Work with me
Every company has a story it's trying to tell. Some are stuck on the first chapter or have lost the thread halfway through. Some are rewriting it under pressure, with the clock running. And some are in the best possible problem: growing fast, needing to scale the team and the brand to match. I've been there – through rapid expansion and downsizes, leadership shakeups, M&A processes, and the quiet moments when nobody knows what to say.
One to three days a week, in the seat. I come in as CMO, COO, or Chief of Staff – depending on what's actually needed. Either way: I run the function, hire who needs hiring, and free you to focus on what only you can do.
Right for you if you need someone who can hold the function and make decisions, not just advise on them.
With a regular cadence and outside the org chart. Sparring partner for founders and execs who already have a team and a plan, and want a senior operator to think with.
Right for you if the team is in place and what you need is a trusted person to pressure-test the plan.
For leaders who sense the hardest problem they're carrying is the one inside themselves. A room with no audience and no agenda. Just the time to think it through with someone who's been in your seat.
Right for you if what's getting in the way isn't the company – it's you, and you want someone to think it through with.
I have been the constant while the companies around me went through existential change: downsizing, leadership change and team rebuilds, GTM reorganization.
I have built and run teams on both sides of the Atlantic. I understand how culture varies between the US and Europe, between a startup and a Fortune 500 company, and how to use what each does well.
Whatever the destination is – an exit, a launch, a turnaround, a rebuild – I'm focused on getting the team there. And if the destination is not clear, I'll work on that first.
Transformation is the discipline of knowing what to automate, what to protect, and how to evolve a team when the rules underneath are changing.
Want to understand more about who I am and how I think before reaching out? The About page has the path, the philosophy, and what twenty years of this work has actually taught me.
Your team is stuck and you can't quite name why. The strategy looks fine on paper, the hires are good, and yet things aren't landing. You need someone to sit in the room and ask the obvious question, not another deck.
You're a European company starting to take the US seriously (or the other way round). Or you're already there and finding it harder than the plan suggested. You want someone who has actually worked on that move, not someone who has watched others try.
GTM is holding up on the surface but the engine underneath is straining. Better to address it before it becomes visible. You want a senior operator who can read the signals and help you move before it becomes a crisis.
Something significant is coming – an exit, a restructuring, a pivot. You want someone in the room who has been through one before and knows what it actually feels like from the inside.
Your portfolio company is talented, well-funded, and somehow still slow. You need someone to go in, understand what's really happening, and tell you whether the right intervention is an operator, a coach, or an honest conversation with the founder.
Are we a match?
Twenty minutes. No deck, no pitch. I'll ask what's actually going on, and we'll see whether this makes sense for both of us.