Senior Venture Builder & AI Expert

• Led a corporate venture building program with a team of 4 venture builders together with Bitrock Digital Partners for an insurance incumbent client in Austria including the definition of strategy, methodology and business model shortlist as well as successful incubation of 4 startups

• Set up DISO Ventures as "AI Builder", leveraging corporate venture building expertise and generative AI capabilities to ideate, validate and build novel AI solutions for corporate clients (currently with a team of 3 including a Senior Data Scientist to implement generative AI use cases)

• Validated a digital business model for a sovereign wealth fund in the United Arab Emirates; led the hiring of CxO positions for carved-out ventures

• Supported digital strategy development for a leading European DIY retailer and conducted two investment theses; validated and tested several business models incl. expert and user interviews, product, go-to-market and unit economics; mentored and supported existing startup projects

• Supported digital strategy development for a leading European distribution company with top management workshops incl. scenario-based calculation of the innovation gap and resulting operating target, definition of innovation search fields and new business governance

• Validated a retail banking offering for a European FinTech funded with more than EUR 100m, successfully tested with smoke tests and prototype

• Led an interdisciplinary team of 7 venture builders (product, tech, design, growth) co-founding PropTech zenmieter.de, financed with EUR 250k – from idea to first customer within 3 months; acquired projected annual revenue of EUR 370k, hired a dedicated founders team and carved-out in an own legal entity; acquired by German competitor home.ht in August 2021

• Led an interdisciplinary team of up to 10 venture builders co-founding B2B wholesale marketplace for retailers butiqe.de, financed with EUR 350k – from idea to go-live with 70 manufacturers within 4 months, to first customer within 2 months (on hold due to Covid-19)

• Validated a digital business model for a European chemicals group, interacting and communicating directly with the CEO and CDO, falsifying their original business idea and showing new approaches to tackle innovation with company building

• Conducted a commercial due diligence of a Dutch AgriTech investment target which led against a seed investment from Stryber

Analyzed and benchmarked internal pricing structures, conducted internal expert interviews and tested different pricing scenarios, resulting in EUR 1.6m upside potential with new suggested pricing as well as reduced complexity and higher standardization and presented results to the executive board

Conducted research and analysis contributing to project success of several (digital) consulting and venture building projects such as the setup of a corporate venture building unit for Migros Group or a commercial due diligence for an international advertising company