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

ME Interim (ATREUS)

After selling the business (M&A Exit) and working as Managing Director for several years, I deliberately took some time out to explore international markets and plan my next career steps.  #CHINA #USA #Europe

Sabbatical & berufliche Neuorientierung

ATRO ProVita GmbH a GELITA Company

Prior to the successful sale of the business in 2024, ATRO ProVita was GELITA´s D2C & E-Commerce subsidiary - focussed on high-quality collagen supplements for end consumers in healthcare, sports & beauty. GELITA AG, the parent company, is a global leader in collagen proteins for the food, health, nutrition, and pharmaceutical industries, employing about 2,800 people across more than 20 plants and sales offices worldwide.

Managing Director | Geschäftsführer 

HERMES ARZNEIMITTEL GmbH 

HERMES ARZNEIMITTEL - belonging to the family foundation Johannes Burges Familienstiftung with  around 1.000 employees - today is one of the leading privately owned pharmaceutical companies in Germany. The range includes leading OTC brands like Biolectra, doc, Anti Brumm, algovir, Aspecton or Betaisodona.

Head of Marketing & E-Commerce | Leitung Marketing & Versandhandel

- Strategic Brand Management (e.g. leading brewery and luxury brands)
- Sales & Import projects (e.g. premium spirits brand)
- Marketing Concept healthcare

External Consultant

Hardenberg-Wilthen AG

Member of the Management Board (Authorised Signatory) of Germany´s 3rd biggest Spirits Producer 

-	Overall responsibility for marketing in Germany and Internationally including P&L oversight and responsibility
-	Responsibility for international sales to North America, Ireland & Italy
-	Managing the external HORECA sales organisation nationally
-	Strategic innovation management
-	Employee management and development 
-	Budget responsibility for marketing and export
-	Corporate and brand PR

Director Marketing & International Business | Geschäftsleitung Marketing & Vertrieb Int. (Prokurist)

-	ATL & BTL Management of the core spirit brands 
-	Project responsibility for export to the USA/Ireland
-	Budget responsibility for marketing
-	Managing external agencies 
-	Employee management (Product- and Promotion Manager)

Marketing Manager

-	Strategic realignment of Germany´s best selling spirits brand
-	Overseeing the marketing mix factors
-	Working out new market potentials 
-	Managing external agencies
-	Budget management

Product Manager

WARSTEINER Brauerei Haus Cramer Management Gmbh

-	Strategic brand communication (TV, print, radio, etc.)
-	Overall responsibility for media planning (approx. €30 million budget)
-	Managing media, creative and new media agencies
-	Networking sponsorship, product development and sales 
-	Managing trainees

Brand Manager WARSTEINER

-	Installation of media controlling & auditing 
-	Supporting strategic brand management
- 	Corporate Internet communication measures
-	Depth brand research studies

Junior Brand Manager

-	Sales administration of international sales markets (e.g. Spain, Netherlands, Sitzerland)
-	Contributing to sales and marketing strategies 
-	Supervising product launches
-	Analysing national and international brand potential

Personal Assistant to Director Marketing/International Sales

Cervecería Argentina Isenbeck

Sales Internship

Deutsche Bank

Financial Internship

Managing Director and former International Sales & Marketing Director with significant commercial experience in the FMCG & Pharma/OTC market in Germany and internationally - B2C and D2C/E-Commerce. As a result of the demands in competitive markets I have developed a highly entrepreneurial and “hands on” management style. With my focus on sales and marketing, I have been able to take on responsibility for leading FMCG & OTC Brands in the Drinks- and pharmaceutical industry (sales of up to €500 million and an advertising accounts of up to €30 million). In recent years I have gained experience at both national and international level as Director Marketing & International Business and General Manager. I have a strong track record for success in domestic and International sales, brand management, creating new brands, establishing new channels & E-commerce and the development of international markets.

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