Deutsche Digitale Beiräte

At Deutsche Digitale Beiräte, my role is deliberately different from a traditional board or association position. It is not about status, representation, or theory. It is about sharpening impact and raising the quality bar of digital advisory work in Germany.

I act as a practitioner and sparring partner. Someone who brings real operating experience into a network that often risks becoming conceptual. My focus is on turning digital, AI, and technology topics into something boards and executives can actually work with. Clear questions, clear trade offs, clear consequences.

Within DDB, I challenge how digital advisory is understood and practiced. I push for less buzzword compliance and more responsibility. Less tool fascination and more business relevance. Less abstract future talk and more concrete guidance that helps supervisory boards, advisory boards, and management teams make better decisions today.

A key part of my role is bridging worlds. Between technology experts and non technical board members. Between ambition and feasibility. Between innovation pressure and governance reality. I help translate complexity into decision ready insight, and I am explicit when something sounds exciting but lacks substance, ownership, or economic logic.

I also see my role as setting standards. What good digital advisory actually looks like. What questions an advisor must be able to answer. Where advisors must challenge instead of reassure. And where boards need to stop delegating technology to IT and start owning it as a leadership topic.

In short: at DDB, I am not there to agree or to decorate the room. I am there to sharpen thinking, reduce blind spots, and ensure that digital advisory is credible, pragmatic, and worthy of board level trust.