn't an option.
Here are some samples of my work:
Crisis Remediation
6 months2026 · Financial Markets Backbone
Mission: stabilize mission critical plattform
took over a distributed DevOps team overwhelmed by their plattform and suffering repeated SLA breaches. Owned multiple P1s and reduced INC frequency by 70%. Supported recruitment of my successor.
Project Recovery
2 months2025 · eCommerce
Mission: re-launch
brought a strategic initiative from napkin scrible to implementation readiness. Secured ExCom sponsorship, business case, funding, staffing, and commitment on multi-year roadmap.
Scale-Up Accelaration
5 months2025 · Technology Consulting
Mission: expand into new vertical + geography
helped a boutique tech consulting set foot into a new industry (Insurance) and a new geography (FR Switzerland). Ignited first deals (1 mCHF ARR) via network & Cold-Calling.
a.i. Senior Leadership
5 months2024 · P&C Insurance Sales
Mission: keep 350 advisors on target during transition
oversaw a Sales Region (9 General Agencies, 850 mCHF ARR) during unplanned leadership gap. Increased sales performance and fixed critical compliance findings. Handed over #1 Region to my successor.
Vendor Remediation
14 months2024 · L&S Insurance Sales
Mission: untangle from a lousy vendor
led a major vendor escalation followed by a gracefull exit. Transformed it into a value-adding IT-integration opportunity and led to final implementation.
Business Owner
5 months2021 · Insurance Sales Software
Mission: bla
bla.
Critical Application Ownership
24 months2022 · Insurance CRM platform
Mission: maintain HA and achieve noiseless migration
Owned CRM Sales platform, used by 7'000 employees, rated for 99.95% availability and FINMA-relevant. Sponsored and led effective cloud migration whilst increasing user's productivity and NPS.
Application Scale-Up
8 months2021 · Software Engineering
Mission: move a MVP to a full scale App
led the expansion of a B2E application to 3 new lines of business and from 100 to 2'000 daily users, while reducing costs with near-shoring
Program Restructuring
9 months2019 · Life Reinsurance
Mission: stop 50 FTE wasting company's money
helped Managing Directors to reassert control over a project basket (5 mCHF p.a.) gone wild. Led 50% of projects to gracefull shutdown. Organized the rest in a lean portfolio for my successor.
Team Turn-Around
16 months2018 · Reinsurance Underwriting
Mission: Right-Shoring
took over a distributed team (UK + India) in charge of a customer-facing product following a catastophic transition. Rebuilt team morale, tooling and processes along a new, energizing mission statement.
Key Process Improvement
12 months2016 · Insurance / Distribution
Team Lead and Global Head
took over a failing part of the sales process (-80% under target) and the demoralized team in charge. Rebuilt everything, leveraging existing staff and existing ideas. Left to my successor with team back on track.
Team and project ramp-up
22 months2013 · Data & AI
Mission: scale-up tech strategy
created a kernel of business-savy data-scientists to explore, nurture and pilot AI use cases across a whole company. Built-up a roadmap which later materialized into 50 mCHF ROI. Handed over to my successor.
Project Management
12 months2010 · Insurance
Mission: secure a runaway migration stream
helped a patchwork of marketing professionals, IT developers and CFO controllers to overcome their conflicts and team up to integrate their data & algos into an single DWH.
Project Delivery
18 months2008 · Insurance
Mission: enrich CFO steering tools
helped a Managing Director (CFO Controlling) to force-feed customer-views in his reporting and forecasting processes. Led the IT effort to integrate data and created MVPs for dashboards and planning tools.
Business Turn-Around
3 months2007 · Web-hosting
Mission: Forensic Accounting / Cash Management
assisted a small web-hosting company (10 FTE) hemorrhaging cash. Fixed critical leaks in account receivables, resulting into return to positive cash-flows. Helped them fix their pricing and extract higher unit margins.
I don't own your team. I own your underlying problem until it's solved.
Proven in crisis
Specialized in high-octane interventions. I've stabilised failing teams and projects in high-availability environments where the cost of the next failure is existential.
Board-level fluent
VP and Director at AXA and Swiss Re. I speak the language of C-Suite stakeholders and translate it for your teams — without losing anything in translation.
Tech-literate Leader
I code in 5 languages and have led teams from Mobile Apps and ERPs all the way down deep Infra. No matter where they're at, I can cut clean through their complexity
Clean succession
I drop in, stabilise, and leave a team that runs without me. My mandates end with streamlined processes, re-engaged stakeholders, and a clear hand-over to the next leader.
Let's talk about your situation.
Whether you're facing a leadership gap, a project running sideways, or a team stuck in endless loops — let's start with a conversation. No obligation, no pitch deck.
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