About Me – Professional Experience

2022 – current  CIO ERGO Digital Ventures AG – responsible for the IT services of the portfolio companies and the (managed) service provision of our innovation units to group companies  
2022 – currentAdvisory Board Member for one of the portfolio companies of IK Partners, a Hamburg-based private equity firm. The portfolio company is a mid-sized IT consulting company with headquarters in Germany.
2016 – 2022    ERGO Group AG, Düsseldorf – Global Chief Architect. Responsible for the modernization and consolidation of IT services and underlying technologies. Responsibility included target state and roadmap definitions across IT for a 1bn EUR transformation program. Line responsibility for approx. 140 people, annual budget of approx. 50m EUR.
2018 – currentAdvisory Board Member, Elinor peer-to-peer
2013 – 2016Independent Senior IT Consultant and Interim Manager – Digital Evangelist/Digital Ecosystem ArchitectAdvisor, it-economics GmbH, Munich, GermanyAdvisory board member, OpenWay, St. Petersburg, Russia
2011 – 2012Managing Director Accenture GmbH, Kronberg. Member of the Technology Executive Leadership Team Germany, Switzerland, Austria. Main responsibility includes shaping of shored managed services deals.
2010 – 2011Managing Director Accenture GmbH, Kronberg. Global Technology Account Lead Deutsche Bank AG
2008 – 2010Managing Director, Accenture Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore, India. Running large managed (IT-) services
2001 – 2008Managing Director Accenture GmbH, Kronberg. Key Account Executive for Commerzbank AG, European Central Bank. Project and line management responsibilities.
1997 – 2000Andersen Consulting, Sulzbach. Project executive for various ecommerce service projects in the financial services industry
1993 – 1996Andersen Consulting, Columbus, New York, Phoenix, USA. Architecture team lead and project manager for IT projects in the payments industry
1990 – 1993Andersen Consulting GmbH, Sulzbach. Project team member and team leadership in banking IT projects