AI Strategy & Prioritization
Identify the few AI initiatives that warrant executive attention, then prioritize them around value, feasibility, and risk.
Independent Senior Advisor
AI advisory for banks and ambitious businesses
Turn AI into measurable business value
I help banks and ambitious businesses decide where AI can create real commercial and operational value, which initiatives deserve priority, and how to move from ambition to execution.
Banking leadership background. Consulting depth. Founder perspective.
Mandate
Strategy, prioritization, and practical execution
Strength
Banking and other business-critical environments
Perspective
Commercial, operational, and leadership lens
Selected background
Experience brought together from banking leadership, consulting work, and company building.
Banking leadership background
Tietoevry Banking / Tieto
Senior roles across sales, professional services, wealth management, and financial services.
Consulting background
Novacon / XLENT Strategy
Advisory work across strategy, CRM, business cases, analytics, change, and go-to-market.
Founder perspective
Cabforce
Co-founded Cabforce and served as CEO through growth, acquisition, and integration.
Services
AI initiatives should earn their place on the business agenda
The aim is straightforward: identify the opportunities that matter, shape the case for action, and turn priorities into practical next steps.
AI for Banking & Financial Services
Apply a banking lens to AI opportunities across customer work, service operations, commercial processes, and internal decision support.
Commercial Growth with AI
Use AI where it can materially improve sales effectiveness, CRM, analytics, and go-to-market execution.
From Strategy to Execution
Translate strategic direction into concrete initiatives, ownership, and implementation priorities.
About
A senior perspective across banking, consulting, and entrepreneurship
Andreas Hansson's background spans banking and financial services, management consulting, commercial leadership, and startup entrepreneurship. That breadth helps frame AI in business terms rather than as a separate technology program.
His experience includes leadership roles across Tietoevry Banking and Tieto, consulting work at Novacon and XLENT Strategy, and founder and CEO experience from Cabforce. The emphasis is on sound priorities, business relevance, and practical delivery.
Background
Credibility built across banking, consulting, entrepreneurship, and growth
A concise view of the experience behind the advisory offer.
Banking & Financial Services
Leadership roles at Tietoevry Banking and Tieto, including Head of Sales, Professional Services, Sales Director roles in wealth and financial services, and Head of Wealth Management.
Management Consulting
Consulting background from Novacon and XLENT Strategy with work across CRM, business requirements, KPI definition, business cases, market analysis, mobile strategy, consumer data, and change management.
Founder & CEO Experience
Co-founded Cabforce and led the company through growth, acquisition, and integration. Cabforce was acquired by CarTrawler in 2015.
Commercial Leadership
Experience spanning sales leadership, client relationships, partnerships, go-to-market work, business development, and service-led growth in established companies and growth environments.
Technical & Business Foundation
Master of Science in Computer Science and Industrial Management, complemented by exchange studies at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Asian Institute of Technology, and UCLA.
Approach
A practical approach to AI decisions
Start with the business priorities
Focus on the decisions, processes, and commercial opportunities that matter most.
Prioritize rigorously
Assess opportunities against value, feasibility, risk, and organizational readiness.
Define the next moves
Translate the direction into concrete initiatives, owners, and sequencing.
Support adoption and impact
Help teams turn plans into working changes and business impact.
Contact
If AI is on the agenda, let's make it useful
The best starting point is usually a focused conversation about where AI can create the clearest business value and what should come first.