Hartmut Kremer

Why Me

For more than 20 years I have worked at the intersection of technology, product and business model, in energy, IT services, telecommunications, retail and media. Three experiences shape how I work.

I have founded. Two startups built, in Germany and China, and an organization with its own team run as managing director. I am currently building an AI-supported telemedicine venture. I know not only the idea but the responsibility behind it. And I know how quickly an idea fails against reality. That is why I test with modern methods before I build.

I have led in corporations. Programs with more than 100 participants, platforms for more than two million users, an in-house innovation consultancy for 50 teams. I know how decisions die in committees, and I know how to get them through: at a global smart metering leader I initiated the digital transformation at C-level.

I have run the line. As interim director with three team leads and twenty product managers: service revenue more than doubled, open initiatives reduced by 80 percent, because we decided what we would stop doing. I owned the numbers; I did not present them.

I translate AI into business model, pricing logic, portfolio and organization: an AI specialist for the business side, not a technologist.

How I Work

Understand first, then build, then lead. At Netze BW I initially led a consulting project to find out how product development becomes more customer- and data-centric. Then I built and ran the in-house innovation consultancy. At Yello Strom we ran customer and market tests before Germany's first customer-friendly smart meter went on sale. In EnBW's Digital Office we stopped a product development based on energy data and machine learning because the data showed no significance: around one million euros a year that did not flow into a product without evidence.

Where an assumption can be tested, I test it before the big decision. That applies to products as much as to transformation programs.

Remote/hybrid for clients in the DACH region. On-site wherever the mandate requires it.

Background

• 20+ years of experience in energy, IT services, telecommunications, retail and media
• 40+ projects, including 8+ mandates since 2023
• Many years of international experience, including three years living and working in Asia
• Computer Science (B.Sc.), Educational Science & Psychology (Master's equivalent)

Certifications

• MIT Sloan “Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy”
• PMI “Artificial Intelligence in Project Management”
• Maven “AI Prototyping for Product Managers” (2025)
• ITIL 4 Foundation
• Certified SAFe 4 Program Consultant (SPC, 2018)
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Languages

German, English. Portuguese: basic