Michael Freiherr Roeder von Diersburg

Michael von Roeder is an entrepreneur and executive. Through exigo capital, which he founded in 2011: his own projects, investments, board mandates, and senior-advisor work. Previously six years as Group CDO & CIO at Elia Group SA in Brussels, before that leadership roles at Sensorberg, iconmobile, and Vodafone. Focus: agentic AI in enterprises and the security of critical infrastructure. Based in Berlin.

Michael von Roeder is an entrepreneur and executive. exigo capital, which he founded in 2011, is his operating platform — here he builds his own projects, holds investments, advises as senior advisor, and sits on supervisory boards. The topic agenda combines two axes that already converged in his last role: the operational deployment of agentic AI in regulated large organisations, and the security architecture of critical infrastructure.

For six years, from November 2019 to December 2025, he served as Group CDO & CIO of Elia Group SA, one of Europe's most systemically critical transmission system operators — and member of the Group Management Board. Group-wide responsibility for IT, digitalisation, data, AI, and innovation, covering around 1,400 employees and a budget of more than 500 million euros. Flagship programmes: the Elia Digital Platform (EDP) as the group's cloud-native stack, and the Modular Control Center System (MCCS) as the next generation of control-room architecture. In parallel, CDIO of 50Hertz Transmission GmbH under critical-infrastructure regulation; from 2025 additionally Chief AI Officer of the group. Plus a six-year board mandate at re.alto, a group company operating as a data and energy-API marketplace.

Before that, CEO of Sensorberg GmbH (2017–2019), having joined as COO in 2016 and repositioned the company into an industrial IoT platform for construction, manufacturing, and real estate — revenue tripled within two years. Subsequently board member and advisor until December 2024. From 2012 to 2016, Head of Network at Vattenfall, originally a six-month interim mandate extended to four years. Pan-European data, voice, and video network across more than 600 sites and a 150-million-euro outsourcing programme. Group COO and Managing Director of the iconmobile group 2009–2010 in the early smartphone phase, with customers including BMW, Audi, Procter & Gamble, and Microsoft. From 2003 to 2009, Head of Global User Experience and Product at Vodafone, with postings in London, Düsseldorf, and Tokyo, building a global UX and product organisation from two to more than 120 staff, an annual budget of 100 million euros, more than 30 markets. Earlier, five years of IT and technology-strategy consulting at Accenture (1998–2003) for European telco customers in Berlin and Frankfurt.

exigo capital has been the entrepreneurial constant since January 2011. The original investment vehicle has evolved into a platform on which three own product ventures emerged — Bookletmobile (mobile micro-publishing, exited), paymy (mobile payment via SEPA direct debit), and GES Verlag (digital-only publishing) — alongside an investment portfolio held within a thematic bracket. Today's focus: Paretos (agentic decision intelligence for supply chain), CyberDesk (identity-centric data security), Sedisto (founding investor in a digitalisation platform for self-storage), w3.fund (founding LP for Web3 early stage). Plus senior advisory and mentor mandates with, among others, Founders Foundation, Applysia, ESMT Vali, and elevion green.

Diploma in business administration and technology management from the University of Stuttgart, graduated with distinction in 1995. Early stations in the Stuttgart Fraunhofer-IAO ecosystem: ISA Informationssysteme as a working student, Fraunhofer IAO as consultant, GSM Gesellschaft für Software Management as branch director Berlin. Executive MBA courses at IMD Lausanne 2007–2008. Speaks German, English, and French.