CEO - Banyan Portfolio Company

About the role

The Company is an established German B2B software business serving a regulated segment of the healthcare value chain, with approximately 200 employees and over EUR 30m in annual revenue. Its platform is mission-critical to how its customers operate day-to-day and benefits from deep regulatory embedding and a long-tenured customer base with strong retention. The Company is profitable and category-leading in its niche, and is now entering a defining phase of product modernisation, commercial repositioning, and accelerated growth under new permanent-capital ownership. The Company is a defensible, profitable market leader in its niche - and the next phase is about unlocking the next level of growth. The technology platform needs to be modernised, the operating model needs to be sharpened around speed and accountability, and a more ambitious, forward-looking culture needs to be put in place to drive sustained, profitable expansion. We are looking for a CEO who can make fast and difficult decisions, build organisational capability, and lead the Company into its next chapter while preserving the strengths that have made it what it is today. You will join the Company directly as CEO, reporting to a Banyan Operating Leader with operational authority over how you run the business. You will lead the senior leadership team in driving platform modernisation, commercial expansion, and organisational development. The business is durable, the product is the primary competitive advantage, and the opportunity to create structural distance through focused execution, operational discipline, and AI-enabled workflow change is real.

Responsibilities

• Strategy and Commercial Outcomes
• Lead the business through a high-growth transformation - making fast and difficult decisions, sharpening commercial discipline, driving profitability and embedding a forward-looking, profitable-growth mindset across the organisation.
• Own the company's strategic direction, market positioning, and competitive response.
• Drive revenue growth with full P&L accountability across retention, expansion, pricing, and new customer acquisition.
• Identify and act on AI-driven opportunities to reposition the product and create durable competitive distance.
• Establish pricing and packaging strategies that reflect the value the platform delivers.
• Product and Technology Partnership
• Own the product roadmap at a strategic level, ensuring it reflects customer needs, market dynamics, and long-term competitive positioning.
• Partner closely with technology leadership to drive a multi-year platform modernisation - aligning architecture, delivery, and AI roadmaps with commercial outcomes, and ensuring product vision translates into measurable execution.
• Champion AI-first product thinking, identifying where automation, predictive insights, and intelligent workflows create durable differentiation.
• Team and Operations
• Build and lead a high-performing leadership team spanning Product, Engineering, Sales, Operations, and Finance; develop organisational capability and reshape where needed to support the next phase of growth.
• Elevate talent density across the organization, making hard calls on underperformance with speed and directness.
• Establish decision rights, execution cadences, and accountability frameworks that increase speed without creating chaos.
• Communicate clearly with Banyan Operatin

Benefits

Additional Information

Banyan Software is the best permanent home for software businesses that serve specialized industries, their employees, and their customers. We are on a mission to acquire, build, and grow great companies worldwide, helping them modernize through shared AI expertise and operational discipline. The Banyan Software Foundation, endowed with $100 million in Banyan stock, leverages technology to build a greener and more equitable world. Banyan is Great Place to Work Certified, a five-time Inc. 5000 honoree, and a top 10 company on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Atlanta, Banyan operates more than 100 portfolio companies across North America, the UK, EU, and APAC. Chief Executive Officer - Banyan Operating Company (Confidential) Location : Düsseldorf area, Germany - minimum 3 days per week on-site About Banyan: Banyan Software is the best permanent home for software businesses that serve specialized industries, their employees, and their customers. We are on a mission to acquire, build, and grow great companies worldwide, helping them modernize through shared AI expertise and operational discipline. The Banyan Software Foundation, endowed with $100 million in Banyan stock, leverages technology to build a greener and more equitable world. Banyan is Great Place to Work Certified, a five-time Inc. 5000 honouree, and a top 10 company on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Atlanta, Banyan operates more than 100 portfolio companies across North America, the UK, EU, and APAC.

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