Selective long-term appointments
Selective CEO, COO, and Vorstand appointments
Permanent appointments are considered selectively. The role is CEO, COO, or Vorstand in a tech company: ecommerce, AI, robotics, or another stack. Not a CTO hire.
Designed for
Boards, nomination committees, investors, and retained search partners with a clearly sponsored, enterprise-level leadership mandate, especially tech companies evaluating CEO succession or C-suite redesign.
Mandate outcomes
- →Early alignment on the enterprise problem, authority, sponsorship, and success conditions behind the role.
- →A rigorous discussion of operating context, team capability, governance, and transformation expectations.
- →Clear separation between a genuine executive mandate and a conventional vacancy process.
- →Confidential engagement compatible with retained search and board-led succession processes.
Mandate first, title second
Test strategic relevance
Establish whether the remit has enterprise consequence and genuine authority across the required decisions.
Assess mutual fit
Examine sponsorship, governance, culture, operating reality, and the ambition expected of the incoming executive.
Define the leadership contract
Align on outcomes, decision rights, key relationships, and the conditions required for long-term impact.
Relevant appointment contexts
- A technology company needs CEO leadership with deep product, AI, and operating judgement.
- Enterprise AI or digital transformation is central to company strategy.
- Technology and operations must be integrated under stronger executive ownership.
- A scale, succession, or portfolio transition requires a proven operator.
Sources & evidence
- 1.CTO operating record: PREEN executive operating record
Dr. Andree Welker · first-party disclosure
First-party executive operating record covering compressed-air droplet wash/dry architecture, 40-camera real-time 3D reconstruction, semantic segmentation, 14-DoF dual-robot execution, and implementation figures not stated in the patent text.
- 2.COO operating record: Minotrade executive operating record, board dashboards, marketplaces, autonomous RMA, EAN product data, FIFO logistics, POS, and commercial operations
Dr. Andree Welker · first-party disclosure
First-party executive operating record covering board dashboards consolidating operating and commercial data from the four eCommerce websites PETKIT, UREVO, Xiaomi Switzerland, and Gadget Store; full digitalisation and management of those four marketplaces; the Mi flagship / Glattzentrum POS with a completely new store team, full digitalisation, and weekly smartphone inventory; autonomous barcode/QR RMA; EAN product matching and master-data capture; FIFO inventory control; and commercial outcomes.