About
Four investor-backed B2B SaaS platforms, from Series B through growth equity to strategic exit. Leading product and technology teams since 1999 — as CTO, then CPO / CPTO / SVP.
The clearest data point: Chief Product Officer at Quentic, a Morgan Stanley- and One Peak Capital-backed EHSQ/ESG platform, 2019–2023. Built the product and UX function from scratch to a team of 20, repositioned the portfolio from single-suite to modular, and was a product-led contributor to a 10× valuation increase from Series B to strategic exit.
Earlier chapters follow the same pattern in other categories: enterprise information management and predictive maintenance at Empolis, first as a Bertelsmann subsidiary and later under different ownership; market intelligence at Market Logic Software, backed by Summit Partners. In each: building the product organization from the ground up, then repositioning it for international enterprise expansion.
Today: Chief Product & Technology Officer at Hygraph, a growth-stage SaaS company backed by One Peak Capital, Peak Capital, and OpenOcean
Alongside that, strategic advisory to investors and portfolio companies on product strategy, technology diligence, and AI transformation.
I also write about the operational craft of product management at the B2B Product Playbook.
Ph.D. in Computer Science (summa cum laude), Humboldt University Berlin.