Find the opportunity.
Shape new business fields, understand customer needs, and decide which opportunities, partnerships, or ventures to pursue.
Strategy & corporate development
Hi, I'm Lutz,
I help you move from strategy to execution.
Strategy & corporate development.
Product & venture building.
Hands-on.
Selected clients
How I help
From opportunity to execution.
Build what matters.
Turn ideas into clear use cases, testable concepts, products, and pilots. Connect product decisions with a route to market.
Product & venture building
Get the work moving.
Bring teams and stakeholders together, set priorities, and move an initiative forward. I join the team when advice alone is not enough.
Innovation & embedded leadership
I join your team to move the work forward.
Based in Berlin. Working in German and English.
Selected work
What that looks like.
Roche Diagnostics
A new remote diagnostics offering.
Shaped a new remote diagnostics and digital health offering for lab customers, connecting business planning, market validation, partnerships, and clinical evidence.
“Lutz combines strategic clarity, real industry depth and the willingness to question what others take for granted.”
Charité / BIH
Research to spin-off.
Coached early-stage teams on positioning, business models, pitching, and de-risking across digital health, medtech, and AI.
“As an experienced communicator, he successfully established functional interdisciplinary teams.”
BIOTRONIK
New business beyond devices.
Supported a board-sponsored innovation program with R&D leadership. Two concepts advanced; one became an integrated software offering.
“… a true leader, innovator, and motivator.”
Thermo Fisher Scientific
A digital sales platform.
Led strategy and development of a digital sales enablement platform end to end, across strategy, product, UX, and technology.
“… a big step forward in digital transformation.”
Bayer / G4A
Opening pharma to startup founders.
Co-founded a pharma-backed digital health accelerator, connecting Bayer with the global startup ecosystem and supporting open innovation at leadership level.
“Lutz has a rare ability to connect people, ideas, and opportunities across digital health.”
Roche Diagnostics / Endocrinology
A new direction for thyroid diagnostics.
Led a strategic redefinition of global thyroid diagnostics. Guided a 15-person international core team through OKRs, patient journeys, and co-creation workshops.
“Lutz coached me in my role and taught me to challenge myself and common perceptions.”
Helios Kliniken
New digital services in ambulatory care.
Supported digital strategy and innovation for ambulatory care, shaping new digital services and care models to improve healthcare delivery.
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Connecting life sciences and startups.
Supported global digital strategy through startup collaboration, partnership development, and the strategic assessment of an M&A opportunity.
Sandoz
Turning innovation priorities into action.
Led a focused transformation and innovation program to identify, structure, and accelerate high-priority initiatives in a global healthcare context.
Roche Diagnostics Deutschland
Mobilizing an organization for digital change.
Led a digital acceleration and innovation program with senior leadership, aligning the organization around digital transformation and new business creation.
“… constantly challenged our ways of thinking and doing while putting our customers first.”
Boehringer Ingelheim
A clinical need turned into a mobile tool.
Supported an early mobile health application for stroke recognition and stroke unit management, translating a clinical use case into a practical digital tool.