Founder. Coach. Speaker.
Berlin and remote. Working with founders and operators worldwide.
Neil
Metzler
I build at the intersection of data, attention, and sports. Before that, ten years at Amazon and AWS across three revolutions: e-commerce, ad tech, and AI.
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10 years
Amazon and AWS
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TEDx speaker
TEDxESMT Berlin
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Harvard Business School and MIT
Seminar host
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85+ senior professionals
Coached
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Omnisent Sports
Founder
What I am building
Omnisent Sports
Attention intelligence for the sports industry.
Sports is an attention economy. Omnisent makes attention and emotion actionable for the sports industry: attention intelligence and social capital scores that tell marketers which athletes and moments actually move people.
Three revolutions
I saw three revolutions from the inside at Amazon. The e-commerce revolution, expanding Amazon.de and Amazon.co.uk's top seller brands to the US. The data revolution in ad tech, building trend detection on petabyte-scale clickstream data alongside data scientists. The AI revolution at AWS, watching startups bring disruptive solutions into traditional industries. Omnisent is what I built at the intersection of the three, pointed at sports.
- Category
- Attention intelligence
- Market
- Sports
- Founded
- 2022, incorporated 2025
- Writing
- Substack essays
Coaching
Career and leadership coaching for senior tech professionals
Through Cloud Champions Coaching I have worked with more than 85 senior technology professionals as they moved into and up at companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Adobe, Snowflake and Nasdaq. Interview strategy, promotion cases, leadership presence, and the decisions in between.
For founders: 1:1 office hours with 10+ AI founders through the Aethos AI incubator in Berlin, with the Cambridge Innovation Center and Venture Cafe. Plus an angel check of my own, so I have sat on both sides of the table.
On stage
TEDx: 5 secrets to career resilience
TEDxESMT Berlin
Your Next Big Thing
Inspiring stories of senior professionals making big changes to find more satisfaction from work and happiness from life.
Listen to the show
Speaking
Talks and workshops
Harvard Business School and MIT
Seminar on career pathing in art, tech, and media.
TEDxESMT Berlin
5 secrets to career resilience, a talk on staying steady while everything around you changes.
Amazon
Paid career-development workshops across multiple Amazon organizations.
The feedback post-event has been exceptional. Your presentation made a huge impact on those attending. Thank you for being an amazing speaker!
Off the clock
Away from work I play bass in SeaSeaSea, a grunge band drawing on my Seattle roots.
Endnote: louder than the day job.
