Beyond Chiefs

Beyond Chiefs: Revolutionizing AI First Executive Recruiting

Redefine your business with cutting-edge AI leadership. Beyond Chiefs connects you with AI Officers, AI-First CEOs, AI Product Managers, and CISOs to accelerate innovation and secure your competitive edge. Whether fractional or full-time, our executive talent solutions are designed to transform your future.

What We Do
- Flexible Leadership Solutions: We offer fractional executive roles, high-impact consulting engagements, and strategic board positions.
- Innovation Catalysts: Our leaders don't just manage—they drive 10x impact, fostering innovation and exponential growth.

Who We Serve
1. Visionary Leaders:
 - Elite executives seeking flexible, high-impact roles
 - Innovators who transcend traditional leadership boundaries
 - Experienced leaders eager to drive transformative change across multiple organizations

2. Forward-Thinking Companies:
 - Startups and scale-ups needing seasoned leadership without the commitment of full-time executives
 - Established companies navigating digital transformation or industry disruption
 - Organizations seeking fresh perspectives and strategic guidance at the board level

3. Industries in Flux:
 - Technology and SaaS companies
 - PE & VC portfolio companies
 - Healthcare and biotech innovators
 - Sustainability and cleantech pioneers
 - Any sector facing significant disruption or growth opportunities

Why Choose Beyond Chiefs
- Access top-tier talent previously out of reach for many organizations
- Inject transformative leadership without long-term commitments
- Leverage diverse executive experience across multiple industries
- Accelerate innovation and growth with on-demand strategic guidance

Join the Beyond Chiefs network—whether you're a visionary leader ready to make your mark across multiple ventures, or a company seeking the catalyst to propel you to new heights. Together, let's shape the future of business leadership.

Founder | Partner | CEO

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Founder | CEO

CHRIS - Center of Human Resource Intelligence Services

I provide strategic advisory and supervisory board guidance to high-growth, tech-driven companies in the staffing industry. I specialize in AI, change management, future of hiring and scaling ventures focusing on AI, digital hiring transformation, and innovation-driven business models.

Advisory / Multivisory

NEO Venture Lab

NEO Venture Lab is my private venture studio and startup-focused tech investment vehicle. I have founded multiple companies through this venture studio and hold diverse investments in some of the best venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) funds globally, as well as direct angel investments in early-stage tech startups. NEO Venture Lab bundles companies like D2C Consumer Electronics, Service Industry flexible leadership solutions, SAAS and others, where innovative ideas take shape and thrive.

What We Do: Incept transformative ideas, assemble high-performing teams, and scale ventures with high capital efficiency.

Founder & Venture Builder

H.I. Executive Consulting (H.I.E.C)

Partner

Dwight Cribb Personalberatung

Director

dealerdesk

Chief Operating Officer

Carmichael Fisher Executive Search

Principal Consultant EMEA & US

Badenoch & Clark

Senior Consultant

Robert Half

Consultant

𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝗩𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗜 𝗘𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗜 𝗖𝗫𝗢 & 𝗕𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹

Christian is a seasoned executive, entrepreneur, and thought leader in the European tech ecosystem, with over a decade of experience in executive search and talent acquisition for high-growth tech companies and investor-backed ventures. Over the past 10+ years, I have successfully filled 100+ C-level and VP roles for tech startups, scaleups, and unicorns, specializing in transformative leadership placements across SaaS, e-commerce, PaaS, and digital-first business models.

Throughout my career, I have pioneered AI-driven talent strategies that optimize the executive search process, ensuring companies attract high-impact leaders who align with their current needs and future growth trajectories. My deep understanding of AI and digital transformation allows me to anticipate the leadership qualities essential for tech companies to thrive in an ever-evolving landscape, particularly as digital and AI capabilities redefine industries.

As the founder of NEO Venture Lab, my private venture studio and investment vehicle, I am committed to fostering innovation and scaling promising tech ventures. Through NEO, I have launched multiple companies and invested in high-potential startups and top-tier VC/PE funds, combining my executive search expertise with an entrepreneurial mindset. This dual approach enables me to support clients in building resilient, high-performing teams that can scale with agility and vision.

My background as a former COO of a SaaS company, where I scaled the team from 20 to over 70 employees, has honed my ability to understand the operational and cultural dynamics crucial to team growth and organizational success. This hands-on experience across roles—from Founder to Customer Success Manager to Sales—provides me with unique insights into the qualities and capabilities that high-growth companies require in their leadership.

I am driven by a passion for challenging the status quo and crafting employer brands that attract ultra-high performers. By leveraging AI-driven insights and strategic advisory, I help companies redefine recruitment as a powerful growth lever, transforming it from a transactional process into a long-term, value-generating strategy.

My commitment to building the next generation of tech leadership and driving impactful talent solutions has positioned me as a trusted advisor in the tech ecosystem. With a focus on innovation, strategic growth, and AI-powered recruitment solutions, I am dedicated to helping companies secure leaders who will shape the future of digital transformation.

Christian Pobbig

Business Transformation

Help organisations adapt, build scale and grow within a changing technological landscape

Executive Business Advisor

Merkle

Merkle, a dentsu company, is a leading data-driven customer-experience management (CXM) company. Merkle‘s EMEA business spans 25 countries across the region, comprising the UK, DACH, Northern Europe, Spain and MENA clusters and over 5.500 employees. Supporting global, regional and local market clients, Merkle provides leading edge CXM services in Analytics, Data & Martech, Experience & Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Strategy & Transformation.
The role as dentsu CXM EMEA COO: "Grow and win - create a high-performing organisation, driving growth, operational efficiency & CTS"
- Collaboration with the regional and global teams to optimise EMEA strategy and transform the business, ensuring consistency and efficiency across the region, introducing innovative, technology-based business and operating models
- Execution of one dentsu business transformation
- Introduction of new services, amplifying the portfolio via M&A and integration of new acquisitions
- Improvement of Cost-to-Serve via Rightshoring as EMEA dentsu Global Services CXM Lead
- Driving automation and growth via Sales Operations improvement, new Ways of Working and technology / systems alignment across markets

Chief Operating Officer EMEA

Digital & Operations Advisory

Digital Innovator helping clients to innovate and grow through new Business Models, e.g. creation of a SaaS Customer Intelligence platform based on AI, ML and Cloud for the Insights Industry. 
M&A Advisory to Private Equity firms in the Data, Insights and Martech space. 
Business innovation with a global tech provider creating a business model for a start-up offering realtime Insights and Data Analytics services to large and medium-sized businesses.

Digital Innovator

ISG (Information Services Group)

EMEA Leader for Digital Services at the global Technology Research and Advisory firm, helping organisations, service and technology providers achieve operational excellence and faster growth through Digital Advisory, Research, Benchmarking and Managed Services. 
Some key achievements:
- Formulation of technology strategies and roadmaps for clients as a response to COVID-19
- Creation of Centres of Excellence for new Digital Services: Digital Operating Model, Future of Work, CX, Apps Modernisation, Cybersecurity, Data Analytics
- Development of the Digital Practice - definition of the new Global Operating Model, introduction of agile ways of working, Go-to-Market Strategy and Service Innovation Model
- Strategic Technology Partner selection and management

Partner and EMEA Lead Digital Strategy & Solutions

TMF Group

Regional Director Cluster Operations Austria, Germany, Switzerland in charge of client service delivery, business and financial alignment in the countries. Achievements include design and implementation of the Financial Services, Legal and Compliance Firm’s Cluster Strategy, driving growth and efficiency through Innovation, Digitalisation and Automation. Leading Regional Change Initiatives and introducing new Digital Services, especially in the area of Payroll, Workforce Management and CRM.

COO DACH

Digital Transformation Lead, partnering with clients on their digital journey, helping them to be successful in a digital world. Advisory on Digital Strategy, Data Analytics, Marketing and M&A for Private Equity and Corporate Companies - from strategy to results.

Senior Business Advisor

Kantar Millward Brown

Kantar Millward Brown is the Insights and Market & Consumer Research Division of WPP. 
COO Europe and Member of the European Management Board and the Global Operations Board.
Leading the European Operations Teams in 16 countries with 500+ professionals, including 3 International Research Centres, Market Research Institute and the Technology & Innovation Office. 
Delivery of Research Services to global and European clients, design and implementation of a new Data Strategy, a new Operating Model, Digital Services and Survey Automation across the Region. Design and rollout of the Global Change Management approach for Business Transformation.

COO Europe

Regional Lead of German and Dutch Operations including Research Management, Data Processing and Client Deliverables. Leadership of the Business Transformation Process, introducing a new Operating Model in Germany, Netherlands France and Italy.

Research Services Director Germany & Netherlands

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Qualität (DGQ)

Founder and CEO of the Start-up company, a 100% daughter of the non-profit German Society for Quality DGQ e.V. Design and implementation of the innovative Business Model with online and offline Knowledge Services, Market Research, Benchmarking and Advisory Services for German Management. Business development and growth - expanding the non-profit DGQ's client base from SMB to corporate organisations.

CEO - DGQ Best Practice GmbH

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Leadership of the Life Science company's newly created Strategic Marketing Departments in Spain & Portugal with the Areas Customer Marketing, Business Intelligence, Sales & Marketing Effectiveness, Website Management and BMS Foundation. 
Director of the European Pilot Project for design and implementation of the company's Digital Customer Experience and Omnichannel Marketing Platform.

Strategic Marketing Manager Spain & Portugal

Galgano & Associati Consulting

Galgano is an international Quality and Lean Management Consulting Boutique, a Joint-Venture Partner of Coopers & Lybrand. 
As Practice Director, in charge of design and implementation of international Business Transformation Projects for multinational clients and the creation and leadership of the new Six Sigma Practice.

Associate Director

International Chief Operating Officer (COO) passionate about the power of technology, diversity and multicultural collaboration. An expert at leading change powered by people and an advocate of ethical AI and new technologies that make our lives better.
Key strengths include creativity and solution-finding for complex challenges, building and leading diverse, regional and cross-functional teams (500+ FTE), influencing and radical collaboration with diverse stakeholders, driving business innovation, growth and change via people, technology and processes in the corporate space.
Over 25 years of international business experience, with regional Executive Leadership roles in different industries in EMEA, including EMEA COO, EMEA Digital Consulting Leader, Regional Marketing Director and Start-up CEO.
Expertise in creating strategy and vision for and executing large-scale Digital Transformation, building growth via New Business Models, AI, Data & Tech, Customer Experience Management (CXM), Martech, M&A, New Operating Models and Operational Excellence. Certified AI expert by MIT Sloan and MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) through Executive Program on "Artificial Intelligence - Implications for Business Strategy".
Focus on Business Services - Data & Tech, Insights & Media Industry, Digital & Strategy Consulting, Financial & Compliance Services, plus Pharma Industry, serving and partnering with Fortune 500 companies.

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