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Independent AI Advisor · Europe

AI advisor for European leaders from inside the industry.

Six years leading AI and digitalization inside European industrial aerospace. I provide independent strategic advice to executives, AI implementation leaders, and policymakers facing AI decisions in legacy and regulated environments — without vendor incentives or product pitches.

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6+ yrs · Aerospace Inside operator

Independent No vendor ties

Multilingual EN · FR · DE · AR

Currently advising

Independent advisor

Hamburg · EU

What I bring to the table

Operator depth

Six years inside European industrial aerospace — airframe and quality engineering. Digitalization shaped from inside the business, not from a deck.

Roadmap craft

Management-level work across analytics, automation, AI, and GenAI. Prioritization and sequencing that survives review — board, audit, operators.

Change adoption

Cross-site ambassador networks and workshop facilitation. Getting transformation to land where it matters — past the slide deck, into the workflow.

Executive voice

AI Summit speaking, podcast hosting, Toastmasters leadership. The translation skill between engineering reality and boardroom language.

Why I make myself available

European AI decisions need operators in the room — not just academics, vendors, and consulting decks.

Most AI advice in Europe comes from one of three places: academics who have never shipped a system, vendors with obvious commercial incentives, or consultants who write decks but have never carried a roadmap. Each has limits. None is enough on its own.

Industrial executives, AI implementation leaders, and policymakers deserve a fourth source: operators who actually ship AI inside complex regulated environments, willing to advise without commercial stake.

I work inside European industrial aerospace, in airframe and quality engineering — environments shaped by safety, audit, regulator scrutiny, and decades of operational legacy. I see daily what AI can and cannot do in critical industrial systems. That perspective, translated into language CEOs, AI leaders, and ministers can actually use, is rare in advisory circles.

This work is offered as expert advice, not consulting. No mandates, no slides, no products. Briefings, written memos, and ongoing availability for those facing the AI decisions Europe is making this decade — in industry and in policy.

What I will not do

My independence is the value.

A clear list of what is off the table. Executives, AI leaders, and policymakers deserve to know exactly where my advice stops — before they ask.

I do not represent any AI vendor.
I do not take payment from technology companies.
I do not provide procurement advice that benefits a specific provider.
I do not advise on military or weapons applications.
I do not do work that conflicts with my full-time industrial role.
I do not produce strategy decks no one acts on.

Advisor formats

How I work with leaders

Four formats matched to how executives, AI leaders, and policymakers actually consume expert input — not consulting tiers.

01 · Expert briefing

A focused 1–3 hour session

For boards, executive teams, AI leadership groups, parliamentary committees, or ministerial cabinets. One specific topic — AI roadmap pressure-testing, GenAI in regulated workflows, EU AI Act readiness, sectoral risk. Written summary delivered after.

Typical: single session · 1–3 hours

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02 · Standing advisor

Ongoing availability

For a CEO, AI implementation leader, public-sector institution, or political office. Episodic deeper sessions when AI decisions arise — the call you make when something hits your desk and needs an outside perspective fast. Quiet, discreet, low-overhead.

Typical: 6–12 month standing relationship

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03 · Written advice

Memos, reviews, position papers

Independent reviews of AI strategies, roadmaps, draft legislation, and policy positions. 5–15 pages. Citable, on the record, and written so a board member, civil servant, or AI leader can act on them directly — not a slide deck nobody reads.

Typical: 2–4 weeks · 5–15 page document

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04 · Public positions

Hearings, panels, keynotes

Industry conferences, executive offsites, parliamentary hearings, expert panels, EU Commission working groups, public consultation submissions. On-the-record contribution to the AI conversation European industry and policy are having right now.

Typical: by invitation or formal request

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Who I advise

European decision-makers facing AI calls this decade.

My advice is targeted to leaders in industry and policy who need an operator's perspective — without commercial entanglement.

Industry leadership

CEOs & executive teams

Industrial CEOs, COOs, and board members in legacy and regulated sectors — aerospace, manufacturing, energy, transport, infrastructure — facing strategic AI decisions where the cost of getting it wrong is operational, not theoretical.

AI implementation

AI implementation leaders

CDOs, CIOs, AI/Digital VPs, and transformation directors actually responsible for shipping AI inside complex organizations. The people whose careers depend on whether the roadmap survives committee, audit, and operations.

Policy & governance

Politicians & public-sector leaders

Ministers, MPs, ministerial cabinets, public-sector institutions, and EU policy working groups weighing AI legislation, public-sector adoption, sectoral regulation, and digital sovereignty.

Advice is offered without conflict with my full-time industrial role. I do not advise on procurement that benefits a specific provider, nor on military or weapons applications.

Insights

One real briefing asset you can use with leadership

This stays on the homepage because it is a concrete advisory asset, not generic thought leadership.

Flagship brief

Available now

From GenAI experiments to a governable operating model

A concise executive briefing for leaders who need to move beyond disconnected pilots and make clearer decisions on priorities, governance, provider choice, and adoption sequencing.

Executive briefing GenAI operating model Regulated environments

How to distinguish real enterprise use cases from low-value experimentation.
Where governance, human oversight, and provider selection should enter the decision process.
What leaders need to align on before GenAI becomes an operating model rather than a pilot portfolio.

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Best use

Workshop or strategy sprint

Use the briefing to pressure-test priorities before scaling GenAI activity.

This works best as an executive conversation starter when the team already has pilots in motion but still needs a stronger decision frame.

Sharpen use-case priorities before they turn into diffuse portfolios.
Clarify where governance, provider choice, and human oversight need executive attention.
Open a more serious discussion about what should scale, stop, or wait.

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AVAILABLE

Ready to define the next move?

If AI is already on the agenda, let's define the next steps .

I work best with executive teams and transformation leaders who need sharper priorities, clearer ownership, and a roadmap they can actually carry through the organization.

Typical first conversation: 15 minutes

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