Creative.Builder.Transformer.
Not a specialist. A blank collar.
Operator and founder. The job has stayed the same for two decades: turning strategy into operating reality. Now building Cybee.ai, scaling Mandeta, sitting on boards, and writing at The Blank Collar about the future of work and AI.
The Blank Collar is the post-AI worker, the evolution of the white collar.
Blue collars built the industrial age. White collars built the information age. The Blank Collar builds the intelligence age. A new class of professional who works alongside AI agents, directing, orchestrating, judging, and reclaims what is uniquely human: creativity, empathy, taste, strategy.
Routine output belongs to machines. Humans set intent, frame problems, decide what's good.
A Blank Collar with the right agents replaces what entire teams of specialists used to do.
Empathy, judgment, taste, conviction. The parts of work no model can fake.
I work in two modes: operator inside large international companies, and founder of ventures of my own. Across both, the same instinct keeps showing up. I'm drawn to the messy gap between a strategy that has been signed off and an operating model that doesn't yet exist. That's the place I find most useful, and the place I think I'm at my best.
My approach is patient and unglamorous. Most of what creates lasting outcomes happens after the launch: in the integration after the deal, in the hiring choice you make in year two, in the meeting where someone has to redesign a workflow nobody wants to touch. I try to be the person who shows up for that work without losing sight of why it matters.
What keeps me curious right now is how AI is rewriting the basic unit of work. Not as a slide on a deck, but as the new operating reality companies are quietly having to redesign around. I write about that at The Blank Collar, sit on a few boards, and try to keep the conversation honest about what people on the ground actually live through.
Born and raised in Germany. Built across six countries. Based in Zürich.
2024 – Present
Co-Founder
Cybersecurity · Switzerland
Founded
Agentic cybersecurity and compliance platform for SMBs. Cybersecurity made simple, no IT team required. Co-founded with Hekuran Doli; current primary focus.
2018 – Present
Founder
AI / Future of Work · Switzerland
Founded
My platform for thinking, writing and shipping around the future of work and AI. The manifesto, framework and book that define the post-AI workforce, plus the products that ship from it. Running since 2018.
2024 – Present
Co-Founder
Media · Switzerland
Founded
Media agency opening up programmatic advertising across Digital, TV, OOH and Radio for Albanians and the Albanian diaspora. First of its kind in the market.
2024 – 2025
Chief Operating Officer
Banking · Switzerland
Led
Operating role at the BLKB-backed sustainable banking holding following the close of the Radicant × Numarics merger. Merging the two technology stacks under one roof.
2020 – 2024
Co-Founder & CXO
Fintech · Switzerland
Founded
AI-powered finance and accounting platform for Swiss SMEs. Empowering every SMB with out-of-the-box AI financial operations. Co-founded with Dominique Rey; exited via merger with Radicant Holding (Oct 2024).
2019 – 2023
CTO Switzerland → SVP EMEA → EVP / Global Executive Director, Business Transformation
Consulting · Switzerland → EMEA → Global
Led
Three escalating roles across Dentsu: Chief Transformation Officer for Dentsu Switzerland, then SVP EMEA, then EVP / Global Executive Director, Business Transformation.
2017 – 2018
Managing Director
Market Research · Switzerland
Led
Led YouGov (formerly LINK) through the analog-to-digital transformation of the Swiss research market.
2014 – 2018
Director Operations & Innovation, Americas → Global Head Business Operations
Creative · USA → Global
Operated
Operations and innovation leadership at Gyro, the global B2B agency of the Dentsu network. Americas first, then globally.
2011 – 2014
Head of Digital Services / Head of European Digital Expansion
Creative · Switzerland / Europe
Operated
Built Havas Digital Switzerland from the ground up: team, clients, market positioning.
2008 – 2011
Director of Business Development
Social Network · Switzerland / Europe
Built
Business development at the leading Swiss social network of its era. Built the sales engine and expanded the European footprint.
for Numarics
for Cybee.ai
for Numarics
for Numarics
for Numarics
for Cybee.ai
A manifesto for the future of work.
A field manual for operators, founders and leaders navigating the shift from white-collar to blank-collar work. Built on the Blank Collar Framework, a model for designing teams, companies and careers around human + agent collaboration.
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