
Michael Kupermann
Market Lead · Strategy
Market development, sales, and positioning. Focuses sales work on clients whose problem fits our core: confidential knowledge, local AI, and data control.
Blog
Articles (2)
Published in German only.
Souveräne KI für vertrauliches Unternehmenswissen
Warum die Jurisdiktion zählt und wie aus verstreuten Dokumenten eine lokal betriebene Wissensplattform wird.
38 min read
Die Jurisdiktion zählt, nicht die Postleitzahl
Warum ein deutsches Rechenzentrum US-Anbieter nicht dem CLOUD Act entzieht, und was das für KI-Projekte mit sensiblen Daten bedeutet.
2 min read
Highlights
Entrepreneurial Success
30 Years of Programme Leadership
Digital Sovereignty & Local AI
Data Solutions Architect
Open Source Contributions
Experience
Consulting Mandate, Technology & Architecture
Tier-1 telecom operator (fibre), DACH
2026 – present
Senior programme role in technology and architecture consulting with leadership responsibilities.
- Field-operations coordination and stakeholder alignment
- Details are covered by a non-disclosure agreement, walkthroughs available on request
Consulting Mandate, Data Warehouse with Local AI
Mid-market DACH company
2026 – present
Production data warehouse with AI access running on the client's own infrastructure, open source stack, so no data leaves the premises.
- dlt pipelines ingest CRM, ERP, and Excel data into a PostgreSQL DWH with thirty-one governed views
- Dagster orchestration, Metabase visualization
- Nightly sync to an open-source CRM as a documented exit path from the incumbent SaaS licenses
Head of Technology
Mid-market DACH technology firm
2025 – 2026
Technology strategy and operations through an organizational transformation.
- Closing the gap between strategy and delivery
- Modernizing constraining tools while programs remained live
- Team sizes, targets, and adoption metrics are under a non-disclosure agreement
CEO CRM & Data
Mid-size German IT services firm
2022 – 2024
A two-and-a-half-year mandate refocusing the business toward CRM and larger B2B accounts, reporting to the founders and investors.
- Built a CRM consulting practice and added offshore delivery capacity
- Integrated AI into the delivery process
- Measurable EBITDA improvement, figures available under a non-disclosure agreement
- Parallel M&A screening and negotiations
Head of Data Solutions
Independent European index provider
07/2021 – 06/2022
Led the Data Solutions organization, redesigning the data architecture while operations continued running.
- Led a distributed team of 35 across three sites
- Introduced ITIL v4 and Six Sigma (VoC, CtQ, KAIZEN)
- Built a data governance framework for the regulatory environment
Global Project Manager Finance, CRM
Tier-1 asset manager (global)
08/2019 – 06/2021
Programme lead for migrating local sales systems into a unified cloud CRM solution built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Azure.
- Five main regions (US, Hong Kong, France, UK, Germany), fifteen country sites total, parallel cutovers
- Coordinated international teams with 450 users
- Sponsor coalition anchored at the regional-head level
- Delivered on schedule with no interruption to the sales cycle
Principal Consultant, Investment Restrictions Program
Tier-1 asset manager (global)
2016 – 2019
A three-year programme migrating asset and investment management locations to Bloomberg AIM (Compliance Manager and Violations Manager).
- Led test planning and governance across all trading desks
- Protected adoption through parallel-run periods and desk-level reinforcement
- Three years with zero incidents in live portfolio operations
Co-Founder and Managing Director
Solit Finance GmbH
09/2010 – 06/2021
Eleven years building and running a DACH consultancy for financial services and telecommunications, the vehicle for the 2010 to 2021 programmes listed here.
- Scaled the company from the founding team to 110 employees
- P&L responsibility, acquiring and directing client programmes for international groups
- Built durable client relationships in the financial services and telecommunications sectors
- Parallel M&A screening, mandates continued independently from 2022 onward
Principal Consultant, Next-Generation IT Architecture
Tier-1 European telecom group
2010 – 2015
Member of the programme-management leadership team for the transformation of the AppCom architecture (CRM and Customer Data Platform) across five countries.
- Cross-country IT licence management
- Design and rollout of the next-generation IT architecture in Hungary and the Czech Republic
- Infrastructure advisory to the regional CTIO/CTO level
Principal Consultant, Head of CRM West
Top-tier German IT consultancy (DAX/MDAX-adjacent)
2006 – 2010
Led the 80-person CRM consulting practice for the west region.
- Principal consultant for CRM analyses and implementations
- Business development and P&L responsibility
Senior Consultant & Account Manager
Industry / Technology
10/2001 – 01/2006
CRM consulting and international project leadership at a technology group.
- International CRM implementation based on Oracle and Siebel
- Sub-project leadership for projects in the US and Asia
- Specialization in security services and data center security
- Key account management and new business acquisition
Expertise
Core
Leadership
Management
Data
AI
Governance
Cloud
Quality
Architecture
Business
Strategy
CRM
Programming
Languages
- German
- Native
- English
- Fluent
- Russian
- Professional
- Hebrew
- Basic
Certifications
Data Protection Officer
TÜV Nord
2023
Business Analyst
Harvard Business School
2022
Systemic Resonance Coach
KOR®
2021
SCRUM Master PSM 1
SCRUM.org
2019
PRINCE2 Project Management
PRINCE2
2019
Microsoft Dynamics 365
Microsoft
2019
Digitisation and Migration
St. Gallen Institute
2018
ITIL Foundation & Service Manager
TÜV SÜD
2004
Siebel Core Consultant
Oracle Siebel
2001
Oracle eBusiness Suite
Oracle
2000
Education
Diploma in Industrial Engineering
RFH Köln / PFH Darmstadt
1998 – 2003
Wholesale and Foreign Trade Merchant (IHK)
KMT Köln
1993 – 1995