Malte Clausen
AI deployment, machine learning, and commercial leadership
Founder and CEO, Velocity Insights
I believe AI should raise the standard of professional work.
For a leadership team, the opportunity is not more AI tools. It is operating capability: sharper analysis, better decisions, stronger governance, and more effective use of senior time.
I have seen this from the advisor's chair and from the operator's.
Background
I was trained at McKinsey, in structured problem solving and the discipline of high-standard professional work. I took that into the digital transformation of Vestas' global Service business, where the question was how a large industrial operation should use its own data. The answer put machine learning into production years before generative AI reached the boardroom. As a Partner at BCG I advised senior teams on strategic and commercial questions, and built generative AI into client delivery as it arrived in the corporate world.
How I think about AI
Machine learning has run through my work since 2015, and that has shaped how I think about it. It is powerful when it is deployed into real workflows, with the right tools, the right governance, and a clear view of where value is created. The standard cannot be more output. The standard has to be better work: useful, trusted, secure, and relevant to the decisions leaders actually make.
What I am building
Today I am building Velocity Insights, an AI deployment consultancy for mid-market organisations. We work with executives to find where AI creates measurable value, put the tools and governance in place, and produce the high-stakes documents leadership teams rely on: board materials, investment memos, strategic reviews and market assessments. I also edit Danske AI-eksperter, a curated directory of the researchers, specialists, leaders and voices in AI in Denmark.
Career
2025 to present
Velocity Insights, Founder and CEO
AI deployment consultancy for mid-market companies. Work runs from identifying which workflows are worth changing, through deployment, to the operating models and training that let a team carry on without outside help.
2022 to 2024
Boston Consulting Group, Partner
Advised more than 120 leadership teams on strategic and commercial questions. Built generative AI into client delivery as the technology moved from experiment to standard practice, and made the case for AI investment to BCG's CEO and Executive Committee.
2019 to 2022
Clausen Advice, Founder and CEO
Independent advisory to corporate and private-equity clients on digital transformation. Delivered machine learning systems that automated anomaly detection for predictive maintenance of industrial assets.
2015 to 2019
Vestas Wind Systems, Global Head of Business Area, Service Commercial Management
In Vestas' global Service business, commercial owner of Shop Vestas and of Blade Asset Management, which customers reached through the VestasOnline platform. Machine learning ran through the work: predicting component failures from turbine data, detecting blade damage from inspection imagery, and forecasting service demand and resourcing.
2006 to 2013
McKinsey & Company, Consultant and Project Manager
Close to twenty projects in strategy, operations and M&A due diligence, for corporate, private-equity and government clients.
Education
MBA, Harvard Business School, 2008 to 2010
MSc in Public Policy and Administration, London School of Economics, 2005 to 2006
BA in Political Science, University of Copenhagen, 2002 to 2005
Contact
The fastest way to reach me is email at , or connect on LinkedIn.