David Barret

Interim COO
C-level & Board Advisor

Shaping and Accelerating Your Business Transformation

Value Proposition
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About me

Value Proposition

As a strategic sparring partner, I collaborate with high-performing C-level teams. My focus is on supporting international mid-sized companies and growth-stage startups in driving their digital transformation and ensuring sustainable growth.My approach combines efficiency optimization in the core business (Exploit strategy) with validating and operationalising new business opportunities (Explore strategy) – two essential levers for long-term success.

EXPLOIT
Objective: Optimize & Strengthen the Core Business
Scope: Enhance structures and processes to maximize profitability through operational excellence.

EXPLORE
Objective: Validate & Scale New Business Areas
Scope: Identify, validate, operationalize, and successfully launch future-proof business models.

Through targeted insights and minimally invasive interventions, I provide strategic clarity and hands-on execution – delivering sustainable impact with measurable results.

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Typical Assignments

✅ TRANSFORMATION
- Post-Merger Integration – Realizing synergies, merging cultures, harmonizing processes
- Digital Transformation – Modernizing business models, automating processes, leveraging technology effectively
- Organization & Target Operating Model – Creating efficient structures and governance for sustainable growth✅ GROWTH & INNOVATION
- Market Entry & Scaling – Rolling out business models internationally or tapping into new markets (GTM)
- Customer & Market Strategy – Sharpening value propositions, enhancing customer loyalty, differentiated market approach
- Innovation & Development of New Business Models – Validating and building future-proof revenue streams✅ PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT
- Operational Excellence – Enhancing efficiency & securing profitability
- Data-Driven Decision-Making – Establishing business intelligence and KPI-driven management
- Agile Methods & OKRs – Bringing speed and flexibility to decision-making and execution processes

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About Me

✳️ For 30 years, I have been internationally shaping digital innovation, growth, and transformation projects—working with corporations, mid-sized companies, and founders.✳️ What sets me apart is my strong analytical and strategic perspective, a clear sense of direction, a growth mindset, and the ability to deliver pragmatic, hands-on solutions even in complex situations.✳️ Whether in product management, go-to-market strategies, business development, international expansion, strategic partnerships, or operational excellence, I always work in a customer-centric, entrepreneurial, solution-oriented, pragmatic, and reliable manner.✳️ With experience across industries such as telecommunications, media, energy, e-commerce, the public sector, and automotive, I understand the reality of fast decisions, limited resources, and ambitious goals.✳️ I am fluent in German, English, and French and easily navigate international teams and projects.