About Wolfgang
Wolfgang Kriesel is a senior project manager and AI implementation specialist with 15+ years delivering complex, capital-intensive projects in highly regulated industries — pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, food & beverage, and industrial plant engineering.
For the past two years he has worked at the intersection of AI and regulated manufacturing, leading Plant Operations OS at value companion: a plant knowledge-management platform for GMP-grade environments and EU AI Act-compliant architectures. He implements RAG with agentic AI systems and MCP (Model Context Protocol) — provenance-grounded retrieval, tool-using agents, and standardized model-to-system connections on a base of BSI-compliant audit logging and model-provider abstraction. This gives him a rare, practical view of where AI creates value on the shop floor — and where it fails regulatory, validation, and audit requirements.
His PM background spans the full capex and operations lifecycle: capex portfolios up to EUR 100M, a UF/DF market launch, and a Germany-to-US technology transfer of single-use bioreactor production (Sartorius); operational readiness for a new purification process (CSL Behring); PMO lead for an Industry 4.0 program (Boehringer Ingelheim); plus food & beverage capex (Bosch) and special-purpose machinery incl. a Fresenius dialysis-filter line (Jonas & Redmann).
He advises on:
- AI adoption and implementation in regulated manufacturing
- EU AI Act classification and compliance for industrial/AI use cases
- GMP-grade AI architectures: RAG, agentic systems, and MCP integration
- Capex project management, technology transfer, and PMO build-up
- Operational readiness and validation (FAT/SAT, ENG/PPQ) in pharma and biotech
Education: Dipl.-Wirtschaftsingenieur. Certifications: PRINCE2 Practitioner, Professional Scrum Master I. Languages: German (native), English (full professional).
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/wolfgang-kriesel
GitHub: github.com/wolfgang-kriesel
German
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Can work on-site
Berlin (up to 50km)
Experience
- value companion s.r.o.Founding Partner & Head of Value SystemsCONSULTING AND AUDITSFebruary 2025 - Today (1 year and 5 months)Prague, CzechiaAs Founding Partner and Head of Value Systems at value companion, I lead our consulting and delivery work around AI implementation for regulated industries — pharma, biotech, food & beverage, and industrial manufacturing.My role spans technical architecture, compliance strategy, and commercial development. On the technical side, I design AI-native systems built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — connecting AI agents to enterprise systems, documents, and data sources, with the governance that regulated environments require: audit trails, access control, data residency, and human-in-the-loop oversight. I work across the model-provider landscape (Anthropic Claude via AWS Bedrock EU, Mistral, OpenAI) with data sovereignty as a design principle.On the compliance side, I own EU AI Act self-assessment and classification, GDPR strategy, and the governance frameworks that make agentic AI defensible in a GMP-grade audit.On the commercial side, I drive go-to-market strategy, build our implementation-partner network with Lean and Six Sigma consultancies, and shape the multi-year roadmap together with my two co-founders.The throughline of my work: making AI implementation actually work in environments where generic AI tools fail compliance — where getting it wrong means a failed audit, not just a bad demo.
- SartoriusProject Manager — Product Lifecycle & Customer ProjectsPHARMACEUTICALS INDUSTRYMarch 2025 - November 2025 (8 months)Guxhagen, HE, GermanyLed strategic customer projects for a novel biotech system (ultrafiltration/diafiltration).Core responsibility was the successful transition of this product from thedevelopment phase into the established product portfolio. Led the cross-functionallifecycle team focused on continuous improvement and ongoing productdevelopment to sustain market success.
- Boehringer IngelheimSenior Project Manager / PMO DigitalizationPHARMACEUTICALS INDUSTRYJuly 2023 - July 2024 (1 year)Ingelheim am Rhein, RP, GermanyGlobal digitalization and Industry 4.0 program for the vertical integration of production plants with central data acquisition and analytics. Standardized hybrid project management methods (waterfall and agile), implemented central PM tools with global rollout, and established data-driven transparency across all engineering projects. The experience with data-centric steering in a regulated pharma environment is the direct bridge to today's AI-driven analytics workflows.
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Education
- DIPLOM WIRTSCHAFTSINGENIEUR (FH)TFH2006DIPLOM WIRTSCHAFTSINGENIEUR (FH)
- AUSBILDUNG ZUM INDUSTRIEKAUFMANNWalter Bau AG/ Oberstufenzentrum Industrie und Datenverarbeitung2001AUSBILDUNG ZUM INDUSTRIEKAUFMANN
Certifications
- PRINCE2 PractitionerPeopleCert
- Professional Scrum Master IScrum.org