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Practitioners who have built it, run it and done it.

N5 is built by a team that has spent careers at the frontier of enterprise technology - not as theorists, but as the people who designed, delivered and operated the systems at scale. We built our company because we know there is a better way.

Four partners.
One shared conviction.

Ronnie Bachmann

Ronnie Bachmann

Founder & CEO

From IT service desk to Global CTO of Devoteam Managed Services - a 20-year journey through Jabra, Sopra Steria and six years at Cloudeon building cloud-native practices from the ground up. Combines deep technical delivery with business innovation leadership and board-level governance. Founded N5 on the conviction that real outcomes require practitioners who have lived the full stack.

Experience from

DevoteamSopra SteriaJabraCGI
Edgaras Rakuckis

Edgaras Rakuckis

Partner & Director - Engineering & Operations Delivery

Engineering and operations leader with a track record of building SRE teams, global command centres and AI-ready infrastructure from ground up - across NATO, Barclays and AmerisourceBergen. Oxford Executive Leadership Programme alumnus who combines operational rigour with the strategic clarity to lead at scale. Delivers cloud and AI systems that hold up in production - not just in the pitch deck.

Experience from

NATOBarclaysAmerisourceBergenDevoteam
Christian Bech Nørhave

Christian Bech Nørhave

Partner & CTO

Futurist and AI evangelist who translates where technology is heading into what organisations need to build today. Former Chief AI Consultant at Dansk Erhverv advising at national scale - and Partner & COO at IT Kartellet. Trains leadership teams and developers alike in agentic thinking and vibe coding, turning AI potential into working product.

Experience from

Dansk ErhvervIT KartelletSDCDTU
Lars Møberg

Lars Møberg

Founder & Director — Customer Advisory

Thirty years experience from software developer to the head of global cloud managed services - progressing through leading large scale system integration programs, cloud advisory and customer engagement across CSC, DXC Technology, Cloudeon and Devoteam. Led global pre-sales and client engagement at scale before co-founding N5. Brings genuine engineering roots and senior commercial leadership to every client conversation.

Experience from

DevoteamDXC TechnologyCSC

We saw the gap. We had the experience to close it.

We founded N5 because we had spent careers delivering what others were only advising on. We have built and operated AI-native systems, designed sovereign infrastructure and led engineering transformations across some of Europe's most demanding organisations.

And we keep seeing the same pattern: organisations with real ambition, real budgets and real urgency - let down by partners who could not bridge the distance between strategy and production. Consultants who advised but did not build. Vendors who sold but did not operate.

N5 is built to be different. Not as a vendor with a product to sell, but as a team of practitioners with a single conviction: the organizations that will lead the next era are those who move with speed, operate with sovereignty and build with intelligence - simultaneously. We built this company to make this possible.

The gap is obvious

Every organisation we worked with was trying to move into the era of agentic AI. Most had ambitions. Very few had the practitioners, the methods or the integrated capability to do it properly. The advisors existed. The delivery capability did not.

Theory is not enough

We spent years watching organisations buy strategy decks that gathered dust. The next era demands practitioners - people who have built agentic systems, run sovereign infrastructure and accelerated engineering teams in production, not in a slide deck.

Three things have to come together

Agentic AI alone creates ungoverned velocity. Sovereignty alone creates control without capability. Engineering acceleration alone creates faster accumulation of technical debt. We built N5 because we know organizations need all three - integrated, simultaneously, at production quality.

To accelerate organisations into the next era.

Not with a product. Not with a framework. With practitioners who embed alongside your teams, build with them, and stay until the capability is yours - not ours.

125+
Years combined experience
100%
European delivery
300+
Developers & engineers trained
2026
Founded

Ready to work with a team that has done it before?

We take on a small number of engagements at a time to ensure every client gets the full weight of our experience. If the timing is right, we would like to hear from you.