I ran companies before I advised them.

Born in 1967 in Lower Austria. After the HTL St. Pölten technical college I studied business administration at WU Vienna and computer science at TU Wien. In 1988 I took on responsibility for quality assurance in a Siemens AG unit of 140 staff. I was 21. That is where I learned that quality is not a department but a leadership task.

In 1992 I founded pcsysteme.at IT-Service GmbH. The first assignment: the IT infrastructure of an international oil company with more than 600 filling stations in Austria. Out of that grew a mobile invoicing solution, in 2002 a logistics platform, and in 2005 the conversion of the entire business model to software as a service. The company grew to around 300 staff. Not one of those years was a loss-making year — not even the year of the transformation.

In 2014 I sold the company to Touchstar Group LLC in Tulsa, USA. I then led teams on three continents as General Manager EMEA and Group CTO — eight years of group responsibility spanning Europe, Asia-Pacific and the United States. I know corporate structures from the inside: as the person who had to deliver the numbers and keep the people.

In 2020 I founded Pabeschitz Computer Consulting GmbH and have worked as an interim manager since — a Certified Interim Manager (CIM) since 2022. In parallel I formalised my second craft: a master's degree in counselling sciences at Sigmund Freud University, the diploma in life and social counselling, the supervision training. I have supported executives since my first years as an entrepreneur. Today I do it with method — see executive coaching for how.