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Portrait of Michael Kupermann

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.

Highlights

Entrepreneurial Success

Co-founder and Managing Director, Solit Finance GmbH. Scaled the company to 110 employees.

30 Years of Programme Leadership

Technology and architecture programmes in telecommunications, financial services, industry, and the public sector, active since 1995.

Digital Sovereignty & Local AI

Reducing vendor and license dependency, documented exit paths from SaaS, GDPR as the default assumption in every architecture.

Data Solutions Architect

Specialist in data architecture transformation and data governance frameworks, currently delivering production data warehouses with local AI.

Open Source Contributions

Throughline (persistent memory for Claude Code), EquiML (fairness audits for ML datasets), and a German-language transformer course for building one from scratch.

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

CRM Strategy & Implementation

Leadership

Business ManagementTeam Leadership

Management

Project ManagementAgile Methodologies

Data

Data ArchitectureData Engineering (Dagster, dlt, Postgres/pgvector)

AI

AI Integration & Local LLMs (Claude, Ollama)

Governance

Digital Sovereignty & GDPR

Cloud

Cloud Migration

Quality

ITIL/Six Sigma

Architecture

Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF)

Business

P&L Management

Strategy

Digital Transformation

CRM

Microsoft Dynamics 365Oracle Siebel

Programming

PythonJava

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

Technologies

PythonPostgreSQL + pgvectorDagsterdltMetabaseOllama (local inference)Claude APIClaude CodeMCP (Model Context Protocol)DockerMicrosoft Azure (Functions, KeyVault)Google Cloud PlatformMicrosoft Dynamics 365Dynamics 365 Business CentralHubSpot (Sales, Marketing, Service)Salesforce (Sales, Service)SAP S/4HANA, BWKnowledge graph schemasOracle Siebel, Fusion, eBusinessBloomberg AIMOracle Database, MS SQL, MySQL, MariaDBMongoDB, Firestore, FirebaseElasticsearch, KibanaTypeScriptKubernetesITIL v4 (Service Manager)Six Sigma, KAIZENPRINCE2Scrum (PSM1)eTOM