Executive Search and Interim Management with PURE Group
I fill the roles your AI plans depend on. Permanent, interim or fractional.
Most people hear buzzwords in an interview. I hear whether someone actually understands the subject.
In consulting there is often a moment where the direction is settled and still nothing moves. Not because the plan is wrong. Because nobody is there to carry it.
I have watched that gap for years, from the consulting side. As Senior Partner at PURE Group I close it.
01 · AI leadership
Everyone hires for AI. Few lead it.
AI teams are forming everywhere. Data engineers, ML ops, GenAI specialists. The leadership that turns them into impact rarely grows with them. 59 % of executives consider themselves insufficiently prepared for AI. That is exactly the gap I fill.
Source: Roland Berger, 2026
02 · From pilot to production
Proven in the pilot. Stuck before production.
The models work. The path into daily operations does not. 62 % expect a radical rebuild of their operating model, barely a third have started. I find the leadership and the hands that turn pilots into running systems. RAG, agents, MLOps.
Source: Roland Berger, 2026
03 · Accountability for AI
AI is in the building. Accountability is not.
The next stages of the EU AI Act are taking effect. One in four AI roles on the market now names governance or compliance duties. Governance is not a legal question. It is a leadership question.
Source: own market observation
Permanent, interim or fractional. Which one fits is decided by your situation.
As Senior Partner at PURE Group I fill the roles your AI plans depend on. I sit in the conversations myself.
The difference is in the listening. A CV with the right stations says little about whether someone commands the subject. A conversation shows it. Whether they can explain why a project failed. Whether they know what a model really costs in production. Whether they have pushed governance through against resistance.
For thirteen years I ran a software company and hired the people who build these systems. Today I build AI structures with clients. I know the work as the client and as the one delivering it.
Some know exactly who they need. Then I search.
Some have a vacancy and no role description that holds. Then we clarify it first. That is the same work as in my consulting, only focused on a single position.
The partner
Executive Search, interim and fractional management. The claim: fill decisive roles with the right leaders.
What I bring to it is the AI perspective.
thepuregroup.deBefore the question about the person comes the question about the direction. We clarify that first.
Clarify directionHow AI capability actually takes root inside a company.
Let's talk about your search
Klarheit zeigt, was du gerade brauchst.