Franz Kubbillum is the Industry Lead for Global Technology & Services at Atreus in Munich. In this capacity, he advises organizations on complex transformation and growth initiatives by providing senior interim leadership at the intersection of technology and business operations. Since joining Atreus in 2022, he has also served as a Director and Associate Director, managing key CxO-level relationships with a focus on IT and digitization. In addition to his corporate roles, Franz is the host of the "Behind the C" podcast, where he interviews top-level executives on leadership tactics and success. His professional background includes serving as a Solution Consultant at Celonis, where he leveraged process mining and data analytics for automotive and manufacturing clients, and working as a Consultant at Axel Schröder Unternehmensberatung. He began his career with foundational roles as an Information Technology Analyst at McKinsey & Company and as the founder of R&R Event Management. Franz holds an MBA from Universität des Saarlandes and a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, where his thesis focused on supervised machine learning algorithms.