Hi, I'm Richard Dolmetsch, Fractional CEO/CPO & Turnaround Partner for Tech Companies.

For €1–20 M ARR: Burn ↓ 25 %. Runway + 6-12 months. Product aligned. All in 90 days, yet product velocity keeps shipping.

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No fluff. Brutally honest. Ego stays at the door. The call is confidential. I may share anonymized insights publicly to help others.

Want to see what I’ve built, scaled, or salvaged?

Browse my track record on LinkedIn: past roles, turnarounds, and wins.

Scaling up or crisis-proof? I’ve done both.

Four venture rounds, two pivots, one near-death turnaround, one business model turnaround, one complete death & one exit — now I parachute in so you don’t repeat the hard parts.

I know the pain. Runway vanishes, CAC keeps climbing, board chat pings red at 2am. Or growth explodes and your org chart looks like spaghetti. Either flavor of chaos kills value faster than code deploys.

  • Built CH’s first fully-digital car-rental; rolled 1 000 + public cars across 150 SBB hubs

  • 100 + hires & 6 exec teams (re)built across e-com, mobility, ag-tech, logistics, VR, travel & hospitality

  • Burn cut 28 % (AgTech) & 31 % (Travel-tech) inside 90 days — runway + 6-9 months

  • Corporate-VC jury: vetted 80 + startups at Plug & Play SF; green-lit 6 funded PoCs

  • CHF 7 m + raised and > CHF 15 m spend saved across six mandates; negotiated investor/partner disputes to settlement

I move ventures from fire-fighting and crisis to focused growth, without sacrificing momentum on the product side.

How I engage as CEO / CPO

  • Fractional: I join part-time, usually one or two days per week, to stabilize operations, bring focus, and drive strategy while the core team executes.

  • Interim: I step in full-time but temporary to take over during a crisis, leadership gap, or critical transition.

In both cases I run a structured reset during the first month, moving from financial clarity to a board-ready product-and-growth roadmap, then stay on as co-pilot until the KPI curve smiles.While I most often lead as CEO, I also step in as CPO for product-heavy turnarounds and tech-driven transformations.

Pick a package below or grab 30 min on my calendar — let’s find your next 90-day win.

Engagement Packages

From emergency triage to long-term co-pilot. Choose the level of hands-on support you need.

Runway MRI

8-Day Cash-&-Risk Diagnostic

  • Kick-off Monday → Founder/Board workshop next Thursday (8 on-site / remote work days)

  • Daily Cash-Pulse sheet (bank feed + 13-week forecast)

  • Red-Yellow-Green risk map across 8 dimensions

  • 90-day rescue plan + 90-min board workshop

All in:  8'000 CHF

Product MRI

6-Day Product-&-PMF Diagnostic

  • Kick-off Monday → Founder/Board workshop next Thursday (6 on-site / remote work days)

  • PMF scorecard: qualitative founder & user signals + quantitative retention & engagement cuts

  • UX funnel teardown: acquisition, activation, expansion; spot friction & drop-off leaks

  • Roadmap sanity check: resources vs scope, “core / edge / vanity” tagging, shipping cadence

  • Red-Yellow-Green product-risk sheet + 3-step “focus or kill” roadmap

All in:  6'000 CHF

Fractional CEO/CPO: On-Demand (1-5 days per week)

Founder bandwith gone? Product leader missing? Company needs restructuring or turnaround in crisis?

  • Crisis, transition, or growth mission with P&L or product ownership

  • Hands-on leadership to cut burn, ship roadmap, unblock decisions

  • Weekly KPI cadence, board & investor updates, team coaching and hiring support

  • Commitment can scale up or down each month, subject to availability and 30-day notice, no lock-in

  • Succession plan and clean hand-off built in from day one

Exact scope and bandwidth quoted after a short discovery call.

Strategic Sparring Partner

Leaders can feel alone. Seeking a discreet, founder-to-founder sounding board?

  • Confidential 1-to-1 access: secure Signal / Slack line and off-record calls for the tough decisions

  • Rapid idea & decision bounce: fresh outside view within 24h when you hit a fork in the road

  • Rolling KPI + OKR pulse: quick priority resets to keep the team on the critical path

Fixed Retainer 3 500 CHF / month (cancel anytime with 30 days’ notice)

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