Industrial technology.
Physical AI for industrial businesses.
Founder & CEO of Nautilus. Former Group CEO of Pleuger Industries.
Founder & CEO of Nautilus. Former Group CEO of Pleuger Industries.
Three-country turnaround of a German industrial manufacturer, founded 1929.
The numbers below reflect what was built at Pleuger Industries between 2022 and 2025.
Engineering and technology projects delivered across energy storage, offshore wind, and industrial systems — from subsea sensor networks to HVDC platform automation.
First-of-its-kind subsea pumped energy storage, developed by Pleuger engineers in Hamburg with Fraunhofer IEE. Hollow concrete spheres at 600–800m depth, using bidirectional pump-turbine systems to store and release energy at scale. $4M US DOE and €3.4M German BMWK funding raised and delivered. A 1:3 scale prototype is now being prepared for deployment off the California coast. The project proved what we now build on: that sensor data and intelligent monitoring transform how infrastructure operates and endures.
Submersible motor pumps for cooling of high-voltage direct current transformers — the systems connecting offshore turbines to the grid. From BorWin Alpha through BorWin 6, East Anglia, Vanguard West, and the 924 MW Sunrise Wind project off New York.
Seawater lift, fire protection, ballast and process systems for major offshore installations including the Johann Castberg FPSO. ATEX-certified pumps for hydrocarbon cavern storage. Subsea retrofits across the North Sea.
Open-pit and underground dewatering operations across three continents. Iron ore in the Pilbara, lignite across Germany, copper in the Atacama. Systems engineered for extreme depth, corrosion, and salinity.
Investment banking to private equity to industrial operations — in that order. Each chapter built on the last.
Across energy and manufacturing, trillions of dollars in physical assets are still inspected by hand and recorded on paper. The technology to change that exists. What is missing is the operating layer: people on site who can put physical AI to work at the point of measurement.
Aging operators and decades of data locked in legacy systems are not a limitation. They are the largest industrial technology opportunity in the West.
Nautilus is an industrial technology company. We bring physical AI into proven industrial businesses across the West and run them for the long term.
Nautilus is a member of NVIDIA Inception.
The same discipline from running industrial operations. Now applied to building the technology those operations need.
Philippe-Chatrier, Roland Garros