Built the German market from zero, four times. Ex-Google.
Germany
Speaks English, French and German
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About

I work with people who have to make revenue happen where there is no playbook yet: a market that is new to the company, a segment nobody has sold into, or a sales motion that still runs on someone's personal effort. Three groups usually find me. Founders and country leads taking a product into DACH or wider Europe. Sales people moving from carrying a number themselves to leading others who carry it. And commercial teams trying to build an AI-supported outbound engine that does not turn into spam.

My background: four years at Google in Hamburg and Berlin, ending as Senior Startup & VC Consultant, where a twelve-week new business sprint closed 500K USD. After that I built Germany from zero four times, for a Japanese employer branding platform, a UK consumer tech company, a Berlin agency group and an industrial IoT provider. In between I ran consulting and commercial operations at GOCOMO and closed 2.7M EUR in net new revenue in the first twelve months, building the company's first enterprise sales unit with accounts like MARS, Danone, Henkel and P&G. Today I co-run RegionRise, where we take real job titles inside our clients' companies and build their commercial engine from the inside rather than advising from the outside. Current work sits in industrial IoT and building technology: technical products, 12 to 18 month enterprise cycles, buyers who are engineers before they are budget holders.

How I mentor: no lecture, no framework theatre. We start with the thing actually on your desk this week. A deal that has gone quiet. A territory plan you do not believe in. A first sales hire you are unsure about. An outbound sequence that gets opens and no replies. We work it until you have something you can execute on Monday, and the week after we look at what the market did with it. I am direct. If a number in your pipeline does not hold, I will say so, and I would rather give you one uncomfortable observation than five encouraging ones. Between calls you can message me, and honestly that is where most of the progress happens.

I speak German, English and French, so if you are selling into Europe from outside, we can also work on how your message actually lands here.

Not sure I am the right fit? Book an intro call and bring one concrete situation. Twenty minutes usually settles it.

What happens when you start

You tell Maximilian your goals. They see exactly what you want to work on before session one.

You meet within days. Maximilian reviews your application and books your first session, usually within a day or two.

You leave with a plan. Concrete next steps and a weekly rhythm from your very first week.

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