Product and technology leadership at inflection points. Available for Operating Partner mandates with private equity and venture firms, and interim CPO, Chief AI Officer, or CIO roles at portfolio and growth-stage companies.
The pattern we see most often: eighteen months into an AI investment, a portfolio of pilots, and no credible answer to the CFO's question about ROI. The product works in one business unit and has never been generalized. Legal, product, and operations are working against each other instead of together. An incumbent leader is quietly blocking progress because the AI now encodes judgment they used to own.
These are operating problems, not technology problems. They require an operator with scar tissue, embedded in the room, not an advisor with a framework.
Standing partner relationships with private equity and venture firms that need an operator embedded in the portfolio. Sourced-deal technical diligence, value-creation plan execution, board-level advisory to portfolio CEOs during AI transformation or platform repositioning, and exit readiness work. Available on retainer or engagement-by-engagement terms.
Full-time operator role during the first twelve to twenty-four months of an AI or platform transformation. Typical mandate: inherit an AI agenda that has stalled, rebuild the product and engineering operating model around it, and broker the internal tradeoffs between legal, product, operations, and the incumbent leaders whose authority the AI now encodes. Hand off to a full-time successor with a shipped product, a credible team, and a working governance posture.
Recent engagements Fractional CIO, U.S. medical-device manufacturer · Fractional CTO, U.S. healthcare-IoT company · Fractional CIO, U.S. emergency- and mass-notification platform · U.S. market entry, German software company, since acquired
Pre-investment and post-close diagnostic work for AI, healthcare, and regulated technology deals. We go past the code audit to the questions that actually determine whether the asset compounds or stalls: is the AI claim real, is the technical leadership capable of the next stage, is the compliance posture survivable under acquirer scrutiny, is the product roadmap aligned with where the market is moving. Delivered as a memo to the investment committee and a readout to the partner team.
Board and advisory seats at growth-stage and PE-backed companies where the strategic stakes justify standing accountability. Most useful when the company is navigating an AI or platform transformation, scaling a second product to material revenue, integrating acquired technology into a working architecture, or preparing for a regulated-market expansion. Limited availability; new seats taken selectively.
Concept through commercial launch for new enterprise categories. Market sizing, product strategy, founding team assembly, early customer closes, first revenue, and the operating model that makes the second ten million of ARR easier than the first. Most useful to corporate innovation arms, spin-outs, and portfolio companies launching adjacent products.
Healthcare AI and payer technology. Enterprise and industrial IoT. AI platform and infrastructure. FHIR and interoperability. Regulated enterprise SaaS. Digital transformation at scale.
Christian Busch is a product and technology executive who builds and scales complex platforms at strategic inflection points, especially where AI, data, interoperability, and regulated operations intersect. Across leadership roles at Elevance Health, SAP, Cognizant, and in advisory work, he has turned emerging technologies into commercial platforms, new revenue streams, and measurable operating leverage.
His background spans healthcare AI, enterprise SaaS, IoT, NLP, and cloud platforms, with repeated success in zero-to-one product creation, platform repositioning, and cross-functional execution. At Elevance Health, he led AI/ML and interoperability platform work across utilization management, telehealth, and FHIR-based patient data at enterprise scale. At Cognizant, he helped turn around and scale a digital innovation practice serving Fortune 500 clients. Within ten months it grew from a pilot engagement to ten million in annual recurring revenue, with sixty million in qualified pipeline. At SAP, he invented and scaled new IoT and NLP platforms that helped establish the company as an early market leader in connected products and data-driven enterprise solutions. The work shipped as standard SAP product and anchored one of the six industry pillars of SAP Leonardo IoT. It won IoT Evolution’s Product of the Year award twice. Hasso Plattner and Bernd Leukert invited him to write the IoT chapter “Solving the Unsolvable” for their book The In-Memory Revolution (Springer, 2015).
Busch has led global product, engineering, and cross-functional teams in both large enterprises and growth-stage environments. He mentors founders through Stanford Graduate School of Business Ignite and at leading Silicon Valley and German accelerators, advising startup CEOs across healthcare, medical technology, AI, and enterprise software. His angel portfolio companies have collectively raised more than $230M and achieved exits of more than $260M.
“We sought out our strategic partner SAP and had Christian Busch from the Internet of Things product team come in. They spent several days of workshops with us … helping [us] envision and wireframe the next generation solution … I also asked Christian to make sure he connected us with the best partners in the world … and he in fact did that.”Paul Wellman, CIO, Tennant Company — on stage at SAP SAPPHIRE NOW 2015
Tennant was the only customer named in SAP’s press release announcing the global launch of its IoT cloud platform at SAPPHIRE NOW 2015.
I would highly recommend working with Christian. His ability to talk deep technology and then switch to business implications is extremely impressive. His advice on what we should, or should not, do always felt like he just saved us considerable effort.Keith Rose CEO, Operant Networks
Operating offices in several regions over the world, our company was seeking access to the mecca of technology, the Silicon Valley. MVP assisted us from the first steps, such as writing a realistic investment plan and helping perfect our sales pitches for the US. Working with MVP was a breeze, as they were always thinking one step ahead of the game.Philipp Weirauch CEO & Founder, LogiMove (acquired by Texada Software)
Mandates begin with a conversation. If you are a GP, a board member, a CEO at a portfolio company, or an investor evaluating an AI, platform, or healthcare technology asset, and you recognize the kinds of situations described above, we should talk.
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