Industrial AI.
Robotics and infrastructure.
Built to operate at scale.
European entrepreneur building AI and robotics for critical infrastructure. Founder of Nautilus Technology.
European entrepreneur building AI and robotics for critical infrastructure. Founder of Nautilus Technology.
CEO of Pleuger Industries. Three-country turnaround of a century-old German industrial manufacturer.
The numbers below reflect what was built at Pleuger Industries between 2022 and 2025.
Before building technology for infrastructure, I ran infrastructure.
Engineering and technology projects delivered across energy storage, offshore wind, and industrial systems — from subsea sensor networks to HVDC platform automation.
First-of-its-kind subsea pumped energy storage, developed by our engineers in Hamburg with Fraunhofer IEE. Hollow concrete spheres at 600–800m depth, using bidirectional pump-turbine systems to store and release energy at scale. $4M US DOE and €3.4M German BMWK funding raised and delivered. A 1:3 scale prototype is now being prepared for deployment off the California coast. The project proved what we now build on: that sensor data and intelligent monitoring transform how infrastructure operates and endures.
Submersible motor pumps for cooling of high-voltage direct current transformers — the systems connecting offshore turbines to the grid. From BorWin Alpha through BorWin 6, East Anglia, Vanguard West, and the 924 MW Sunrise Wind project off New York.
Seawater lift, fire protection, ballast and process systems for major offshore installations including the Johann Castberg FPSO. ATEX-certified pumps for hydrocarbon cavern storage. Subsea retrofits across the North Sea.
Open-pit and underground dewatering operations across three continents. Iron ore in the Pilbara, lignite across Germany, copper in the Atacama. Systems engineered for extreme depth, corrosion, and salinity.
Investment banking to private equity to industrial operations — in that order. Each chapter built on the last.
Across energy, chemicals, and manufacturing — trillions of euros in physical assets are inspected by hand, recorded on paper, and stored in filing cabinets. The technology to change that exists. AI, robotics, digital twins, predictive analytics. What’s missing is the operational layer: the teams on-site, the structured data, the domain expertise to deploy intelligence at the point of measurement.
Fragmented markets. Aging operators. Decades of data locked in legacy systems. This is not a limitation. It is the single greatest infrastructure technology opportunity in Europe.
Nautilus Technology — the operating system for industrial infrastructure inspection. We acquire specialist inspection firms across Europe, inherit decades of irreplaceable asset data, and deploy AI and autonomous robotics to turn fragmented records into predictive intelligence. Digital twins built on real measurements, not simulations.
The same discipline from running industrial operations. Now applied to building the technology those operations need.
Philippe-Chatrier, Roland Garros