Tobias KilgaBusiness & technology leader // Organization builder
I build and lead technology organizations.
I started on the helpdesk at MED-EL and went on to lead Corporate IT, with more than 100 people across 14 countries. I had to learn to give my managers room to make decisions I might have made differently. Seeing them take responsibility for their functions is what I’m proudest of from those years.
Today, I’m Head of Product, Data & AI at SQUER, with commercial and P&L responsibility for the business unit. I know the client’s side of the table from my years in Corporate IT. When we discuss a change, I’m thinking about what it will ask of the people who have to make it work.
Email me directly for executive search and board conversations. For advisory work, book a call with me; delivery that needs a team runs through SQUER.
// When to call
How to reach meInterim IT and digital leadership
Interim responsibility for the team, budget and operations while a CIO, Head of IT or engineering role is being filled or reshaped.
Building or reshaping a technology organization
Defining what each function owns, which decisions its managers can make and which questions need to be resolved across teams, countries or sites.
AI that has to reach production
A working pilot that needs an owner, a data classification decision or a security review before it can be used in daily work. My advisory clients have included banks, insurers and payment companies.
IT strategy that survives the budget cycle
Decisions about architecture, sourcing and security, with a business case that explains the cost, the tradeoffs and who will carry out the work.
I don’t take on staff augmentation, consumer growth marketing, ad-tech or token projects. Advisory work needs an accountable owner and enough capacity to carry it through.
// Track record
The full story- Oct 2025 – PresentHead of Product, Data & AISQUER
- 2025 – 2026Interim Head of EngineeringÖsterreichische Post (via SQUER)
- 2010 – 2025Helpdesk to Head of Corporate ITMED-ELFive managers reporting to me, with team leads under them. Executive sponsor for ISO 27001:2022; carried out the work behind one of Austria’s first two Cyber Trust Gold labels.
Ventures, alongside the corporate role
- Jan – Dec 2025Co-FounderFlex.Insight Advisory
- 2024 – 2025Chief Technology & Product OfficerLIT Health
- 2024Partner, AI StrategyWalnuts Digital
- 2023 – 2024Co-Founder & CTOVeriyou
Choosing what matters
You can decide the scope. Let’s talk if priorities clash.
Building it
I’ll take it from here.
Checking together
Can we check this together?
// Leadership in practice
All work// Speaking
Invite me to speak
Keynotes, panels and leadership workshops on what changes when AI agents join a team, and what it takes to get from a prototype to a system people rely on. In English or German.
- 2025 · KeynoteCANCOM Austria Tech Update, InnsbruckSecurity & AI: Intelligent defense in the digital age
- 2025 · Talk and panelStrong-IT IT-Security Roundtable, InnsbruckCybersecurity 4.0: Wie Generative KI Bedrohungen erkennt, Abwehrstrategien verändert und neue Rollen schafft
- 2023 · TalkLSZ CIO Kongress West, TelfsMeistern der Komplexität: Herausforderungen und Lösungen für moderne digitale Arbeitsplätze
- 2023 · TalkHandelsblatt Summit Zukunft IT, DüsseldorfBeyond Compliance: Wie eine zentralisierte Content-Strategie hilft, Cyber-Bedrohungen immer einen Schritt voraus zu sein