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Karsten

Enterprise Product & Platform Leader

About Me

Senior product and technology leader with extensive experience advising enterprise customers and partners on adopting complex digital ecosystems. Strong background in business transformation, platform-based solutions, and working across stakeholders to turn technology into sustainable business value. A defining theme of my work has been maximizing the real-world value of emerging technologies, especially AI. I focus on helping organizations concentrate on the small percentage of product and AI initiatives that actually succeed, scale, and deliver measurable impact—moving beyond experimentation to adoption, usage, and business results. My background combines hands-on product leadership with nearly eight years in consulting, working across a wide range of companies and industries, which sharpened my pattern recognition around what works — and fails — when building and scaling products. I’ve operated at the bleeding edge of technology throughout my career, not as an end in itself, but as a means to reduce risk and increase the odds of success. I am at my best in senior product leadership roles (CPO, VP Product, Head of Product) where clarity, judgment, and execution discipline matter as much as vision.

Jurisdiction

Germany

Experience

Seniority LevelDirector
Years of Experience10-15 years
Current StatusActive
Senior Principal, Business Advisory & StrategySlalom Consulting GmbH
2023 - Present

Enterprise technology adoption, Platform ecosystems, Executive advisory. Selected as senior enterprise-facing contact for multiple strategic technology platforms, supporting partner-led commercial expansion and large-scale enterprise adoption. • Acted as senior enterprise advisor for large accounts, guiding customers and partners through the adoption of complex technology ecosystems and supporting scalable, value-driven deployment in enterprise environments. • Served as primary counterpart to strategic technology partners, including OpenAI and AWS, translating platform and ecosystem capabilities into concrete, value-driven enterprise use cases. • Led complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives involving C-level executives, product, engineering, legal, procurement, and operations teams in highly regulated environments. • Supported account growth and expansion by identifying follow-on opportunities, strengthening executive relationships, and enabling internal and partner go-to-market teams with clear positioning and narratives. • Designed and led an AI Strategy Framework connecting business goals, operating models, data, and build capabilities, used across multiple enterprise engagements. • Contributed to automation and data-driven initiatives leveraging platforms such as Celonis and Make.com , supported enterprise Salesforce contexts to align platform capabilities, partner solutions and customer-facing business processes.

Skills

Core skills0
Languages3

Languages

English
Portuguese
German