Board and advisory-board mandates for technology companies, marketplaces and classifieds — from a former CEO & CTO who has sat on both sides of the board table.
Most boards now have AI on the agenda. Most have a strategy deck. Few have someone in the room who has actually run the system. BERNDT Board brings that operator perspective to the table.
Verwaltungsrat, Aufsichtsrat and non-executive roles for technology companies and marketplaces — with operator judgement on product, technology, scaling and M&A.
Beirat and advisory-board mandates, including building an AI advisory board (KI-Beirat) that asks the questions a strategy deck avoids.
Direct, confidential sparring for founders, CEOs and owner families on the technology and AI agenda — without the ceremony of a formal mandate.
Helping boards separate real agentic-AI leverage from vendor noise — and set the guardrails before an agent acts at scale.
From the BERNDT point of view «From AI strategy to operating reality» — the questions that separate companies that talk about AI from those that quietly begin to run on it.
Which single process will AI change first — and who owns the result?
What is our data actually good enough for today?
What happens — to customers and to liability — when an agent gets it wrong?
Will we measure value in pilots, or in a P&L number?
Do we have operator-level judgement in the room, not only vendors?
The brand rests on a real track record: building and leading the technology behind some of Europe's largest digital marketplaces — at the level of the board and the P&L.
An AI advisory board is a small group of experienced practitioners who help a company's leadership govern its AI agenda: where to deploy first, what the data supports, what happens when an agent errs, and how value is measured. BERNDT helps establish such boards and serves on them.
A consultant advises; an operator has carried the consequences. Jens Paul Berndt has been CEO and CTO of Homegate and CTO of SMG Swiss Marketplace Group — decisions on product, technology and scaling were his to make and to live with. That is the judgement a board buys.
Board, supervisory-board and advisory-board mandates for technology companies, marketplaces and classifieds — in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and internationally. The number of parallel mandates is deliberately kept small.
With a conversation about your board's agenda and where operator judgement would change decisions. Reach out via the contact form or office@berndt-gmbh.com.
Start with a conversation — via the contact form or directly at office@berndt-gmbh.com.