AI leadership from strategy to working systems

I help organisations identify useful AI opportunities, lead adoption and deliver the systems and workflows to put them into practice. Available for permanent leadership roles and consulting engagements, including longer-term mandates.

AI Strategy & Technical Leadership · Zürich region · Native German & English

Greg Brown

Strategy, technical depth and adoption in one conversation

Useful AI leadership connects business value, technical reality, governance, customer needs and the people who must make the change work.

Strategic judgement

I help leaders weigh business value, governance, risk, cost and adoption before committing budget or asking teams to change how they work.

20+ years across enterprise technology, SaaS, consulting, sales, product delivery and team leadership.

Hands-on technical leadership

Hands-on leadership

I advise from direct implementation work across RAG, APIs, document automation, internal tools, cloud platforms and multi-tenant SaaS.

Practical delivery with Laravel, Vue, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, PostgreSQL, SQL Server and enterprise integrations.

Customer and enterprise adoption

I translate between executives, technical teams, users, legal, procurement and customers so complex technology becomes a decision people can act on.

Customer-facing solution work across Frontify, McMRI, Hepart, p2data and independent Swiss engagements.

Experience in delivery and leadership

The strongest proof comes from situations where technology, commercial pressure, governance and adoption all had to work together.

Enterprise transformation

Global CRM consolidation and governance

Led Johnson Controls’ global CRM and marketing analytics transformation, bringing more than 90 Salesforce instances into 10 strategic platforms.

Globally distributed teams, complex stakeholder groups, multi-million-dollar budgets and adoption across regions.

Product and technical leadership

From fintech concept to launch

Co-founded CrowdLiquidity / LiUU and led architecture, payment implementation, infrastructure and delivery. More than 1,500 businesses actively joined the platform.

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Managed five programmers and a designer within an international team that grew to 16 people.

Customer-facing solutions

Turned enterprise needs into platform solutions

Led discovery, tailored demonstrations and consultative solution design with C-level executives and global brands at Frontify.

Managed opportunities through negotiation and closing, typically USD 30k–50k, while consistently exceeding KPI targets.

Trust-sensitive adoption

Supported technology where credibility matters

Demonstrated and supported medical imaging software with clinical specialists, and helped turn public-transport and connected-infrastructure data into operational insight.

Healthcare, fintech, Swiss public transport, CRM and financial workflows where privacy, reliability and human judgement matter.

AI work behind the advice

I teach and advise from direct implementation experience, not vendor decks. These examples show the kind of practical AI adoption I help teams reason about.

Healthcare knowledge assistant

Healthcare sector · RAG, PostgreSQL, vector search, LLM integration

Designed and built with input from scientists, quality control and medical professionals. Staff and external professionals use it to explore tests and therapies, reporting time savings and more complete information.

AI Invoice Analysis Tool

Internal tool · PDF parsing, financial automation

An internal workflow that turns recurring supplier PDFs into structured financial data, reducing manual review and improving consistency.

AI-Powered News Platform

Live product · aipowered.news

A live AI product that curates trusted European reporting, reduces duplication and turns complex coverage into concise briefings.

Multi-Tenant SaaS Platform

Swiss public transport sector

Built a six-phase, multi-tenant Laravel/Vue SaaS platform now used by multiple Swiss transport operators, with SQL Server/SSRS reporting, role-based access and AI-assisted insight into line usage, delay hotspots and planning patterns.

Case Studies

Practical AI delivery and technology leadership, with clear responsibilities and real use.

Stakeholder alignment is the adoption work

AI adoption rarely fails because nobody can find a model. It fails because leaders, users, IT, legal, procurement and vendors are solving different problems.

I help teams slow down enough to define the workflow, the decision, the data, the risk, the owner and the success criteria before they scale activity.

That matters especially in Swiss organisations, where practical evidence, trust and cross-functional consensus are usually prerequisites for meaningful change.

The most valuable AI is AI that a real organisation can trust, adopt and maintain.

Start the right conversation

Get in touch about a permanent AI leadership role, an advisory or implementation mandate, or a longer-term consulting engagement. I also welcome CTO opportunities, workshops and executive briefings.

I reply within one business day.