Independent digital programme adviser / interim CDO@kobera.digital
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I run the business side of large digital programmes for organisations that do not want their next transformation to become another expensive write‑off. The ideal moment to bring me in is before the project is signed and staffed; in reality, I am often called when the first delivery cracks are already visible.
My work starts with the decision itself. I interrogate why the programme exists, what problem it is meant to solve, and what assumptions sit underneath the business case. From there, I structure the brief, keep vendor selection honest, and sit between C‑suite and delivery so the strategy–execution handover does not become the point where the project quietly dies. If a programme should be stopped, I help stop it cleanly. If it should go ahead, I make sure it can actually land.
I have worked independently since 2006, stepping into organisations on an interim basis rather than as a consulting firm. Most of my work sits in regulated and complex environments: banks, fintech and lending, payments, telecoms, renewable energy, and public‑sector programmes funded by development‑finance institutions.
Engagements typically take the form of owning a diagnostic or vendor selection, leading delivery‑side restructuring, or working as the bridge between business decision‑makers and technical teams; in future, the same work will increasingly sit under interim CDO‑like mandates as organisations formalise the role.
Examples on the track record include stabilising a stalled mobile‑operator launch in Uganda and taking it to millions of prepaid subscribers; building the IT and delivery organisation of a Czech renewable‑energy scale‑up to support a thousand‑plus employees; designing digital‑investment roadmaps for cities in Türkiye and Kazakhstan; and delivering a P2P lending platform in the Netherlands through to an AFM crowdfunding licence and full technical due diligence by a major bank.More...