── AI Adoption & Strategy · Strategy Manager

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Strategy manager with 12+ years in financial services transformation — turning AI ambition into board-level alignment and measurable adoption.

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Berlin · Frankfurt · London · Munich · Paris · Vaduz · ZurichEst. 1989 — Present

── About

Where strategy meets intelligence.

For 12+ years I have helped some of Europe’s most demanding financial institutions translate ambition into measurable outcomes — building mobile banking apps, leading agile transformations, and lately, architecting the AI capabilities that will define the next decade of finance.

I work at the intersection of executive strategy and applied technology, specializing in AI adoption and organizational change. I help bank leadership teams turn AI ambition into board-level alignment, executive narratives, and measurable adoption — most recently across central banking, Landesbanken, and private banking clients. The work ranges from defining a group-wide AI strategy with C-level stakeholders to coaching squads on the tools that quietly compound productivity by 30% — sometimes 40%.

Fluent in German and English. Based between Berlin and Zurich.

── Capabilities

Six disciplines, one throughline.

AI Transformation

Crafting enterprise-wide GenAI strategies that translate ambition into adoption.

Agentic Automation

Designing autonomous workflows that take repetitive work off human hands.

AI Value Engineering

Building the business cases and ROI behind AI investments.

AI-Ready Operating Models

Redesigning how teams, processes, and decisions work in an AI-native organization.

Performance Engineering

Diagnosing what slows teams down — and engineering the systems that speed them up.

Digital Products

Bringing customer-facing products from blank page to live release with focused squads.

── Selected Work

Real work. Real results.

01BANKING · OPS

40%

productivity uplift in a 1,200-person operations department

LBBW · 2024→

02BANKING · STRATEGY

Board

group AI strategy approved at board level

Helaba · 2025→

03BANKING · PRODUCT

18 mo

from greenfield to public launch

Commerzbank · 2020→

── Toolkit

The stack behind the work.

── Workflows

Click a workflow to trace how the tools connect

── AI

ChatGPT

Claude

Hugging Face

GitHub Copilot

Lovable

Gamma

── Automation

n8n

Zapier

Make

── Build

Visual Studio

GitHub

Mermaid

── Collaboration

Miro

Mural

Jira

Confluence

Notion

Airtable

MS Teams

── Productivity

PowerPoint

Excel

SharePoint

think-cell

Google Suite

── Analytics

Power BI

Tools change, taste compounds. I pick the sharpest instrument for the job — and the one that lets the team move fastest without losing the plot.

── Selected Experience

Twelve years of transformations.

2025 — Today

Accenture

Berlin · Frankfurt · Munich

Strategy Manager

Shape go-to-market offers for the Accenture–Anthropic partnership in CEE — pairing Anthropic’s Claude models with Accenture’s transformation services to turn frontier AI into sellable propositions for banking and financial services clients.
Drove AI adoption as Squad Lead — built a local AI ambassador community, ran enablement workshops, and tracked GenAI adoption KPIs across consulting teams.
Defined the group-wide AI strategy for Helaba — co-authored the strategy and executive narrative, including board-level briefings, an adoption playbook, regulatory review (EU AI Act, GDPR), and an OKR-based tracking dashboard adopted by 10 business units.
Directed core transformation workstreams at Deutsche Bundesbank — led two workstreams covering process optimization, automation, and organizational redesign, resulting in 15% efficiency gain.

2023 — 2025

Porsche Consulting

Berlin · Vaduz · Zurich

Engagement Manager

Built AI-driven revenue streams — introduced AI solutions across banking and consumer goods clients, generating €3.8m in new business.
Boosted workforce productivity by up to 30% at LBBW — led the selection and integration of digital collaboration and automation tools across 6 departments.
Lifted output by up to 40% in a 1,200-person operations unit — designed and directed a performance-focused change management program at LBBW, combining KPI transparency, leadership coaching, and new operating routines.

2021 — 2022

Porsche Consulting

Berlin · Vaduz · Zurich

Senior Consultant

Architected LGT’s agile transformation — designed and rolled out the end-to-end agile program, training over 20% of the workforce and launching six strategic initiatives within six months.
Led the Financial Services Innovation Lab — ran executive workshops on AI adoption and workforce productivity for 12 clients per year.
Co-created Porsche Consulting’s cloud offering with MHP and AWS — trainings and design sprints to accelerate digital adoption at a leading bank.

2017 — 2020

Neugelb Studios

Berlin · Frankfurt

Senior Product Manager

Launched Commerzbank’s mobile banking app in 18 months — built and led four cross-functional scrum teams from concept through App Store release, serving over 3 million users.
Unified HR services on a single platform — designed and implemented a centralized self-service HR portal for Commerzbank’s 33,000 employees.
Delivered an AI-powered employee intelligence platform, partnering with Cognigy to integrate a state-of-the-art AI chatbot for self-service knowledge access.

2014 — 2017

Capco

Frankfurt · Dusseldorf · Milan · Paris

Senior Consultant

Prepared two of Europe’s largest Central Securities Depositories for TARGET2-Securities — directed a critical readiness workstream for the ECB’s T2S integration program.
Founded and grew Capco Digital — a four-person digital transformation team, securing six-figure revenue within six months.
Pioneered a crypto-coin PoC with IATA — an internal cryptocurrency to cut payment settlement times and mitigate economic risk.

── Education

From Berlin to Cambridge.

2023 — 2024

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Course Strategy, Technology Roadmapping & Innovation · Online

2023

Stanford University School of Engineering

Course Digital Transformation · Online

2013 — 2014

Hult International Business School

M.A. International Business · UK / US · GPA 3.42

2010 — 2013

Berlin School of Economics and Law

B.A. Business & Banking · GER · Grade 1.9

── How I work

Curiosity·Accountability·Strategic Thinking·Mentorship·Creativity·Empathy·Curiosity·Accountability·Strategic Thinking·Mentorship·Creativity·Empathy·

── Get in touch

Let’s build the next thing.

Always open to a conversation about AI strategy, banking transformation, or anything interesting at the edge of the two.

holz.gabriel@icloud.com

Phone

+49 152 566 955 49

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