Co-Founder of Simple. Two decades of building companies across mobile, digital infrastructure, and now climate tech — including 3united, LightGlass, and transpaygo. Active climate-tech investor. Based in Vienna, working across Europe and APAC. At Simple, we're building the AI platform that turns the invoices companies already have into auditable, line-item carbon data — the foundation most Scope 3 reporting tools skip.
What I Believe
Better data leads to better decisions.
And the decisions that matter most right now are the ones about reducing CO₂e — inside companies, in policy and regulation, in academic research, in how the media frames the conversation, and in where the next generation of talent decides to put their energy. I want to talk to people who share that conviction, regardless of where they sit. Carbon data is becoming a cross-functional concern: it's on the CFO's desk as a financial KPI, on the CSO's as a strategic imperative, on communication teams' as a credibility question, and on procurement's as a competitive lever. I'm happy to make that case for any of those roles, in any sector — and to learn from people making it better than I am.
Let’s chat about:
- How AI is transforming carbon accounting and supply-chain transparency
- Why sustainability isn’t a cost — it’s a driver of profitability and resilience
- The business case for sustainability — not the compliance one. CO₂e is a cost like money: defer it, and it compounds. Carbon data becomes a procurement KPI on equal footing with price and lead time — and that's where the real competitive advantage sits.
- Activity-based vs. spend-based carbon accounting — what actually holds up to scrutiny. Where spend-based fails, where activity-based wins, and why PCAF-literate auditors care about the difference.
- Enterprise go-to-market in regulated industries. Lessons from building Simple into banks, industrial procurement, and ESG consultancies — and from three prior exits in regulated verticals.
- The European climate-tech landscape from the inside. CSRD, CBAM, PCAF, ESRS E1, EU ETS — where the rules are heading, where the market is mispricing risk, and where the real opportunities are.
Partnerships I am actively exploring
- ERP, e-invoicing, and procurement-software vendors looking to embed line-item carbon data as a native feature rather than a bolt-on
- ESG and management consultancies whose Scope 3 engagements stall on data-collection bottlenecks we could solve together
- Banks and financial institutions building out financed-emissions and SLL-monitoring capabilities
- Industry associations and standards bodies working on the methodological gaps that still sit between ISO 14067, the GHG Protocol, and PCAF in practice
If your roadmap touches line-item emissions data, there's probably a useful conversation to be had.
What you can learn from connecting with me
A clear sense of how to turn sustainability into a competitive business advantage .
- The business case for sustainability — not the compliance one. CO₂e is a cost like money: defer it, and it compounds. Carbon data becomes a procurement KPI on equal footing with price and lead time — and that's where the real competitive advantage sits.
- Activity-based vs. spend-based carbon accounting — what actually holds up to scrutiny. Where spend-based fails, where activity-based wins, and why PCAF-literate auditors care about the difference.
- Enterprise go-to-market in regulated industries. Lessons from building Simple into banks, industrial procurement, and ESG consultancies — and from three prior exits in regulated verticals.
- The European climate-tech landscape from the inside. CSRD, CBAM, PCAF, ESRS E1, EU ETS — where the rules are heading, where the market is mispricing risk, and where the real opportunities are.