Tim Richter is a founder and seasoned technology strategist with 12 years of experience building product and innovation programs across startups and global tech leaders, now leading Lumi AI from Wiesbaden. He combines hands-on engineering roots (compiler and frontend work at early startups) with senior strategy roles at AWS and Microsoft, where he led industry co-innovation and sustainability product strategy. Prior to that he scaled digital architecture at adidas and advised Fortune 500 clients at BCG Platinion, blending enterprise transformation with pragmatic delivery. Tim’s background in founding and exiting a deep‑tech startup gives him rare operator empathy for product teams alongside C-suite fluency in GTM and portfolio decisions. He also complements technical training in computer science with executive education from MIT, Harvard Business School and INSEAD, signaling a disciplined approach to ecosystem-driven innovation.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Cologne University of Applied Sciences
Diploma, Sport Science, Diploma, Sport Science at Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln
Executive Education - Value Negotiation, Executive Education - Value Negotiation at INSEAD
Executive Education - Sustainable Business Strategy, Executive Education - Sustainable Business Strategy at Harvard Business School
Executive Education - Corporate Innovation: Strategies for Leveraging Ecosystems, Executive Education - Corporate Innovation: Strategies for Leveraging Ecosystems at MIT Sloan School of Management
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.