OMMAX installs Silicon Valley AI expert Lutz Finger as Chief AI Officer

16 July 2026 Consultancy.eu

Western European consultancy OMMAX has appointed Lutz Finger as Chief AI Officer.

Based in Munich, Finger arrives from the US, where he worked in Silicon Valley and most recently served as Head of AI at XGEN and as a Venture Partner at Cherry Ventures.

He brings over two decades of experience building AI-driven products and platforms at some of the world’s most influential technology companies, including Google, LinkedIn and Snap. At LinkedIn, he built the AI-driven product ‘People Like Me’ as Director of Data Science. At Google, he launched Google Health as Group Product Manager, developing innovative services for healthcare providers.

Outside of corporate life, Finger is a serial entrepreneur with two successful exits: Fisheye Analytics, a social media analytics platform, was sold to Kantar in 2013, while R2Decide, an AI-driven decision tooling company, was sold to XGEN AI in 2025.

In addition, Finger has been a faculty member at Cornell University’s SC Johnson College of Business since 2015, teaching courses on AI strategy, data products, and product development. He developed the business school’s certificate program on AI, an end-to-end guide used by executives worldwide to move from AI concepts to implementations.

At OMMAX, which has a team of around 400 professionals across offices in Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, London, Paris, Amsterdam and Milan, Finger will lead the firm’s AI services portfolio, its partnerships with AI solution providers, and spearhead the firm’s own internal AI journey.

“OMMAX is where AI strategy becomes production-ready technology, and that is exactly where I want to build. European enterprises have enormous AI potential and a significant opportunity to turn promising ideas and prototypes into secure, scalable agent workflows. OMMAX provides the expertise to make that transition successfully. I have spent two decades turning AI into products that people actually use. Now I want to do that at scale, with European companies,” said Finger.

Toni Stork, CEO of OMMAX, commented: “Our mission is to build AI leaders in Europe by connecting the boardroom conversations about AI with the reality of delivering solutions that work in production. Lutz has done exactly that at Google, at LinkedIn at Snap, and as a founder twice over. His combination of engineering depth, strategic clarity, and teaching ability is rare, and it fits precisely into what we are building at OMMAX.”