About us
/ We start where change emerges and persevere in bringing transformation.
Before challenges, ideas and threats explode. Before we become trapped in tunnel vision. Before organizations become predestined to stagnate and people become afraid of uncertainty. We get to work!
/ Digital transformation often means moving from a resource and energy extracting business to an information-based and service-oriented business; from atoms to bits. Data is the new oil – moving data is a fluent business like its transformation. We accept the radical and welcome edgy thinking, even if it means constantly venturing out of our comfort zone.
Daring to do something nobody has thought of yet might be exactly the right approach to build a new business with substance and meaning for the future.
/ As innovation avant-gardists, we strive for well-intended efficiency so that our clients stay relevant in their market. We challenge new business ideas until they become attractive investments for us as well.
Our work has a huge impact and we make the unseen known and transparent. Sometimes smoothly and softly, sometimes radically and in a straightforward way.
/ It does not end with the ”digital age” – tomorrow is our today and we are comfortable shaping the future and creating a new age with thrilling experiences for us and our environment.
We are reliable architects for your transformation and a persevering companion to help you overcome your challenges!
Your Challenges
Redundancy
Unproductiveness
High Complexity
Our Promise!
Epic relevance,
competitive advantage
Extraordinary
market experience
Clear perspective
Bright future
How we work
Digitalization is a leadership matter! We value respect in a sustained and ethical manner as non-negotiable in our interactions.
We are attentive to the cultural context of your organization in sensitizing your community for digitalization and spearheading a new movement together with you.
We give direction rather than shying away when challenges are ommipresent.
Our business purpose is to transform organizations to remain relevant in the digital age. Distinct drivers and a different approach to digitalization are our answers:
Computable
Disruption
Predictable change by involving and educating people to overcome initial fears
Platform
Business
Create valued context, entertain communities, facilitate new and affordable business models with an economically sustainable contribution
Liquid
Workforce
Agile ways of work generating space for creativity and flexible resource and time allocation enabling individual fulfillment
Digital
Trust
Cybersmart data utilization, new governance and business ethics
Artificial Intelligence /
Robotics for the good
Leave decisions to human beings – who need emotion and natural ties
Technological innovations have brought major welfare gains over time – nowadays, compressed innovation cycles are giving rise to challenges when it comes to materializing the adoption of new technology.
We diagnose precisely, comprehensively and respect the immune system of an organization.
We are accountable and dare to set new frames if existing structures are outdated and inappropriate.
Together, we shape a clear and bright vision of future digital business
opportunities and drive entrepreneurial actions by:
individual
Strategy
Development
human
Business
Modelling
connected
Technology
Employment
smart
Cultural
Change
Our people provide experiences causing light-bulb moments, achievements as a result of adventures and challenges turned into war stories. We purposefully pursue the new and unknown in digitalization and advanced technologies together with their innovative adoption. Our domain expertise in strategic development and execution, cultural change and communication are the backbone of our actions and hallmark our blueprints and approaches.
End-to-end transformation in banking.
The genuine background story – A marathon at a high pace and sometimes with sprints to convert initially venturous dreams into brilliant solution ideas.
Business development for utilities.
Attentive to technology advancements for new digital
business models and services in the energy sector.
Urban development.
Technology diffused for social wellbeing in neighborhood communities – sustainably employed.
Please contact us to access our true stories of transformation.
Who we are
We love to push the boundaries of what is possible and enjoy exceptionally tough challenges – while not forgetting that hard work needs to be balanced with great fun.
Axel Holle
Senior Executive Partner /
Managing Director
Axel is LD7’s...
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...Managing Director. He believes in the imaginative power of science fiction as one of the most important sources for new inventions. He is enthusiastic about continuous personal development and likes open-minded people.
He is an entrepreneurial mind with over 30 years of experience and a proven track record of successfully transforming and profitably taking businesses into the digital age. Axel has repeatedly demonstrated his ability to reinvent organizations in different C-level roles.
Additionally, he is a startup mentor; a speaker and panelist on digital transformation, urban development and innovation at various events.
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...Managing Director. He believes in the imaginative power of science fiction as one of the most important sources for new inventions. He is enthusiastic about continuous personal development and likes open-minded people.
He is an entrepreneurial mind with over 30 years of experience and a proven track record of successfully transforming and profitably taking businesses into the digital age. Axel has repeatedly demonstrated his ability to reinvent organizations in different C-level roles.
Additionally, he is a startup mentor; a speaker and panelist on digital transformation, urban development and innovation at various events.
Maria Jose Perea Marquez
Executive Partner /
Business Solution Design & Venturing
Maria leads...
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...the solution design and venturing at LD7. She is a creator, who likes to challenge the status-quo. She loves solving enduring problems by looking at them from new perspectives, daring to examine fundamental premises that others take for granted.
As a digitally literate leader, she gets thrilled exploring unmet needs being ever more enabled by digitalization.
To her, the adoption of Human-Centered Technology means creating market disruption on a deeper level, for the purpose of enlightenment, not just for the creation of profit.
Maria serves a team of engaged people being more than just brilliant minds. In her previous roles in multi-national companies she capitalized on her experience in change management and business acceleration and shaped her profile to become a distinctive chief venturing officer at LD7. From her perspective, raising the bar implies capturing the future to stay relevant, according to her own beliefs and while pursuing economic competition.
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...the solution design and venturing at LD7. She is a creator, who likes to challenge the status-quo. She loves solving enduring problems by looking at them from new perspectives, daring to examine fundamental premises that others take for granted.
As a digitally literate leader, she gets thrilled exploring unmet needs being ever more enabled by digitalization.
To her, the adoption of Human-Centered Technology means creating market disruption on a deeper level, for the purpose of enlightenment, not just for the creation of profit.
Maria serves a team of engaged people being more than just brilliant minds. In her previous roles in multi-national companies she capitalized on her experience in change management and business acceleration and shaped her profile to become a distinctive chief venturing officer at LD7. From her perspective, raising the bar implies capturing the future to stay relevant, according to her own beliefs and while pursuing economic competition.
Janet Markus
Executive Partner /
Strategy, Sales & Communications
Janet is a person...
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...who makes clients, partners, and teams enthusiastic to embrace their future.
She is passionate about change and digitalization and she encourages clients to boost their business to the next level.
She loves bold choices and believes that the next level of performance will not be determined by pure efficiency, but by professional collaboration and communication.
Janet pursued various international leadership roles in strategy, communications and sales, empowering transition by inspiring and nurturing the talents of people.
At LD7 Janet leads the strategy, sales and communications team.
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...who makes clients, partners, and teams enthusiastic to embrace their future.
She is passionate about change and digitalization and she encourages clients to boost their business to the next level.
She loves bold choices and believes that the next level of performance will not be determined by pure efficiency, but by professional collaboration and communication.
Janet pursued various international leadership roles in strategy, communications and sales, empowering transition by inspiring and nurturing the talents of people.
At LD7 Janet leads the strategy, sales and communications team.
Join us
Do you share our desire to challenge the status quo? LD7 seeks a diverse range of professionals and partners to deliver new business solutions and create sustained success for our clients.
We fundamentally inspire our clients to unleash a transformational process, and we’re looking for the brightest minds in the business to help us. Our multidisciplinary team dares to redraw the boundaries of an industry – together with you. If you have the passion, tenacity, and curiosity to challenge the status quo, we invite you to join our mission. At LD7, you will meet like-minded open thinkers and passionate pioneers across a variety of disciplines, ranging from engineering to strategic design, digitalization, communications and finance.
We are looking for YOU!
A strategic partnership with us offers greatness for your business.
Greatness starts where others stop.
Our excitement starts with the unexpected and we never stop!
This is where we are looking for advanced partners to push the adventure, capture innovation and discover the new.
Join our NETWORK!
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