Team
Two perspectives. One project.
A business case without a dependable architecture does not hold. Neither does an architecture without a business case. That is why both sides sit at our table from day one.
Management, processes & adoption
Stefan Hofmayr
Mag., MBA, CPA, CMC, MBAI
Stefan turns management problems into improvement programmes that get implemented. He has been a commercial managing director himself, ran finance and business control in Australia and led large plant-engineering projects commercially. Today, as Regional Manager South, he leads the Austrian practice of Conor Troy Consulting and advises industrial companies on organisational efficiency and AI-enabled process innovation.
- Process analysis & operational excellence
- Business case & prioritisation
- Change with the people affected
- Roles, ownership & controls
Career
- since 2025Managing Director, Progressworks GmbH
- since 2023Regional Manager South, Conor Troy Consulting
- since 2023Lecturer, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria (Wels); speaker, ARS Akademie
- 2020–2023Senior Manager Organisational Efficiency, Lenzing AG
- 2017–2020Commercial Managing Director, Lenzing Technik GmbH
- 2008–2013Manager Finance, then Manager Business Control, Sandvik Mining and Construction, Perth
- 2005–2008Commercial Project Manager, Siemens VAI Metals Technologies
Education & credentials
- Certified Management Consultant (CMC)
- Certified Practising Accountant (CPA Australia)
- MBA Real Estate Finance, JKU Linz
- MBAI – Mastering Business with AI
- Master’s in International Business, WU Vienna
AI architecture, data & delivery
Alexander Krauck
MSc Artificial Intelligence
Alexander builds AI systems that work in operation: from RAG and knowledge systems through agents and integrations to evaluation, deployment and monitoring. He built and led the Competence Center AI at Fabasoft, did research at JKU in Sepp Hochreiter’s institute and founded Goedly, where his own agent systems run in production every day.
- AI architecture, RAG & agents
- Data & system integration (APIs, MCP)
- Permissions, security & checkpoints
- Evaluation, operation & monitoring
Career
- since 2025Founder & CEO, Goedly
- since 2024Independent AI architect & consultant, including for helloagain and PF Fachkraft
- 2024–2025Head of Competence Center AI, Fabasoft
- 2023–2024AI Research Assistant, voestalpine
- 2021Research on graph neural networks, Institute for Machine Learning, JKU
- 2021ACM RecSys Challenge: 3rd place among academic teams (peer-reviewed)
Education & credentials
- MSc Artificial Intelligence, JKU Linz – with distinction
- BSc Artificial Intelligence, JKU Linz – with distinction
- Master’s thesis on uncertainty estimation in regression (industrial context: voestalpine)
On site, together
We start where the bottleneck is visible: at the machine, in the plant manager’s office, with the people who work with the process.
Experience from roles, projects and engagements with
Next step
30 minutes. One concrete bottleneck. An honest assessment.
In a discovery call we work out whether AI is the right lever for your topic now, later or not at all. Free of charge, no slide show, with both of us at the table.
