Summary
Leads a combined department of ~50 IT specialists: 20 internal (Wiesbaden, Düsseldorf), 15 nearshore at the Commerzbank Delivery Technology Centre Sofia, 15 external delivery partners. Accountable for the enterprise AI strategy and the underlying software delivery across a portfolio of more than EUR 30bn AUM.
Highlights
- Defined and rolled out the enterprise AI strategy »Enable & Engage« across all units
- Agentic-coding rollout (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex): 30–50% less dev time, >70% AI-assisted for new code, 30–40% lower FTE footprint at equivalent velocity
- Built Commerz Real's EU AI Act risk classification & governance framework end-to-end; operationally delivered DORA compliance for AI and software platforms
- Budget EUR 1.3m p.a. for DTC-nearshoring; vendor management for GCP, RPA (X1), Tosca and software partners
- External voice on applied AI: Keynote »AI added vs. AI native« (IDC AI & Data Summit Frankfurt 03/2026), Panelist IDC AI Leaders Circle (04/2026), Speaker Builtworld »GenAI at Commerz Real«
Stack · methodology
- AI strategy · Enable & Engage
- Claude Code
- OpenAI Codex
- Azure AI Foundry
- EU AI Act
- DORA
- Azure
- GCP
- Tosca
- ralph
Lens match
- Leadership
- Tech
- Compliance