Transformation.
- Strategic reset.
- Turnaround.
- Venture building.
Interim CEO / MD / CRO
Founder-led executive mandates.
Dr. Gernot A. Overbeck, Multi-Founder.
Mandates for strategic reset, turnaround and venture building.
An unusual profile, built for situations that require clarity under uncertainty, disciplined execution and staying power.
How I create value.
Executive mandates.
- Diagnostic sprints and strategic reset mandates.
- Interim CEO / MD / CRO for mid-cap companies in transition.
- CEO / build lead mandates for corporate ventures, venture builds and start-ups.
- Selected board roles with direct support on strategy and execution.
Process.
- Align on the North Star and the value-creation logic.
- Use AI-supported, data-driven and first-principles analysis to focus the few moves that matter.
- Execute with pace, discipline and people leadership.
What makes the difference
Two levers. Every mandate.
Strategy, process and structure matter. But the real levers that change performance are culture and people.
Culture.
An agile, flat, first-principles culture where decisions are made fast, ownership is clear and bureaucracy is eliminated. This is not a workshop outcome. It is an operating standard I install from day one.
People.
People who analyse rationally, commit to a goal, carry others with them and deliver results even when conditions change. Finding, developing and backing these people is the single highest-leverage move in any mandate.
Proof
Selected impact.
Representative outcomes across venture building, optimisation, and strategic realignment. Figures are marked as realised outcomes, identified potential or directional scenarios.
Venture Building
VENTURE BUILD · Realised outcome
3ventures
Built from zero to operating company.
2exits
Successfully completed.
€65m
Largest exit.
CORPORATE INSURTECH · Reset recommendation
3months
Lean start-up redesign.
Reset
Recommendation after three months.
CHF 300m
Capital path that only later became visible under the chosen corporate approach.
Effectiveness & Efficiency
EFFECTIVENESS & EFFICIENCY · Identified potential
€27mp.a.
Sales effectiveness.
€25mp.a.
Pricing.
€27mp.a.
Restructuring.
PLANT NETWORK OPTIMISATION · Identified potential
15%
Cost-reduction potential.
7plants
Across 3 countries in 6 weeks.
1team
Cross-border operating team.
Strategic Realignment
AI-SUPPORTED STRATEGIC RESET · Directional scenario
Value-creation
path
7x EBIT
10x EV
€1.3bn Rev.
- AI-supported strategy design.
- 3 clusters · 8 business units · 4 venture units
- The right people, entrepreneurial culture and venture-unit autonomy
TURNAROUND · Realised outcome
~1/3
Workforce reduction in 2 months.
5months
To cash-flow break-even.
3unions
One major strike managed.
About the founder
Dr. Gernot A. Overbeck.
Dr. Gernot A. Overbeck is founder and Managing Director of European Consulting Group AG in Basel. He operates at the intersection of strategy, operations and ownership — as interim CEO, MD and CRO, and as a board member for mid-cap transformation and venture building.
His track record combines top-tier consulting and operator roles: former principal at McKinsey & Company and partner at Mercer Management Consulting (Oliver Wyman); founder of three ventures, one with an exit of €65m; partner in mid-cap private equity (EquiVest II). Turnaround case on record: EBIT margin moved from −35% to cash-flow break-even in five months. Ph.D. summa cum laude in physics, Max Planck Institute, Göttingen.
A personal perspective by Dr. Gernot Overbeck on operating under uncertainty — alpine decision-making and its business parallels — is published separately at overbeck.ch.
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