“When others are about to give up, Dennis just starts. Not only does he roll up his sleeves but in his cheerful way he makes everybody else eagerly follow him.”
I am a practitioner of a mindful and iterative approach to building digital products, companies and teams.
Over my two-decades long journey as a founder, engineer and advisor I learned to extend my range tremendously. My aim is to cover the full stack of tech entrepreneurship, holistically: product, engineering, sales, business development, building soulful organizations and sourcing financing for ventures.
My previous venture is gopopup.com, which within a few years became the leading source for premier retail experiences in Europe. Before that, I served as CTO and managing director of neofonie mobile where I helped to create apps and scalable online services which reached millions of daily active users and won recognition and awards from Apple, Google, Microsoft and others.
Currently, I focus on consulting, advisory and running tech-focussed due diligence.
Get in touch (dennis@boehres.fyi) if you need help with:
Mergers & Acquisitions
Tech-heavy Due Diligence with focus on architectural & organizational fitness
Integration of acquisitions & company-scale refactoring
Business & Technology Strategy
I can do outside in, but prefer to facilitate and contribute to holistic strategy generation inside-out
Value-oriented architecture modernization & legacy displacement
I have experience in turning around legacy replacement efforts which are stuck or proceeding glacially. I can help to pivot them to an incremental, risk-reducing & value-forward path.
Building Soulful Organizations
Individuals, teams & company-wide
Establishing value-lead product organizations
I only work freelance, directly with companies and teams or individual executives. No middlemen, please. I bring to the table my experience from 100+ tech DDs plus 2+ decades of experience in growing companies from ideas to functional organizations, building products, delivering on large scale ventures and establishing agile, soulful organizational structures and processes.
Recommendations
“Dennis is one of the most versatile and sensible persons I worked with.
Everything he does is either based on deep insights which leads him to an clear strategy or an impressively unerring intuition. This alone would make him an entrepreneur at heart.
Even with the most challenging projects or the most difficult situations he prudently applies his cutting-edge knowledge in technology, user experience and business matters with an almost playful ease.
He’s an inexhaustible well of possible solutions and he has the ability to bring them to life too. When others are about to give up, Dennis just starts. Not only does he roll up his sleeves but in his cheerful way he makes everybody else eagerly follow him.
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“We were very pleased with Dennis’s work and would highly recommend him to others. He is knowledgeable, reliable, and easy to work with.
He helped us to transform into a product-driven organization. He increased the overall value of the group by identifying and successfully integrating multiple acquired companies.
As an advisor, Dennis facilitated the strategy process, which resulted in an updated product roadmap and tech strategy. His facilitation sparked the right conversations that aligned business, sales, technology, and the board of investors.
He was instrumental in turning strategy into execution. He helped us define and implement the right formats to continuously review, refine, and update our tactical projects, and he helped to create a culture focused on value generation.
He successfully led the design, implementation, and go-to-market of a new customer-facing product.
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“Dennis is one of those rare managers who are able to connect to and inspire broad audiences. His acquisition skills are legendary and based on an excellent understanding of technology and an extremely focused approach.
Dennis has got a passion for people, innovation, thinking out of the box and is one of the “go to” people in the mobile app space for his knowledge of the market and his ability to solve complex problems.
It was a pleasure to work with Dennis and I hope to be able to do so again in the future.
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“Working together with Dennis was a thrilling and exciting time. I always remember with joy how he fascinated and motivated the team with his passion for a good product. Dennis has a really clear vision. Though the project was one of the biggest in the young app business at that time, Dennis worked with calmness and serenity. He was not just a good team lead with all the professionalism and overall views. Dennis really believed in the team. He gave me the confidence that the project result will be great. No matter how difficult or stressful it seemed to be. He was good in keeping away all the non-development noise.
Moreover Dennis is a really smart person. You can have intelligent chats with him.
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“Working together with Dennis reshaped my idea of what Product can contribute to a team. His deep knowledge of product design, user experience design, and software design enables him to talk at eye level with pretty much anyone in the delivery pipeline.
What really makes him a fantastic addition to any lineup is that in addition to his deep technical knowledge, he excels in his capacity for communication and empathy. Rarely have I seen a colleague leave such a long-lasting impact on an operative as well as strategic level.
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“Working with Dennis has been a truly transformative experience. His mentorship has significantly influenced my approach to team collaboration and reshaped my understanding of the agile coaching role. Dennis is an exceptional facilitator with a profound grasp of agile methodologies and product work.
The agile way of working is often described as easy to learn but hard to master. Dennis exemplifies this mastery with his deep, nuanced understanding. His mindfulness in communication and his ability to motivate and empower teams to become self-organized and self-facilitating are particularly noteworthy.
Dennis’s skill in engaging with colleagues across all levels of the organization—from the C-suite to product teams, consultants, scrum masters, and developers—is unparalleled. His ability to effectively communicate and coach across these diverse groups truly sets him apart.
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