“Either we find a way or we build one.”

Hannibal Barkas (247-183 BC), Carthaginian commander

I am an interim manager and transformation leader for software, SaaS and IT companies with more than 20 years of international executive experience. I support startups, scale-ups, and mid-sized businesses at strategic inflection points, particularly in restructuring, growth transformation, and go-to-market situations. My assignments include successful turnarounds back to sustainable profitability as well as the preparation and execution of company sales to Private Equity investors. With extensive international experience across EMEA, the Americas, and APAC, I am well equipped to operate in complex global environments. In 2023 I have been recognized with the Interim Management Excellence Award for my achievements. Typically, I take on CEO, CRO or CSO roles in growth or crisis situations, lead restructuring initiatives, and prepare companies for financing rounds or exit processes. My industry focus is on SaaS, software, IT services, and technology. Let us join forces to pave the way for further sustainable growth. And if we can’t find a way, we’ll build one!

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Interim Manager Award DDIM

Winner of the 

Interim Management Excellence Award 2023

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Transformation and Turnaround Manager

Jürgen has greatly enriched us with his experience and personality. He convinced us with his professional competence, flexibility and willingness to help and significantly supported us with his know-how.
CEO IT company
Jürgen's interplay of "taking us by the hand" and "putting his finger in the wound" helped us to make tremendous progress. As a result, we quickly found a common approach as a team to work in a more customer-oriented way and move forward faster.
CEO & Founder startup
With Jürgen's help, we were able to achieve our desired goals, despite great challenges and also a tight time frame, and reposition the company for future growth. Jürgen enriched the team with his experience as well as with his personal leadership and communication style, his openness and his great willingness for teamwork.
CEO & Founder software company
Very well structured workshop with a goal-oriented, practical and pragmatic approach. We now have concrete results with concrete actions that give us direction.
CEO & Founder software company
Jürgen Thiel convinces through his strategic and entrepreneurial thinking and acting and through innovative approaches. His project management is characterized by extremely careful planning and consistent implementation.
CEO software company
A thousand thanks for the workshop, from which we took a lot and which triggered a lot of good things in our company.
CEO & Founder startup
It was great having you with us. The feedback from the group was excellent regarding you and your input. They were all very impressed - as I was.
CEO & Founder software company
Jürgen brought clarity, calm leadership, and decisive execution at a critical moment for our company - stabilizing the business and preparing it successfully for its next phase of growth
CTO & Founder software company

“Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.”

Andy Grove (1936-2016), Co-founder and former CEO of Intel Corp.

This famous quote is from the 1990s, but is still very true until today and will be true probably forever. Resting on the success of the past rarely leads to sustainable success in the future. For your future success, as an interim manager I support you in developing and implementing your strategy and will accompany you through the necessary transformations.

Strategy

"A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique."

Strategy

A good idea does not become a successful product on its own. And if a product is successful, this success does not usually last forever. At some point, every company reaches a strategic inflection point at which a new idea, a new product or a new strategy must lay the foundation for continued success.

Organization

"Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success."

Organization

Success does not come from the product alone. Only the right employees in the right position and competent managers who motivate and inspire form the foundation for it. Developing the organization and the employees is at least as important as developing a good product. The team is the base for success!

Sales & Marketing

"Approach each customer with the idea of helping him or her to solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service."

Sales & Marketing

Once you have found the ideal business segments and markets, you need a well-planned sales and marketing strategy. But which sales channels are the right ones? Is online marketing and sales the only way to go? Or do you need to build up your own sales team? Or should you develop a partner network?

Leadership

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."

Leadership

Managing a team is one thing, actually leading it is quite another. Leadership means inspiring and motivating people to find their own creative ways and solutions to achieve the agreed goals. A good leadership culture needs time and effort to develop and it needs good role models in leadership positions.

Internationalization

"Go global before you think you're ready - because the world won't wait for you."

Internationalization

Once the decision to expand globally has been made, many questions arise. Which countries and regions have the best potential? In which countries do we face the lowest entry barriers? Which functions and teams do we need locally? Which local legal restrictions do we need to take into consideration?

Transformation

"The greates danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence - it is to act with yesterday's logic."

Transformation

Transformation is a continuous process that enables companies to respond to change and seize new opportunities. It is crucial for remaining relevant, competitive, and innovative. Transformation means turning stagnation into progress and complexity into opportunity.

As I mainly work with start-ups, scale-ups and medium-sized companies in the software and SaaS sector, I am very often confronted with the challenge that due to the lack of qualified IT specialists, especially software developers, product market launches get delayed or innovative ideas cannot be even turned into products at all. For this reason, I founded pyraCode to offer an additional service to my clients by building and managing outsourced engineering teams for them. 

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Whether you need support with a specific project or you simply want to find out more about me and my work, I look forward to hearing from you. Please feel free to use the form or the contact details below to reach out to me. I will get back to you as soon as possible to discuss your request personally.

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