This page records the career of Thomas Prommer, the technology and AI advisor: every role, newest first, and the announcements that go with them.
Roles
- Co-Founder, Flywheel Motion
Personal brand acceleration studio for mission-led organizations and high-impact individuals. Building the digital presence and interconnected network that turns private impact into public influence. - Founder, We The Flywheel
AI-native venture studio. CTAIO community, weekly newsletter, and applied AI experiments across portfolio companies. - Global SVP Engineering, Adidas (from 2020)
Led 1000+ engineers across platform engineering, e-commerce, and omni-channel retail. Unified fragmented regional engineering into a global organization powering a $9B+ e-commerce operation across 50 markets. - Chief Information Officer, Sweetgreen (from 2018)
Built the technology function from scratch. Modernized POS systems and launched the digital ordering platform driving the majority of revenue. - Senior Technology Advisor, Bain Capital (from 2019)
Tech due diligence for portfolio investments and digital transformation assessments. - Chief Technology Officer, Moment (from 2019)
Chief Technology Officer of Moment, a digital accelerator. - President, Technology Strategy, Huge (IPG) (from 2010)
Grew technology practice from 50 to 500+ engineers across 14 global offices. Won and delivered enterprise engagements for Apple, Google, McDonald's, Toyota, Nike. - Global Director of Technology, Fantasy (from 2007)
Digital product development and technology strategy for Fortune 500 clients. - Management Consultant, Roland Berger (from 2006)
Management consulting and business strategy. - Software Engineer, Lufthansa Systems (from 2004)
Airline reservation systems and flight operations software development.
Degrees and certificates
- M.Sc. Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence & Web-based Systems, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (2006)
- B.Sc. Computer Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- MIT Sloan Executive Certificate in Strategy and Innovation, MIT Sloan School of Management (2015)
- Harvard Data Science Certification, Harvard Extension School (2018)
- Business Analytics Certification: From Data to Insights, Wharton School (2019)
- IDEO U Storytelling for Influence, IDEO U (2016)
- The Science of Well-Being, Yale University (2019)
- Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance
- Product Owner Training, Scrum Alliance
- Certified Sun Java Programmer, Oracle
- Acquia Drupal Partner Training, Acquia
- Sitecore Partner Training, Sitecore
- SAP Hybris Partner Training, SAP
- Autonomy IDOL Essentials Training, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Announcements and awards
- : HotTopics names Thomas Prommer Global CIO 2026
- : Fast Company names Flywheel Motion, co-founded by Thomas Prommer, a 2026 World Changing Idea
- Webby Award winner
Independent projects
Thomas built and maintains findmynextrace.com, a neutral multi-sport race index covering IRONMAN, HYROX, Challenge, UTMB, World Marathon Majors, CrossFit, and parkrun calendars on one data model.
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