Chris Parker

Product & Technology Advisor and Leadership Coach

Executive Leadership in Regulated B2B Platforms and Complex Saas

I combine executive leadership experience with a disciplined coaching practice to support leaders in making clearer, more sustainable decisions under pressure.

Twenty years as CPTO, CPO, and CTO across Europe in financial services, B2B SaaS, and platform businesses. I step in when growth outpaces operating discipline, when integration threatens value creation, or when boards need technology leadership they can trust.

Based in the Netherlands. Working across Europe in English.

Ebullient Advisory

When Complexity Demands Better Judgment

When portfolio integration fragments focus and leadership clarity is needed, Ebullient Advisory partners with CEOs, executive teams, and senior leaders through both strategic counsel and formally contracted coaching engagements.

Ebullient Advisory exists for leaders who do not need more information, but need better decisions in complex moments.

I work with CEOs and boards navigating platform consolidation, integration strategy, and technical decisions where getting it wrong costs years. With senior executives who need to strengthen how they decide under pressure – board presentations, portfolio trade-offs, and organizational decisions where outcomes are irreversible.

This is not consulting. It is a blend of executive counsel and executive coaching, each clearly contracted and distinct, bringing both lived operational judgement and a disciplined reflective stance to support leader development.

Available for executive leadership roles and select advisory engagements when the moment demands judgment rather than process.

Critical Moments

Five Situations Where Judgment Determines Outcomes

Platform architecture decisions lock in years of risk or opportunity. Vendor strategy, technical direction, and integration approaches where the wrong call costs time, capital, and credibility you cannot recover.

Portfolio fragmentation threatens value creation. Five products became one portfolio. Eight acquisitions need unified strategy. What worked at smaller scale now creates bottlenecks.

Delivery is degrading but the cause is unclear. Teams are busy but velocity is falling. Platform debt is rising. Boards sense execution risk but cannot pinpoint the constraint.

Alignment without trade-offs stalls execution. Everyone agrees on the goal. No one agrees on priority, ownership, or what to stop.

Integration or transformation outpaces governance. Growth has created complexity faster than operating discipline can absorb it.

Over the past couple of years Chris has helped me to transform and improve our IT and project organisation. His human approach to challenge and coach everyone to grow through simplicity is super refreshing and effective.

Jonas Tornquist

Chief Operating Officer

I hereby would like to fully and unconditionally recommend Chris Parker, as an executive Coach. He has been pivotal in helping me grow and remain solid, in the fundamental transformation of our community. Chris is one of those very rare people capable of mastering the three levers of Logos (intellectual brilliance, thought leadership, and a rare intelligence), Ethos (behaviors, manners, ethics) and Pathos (Values and emotions) with rare success. Far from the “Teflon Coach” model that we see too often, he is capable, whilst pushing his own ego and needs to the side, to be fully there for you, challenge and support you and disagree when he thinks your intellectual integrity is at risk. Chris has a rare skill in coaching or being an agile “sparring-partner”.

Didier Marlier

Managing Partner

Frequently reflecting on your company is essential for any entrepreneur, yet it often gets lost in daily demands. Working with Ebullient’s simple business approach helped me clarify and refocus my thinking in a shifting business environment. The process is both straightforward and confronting, insightful and powerful. Ebullient guides it with precision, asking the right questions at the right time while creating a trusted and energizing space for meaningful outcomes.

Lars Falch

CEO

I’m delighted to recommend Ebullient, whose guidance and impact have been pivotal to our success. Whenever we faced challenges that felt insurmountable, their calm confidence and steady support inspired us to push forward. Their structured approach to problem-solving and ability to create alignment had a profound effect on our growth. Much of our progress today stands on the foundation they helped us build. We’re deeply grateful for their contribution.

Mohamed Elmasry

CEO

How I Engage

Six Ways to Work Together

Executive Leadership. CPTO and CPO roles where I own product, platform, and technology through growth, transformation, and integration. Multi-year commitments where platform decisions and organizational capability determine value creation.

Interim Leadership. Six to eighteen months where executive ownership is required during integration, carve-out, or transition. Direct accountability to boards and investors.

Board-Level Advisory. Strategic counsel for CEOs and boards navigating platform consolidation, integration strategy, or technical decisions where getting it wrong costs years.

Executive Coaching. Working with senior leaders on framing trade-offs, reinforcing presence, and making complex decisions within a formally defined coaching relationship.

Speaking and Facilitation. For boards, leadership teams, and executive gatherings navigating complexity and needing sharper judgment.

Non-Executive Director roles focused on platform risk, technology governance, and value creation in regulated environments.

Evidence from Executive Roles

Twenty Years of Executive Ownership

My executive experience informs my coaching practice without granting organisational authority in coaching relationships.

Integrated five SaaS acquisitions into unified platform strategy at Dstny, delivering 25% year-on-year revenue growth across 150+ engineers and eight overlapping products.

Achieved product-market fit for GenAI conversational platform at Tactful AI during carve-out, stabilizing delivery and establishing scalable partner ecosystem across EMEA.

Delivered multi-tenant SaaS platform on Azure at Powerpeers within 12 months enabling international expansion, zero downtime, complete architectural transformation.

Led €120M technology portfolio at LeasePlan across 30 countries, delivered €15M cost savings, founded information security function resolving critical audit findings.

Twenty years of executive ownership. When I advise or coach, I bring this experience without organizational authority. The judgment is the same. The deployment is different.

Ready to Move Forward

Let’s Talk About What Happens Next

If you are navigating one of these critical moments and need judgment that changes what happens next, reach out directly.

Available for executive leadership roles and select interim advisory engagements across Europe.

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