Profile

What I do now

I'm Head of AI at Carlsquare, an M&A advisory firm with offices in Europe and North America. The role is new. The job is to bring AI into deal work without taking time away from the people doing it. In a business that runs on confidentiality, that is a harder constraint than any piece of technology.

Before this

Until 2026 I was Chief Digital and Innovation Officer at GoMedicus Group, a network of primary care and specialist practices with its own telemedicine service. A regulated environment, GDPR Article 9 data, real operations with actual waiting rooms.

Where I come from

Before that, close to ten years at Google, EMEA, solutions consulting. Enterprise advisory for technology that hadn't settled yet – which in practice means working with large organisations on how they actually absorb something new. Not how it looks in the deck.

The combination is the point. I spent ten years explaining how adoption works, and the last few years delivering it myself – first where mistakes reach patients, now where confidentiality is the product.

What I teach

At Brand University in Hamburg I teach creative technology and AI in design and marketing, at master's level – from 3D to generative AI.

What I work on

• AI in deal work – where confidentiality and information barriers set the rules.
• Agentic AI in production – agents that take work off people, not agents that demo well.
• Privacy as a design constraint – not a review step at the end. With confidential data it is a precondition.
• Adoption in large organisations – why technology fails at people rather than at technology.

Bilingual German/English. Just outside Hamburg.