About
Access the world’s innovation. Build tomorrow’s champions.
The platform is run by operators who have held the seat, across France, the DACH region, Iberia and Benelux. They are the ones who carry the responsibility when failure is no longer an option.
Leadership
The people accountable for the outcome.
François Hoehlinger
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Bartholdi Labs France
Former General Manager, Plug and Play. ENA. FlixBus.
Strasbourg
Rainer Rabenstein
Chief Operating Officer
Former Senior Vice President and Global Head of Sales Operations, HP. Thirty years.
Vienna
Yves Cabanac
Chief Product Officer and Bartholdi Labs Iberia
Chief Executive Officer, Qytos. Former Vice President, HP. Plug and Play.
Barcelona
Guillaume Cuny
Joint Managing Director, Benelux. Letztec planning
Former Managing Director, Grenke Singapore. Twenty years financing technology across Europe and Asia.
Luxembourg
Cyrille Gerhardt
Chief Financial Officer, Bartholdi Labs. Bartholdi Ventures and ecosystem
Co founder of Letztec and Qytos. Former Chief Operating Officer, ADT Europe.
Luxembourg
Arun John Ambat
Joint Managing Director, Benelux. Client partner success
Former Senior Manager, Advisory, PwC Luxembourg. Twenty five years in technology and digital transformation.
Luxembourg
Travis Dayton
Chief Technology Officer and Managing Director, Bartholdi Tech
Fifteen years of governed data and AI in regulated industries. Bayer. Gulfstream Aerospace.
Barcelona
Where our people have delivered
- HP
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise
- FlixBus
- Government of Albania
- Grenke
- ADT
- Bayer
- Gulfstream Aerospace
- Portland General Electric
- Andor Health
- AQUABION
- GLG
- LumApps
- Luckysit
- Qytos
Logos denote prior employers, partners and programme associations of the leadership and delivery team. Client engagement detail is withheld under mutual confidentiality.
Philosophy
Five convictions, and what they cost us.
No measurable objective, no engagement.
We have turned down paid work because no number was at stake. Work that cannot be measured is work nobody will ever be able to judge, including us.
The objective cannot fail. The experiments must.
We are called when failure is no longer an option, which is exactly why the experiments have to be allowed to fail early. An experiment that fails in week six is information. The same one failing in year two is lost budget, and by then nobody in the organisation will say so out loud.
A system nobody uses has produced nothing.
We are judged on what gets used, not on what works. That is a harder test and it costs more: we spend on adoption what others spend on engineering. It is also why a trained internal team is one of the things you hold at the end.
Method is what experience leaves behind.
A method is not a framework designed in a workshop. It is what remains once someone has done the work several times. That is why ours come from people who have held the seat, and why those people work inside the team rather than above it.
Sovereignty is the management of a dependency.
It is not a flag. It cannot be declared in a quarter: it is steered across the investment cycle, and the right answer moves as the alternatives mature. It is also a question of price. A dominant supplier with considerable investments to recover has the means to recover them, and that arrives in your accounts before it arrives anywhere else.
Mentor network
Inside the team, not at the steering committee.
A mentor who has already run the function being fixed sits inside the delivery team while the work happens. Behind them, 10+ Bartholdi Certified senior mentors and a network of 90+ experts. We are always looking for operators who have run it before and want to hold others to the same standard.