Partner Selection
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Enabling Digital Transformation in Healthcare
Advisory services for healthcare facilities, healthcare IT companies and healthcare start-ups
Peter Herrmann
Peter Herrmann is the founder of passion4health. He has profound experience in the IT industry. His expertise includes sales and operational responsibility in IT outsourcing and consulting, application services as well as software development or implementation. He has successfully managed large change management and restructuring projects and acquired or integrated companies. In recent years, he has dealt intensively with the challenges of digitization in the healthcare sector and actively supports healthcare institutions in their digital transformation. He helps domestic and foreign IT companies to enter the market and promotes their growth in Germany. He accompanies start-ups in the development of digital healthcare applications.
The graduate in economy is president of the Club of the Healthcare Management Industry (www.cdgw.de) and a member of the Senate of Economics (www.senat-deutschland.de). -
Credentials
- Klinikum Braunschweig: digitization strategy development and implementation
- MACH7 Technologies: Supporting the German market entry of a US healthcare IT company
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CFO, Interim CFO & CFO Advisory
Performance Improvement, Turnaround & Change Management, PMI & Carve out, Finance Digitization
Andreas Melbaum
Mr. Melbaum holds a degree in business administration and has been a member of the examination board for auditors in North Rhine Westphalia and Bavaria for 18 years.
He initiated, accompanied and promoted numerous national and international change projects for KPMG Germany, the Deutsche Telekom Group and many medium-sized companies.
For 10 years he has been working as CFO and CFO Advisor mainly in the service, technology, media and telecommunications industries. In addition, he worked intensively with a large private equity fund.
As a CFO, he values meaningful, standardized strengths and weaknesses reporting, also he endorses working closely with operations and employees as well as with the shareholder. He can be reached for challenging tasks.
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Credentials
- KKR: Structuring the Finance Division of a company, monthly and quarterly reporting (IFRS) for a media and telecommunications group
- Unitymedia: standardizing NPS reporting and developing a concept for modern management reporting
- Phone House Germany Group: establishing a standardized reporting to improve location, product and customer profitability
Article by Andreas Melbaum"Interim management aiming at accelerating change processes in companies on the way to networking 4.0"
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CIO, CDO & CTO
Data Governance, IT-Management, SIAM, DSGVO
Peter Albrecht
Mr. Albrecht is a Computer Scientist. As an expert in modern IT management, he stands for "best practice", in particular for digitization, agilization, big data, data governance and sourcing.
As a CIO, he digitized already 10 years ago all paper-based processes of a M-DAX company. As an executive on the IT provider side, he was responsible for large outsourcing projects in the hundreds of millions EUR range.The focus of his self-employed activities today is taking on the duties of a CDO, CIO or CTO. He is a certified scrum master and data protection officer and leads IT due diligence processes (vendor and buyer side).
He is a frequent speaker on such topics as BI, DWH, SIAM and DSVGO. -
Credentials
- Kaiser & Kraft Europe GmbH: Interim CIO
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Various other companies: DSGVO as well as compliance tasks
Article by Peter Albrecht"These five pointers take the horror out of the new regulation"
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Expert for Digital Transformation, Blockchain Specialist
Consulting, training and implementation concerning blockchain technologies
Frank Bolten
Frank Bolten has many years of senior management experience regarding technology groups (Sony, Deutsche Telekom, Sharp) and has been focusing on digital transformation for several years. Since 2015 he specializes in the use of blockchain technologies in the business sector. In May 2017 he founded the CHAINSTEP GmbH.
CHAINSTEP offers training, consulting on blockchain technologies and supports the implementation of blockchain-based applications. The registered office of the GmbH is Hamburg, its industry focus: transport logistics and supply chain management.
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27pilots – Implementation of inhouse Venture Client Units at Enterprises
Startups, Venture Client, Innovation, Digitisation
Gregor Gimmy – Partner Venture Client Strategy
Gregor´s focus is to evolve the Venture Client model and to consolidate it as the global standard for corporate + start up collaboration. He also leads strategy and partnerships.
Before 27pilots, he was founder and Head of BMW Startup Garage, were he invented the Venture Client model. Prior to BMW, he founded 4 companies (2 in Silicon Valley). He was innovation strategist at IDEO (Silicon Valley) and at BMW (Munich). He is angel investor, Executive in Residence at IMD and speaker at conferences such as Slush. He attended TU Stuttgart, Harvard and the American Conservatory Theater.
27pilots supports corporations in setting up and operating an inhouse venture client unit. A Venture Client Unit enables large-scale use of external top-startup solutions to address and resolve challenges in all departments and business units. 27pilots is an independent spin-off of the BMW Group. The founders of 27pilots are former BMW managers who invented, integrated and operated the world's first venture client unit in the BMW Group: the BMW Startup Garage. In October 2018, the second venture client unit, BSH Start-up Kitchen, was built by 27pilots for BSH Haushaltsgeräte GmbH.
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Credentials
- BMW Startup Garage: set up and operate an internal Venture Client unit (27pilots is the ventureclient services provider)
- BSH Startup Kitchen: set up and operate an internal Venture Client unit (27pilots is the venture client services provider)
- A Swiss Corporation (plus 80k employees): is planning to launch its Venture Client unit by Q1/2019 (27pilots is the venture client services provider)
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Demand generation and Transformation of Sales Channels
Growth marketing for digital B2C-businesses, development of digital sales channels, optimization of marketing investments
Dr. Burkhard Henn
Dr. Burkhard Henn has a scientific background in economics, having written his PhD thesis on Online Marketing. For more than 20 years, he has been working in management and consulting roles for digital businesses and on transformation projects.
With eBay Germany, he was responsible for performance marketing, CRM and brand building as well as driving the growth of the marketplace business. With AutoScout24, he led the international marketing organization as VP Marketing. Using a broad range of marketing instruments, he improved the company’s market position in international markets significantly. As Chief Marketing Officer of the online comparison platform Verivox, he did not only improve the efficiency of performance marketing, but also developed TV campaigns to accelerate growth and build brand awareness. The company then was sold to ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE.
In a number of consulting projects, Burkhard developed digital sales strategies for utilities (electricity and gas). One notable project was setting up a startup in this area, including planning, team setup and product development. Other projects set the focus on digital transformation and optimization of marketing investments.
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Credentials
- eBay: performance marketing optimization, SEO, CRM, brand marketing
- AutoScout24: increasing the demand internationally
- Verivox: set up media modelling to enable kpi-driven management of digital and traditional marketing channels
- ifolor: marketing optimization focusing on profitability in CRM and performance marketing
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Business Transformation Management
Customer Journey Mapping, Ecosystems Building, Go-to-Market & Business Design, Prototyping and Value Generation
Walter Hildebrandt
In various sales and business functions at Cisco Systems in EMEA, Walter Bobby Hildebrandt helped set up Industrial Ethernet and IoT Solutions. In addition, he has built new business models and ecosystems for international companies in various leadership roles from start-up to large enterprises.
Among other functions, he was responsible as Senior Vice President at T-Systems for the SI Global Sales Organization and its transformation into a Solution Driven Salesforce. As Director of the Steinbeis Institute for Digital Transformation and founder of Coodriver, he developed a Cloud Services for anonymous environment detection of pedestrians and cyclists. He was awarded the safety and mobility device Award of AutoMotorSport.
For more than 20 years, Bobby Hildebrandt has successfully kept an eye on disruptive trends in technology innovation, accompanying companies on their digital journey and opening up new business opportunities.
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Credentials
- Automobil Club of Germany: Rapid Prototyping and Development of Future Mobility Concepts
- Telekom Center Wholesale: Customer Journey Mapping and conception and implementation of a Value Generation Program
- Alfaform AG: Performance Management and Optimization of Sales Offerings in the Industry 4.0 Environment
- Global Telecommunications Provider: Business Transformation Manager within the Digital for Growth Program and E2E Responsible for the Lead2Order Process
- Greenbon: Development of a customer loyalty program for brick-and-mortar retail
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Advisor, Advisory Board Member, Business Angel
Consulting, Implementation of Digital Marketing and eCommerce
Nicolas Speeck
Prior to freelancing as a consultant, Nicolas Speeck was the Managing Director of CBR eCommerce GmbH. There he built up the entire eCommerce business of the fashion brands "Street One" and "Cecil".
Previously, he co-founded the largest German online shopping club "brands4friends", which he successfully sold to eBay.
As a digital consultant he supported i.e. Wolford, Silhouette, Bayern Munich, T-Mobile, ProMarkt, Napster, ElectronicScout24, Congstar, T-Online, Swatch, Triumph, Camel and many more.
Nicolas Speeck has nearly 20 years of in-depth experience in the online and e-commerce sector. He won many awards pertaining to his eCommerce projects.
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Credentials
- SchwarzGold Consulting: Managing Director & Owner
- Schütze AG: Member of the Supervisory Board
- CBR eCommerce GmbH (Street One & Cecil): Managing Director
- Private Sale GmbH (brands4friends): Co-founder
- ElectronicScout24: Head of Marketing
- ProMarkt Online: Head of Marketing, Member of the Board
- I-D Media AG: Project Management, Consulting & Sales
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Strategic Management Consultant, Senior Advisor
Strategy, Organizational Development, Digitization, Change-Management
Barbara Siebert
Barbara Siebert is an experienced consultant for strategy and organizational development as well as an innovation enthusiast and marketing executive whose strength lies with sales.
She is a passionate and inspired strategic business consultant and customer success professional with more than 20 years of experience in digitization, strategy and change, implementation of innovative technology solutions in automotive, technology, media, insurance and healthcare.
Barbara Siebert is a believer in the power of data-led growth. She works with business leaders to help scaling organizations align with their business goals. She supports those brands through change by creating and activating integrated teams to execute on high-impact initiatives that drive results.
Barbara has led digital development and helped shape brands i.e. Allianz, APCOA Parking, Volkswagen, Price Waterhouse Coopers and Springer Science+Business Media. She worked as Director Marketing at APCOA and as Chief Marketing Communications Officer at Value Miner earlier in her career.
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Credentials
- Goldmarie & Friends GmbH: Senior Advisor
- APCOA Parking Deutschland: Director Marketing
- Allianz Deutschland: Strategic Consultant