CEO · COO · Technology executive · Board advisor

C-Level Company-Building Track Record

Evidence of building, scaling, and leading AI, robotics, and high-tech companies—from product and IP to teams, operations, governance, growth, and transaction readiness.

C-Level Company Builder

CEO/COO mandate fit with the technical depth to build the product, operating discipline to scale the company, and governance perspective to lead through consequential decisions.

Executive brief

Technical depth to judge what will work. Operating discipline to build it, fund it, govern it, and scale it into durable profit.

Current role: COO & Partner, Enterprise AI & C-Suite Advisory, Ambit IQ (formerly Avictis) since May 2026

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Languages

GermanNative
EnglishFluent

Executive & technical scope

CEO & COO MandatesBoard & Investor AdvisoryEnterprise AI & AgentsDigital TransformationIndustrial RoboticsElectronics & EmbeddedSoftware & App DevelopmenteCommerce & LogisticsDecision Psychology & NeuromarketingCloud & CybersecurityBlockchainM&A, IP & Due DiligenceISO GovernanceGlobal OperationsNuclear Physics

Executive Track Record

Two decades of operating and technology leadership across enterprise AI, robotics, digital commerce, infrastructure, and complex international programmes.

Chief Operating Officer & Partner

Ambit IQ (formerly Avictis)

May 2026 – Present

Winterthur, Switzerland

→Microsoft partner advising C-suite leaders on AI readiness, agentic AI, intelligent automation, data architecture, governance, and scalable implementation.
→In the first month, authored the company's 5-year business plan covering strategy, financial modelling, annual and quarterly planning, and capital allocation.
→Runs C-level workshops that test which AI strategies create durable value, which do not, and where industry-specific agents should be built next.
→Builds industry-specific AI agents that can operate autonomously in complex environments and deliver reproducible results—beyond one-off chatbot deployments.
→Leads advisory plus implementation across the client's broader technology landscape, including Microsoft ecosystems where they fit.

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Chief Operating Officer

Minotrade AG

Jan 2025 – Apr 2026

Schwyz, Switzerland

→Led AI-powered trading stack strategy optimizing global trading and logistics (+30% revenue).
→Implemented a fully digital, autonomous RMA workflow: barcode and QR-code scanning registered each return, product-image capture documented its condition, and the system generated reports automatically.
→Consolidated operating and commercial data from four eCommerce websites into board and C-level dashboards supporting pricing, sales, and operating decisions.
→Fully digitalised and managed four B2B/B2C online marketplaces—PETKIT, UREVO, Xiaomi Switzerland, and Gadget Store—alongside physical point-of-sale (POS) and the Mi flagship store.
→Implemented autonomous EAN-based product matching and master-data capture: online lookup populated dimensions, weight, battery inclusion, and other product attributes, reducing manual product-onboarding effort by about five person-hours per day.

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Chief Technology Officer

Codos Foundation / Codos AG

Sep 2023 – Dec 2024

Zug, Switzerland

→Led 40+ specialists across AI, blockchain, mobile, cloud, ML, and cybersecurity.
→Developed Proof-of-Sustainability consensus on Polygon Edge incentivizing greener commuting.
→Led iOS and Android applications with ML-based mobility recognition, CO₂ avoidance, blockchain rewards, and Scope 3 reporting.
→Achieved 97% F1 transport-mode recognition performance.
→Managed technology, cloud, security, governance, and IP strategy work, including FINMA compliance and KYC/AML integration.

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Senior Blockchain Business & Tech Advisor

procured. GmbH

Oct 2022 – Present

Zurich, Switzerland

→Autonomous procurement chain via state-of-the-art AI, blockchain, and NLP.
→Platform-as-a-Service architecture driving CAGR >45%.

Chief Technology Officer

PREEN AG

Nov 2020 – Nov 2022

Wallisellen, Switzerland

→Scaled team from 4 to 25+; valuation increased 15× (CHF 7M → CHF 45M).
→Replaced a physically unscalable steam concept with a wash-and-dry architecture using water droplets accelerated by compressed air and immediate compressed-air drying.
→Integrated 40 Intel RealSense cameras, firmware, and Redis live streaming to generate a vehicle 3D model on the fly in about 30 seconds, followed by ML-based semantic segmentation of glass, doors, and other surfaces.
→Implemented real-time path planning for two industrial robots on linear tracks with 14 total degrees of freedom, coordinating vehicle washing and drying.

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Doctoral Researcher, Team Leader, Coordinator & CERN Senior Fellow

CERN

Dec 2013 – Nov 2020

Geneva, Switzerland

→Selected for a highly competitive CERN Senior Fellowship with full funding; completed the rare maximum three-year path (standard two years plus a negotiated third-year extension).
→Path: Delphi electronics, PCB design and programming → university minors in electronics, computer science, nuclear chemistry and mathematics → particle-physics diploma (1 m multilayer PCB) → direct transition into nuclear-physics doctoral research.
→At ISOLTRAP, implemented and commissioned PI-ICR including the required electronics and software for online high-precision mass spectrometry.
→In parallel, supervised and supported up to ~20 highly complex, diverse projects—cross-domain delivery that CERN repeatedly drew on across ISOLDE, HIFI, ISOLTRAP, WIZARD and MINIBALL.
→GBAR then retained him for antimatter success: built the antiproton decelerator using high-voltage electronics—switching from ~100 kV to ~10 eV—to prepare beams for positron, antiproton and antihydrogen production; complete decelerator build-up delivered in about two years. Fellowship extended a further year for combined software, hardware and physics capability.

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Independent End-to-End Developer

Delphi Mechatronic Systems (Tier 1)

Aug 2002 – Apr 2008

Langenlonsheim, Germany

→Automotive R&D and series-development work for Audi, BMW, Jaguar, Mercedes-Benz, and Opel.
→Apprenticeship foundation in electronics, PCB design and programming, later deepened through university minors in electronics, computer science, nuclear chemistry and mathematics alongside physics.
→Six months of hands-on metalworking, including milling and turning.
→Six months of high-voltage electrical installation and high-voltage electronics practice, building wiring, and Siemens S7 PLC controls.
→Two years in R&D designing PCBs and programming control systems in Assembler and C++ for HVAC and centre-console applications across premium automotive programmes.

Skills & Education

Executive leadership combined with deep technical expertise across cloud, AI, security, and enterprise systems.

Leadership

Digital TransformationCorporate Finance & 5-Year PlanningAnnual & Quarterly PlanningCFO-level Business ModellingM&A & Transaction StrategyTeam Building & ScalingScrum & Agile DeliveryPatent & IP StrategyVC/PE FundraisingISO Governance & ComplianceHardware & Software Product LeadershipResource, Cost & Timeline EstimationKeynote SpeakingAgile / DevOps / CI-CD

Security & Compliance

ISO 27001ISO 9001ISO 20000SOC 2FINMA (KYC/AML) compliance

Cloud & Platforms

AWSAzureGCPKubernetesDockerRedisGitHub CI/CDGrafana

Software Engineering

PythonC++GoREST APIsReactNext.js

Electronics & Embedded

PCB designHigh-voltage electronicsAssemblerVHDLFPGASiemens S7Control systems

AI / ML

Computer VisionTransformersLLM deploymentPyTorchTensorFlowCUDA

Robotics & 3D Vision

Intel RealSenseMulti-camera streamingReal-time 3D reconstructionSemantic segmentation14-DoF dual-robot path planningLinear tracks

Blockchain / Web3

EthereumSolidityPolygonPolkadotCosmosCardano

Enterprise

SAPERPEDIeCommerceCRMLogisticsAutonomous RMABarcode / QR workflowsFIFO inventory controlPOS integrationFour-website data consolidationBoard dashboardsPricing analyticsB2B / B2C marketplacesSmartphone inventoryEAN product matchingAutomated product master dataRetail loss preventionWholesale

Education & Executive Programs

Startup Board Academy

2026

Board of Directors; P&L and board-level governance

Switzerland

Harvard Business School — Executive Education

2023

Business Strategy, Strategy Execution, Global Business

Boston, USA

Wharton — Scaling a Business: How to Build a USD 1B+ Unicorn

2022

Executive Education (World #1 Business School)

Philadelphia, USA

International Neuromarketing

2022

Braindriven Marketing certificate; decision psychology for digital customer journeys

Braindriven Marketing

VC Fund Structure & Returns; Navigating Term Sheets for Investors

2022

500 Global / Stanford Venture Capital certificates

500 Global

AWS Machine Learning Foundations

2020

Amazon Web Services machine-learning foundations course

AWS

Intel Edge AI Selected Scholarship

2020

Selected scholarship for edge AI development

Intel

CERN Senior Fellowship

2017 – 2020

Highly competitive fully funded fellowship: typically two years, with a rarely granted third-year extension. Mandate shared across ISOLDE, HIFI, ISOLTRAP, WIZARD and MINIBALL, then GBAR antimatter—including high-voltage electronics for antiproton decelerator build-up (~100 kV to ~10 eV) for positron, antiproton and antihydrogen production—spanning nuclear and particle/antimatter physics, software, and hardware.

CERN, Geneva

CATIA V5 Certificate

2017

Dassault Systèmes CAD / product-design certification

Dassault Systèmes

Radiation Protection Officer — Switzerland & France

2017

RPO qualification for Switzerland and France — Institut de radiophysique Lausanne

Lausanne, Switzerland

Leading for Tomorrow

2017

Six-month leadership workshop, Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG)

Germany

Wolfgang Gentner Scholarship

2015 – 2018

Fully funded German Federal Ministry doctoral scholarship at CERN / TU Dresden

CERN / Germany

BMBF Research Project — ISOLTRAP

2015 – 2018

Three-year German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) project at ISOLTRAP, pitched and secured separately from the Gentner scholarship; funded students and materials in parallel to the doctoral work

CERN / Germany

Dr. rer. nat. in Physics

2013 – 2018

ISOLTRAP mass spectrometry; implemented PI-ICR electronics and software; Wolfgang Gentner Scholarship; parallel BMBF project funding. Toward the end of the doctorate and during the transition into the CERN Fellowship, contributed to the late-2017 PSI terbium campaign for medical and tumour-research applications.

CERN / TU Dresden

Radiation Protection Expert — Germany (all 3 licences)

2013

Full German RPE licence set: open sources, closed sources, and X-ray / stray radiation — GWT

Germany

Diploma in Physics

2007 – 2013

Mainz ATLAS group; CALICE/ILC readout chain in particle and detector physics. Parallel minors in electronics, computer science, nuclear chemistry and mathematics provided the foundation for the subsequent direct transition into nuclear-physics doctoral work. Compressed one-year end-to-end delivery of a 1 m multilayer PCB—full design, population, external manufacture for speed, FPGA firmware/programming, first beamtime, and data analysis—building on Delphi electronics, PCB and programming foundations.

Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz

Communication Electronics Technician

2002 – 2005

Tier-1 automotive apprenticeship at Delphi

Langenlonsheim, Germany

Patent Families & Intellectual Property

Published hardware and software patent applications, together with executive experience in technology, innovation, licensing, and IP strategy.

Published international application2022

Method for Cleaning a Surface

WO2022263239A1

Robotics / AI Vision

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Published international application2022

Method and Apparatus for Cleaning a Vehicle Surface

WO2022263238A1

Robotics / Hardware

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Patent strategy2020 – 2022

Industrial AI & Robotics Patent Strategy

Patent-related innovation work

AI / Robotics

Innovation strategy2023 – 2024

Proof-of-Sustainability Technology Strategy

Technology strategy

Blockchain / Sustainability

Technology strategy2023 – 2024

AI Pattern Recognition & LLM Efficiency

Innovation work

AI / ML

Keynotes, Presentations & Committees

International speaker and committee member bridging science, technology, and executive leadership.

20+

20+ international keynote speeches worldwide

50+

50+ peer-reviewed publications in renowned journals (e.g. Nature, Physical Review)

Committees

LA CTO Forum

Full Member

Feb 2022 – Present

Private invite-only network of 250+ CTOs in Los Angeles, with quarterly roundtables and monthly in-person and remote member gatherings

CERN Health & Safety Committee

Member

2018 – 2019

International Relations

Ambassador & Ministry Relations

2013 – Present

Selected Presentations

Invited AI leadership lightning talk

The Diversification Dilemma in AI

DeepRec.ai AI Unlocked — Social Leaders & Founders Breakfast · Zurich, Switzerland

Speaker role: AI & technology executive; CTO, Codos Foundation

Invited for his broader AI leadership expertise while serving as CTO of Codos. Examined whether the prevailing focus in AI captures its full potential, balancing established and emerging technologies and their implications for the future of AI, nature, and society.

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2024

Collaboration presentation

Recycling (Anti)protons into Trap

GBAR Collaboration Meeting · CERN

Speaker role: CERN Fellow; co-speaker with David Lunney

Presented concepts for recycling antiprotons and protons into the GBAR trapping system during planning for antimatter research after CERN’s Long Shutdown 2.

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2018

Technical presentation

GBAR Data-Acquisition Concept

GBAR Collaboration Meeting · CERN

Speaker role: CERN Fellow; co-speaker with Sergei Gerassimov

Presented the data-acquisition concept for the GBAR antimatter experiment.

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2018

Technical presentation

Clock and Control within CALICE and Implications for Common DAQ

AIDA 2nd Annual Meeting · CERN

Speaker role: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz; co-speaker

Presented CALICE clock distribution, control, and common data-acquisition architecture for highly granular calorimeter systems.

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2013

Scientific presentation

Readout Chain for a High-Resolution SiPM Hadron Calorimeter

DPG Spring Meeting — Particle Physics · Dresden, Germany

Speaker role: Presenting author

Presented the readout-chain architecture for the CALICE analogue hadron calorimeter and International Linear Collider detector development.

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2013

Technical presentation

AHCAL Data Concentrator (LDA)

CALICE Collaboration Meeting · Cambridge, United Kingdom

Speaker role: JGU Mainz speaker

Presented the Link Data Aggregator for the second-generation CALICE AHCAL readout and data-acquisition architecture.

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2012

Selected Executive AI Forums

Invited participant

AI CTO & VCs Dinner

Google Cloud × ETH AI Center · Google Cloud Zurich

Executive exchange with AI founders, CTOs, investors, and technology leaders from Zurich’s AI ecosystem.

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2024

Discuss a confidential mandate