Carsten Priebs Email Address

Management Consultant

DB Mobility Logistics is an international provider of mobility and logistics services and operates in more than 130 countries worldwide.

I am a globally experienced, multi-award-winning leadership personality and top-level executive focusing on digitalization, IT, and innovation. In my 25 years of experience across several industries I successfully leveraged digital and disruptive potential to sustainably enhance company value and drive business growth. For this purpose, I apply a unique holistic approach of combining cultural change, IT strategy, and new technologies to increase customer centricity. Having led teams of up to 200 people and managed annual budgets of up to 160 Mio EUR to implement world-wide digital strategies, I was able to prove that IT has strong capabilities for both large scale profitability and innovation across industries. My background as a founder and CEO, a consulting director, and CIO/CDO combined with profound business education empowers me to make companies excel at navigating highly complex environment with a sense of confidence and control. As an expert at delivering large-scale digital transformation initiatives • I successfully developed and led transformational large-scale digitalization of 0,5 billion EUR, driving performance, efficiency, cyber-security, and employee engagement, • mobilized work force up to 3.000 employees in 500 branches by introducing new software, hardware and broadband connections • revised large project portfolios to drive IT-efficiency by up to 15% • was awarded 2x CIO of the Year Top 10 in Large Enterprises (2020, 2021) As an entrepreneurially minded thought leader • was awarded 2x #1 Awards for 2 disruptive smartphone apps (2021) • implemented disruptive business models; delivered award-winning group digitalization strategies; successful in global environments and different industries, • drew from experiences as a successful entrepreneur, director of FinTech-startup, mentor/advisor for startups and executive positions in a 300.000 employee group, • cherish continuous learning: Postgrads at Harvard, INSEAD and WHU including multiple delegation trips to Silicon Valley, Tel-Aviv, India, China; mentoring start-ups and strong networking in tech and • enjoy giving impulses for action by keynote speaking, authoring books and articles As an innovation driver shaping business cultures • I focus on value creation and customer enthusiasm with exceptional leadership qualities to create high performance teams and sustained motivation, • mobilize employees to adapt agile ways of thinking and working to shape future-oriented, highly engaged work forces and • positively influence communities and add to an attractive employer branding