Andreas Schwarzkopf

Data Engineering Consultant (Retail AI Division)

AI Expert - The AI Navigator 🧭 Top AI Voice | Mercedes-Benz Alum | Sharing AI Insights for Leaders

With over 12 years of hands-on AI integration experience across various industries, I guide companies through AI-native transformations.

My background:

- LinkedIn Top Voice, recognized for practical AI insights
- Consulted for Mercedes-Benz to enhance manufacturing quality using AI
- Advised on AI across various industries, including retail, telecom, education, and more
- Founded a data and AI startup, leading it to a successful exit.

What you can expect from my AI-native newsletter:

- Insights on AI-native strategies for a competitive edge and sustainable growth
- Tactics for efficient and customer-focused AI-native operations
- Guidance on creating a data-driven, innovative, and responsible AI-native culture.

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CEO / Founder, AI Strategist

Helping businesses understand and harness the potential of AI.

Fractional CxO in tech

Consulting on business operations and product management for scaling companies, integrating emerging technologies and AI.

𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜: Build and deploy LLM-based automation tools for real estate agents.
𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵: Performed in-depth market analysis on the FinTech landscape to pinpoint investment opportunities for the IFC (International Financial Corporation, part of the World Bank Group).
𝗔𝗜 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻: Identified and validated customer pain points for an AI computer vision cloud service, formulated a business strategy, executed go-to-market roadmap, and secured successful fundraising.
𝗜𝗻𝗘𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆: interim Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), formulated the value proposition for electrochemical innovations, and established a go-to-market strategy.

Consultant, Fractional COO / CPO / CRO

MyCircles

At MyCircles.AI, we build LinkedIn CRM that leverages cutting-edge technology to enable fast and effective lead nurturing.

Co-Founder

Swiss Subnet

Business Strategy Advisor

Stable.com

Chief Operating Officer (interim)

FedEx

Led a team in developing a high-load back-end application to manage web traffic on FedEx.com.
Orchestrated the transformation of digital functions and the transition of key digital services.

Senior Product Manager & Program Manager

Bitfury

Established Product Management as a core function within the company, defining long-term product strategy, corporate governance, processes, and key metrics. Drove a systematic approach to product development by synchronizing organizational functions, resulting in an integrated portfolio of hardware, software, and services informed by market and competitor analysis.

Developed a strategic spin-off initiative, resulting in the establishment of Axelera AI, an AI-native hardware and software platform for edge computing.

Product Director

Product Manager

Polycom

Built Moscow EEC from scratch, elevating it to a top 3 center, surpassing Silicon Valley HQ in utilization.

Executive Experience Center Director

Microsoft

Managed product marketing activities for Microsoft Application Platform product portfolio (SQL Server, BizTalk, BI) to grow revenue and market share. Coordinates v-teams of 40+ and a $2M annual budget. Grew revenue by 40% in 2 years.

Set-up and coordinated data-driven marketing programs to drive B2B sales. Generated 900+ leads in SMB/SME segment and a $15M pipeline.

Sales Excellence Manager

LLC Internet Solutions (Ozon.ru)

Hands-on work with big-data to develop marketing insights and analytics for informed decision making in major e-commence company. Designed and implemented a product recommendation system, doubling conversion & increasing revenue by 20%.

Data Scientist

StatSoft (now part of Dell)

Consulting projects for data insight solutions in healthcare, marketing & logistics industries based on STATISTICA product.

Business Operations, Strategy, and Product Management leader with 20+ years of experience in the tech sector, specializing in driving product development and business growth. Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams and collaborating with C-suite executives. Expert in scaling companies by implementing emerging technologies in B2B to enhance efficiency, with a strong focus on data-centric domains (AI/ML, advanced analytics, data governance) and FinTech (stablecoins, payments, crypto, regulation).

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