The companies I talk to aren't struggling to find AI tools. They're struggling to turn AI intention into AI infrastructure, and most of them know it. After 15 years building digital products at enterprise scale, I've seen both ends of this problem. I helped scale BlueJeans from early product to $100M ARR.
Experience
2026 — Now
2026 — Now
San Francisco, CA
Automizers is a boutique agentic AI transformation practice that designs, builds, and manages AI systems for growth-stage businesses. Not advising. Not frameworks. Working systems, deployed and managed month over month.
The signature engagement is the Agentic Transformation Sprint: six weeks, fixed scope, one working AI system live in your business with measurable outcomes defined before a single tool is selected.
Five domains: Revenue and Growth, Operations and Efficiency, Customer Experience, Marketing and Content, Knowledge and Intelligence. Platform-agnostic. Senior-led. Done for you.
What I'm building here is also what I bring to every fractional and advisory conversation: ground-level signal on what's actually working in agentic AI, calibrated by enterprise judgment built across BlueJeans, Baker Hughes, and IBM.
Focus Areas: Agentic AI | AI Transformation | Fractional CPO | Chief AI Officer | GTM Strategy | Revenue Operations | Customer Experience Automation | AI Deployment | Product Strategy
2024 — Now
Advise on AI strategy, UX modernization, product direction, and GTM opportunities for a robotics and AI-driven automation company. Support executive leadership in navigating AI transformation and scaling product impact. Weekly engagement with the founder and CEO.
Focus Areas: AI Strategy | Robotics | Product Leadership | UX Modernization | GTM | Startup Advisory
2025 — 2026
2025 — 2026
New York, United States
Moved into the CEO seat to lead vision, product, AI strategy, and growth across all functions. Oversaw product, technology, design, GTM, and operations with founder-level accountability and speed.
Made the deliberate decision to shut down when AI commoditization compressed the competitive moat faster than any roadmap could respond. That decision was clear-eyed and capital-efficient. The signal was real: the playbooks VCs and operators had relied on for a decade were breaking in real time, and recognizing it early is now the foundation of my practitioner thesis on AI transformation.
Key Achievements:
* Built MVP in under 90 days, launching a no-code onboarding platform and real-time AI agent (STT/TTS/LLM stack)
* Designed core AI experience: conversation flows, agent behavior, automation, and dynamic knowledge ingestion
* Drove technology execution, architecture, and integration of cutting-edge AI tooling into production
* Positioned Selsa with a differentiated human-centric AI agent identity
* Created investor narrative and GTM strategy securing early design partners
* Led all functional areas with clarity, speed, and founder-led accountability
Focus Areas: CEO | Conversational AI | Voice AI | LLM | AI Product Strategy | GTM | Venture-backed Startup | AI Platform
2024 — 2025
2024 — 2025
New York, United States
Oversaw product vision, AI experience design, and technical roadmap. Led early team execution and foundational architecture that evolved into the company's core platform.
Focus Areas: CPO | AI Product Leadership | Conversational AI | UX Modernization | AI Integration | Product Roadmap | Executive Leadership
2023 — 2024
2023 — 2024
Munich
A deliberate chapter, returning to my German roots while working at the bleeding edge of voice AI product design ahead of moving into the CEO role at Selsa.
Led product design for an AI-native life and business coaching platform built around a real-time voice AI solution that we successfully shipped, exceptionally early for that moment in the technology curve. Achieved low-latency voice AI interaction at a time when most teams were still treating it as a future capability. The technical ambition of the product matched its product design ambition: a genuinely conversational, responsive AI coaching experience that pushed what was possible in production.
Built the full design system, defined user journeys end to end, and partnered directly with founders on product strategy and AI avatar creation. Shaped a scalable, accessible coaching experience designed for global markets.
Focus Areas: Voice AI | Real-time AI | Low Latency | AI Product Design | Design Systems | UX Strategy | AI Avatar | Coaching Platform | Product Strategy
Education
UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AUGSBURG, GERMANY