Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany
Senior Digital Business & Technology Leader. I build, scale and commercially run digital platform and service businesses - from software and operations organizations to P&L, pricing and portfolio responsibility. At CARIAD (Volkswagen Group), I led Connected Vehicle Services for 45M+ vehicles in 90+ countries: 120+ internal employees, 500+ FTE under management, >€120M budget. We significantly raised the availability of business-critical services, cut costs by up to 50% through standardization, and rolled out new functions faster while operating legally regulated services (emergency call/eCall), certificate/PKI-based backends, and localized platform instances for data-sovereignty markets such as China. My commercial foundation comes from Texas Instruments: automotive semiconductor portfolios of up to multiple hundred M€ revenue, direct pricing, go-to-market and product launches with leading OEMs in Europe, the US and Asia. Board experience: voting member of the Board of Directors at WirelessCar. What I do best: building successful teams, turning custom one-off developments into standardized, repeatable products and services, with clear accountability and measurable results.
Voting member of the Board of Directors of WirelessCar - an international provider of digital connected-vehicle services with locations in Europe, Asia and the US; customer base includes Volkswagen and other automotive OEMs. Mandate held in the context of my Volkswagen Group role. • Shared responsibility for corporate strategy, business plans, forecasts, annual financial statements, investment decisions and governance. • Supported growth and profitability initiatives • Supported international expansion, particularly in Asia. • Evaluated key partnerships, new business fields, M&A options and executive appointments; sparring partner to the CEO and executive team.
Led an international digital platform and service organization: scaling, operational stability, profitability and further development of business-critical — and in part legally regulated - connected services for the Volkswagen Group. • Digital services for 45M+ connected vehicles in 90+ countries, operated 24/7 — leading a large international organization of internal teams and external partners, with full budget responsibility. • Increased availability of business-critical services from ~90% to 99.7%, in particular through stabilization during peak periods. • Operated legally mandated, safety-critical services such as emergency call (eCall/SOS), including regulatory requirements and interfaces with authorities such as the German Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA). • Responsible for security-relevant platform services leveraging certificate/PKI-based backends • Converted redundant one-off developments into standardized, reusable services: up to 50% cost reduction and ~20% faster rollouts through reduced variant complexity. • Led agile software development teams and introduced agile ways of working across the organization. • Consolidated the supplier landscape of strategic partners and led the associated external delivery organization. • Owned business cases, multi-year forecasting and approval processes for new digital functions; developed recurring digital revenue models with marketing, sales and after sales (Function on Demand, subscription and lifetime models). https://cariad.technology/de/en/solutions/automotive-cloud-connectivity.html
Built and led an integration organization for group-wide online, vehicle and cloud platforms: standardization, automation, release stability and scalability. • Established a team of 15 internal employees and associated external staff, with full budget responsibility for platform integration and partner steering. • Responsible for the integration of all group-wide online, vehicle and cloud platforms as well as new platforms for future vehicle architectures. • Implemented an integration strategy to harmonize heterogeneous platforms; realized a cost reduction of over 40%. • Increased integration efficiency by ~30%; reduced manual integration and test effort by ~25% through automation. • Established a reliable release cadence with fewer delays; improved the stability of online services by ~10% through greater test depth.
Accountable for the continued growth of TI's Automotive Connectivity products for Infotainment and ADAS applications. With a long-lasting history and a strong footprint in the automotive industry, FPD-Link products are setting the standard in In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) and Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) applications. For the team, creating the product vision as well as managing all aspects of the current portfolio and future roadmaps, investment, innovation as well as the technical and commercial product definition are key responsibilities. Furthermore, this includes planning of product launches as well as developing of a Go-To-Market (GTM) and owning the pricing strategy. In addition to that, maintaining, developing and strengthening the relationships and providing support to major Automotive OEMs and Tier 1s are essential responsibilities of the team.
Accountable for a team of Product Managers and Senior Systems Engineers in multiple international locations that help creating TI's differentiated Inductive and Capacitive Sensing technologies for Automotive, Industrial as well as Consumer Electronics applications. Responsibilities of the team include product and roadmap definition based on detailed market analysis and customer relationships as well as business development for the product line's new and existing portfolio of products. The Systems Engineering team is tasked with the holistic technical product development from concept to definition, implementation and verification in customer-related systems. Furthermore, the team is key to the successful development of projects, especially at lead customers.
Product Manager for Inductance-to-digital and Capacitance-to-digital converters Market introduction of entirely new category of sensor products and development of a comprehensive portfolio roadmap for Automotive as well as Industrial and Consumer Electronics applications.