I am a results-driven, innovative international business leader with over 20 years of experience in IT, software, SaaS, and cloud sectors. My passion lies in scaling businesses, driving M&A success, and empowering teams to deliver exceptional results. Throughout my career, I’ve successfully scaled ventures from $600K to $225M+ ARR with significant profits, led and influenced global teams of 650+. And managed multiple high-impact M&A transactions creating billions of dollars of value.

I thrive as both a strategic leader and hands-on contributor. I excel at combining servant leadership with automation and AI-driven innovation to build autonomous teams and implement lean, scalable company operating systems. My expertise spans buy-and-build strategies, deal structuring, private equity value creation, and post-merger integration, all with a focus on sustainable growth and maximizing company value.

Recently, I’ve transitioned to focus on leveraging my expertise and network through 23 Investments, where I am:

📌 Investing in software, SaaS and IT companies with untapped potential, including distressed ones.
📌 Coaching entrepreneurs to achieve faster, sustainable, and creative growth. In combination with healthy profits. But without growth by all means.
📌 Guiding businesses in navigating transformative growth through acquisitions and achieving highly profitable exits.

My mission is to maximize the number of people I can help. Founders, teams, families, businesses.

🚀 Key Focus Areas 🚀

🧩 Corporate Development & M&A
Expertise in buy-and-build strategies, roll-ups, strategic acquisitions, and exits—delivering high valuations, valuation arbitrage, and sustainable growth.

🧩 Private Equity & Venture Capital
Advisory experience with PE-backed companies and early-stage startups, specializing in Software, SaaS, Cloud Computing, Web Hosting, and Technology.

🧩 Servant Leadership
Leading through empowerment, fostering innovation, and building autonomous, high-performance teams and scalable company operating systems.

🧩 Artificial Intelligence & Digital Innovation
Extensive experience integrating AI into M&A processes, business operations, sales, and marketing automation to drive transformation.

🧩 Creative Growth Strategies & Scaling Go-to-Market
Proven success in scaling businesses through innovative marketing and sales strategies, partnerships, automation, and AI-driven solutions.

If you’re ready to achieve bold goals, let’s connect and start building your next chapter together. Click here to book a call now: https://calendly.com/lhertig/30min