The Team

People with methodologies.

Fractional Landis is a small team, not a network. You engage the people on this page, and they take a real role in your company. The question we answer here is not "what have you advised on" but "what have you actually built, fixed or scaled". Together we cover the executive functions a company needs to be run.

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Thomas Landis

Fractional COO / CPO

Twenty years of turning ideas into products, and products into companies that run.

Built, fixed or scaled

  • Initiated and launched a mobile payment product at a Swiss financial infrastructure group. It became the country's most used payment app, with millions of users.
  • Founded and led a fintech incubator and accelerator from concept to international expansion in Zurich and Singapore. Named FinTech Influencer of the Year 2020.
  • Helped more than 100 startups become investment ready: go-to-market, product-market fit, positioning and the operating basics investors look for.
  • COO of a Swiss fintech through the transition from startup to enterprise, including a market entry in Mexico and obtaining a fintech licence.
  • Chief Digital Officer and member of the executive board at a Swiss hospitality and real estate group, leading digital transformation for more than 1,000 employees.
  • First employee, then COO / CPO and Managing Director Singapore at a quantum venture builder. Built the organisation, the programmes and an industry cluster with banks, insurers and regulators.

In one sentence

Direct, structured, allergic to overhead. Leads with clarity and trust, expects ownership and delivers it himself.

Operating modelProductVenture buildingMarket entryDigital transformationAI strategyPayments and fintech
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Daniela Landis

Fractional CFO / People

The financial and organisational backbone a growing company needs, built by someone who has run it.

Built, fixed or scaled

  • Led finance and controlling functions with responsibility for reporting, budgeting, closing and the numbers a management team runs on.
  • Built the financial structure, processes and controls that turn a startup's spreadsheet into a company's finance function.
  • Combines finance leadership with hands-on HR and organisational work: contracts, payroll, policies, the people side of scaling.

In one sentence

Precise, calm and pragmatic. Gets the backbone right so the rest of the company can move.

Finance and controllingReportingBudgetingHR operationsOrganisationProcesses
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Benjamin Opel

Fractional CEO

Clear direction and decisive leadership when a company reaches an inflection point.

Built, fixed or scaled

  • Turned around a distressed logistics technology company. Took over as CEO, reduced cash burn by 70%, restructured the organisation across Switzerland and Serbia and restored positive unit economics.
  • Restructured and sold a strategy consulting firm. Led the company through a shareholder transition, identified the buyer and executed the transaction.
  • Scaled a consulting business to more than CHF 5m revenue. Held full P&L responsibility and grew the team 4x in 16 months while leading the post-merger integration.
  • Built and transformed organisations at scale. Led strategy and transformation programmes for major Swiss organisations, including building a 50+ person digital and innovation organisation.

In one sentence

Entrepreneurial, analytical and direct. Cuts through complexity, makes the hard calls and gets people moving in the same direction.

Strategy and directionTurnaround and transformationLeadershipScalingM&ABoard and shareholders
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Christian Palatinus

Fractional CTO

Platforms that hold up when the business grows, built by someone who has run them.

Built, fixed or scaled

  • Led the development of a large e-commerce and subscription platform at a Swiss media group: print and digital products, books and merchandising. Responsible for the platform architecture and the operating processes behind it, with teams from editorial, marketing, IT and external providers.
  • Runs the digital platforms of a Swiss online retailer as senior project lead: content delivery, stability, performance, roadmap, backlog and sprint planning with business, IT and partners, plus budget and reporting to the executive team.
  • Orchestrated integrations across several ERP, logistics and third-party systems via APIs. The plumbing that decides whether a company can scale its orders.
  • Introduced AI and automation to raise operational efficiency, and led optimisation initiatives that lifted user engagement and conversion rates.
  • Built a project management office and introduced agile methods at a digital agency, leading projects for Swiss banks and a Formula 1 team. Earlier, consulted large enterprises on frontend architecture, cloud and security.

In one sentence

Hands-on and calm under load. Thinks in systems, ships in sprints, and keeps technology aligned with what the business needs.

Platform architectureEngineering leadershipIntegrations and APIsCloud (AWS)AI and automationE-commerce and subscriptionAgile delivery

Senior partners.

For IT, people, AI and digital transformation we work with a small circle of senior partners. People we have worked with in real mandates, not a database. They join a team when a mandate needs their function, under the same standard: a real role, real ownership.

  • CIO / IT
  • HR / People
  • AI
  • Digital transformation

Why a team.

Direction, operations, technology, finance and people. Four people, one leadership team. We have worked together, we know how each other decides, and we can step into a company as a functioning executive team on day one. One of us, or all of us, depending on what the situation needs.

Consultant. Operator.

Talk to the people who would do the work.

No account managers, no bench of unknown freelancers. The people on this page are the people you get.