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Fractional CPTO and Chief AI Officer, helping PE-backed and scaling companies turn product, technology, data and AI into enterprise value. For more than a decade, private equity and venture investors have brought me in to scale and transform their portfolio companies.
Technology, product, data and AI diligence · organisation and leadership assessment · costed 100-day plan · board recommendation.
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Executive Leadership
CPTO / CDO / CAIO leadership through growth, transition, turnaround, integration or an open executive seat.
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Product & Technology Transformation
Operating-model redesign · platform and architecture strategy · delivery and reliability · post-M&A unification · cost and organisational simplification.
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Data & AI Strategy & Monetisation
AI strategy · AI-native products and operating models · data platforms · revenue and margin use cases · governance, risk and economics.
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Board & Portfolio
Board advisory · portfolio support · technology and AI oversight · leadership assessment · exit readiness.
How I engage
Diagnose
2–4 weeks · written board recommendation.
Fractional
1–3 days / week · minimum 3 months.
Interim
Full ownership · defined mandate · 6–12 months.
Partner
Portfolio-level · retained · multiple assets.
Product & Technology Value Creation
Deal decisions
Product & Technology Due Diligence
Management & Organisation Assessment
Value-Creation Plan
Post-Merger Integration Planning
Board Recommendation
Value creation
Fractional & Interim CPTO · CDO
100-Day Value-Creation Sprint
Platform Unification & Rationalisation
Organisation & Delivery Redesign
Exit-Readiness Preparation
Partnership & board
Operating Partner
Portfolio CPTO
NED & Advisory Seats
CTO / CPTO Bridge
Executive Mentoring & Coaching
AI Strategy & Leadership Services
Strategy & governance
AI Strategy & Roadmap
AI-Readiness Assessment & Scoring
AI Governance & Risk Framework
AI Capital Allocation & ROI Plan
Vendor Evaluation & Build-vs-Buy
Embedded AI leadership
Fractional Chief AI Officer
Data & AI Monetisation
90-Day AI Adoption Cycle
Executive AI Council & Cadence
AI Economics & Performance Reporting
Adoption & enablement
Executive AI Leadership Day
Agentic Workflows & Automation
Rapid-Response AI Intervention
Team Upskilling & AI Champions
Operating experience across the deal cycle
Every side of the table
I have worked in both PE and VC-backed companies. Run sell-side diligence on my own company through to exit, and buy-side diligence on acquisitions we then had to integrate. Led M&A and post-merger integrations, including PE roll-ups, and run product, technology and AI diligence for the investor side.
The request list a buyer sends is one I have written myself.
The evidence
Founder-led exit
Appoxee → Teradata · Sell-side, diligence and integration
18 markets
AI and ML monetisation in production · VEON
250%
Faster delivery at −25% IT cost · Transdev
14 ventures
Diligenced across one portfolio · Venturerock
Insights
Thinking for the decisions ahead.
Short, practical perspectives on AI economics, product-led growth and the operating systems behind enterprise value.
AI economics
The AI Margin Trap
Why AI adoption can increase activity while quietly weakening margin-and how leaders should test the economics.
Yehuda is one of the best CTOs I have ever worked with. Visionary, entrepreneurial and transformative. He connects technology to business goals fluently and takes his team, and wider organisation, along on the journey to achieve strong results together. And aside from that, great fun to work with. Can but only recommend him if you want to scale for hypergrowth.
Martine van der LeeChief Product & Technology Officer, Immoweb (part of AVIV Group)
A true tech 'wizard'. Knows tools, people and gets stuff done!
Wilco BrandtChief Information Officer, Albert Heijn, Etos and Gall & Gall
It was a great experience working with Yehuda. Yehuda is a highly innovative hands-on manager, with deep knowledge of numerous areas in technology from the low-level details of cloud infra to data analysis algorithms of Data Science. Yehuda is a pragmatic and proactive technology leader always empowering and driving his team. Yehuda is business driven and goal centric, producing great value to the company and being a collaborative team member.
Ben GoldinFounder & CEO, Plumery
Yehuda is an exceptional CTO. Not only to set a clear Tech Strategy for any SAAS scale up (or established company with a digital transformation strategy) but also the ability to make it happen. As a team player and coach, he enables & empowers his team to deliver and grow as professionals. All done and executed with full stakeholder alignment with investor(s) and broader C-Suite. On the personal level, Yehuda is highly engaged on many different topics and always offers to help where possible (or needed). Would love to continue to work with Yehuda in any way or form.
For investment partners, operating partners, boards and portfolio CEOs facing a live deal, a first-hundred-day priority, a hold-period constraint or an approaching exit.
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