S/01 · Executive operator
Florence, IT Open to mandates · Q2/Q3

Mirko Grewing — Delivery & Customer Success Executive. Recover delivery.
Scale services.
Bring AI into execution responsibly.

I help B2B technology companies recover critical programmes, scale Customer Success and Professional Services, and apply AI where it improves execution quality.

About

Mirko Grewing is an executive leader across Delivery, Customer Success, and Professional Services, with 20+ years across enterprise SaaS, regulated financial services, and global delivery organisations.

20+ years
Delivery & operations leadership
€20M+
Enterprise portfolio ownership
€12M+
Delivery budget governance
120 People
Led across regions
30+
Tier-1 financial institutions
S/02 Engagement model

Executive leadership, with flexible engagement options.

Same executive depth, applied at the cadence that fits your business.

01 · Featured
Primary path

Permanent executive leadership

FTE · 12–36 month structural role

Senior leadership for organisations hiring to improve delivery predictability, customer outcomes, services margin, operating governance, and responsible AI-enabled execution.

VP Customer Success VP Delivery Head of Professional Services
Best fit — structural senior hire; PE/VC-backed SaaS scaling services; AI-enabled delivery transformation.
02

Interim & fractional operator

3 — 12 month mandates

For companies that need executive delivery control, recovery leadership, or services transformation before a permanent hire is in place.

Interim VP Delivery Fractional Services Lead
Best fit — when a permanent hire takes six months and the next two quarters can’t wait.
03

Targeted advisory

Defined scope · weeks, not months

Focused advisory for specific recovery, governance, account escalation, or AI-enabled delivery improvement needs.

Recovery Diagnostic Governance Reset
Best fit — boards, CEOs, and CCOs who need an outside-in read or a concrete intervention plan.
S/03 Leverage

Where senior intervention compounds.

Four areas where executive depth changes outcomes, not slides.

01

Executive stakeholder governance

Operating the executive layer of delivery — board reporting, escalation, and accountable decision-making.

  • Steering committee design
  • Account escalation
  • Customer trust recovery
02

Delivery recovery

Bringing red programmes back to predictable execution without burning trust with customers, boards, or internal teams.

  • Stabilisation in first 30 days
  • Scope & expectation reset
  • Evidence-based escalation
03

CS & PS operating models

Designing Customer Success and Professional Services organisations that scale without losing margin, quality, or accountability.

  • Capacity & utilisation
  • Services margin
  • Customer adoption & renewals support
  • Presales / SOW alignment
04

AI-enabled delivery

Applying AI where it improves delivery leverage and predictability — requirements quality, backlog readiness, documentation, and reuse. AI supports team effectiveness under senior human accountability.

  • Backlog readiness uplift
  • Acceptance criteria quality
  • Human-in-the-loop governance
S/04 Track record

Built in complex enterprise environments.

Evidence of executive ownership across delivery performance, services scale, customer trust, and operating governance.

Regulated enterprise delivery

Led complex delivery for 30+ tier-1 banks and wealth institutions across regulated enterprise SaaS programmes.

30+ tier-1 institutions Enterprise SaaS Regulated financial services

Portfolio and team scale

Governed €20M+ portfolios, delivery budgets above €12M, and distributed teams of up to 120 people across EMEA, India, and LATAM.

€20M+ portfolios €12M+ budgets 120 people

Recovery and services scale

Recovered red programmes through scope, cost, timeline, governance, and executive trust recovery, while scaling UK & Ireland delivery operations from £2M to £6M.

Red → green £2M → £6M 10+ years Backbase
Read case studies
S/05 · Operating leverage

AI as delivery leverage, not theatre.

An executive operator applying AI to improve delivery quality, requirements readiness, governance, and services leverage — with accountable human ownership for every output that reaches the customer.

01

Requirements discovery

Surface gaps before kickoff — not in sprint 4.

02

Backlog readiness

Definition-of-ready checks before teams commit to shaky scope.

03

Acceptance criteria quality

Drafted, challenged, and validated against negative paths and regulatory constraints.

04

Delivery planning

Dependency mapping, RAID seeding, and re-baseline modelling with programme leadership in the loop.

05

Governance reporting

Steering decks, executive summaries, and RAID updates prepared from delivery evidence.

06

Human-in-the-loop validation

An accountable human owner on every output that touches the customer.

I do not position AI as a replacement for delivery leadership, engineering ownership, or customer accountability. I use it as managed operating leverage.

See full AI-enabled delivery view
S/06 Recovery model

When delivery goes red.

A practical recovery model for regaining delivery control, improving executive decision quality, and rebuilding customer confidence.

PHASE / 01

Stabilise

Stop the drift. Re-establish a single source of truth.

PHASE / 02

Diagnose

Read RAID, dependencies, customer signals, and team load.

PHASE / 03

Re-baseline

Reset scope, plan, and expectations with evidence.

PHASE / 04 — differentiator

Govern

Install the executive layer — steering, decision rights, escalation.

PHASE / 05 — differentiator

Recover trust

Repair the customer relationship through evidence and cadence.

PHASE / 06

Institutionalise

Lift lessons into the operating model so the pattern does not repeat.

Explore recovery approach
S/07 Selected work

Selected evidence, anonymised.

Four representative engagements. Customer names removed; situation, intervention, and outcome are real.

Tier-1 European bank · Regulated CASE / 01

Strategic banking programme recovery

Programme recovery
SituationMulti-year tier-1 SaaS programme drifted into red. Customer escalation in commercial channels. Architects beginning to leave.
InterventionEmbedded as delivery executive. Reset scope, cost, timeline, governance and executive trust. Rebuilt CIO-level steering.
Outcome Re-baselined scope, cost, timeline, and executive governance. Multi-year platform commitment preserved under restored CIO-level confidence.
Services scaling · UK & Ireland CASE / 02

Scaling UK & Ireland delivery operations

Services scaling
SituationRegional delivery organisation growing faster than its operating model. Weak utilisation visibility; broken presales-to-delivery handover.
InterventionRedesigned the services operating model: capacity model, SOW templates, solution-review gates, governance cadence.
Outcome Scaled delivery operations from £2M to £6M without proportional cost growth. Achieved predictable services margin and strengthened customer retention.
AI · Internal operating model CASE / 03

AI-enabled delivery operating system

AI-enabled execution
SituationSenior delivery leadership absorbed by low-leverage work: status, RAID upkeep, documentation, and requirements clean-up.
InterventionDesigned and deployed an internal AI operating system with explicit human review gates on every customer-facing output.
Outcome Redirected senior delivery leadership time from status aggregation to customer-facing architecture and escalation. Established human-in-the-loop governance across all AI-generated outputs.
Cross-region governance · EMEA / IN / LATAM CASE / 04

Cross-region services governance

Operating model scale
SituationDistributed services teams operating with inconsistent governance, RAID standards, and escalation — inconsistent customer experience.
InterventionDefined a single delivery governance model across regions: cadence, decision rights, RAID standards, customer-health signals.
Outcome Created a repeatable operating cadence across regions and delivery teams. Unified governance standards improved executive reporting quality, escalation predictability, and cross-region delivery consistency.
S/08 · Availability

Executive delivery control — when leadership cannot wait.

Currently focused on VP / SVP / executive leadership opportunities across Delivery, Customer Success, and Professional Services.

Also available selectively for interim recovery mandates and targeted advisory work where executive intervention is needed quickly.