Dr. Thomas Endres
Dr. Thomas Endres
Entrepreneur · Board member · Thought leader

The digital future of companies. A boardroom matter.

An entrepreneur himself, Dr. Thomas Endres helps owners, advisory boards and management teams of family businesses prepare their companies digitally for the next generation.
Member of the State Board Die Familienunternehmer Hessen
Investor Business angel, Frankfurt
Founder & CEO Corporate Momentum Group
Track record Lufthansa Group AUDI Eurofighter VOICE EuroCIO

Engineer, HR leader, Group CIO, entrepreneur, investor. Having led transformation from all these perspectives, he quickly sees what really matters – and what only looks like progress.

Engineer Production & quality · AUDI
HR leader Deputy HR director · Eurofighter
Group CIO 10 years · Lufthansa Group
Entrepreneur Founder · Corporate Momentum Group
Investor Business angel · Frankfurt
Family businesses

Two transitions at once: generation and digitalisation.

Family businesses think in generations – future-readiness means being fit for the next generations. Beyond the numbers, this includes relevance from the customer’s view and responsibility for employees, location and society. At the same time, succession and digital change must be shaped. As a member of the state board of Die Familienunternehmer Hessen, Dr. Thomas Endres deals with these questions every day.
Agenda for owners and management

Five value drivers for digital future-readiness.

The pace of AI demands a different focus and a deliberately chosen rhythm in leadership work. These five value drivers belong on every management agenda.

Direction & digital future

Define the company's future mode of operation.

  • Product or service business model
  • Share of recurring revenue
  • Vertical integration and core competencies
  • Desired scalability

Value & impact of AI

Steer and maximise effects on revenue and earnings.

  • Align decisions with customer value
  • Manage cost and value drivers
  • Avoid isolated AI solutions

Clean up – digital spring cleaning

Reduce complexity and ways of working that have no future.

  • Switch off legacy solutions
  • Clarify ownership of processes and applications
  • Unlearn – and honour what served well

Build up – more of the good

Establish a results-oriented change architecture for AI.

  • Make internal best practices visible
  • Reuse and scale good solutions
  • Define future capabilities – in-house or external
  • Think in innovation roadmaps and learning cycles

Leadership & organisation

A leadership culture that can handle the dynamics of AI.

  • Role models and decision competence on AI
  • Calm about hype, decisive about opportunities
  • Data management and clear data ownership
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Digital future check

How future-ready is your company?

Ten questions on the five value drivers – developed from Dr. Thomas Endres’ experience on boards and in management. You get an initial assessment and your most important lever.
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Direction 01 / 10

We have clearly defined how our business model should work in five years – including the role of digitalisation and AI.

Choose an answer to continue
Positions

What he believes.

Each position is also available as a keynote or short talk.

Digital future-readiness is the job of owners and CEOs.

It is decided not in the IT department but by management, board and shareholders. Delegating it means delegating the future of the company.

Success shows in impact, not in impressive-sounding activities.

Digitalisation and AI must be measured by tangible results – in the top line, the bottom line and for the customer.

AI does not change the goals, but the ways to reach them.

Profitability, market position and growth remain valid. What changes is how they are achieved – and how long today’s strategies still hold.

Embracing the new includes unlearning.

Building the future also means clearing up: switching off legacy solutions, reducing complexity and honouring outdated ways of working – then letting go.

In successions and M&A, new value drivers count.

Digital maturity of the business model, recurring revenue, automation and tomorrow’s capabilities determine a company’s value – not the lowest IT cost ratio.

Stage & media

Keynotes, panels, workshops.

Dr. Thomas Endres speaks at conferences, association events and in companies – clear, practical and from a decision-maker’s perspective. Speaker at events including the Petersberger Gespräche, the Hamburg IT-Strategietage and the VOICE decision-makers’ forum.
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Working together

How Dr. Thomas Endres moves companies forward.

Governance

Advisory & supervisory board mandates

Digital competence on the board: the right questions on strategy, transformation, IT risks and succession.

Former supervisory board, Lufthansa Systems AG
Sparring

Sparring for owners & management

Confidential, peer-level assessment – on strategy, organisation, technology and the right next step.

10 years Group CIO, Lufthansa Group
Speaking

Keynotes & short talks

Clear positions on digital future-readiness, leadership in change and AI – for associations, conferences and companies.

Speaker at events incl. Petersberger Gespräche
Investment

Business angel & implementation

Capital, mentoring and network for digital business models – and through Corporate Momentum Group, support through to implementation.

Business angel Frankfurt · Founder Corporate Momentum Group
Experience

Three decades of responsibility – a foundation, not an end in itself.

Founder & CEO Corporate Momentum Group
today
Member of the State Board Die Familienunternehmer Hessen
today
Business angel Frankfurt
today
President European CIO Association (EuroCIO)
former
Co-founder & Chairman of the Presidium VOICE – Federal Association of IT Users
2011–2019
Group CIO · Supervisory board Lufthansa Systems Lufthansa Group
2002–2012
“CIO of the Decade” award Category “Impact on society”
2011
Deputy HR Director Eurofighter Management Agency
1997–2001
Quality management & production AUDI AG · Germany & Hungary
until 1997
Doctorate (Dr.-Ing.) in laser and surface technology Studies in materials science · University of Erlangen-Nuremberg · Alfred University, New York
1993