Summary
Marcel Pochert is a technology leader with nine years of hands-on software and cloud experience, now heading Digital Innovation & Cloud Enablement at Berenberg and driving AI, automation, and platform initiatives across Hamburg, London, and Prague. He has a track record of translating regulatory constraints into pragmatic solutions—most notably building an AI-powered DORA compliance tool that cut 3,000+ third-party risk hours—and designs governance that balances the European AI Act with scalable innovation. Marcel combines full‑stack engineering (Angular, Kotlin/Spring Boot), cloud migrations to Azure, and automation (RPA, Camunda, Kubernetes) with product-minded leadership and nearshoring strategies to flexibly scale teams. While pursuing an MBA at WHU with executive stints at Columbia, NUS and IIMB, he cultivates cross-cultural leadership informed by international immersion in New York, Singapore and India. He also founded and ran a client-facing development firm, giving him commercial fluency alongside enterprise IT governance expertise.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA Specialization in Financial Management, Master of Business Administration - MBA Specialization in Financial Management at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
Executive Leadership Program MBA, Executive Leadership Program MBA at Columbia Business School
Asia Immersion Programme MBA, Asia Immersion Programme MBA at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Asia Immersion Programme MBA, Asia Immersion Programme MBA at National University of Singapore
Bachelor of Science - BS Business Informatics, Bachelor of Science - BS Business Informatics at HSBA Hamburg School of Business Administration