Head of Group Risk and Decision Governance

Company Overview

GVW Group is a dynamic private investment and industrial holding company dedicated since 1993 to growing and starting businesses. We take an entrepreneurial approach to building value for our scalable early stage, high-growth, and mid-sized operating companies by providing strategic expertise and resources. Along the way, we have expanded globally into diverse industries ranging from manufacturing to technology, distribution, big data, engineering, and energy efficiency.

GVW Group is a flat, operator-driven industrial and investment platform with long-term capital and safety-critical businesses. Risk at GVW is not managed through policy alone
, it is governed through decision rights, capital commitments, and accountability. This role exists to ensure that enterprise risk is visible, deliberate, and owned at the correct level, and that authority, incentives, and controls remain aligned as the organization scales. This is a hands-on, organization-wide operating role, not an advisory or compliance function.

• Establish organization-wide mechanisms that surface risk early across operations, products, finance, customers, and investments
• Institutionalize learning from failures, near-misses, and external industry events
• Maintain a forward-looking, enterprise-level view of material risks across GVW
• Reinforce a culture where risk is discussed factually, early, and without politics

• Own crisis-readiness frameworks and escalation protocols across the group
• Lead scenario planning, pre-mortems, and executive simulations
• Coordinate preparedness and response for high-impact events, including:
• Safety or product failures
• Cyber incidents
• Regulatory actions
• Material litigation or reputational events
• Supply-chain or operational disruptions

• Govern enterprise risk related to:
• Cybersecurity and cyber-physical systems
• Connected products, telematics, diagnostics, and remote access
• Data governance, privacy, and model risk
• AI-enabled decision-making and automation
• Ensure clear accountability for AI outputs, defined limits on automated authority, human override, and auditable escalation paths

• Oversee enterprise risk related to:
• Product safety and liability exposure
• Warranty policy, warranty-tail exposure, and reserve adequacy
• Engineering and system-integration risk
• Field reliability, service performance, and uptime commitments
• Partner with engineering, operations, service, legal, and finance to ensure appropriate risk gates before launches, major changes, or new commitments

• Maintain visibility over material enterprise risks related to:
• Regulatory obligations (safety, environmental, labor, trade, etc.)
• Contractual risk terms (indemnities, guarantees, limitations of liability)
• Litigation trends and claim patterns
• Ensure legal and regulatory risks are framed upstream in decisions, not handled reactively

• Partner with Finance to oversee enterprise exposure related to:
• Counter party and credit exposure (customers, suppliers, insurers, banks)
• Concentration and correlation risk across the platform
• Structural fraud risk arising from control weaknesses

• Own the enterprise approach to risk transfer and insurance strategy, including:
• Coverage architecture aligned to actual exposures
• Claims governance and trend oversight
• Understanding and communication of uninsured and self-insured risk
• Ensure insurance complements—rather than substitutes for—structural risk control

• Embed risk discipline into:
• Capital allocation decisions
• Acquisitions, minority investments, and exits
• Guarantees, warranties, and long-term obligations
• Evaluate exposure related to:
• Ir reversibility and duration
• Control and visibility limits
• Leverage and financing structures

• Govern risk related to:
• Supplier concentration and single points of failure
• Critical parts and logistics dependencies
• Ge…