Emmanuel Galanakis

headline: Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at J.S. Held LLC

about:
Sr. Information Technology professional with strong expertise in IT Risk, Cyber Security, IT Infrastructure and Program management.

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)

company: J.S. Held LLC

position: Head of Cyber Security

description:
J.S. Held is a global consulting firm with expertise in construction, environmental health
& safety, forensic accounting, water & fire restoration, equipment, and forensic
architecture & engineering matters.

Established in 1974, J.S. Held brings together years of unrivaled technical expertise and
unparalleled service to deliver reliable, comprehensive solutions to its clients. J.S. Held is
renowned for recruiting and cultivating distinguished experts and being a trusted
partner on the world’s m

position: Member

company: Aphinia

company: MHPG LLC.

description: Real Estate Investment

position: Director - CISO Cyber Security

company: Deutsche Bank

description:
▪ Data Security Program & Engineering Head
▪ Endpoint Security Program Head
▪ Unstructured Data Access Program Head
▪ Americas Identity & Access Lead

position: Director - Technology Portfolio Manager

description:
▪ Ran annual Investment Governance process for the CTO
▪ Continuously assessed and governed all CTO related Operational Excellence programs

position: Director - Global Head of End User Technology – Desktop Services (Central Platform Services)

description:
Responsible for Deutsche Bank's End User Computing Environments in over 80 countries, including:

• Desktop environment (over 100,000 PCs)
• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
• Secure Virtual Desktop Service for outsourced party access / divestiture access
• Citrix Server Based Computing Platform / Xen App
• Remote Access (VPN)

position: Business Systems Analyst

company: UBS

description: Business Systems Analyst - Technology Department

content: So grateful to Junior Achievement of New York  and Betty Garger !

evidence_experience: Director - CISO Cyber Security @ Deutsche Bank: Data Security Program & Engineering Head; Unstructured Data Access Program Head; and current CISO role owning IT Risk, Cyber Security, IT Infrastructure for J.S. Held itself (internal function, not sold to clients)


Kylie Dunphy-Brown

sourced_title: Chief Operating Officer, Mercer Super

headline: Purpose led operations executive | CX | Financial Services

about:
Purpose led Operations Executive with 25 years’ experience within Australian and global financial services organisations, across superannuation, insurance and investments. Prior to Mercer, she has held operational leadership roles at Hollard Australia, Commonwealth Bank, MetLife and NAB Wealth and has extensive experience dealing with internal and external stakeholders including Boards and regulators. Kylie is a passionate advocate for operational excellence and supporting customers experiencing vulnerability.

Successful execution of transformational change including regulatory, technological and entity
simplification and separation with a sustained record of success in operational excellence, customer
centric solutions, and cultural change. Highly developed strategic planning, enterprise leadership,
coaching and development capabilities.

position: Chief Operating Officer, Mercer Super

company: Mercer Australia

end: Present

description: Provide strategic and operational support to enable outstanding product and service delivery in the best interests of Mercer Super's members. Oversee all operations related activities and initiatives for Mercer Super members and clients and ensure high quality service delivery, cost efficiency and productivity.

position: Customer Advocate

company: Hollard Insurance Australia

description: Led the Customer Advocate team for Hollard Australia, including customer experience strategy, customer communication, customer remediation, systemic issues, dispute resolution and customer and community advocacy.

position: Head of Claims

company: Commonwealth Bank

description: Led the CBA Insurance Claims team (approximately 350 onshore FTE), including building and contents insurance lodgement, case management, contact centre and assessing, motor insurance lodgement, case management, contact centre and assessing, fraud investigations, litigation and recoveries.

position: Executive Manager, Customer Operations

description: Led the Customer Operations team (approximately 250 onshore FTE) for the General Insurance division of CBA, including contact centre, lodgements, administration, underwriting, complaints, quality assurance, learning and development and workforce planning.

position: Head Of Service Delivery

company: MetLife

description:
Led the end-to-end Operations in Australia, including underwriting, claims, administration and call centre, servicing Group and Retail Insurance customers for MetLife Australia.

Successful implementation of Operational Excellence framework during a period of significant volume growth and regulatory change.

position: Head of New Business & Monies In

company: National Australia Bank

description:
Led a team (200 onshore and offshore FTE) of customer service professionals responsible for cashiering incoming money, allocate contributions at a policy level and establish new accounts for investments, retail superannuation, corporate superannuation and insurance products.

Successful implementation of the Controls Transformation Program changing the approach to process ownership, resulting in improved business controls and closure of an external audit item. This was achieved whilst leading

disposition: DISQUALIFIED

internal_vs_external: external

role_nature: other

band: clear

band_reasons: disqualified

evidence_experience: "Oversee all operations related activities and initiatives for Mercer Super members and clients and ensure high quality service delivery, cost efficiency and productivity." Entire career history (Hollard, CBA, MetLife, NAB) is claims/customer operations leadership, not knowledge/AI/IP management.

resolved_account_name: Mercer Pacific

in_612: yes

in_575: no

suppressed: yes


Dr. Sven Mandewirth

publicIdentifier: sven-mandewirth

sourced_title: Supply Chain Practice Lead Europe

headline: Driving Digital Transformation. Generating Value Add.

about:
Committed to realize value!
It's my passion to drive digital transformation with focus on supply chain management.
My guiding principle is realizing value - from strategy to measurable results.

position: Supply Chain Practice Lead Europe

company: Infosys Consulting

description: Head of Supply Chain Consulting Europe bei Infosys Consulting

position: Account Lead Life Sciences and Chemicals

company: EY

position: Global Industry Lead

company: Camelot Management Consultants

position: Managing Director

company: Droege Group

position: Wissenschaftlicher Assistent

company: IfH Institut für Handelsforschung GmbH

description: Driving industry studies and benchmarking

content: What a fantastic recognition - so proud to part of this journey

evidence_experience: "Head of Supply Chain Consulting Europe"; "Global & Regional Consulting Account Lead"; "Trusted advisor for our clients, driving innovation and growth"; "Strategy development and implementation, creating measureable return on consulting" - all describe client-delivery leadership, not internal firm knowledge/AI ownership.

resolved_account_name: Infosys Consulting

in_575: yes

suppressed: no


Debra McCraw

publicIdentifier: dbmccraw

sourced_title: Digital Content Strategy Lead, Associate Director

headline: Digital Strategy Leader | Building Scalable Content Engines | Storytelling, SEO, and Data-Driven Brand Growth

about:
My superpower is connecting storytelling, strategy, and data to build customer-centric content ecosystems that engage audiences and deliver measurable business impact.

With 10+ years leading digital and content strategy across global organizations, I specialize in building scalable content engines — frameworks that orchestrate storytelling across paid, owned, and earned channels to meet customers where they are and move them from awareness to engagement to decision.

I take a data-informed, audience-first approach to content strategy, using insights, search trends, and behavioral analytics to understand what customers need, when they need it, and how they prefer to engage. Every initiative I lead is designed to drive meaningful interaction, strengthen brand trust, and deliver measurable outcomes in reach, engagement, and conversion.

I’ve led enterprise-level strategies that translate complex topics into clear, human stories — particularly in cybersecurity, technology, and professional services. My approach combines creativity, empathy, and analytics to create content that not only performs but truly connects.

What defines my leadership style is curiosity, collaboration, and accountability. I ask the right questions, take smart risks, and foster strong partnerships to ensure every piece of content serves a customer need and advances the business mission.

I believe great content starts with understanding the audience — and succeeds when it helps them solve real problems, make informed decisions, and feel understood.

company: Crowe

description:
As Associate Director and firmwide digital content ecosystem strategy lead at Crowe, I shape and execute a world-class, orchestrated digital experience across Crowe.com and all Crowe LLP social media channels. I lead the team responsible for web content strategy, SEO, and social media—leveraging data to scale what works and sunset what doesn’t.

🔹 Developed and implemented a journey-focused, omnichannel content strategy that highlights our people, expertise, and solutions to guide prospects thro

position: Senior Director, Content Strategy

company: CompTIA

description:
At CompTIA, I led the organization's enterprise content strategy to position the brand as one of the most trusted destinations to start and grow a career in technology. I directed a team of 4 full-time staff, 10+ freelance writers/editors, and multiple agency partners to produce high-impact content across B2C, B2B, trade association, and philanthropic audiences.

🔹 Produced nearly 1,000 content assets in 2023, including blogs, newsletters, videos, infographics, and guides — across CompTIA.org, C

position: Director, Content Strategy

description:
I established and led CompTIA’s B2C content strategy to engage and support IT professionals and career-changers seeking to enter or advance in tech. Our content became a go-to destination for actionable insights across key domains, including cybersecurity, networking, Linux, cloud computing, and data analytics — as well as training, certifications, and career development.

🔹 Managed a team of 3 content marketers (staff and contractors), alongside a network of freelance writers and agency partner

position: Senior Manager, Content Marketing Strategy

description:
I led the development and execution of CompTIA’s B2C digital content strategy, creating and optimizing content across the blog, web resources, and email to support IT professionals in their career journeys.

🔹 Led the successful consolidation of three distinct blogs into a single, streamlined CompTIA blog in October 2019, enhancing user experience and SEO performance
🔹 Launched an automated weekly digest email, averaging a 26% open rate and 4.75% click-to-open rate — well above industry benchmar

position: Manager, Editorial B2C Marketing

description:
I managed the CompTIA IT Career News blog, delivering high-value content to job seekers and IT professionals pursuing career advancement through certifications. As the lead writer and editor for the B2C marketing team, I shaped content strategy, voice, and execution across channels.

🔹 Overhauled blog editorial strategy to prioritize audience needs, balancing product information with career guidance, tech trends, tutorials, and success stories — resulting in a 4x increase in blog sessions from 2

position: Freelance Writer and Editor

company: Self-Employed

description:
As a freelance writer and editor, I built and scaled a successful independent business, transforming a part-time side hustle into a full-time, sustainable career. Through consistent client retention (average of 3 years), strategic pitching, and referral-based growth, I increased revenue by 10–15% year over year. My client portfolio included 20+ organizations across sectors: enterprise, SMBs, nonprofits, and school districts.

🔹 Created web content, PR materials, marketing collateral, and social

position: Communications Specialist/Online News Editor

company: Goodwill Industries International

description:
At Goodwill Industries International, I was solely responsible for producing GoodwillTODAY, the organization’s daily internal news blog, read by more than 15,000 stakeholders across the global network. I wrote, edited, and published daily news stories, coordinated visuals, and contributed feature articles and briefs to Working!, Goodwill’s biannual magazine.

🔹 Managed daily editorial operations for GoodwillTODAY — writing, editing, publishing, and curating content to keep internal audiences inf

position: Senior Publications Editor

company: CEB, now Gartner

description:
CEB, a global leader in best practice research and talent management insights, was acquired by Gartner in 2018. I served in progressive editorial leadership roles, advancing from Publications Editor to Senior Publications Editor. I was responsible for editing high-impact corporate content, mentoring staff, and driving editorial standards across the organization.

Promoted after 16 months for demonstrated editorial expertise and leadership. Took on expanded responsibilities including mentoring ju

content:
Today I helped 8th grade entrepreneurship students fine-tune their concepts and practice their pitches.

The teacher told me she is especially appreciative when women volunteer with her class to show her female students that there is a place for them in entrepreneurship. She is doing grass-roots work to empower young women and help close the gender gap.

My superpower is mentoring and coaching, an

content: A workplace is stronger when people feel respected for who they are. #HappyPride!

content:
Mentoring 8th grade entrepreneurship students in Usha Iype’s class was truly a highlight of my spring. They are incredibly smart and creative, and over the weeks we worked together, I saw how they were growing and improving. They learned first hand what it takes to create a business and get support from partners and investors to take it to the next level.

Usha, thank you for inviting me to parti

content: I’m proud to see Crowe recognized with the #Equality100 award. #GoCrowe

content: Yes! It’s not just about producing one good piece of content. It’s about how all the pieces and channels and activities are working together to reach your target audience where they are and tell the story of 1) what’s happening, 2) how it applies to their reality, and 3) how your solution helps them address it.

evidence_experience: "I shape and execute a world-class, orchestrated digital experience across Crowe.com and all Crowe LLP social media channels. I lead the team responsible for web content strategy, SEO, and social media" - this is external brand marketing, not internal knowledge/IP reuse.

resolved_account_name: Crowe UAE


Farah Saeed

sourced_title: Research Director, Digital Grid

headline: Industry Director @ Frost & Sullivan | Growth Advisory, Strategy | WCS Executive Board Member | Podcast Host WCS Talks Unplugged

about:
With over 25 years of experience as an energy industry strategist, market advisory expert, and clean economy advocate, I focus on the frontiers of grid modernization, decarbonization, and the digital energy transition. As an Industry Director at Frost & Sullivan, I steer strategic research and advisory for global digital grid markets, DERMS, VPPs, and demand-side energy management. Beyond my corporate advisory work, I am passionate about elevating diverse voices in climate tech as the Board Secretary and WCS Talks Unplugged podcast host for Women in Cleantech & Sustainability.
🎙 Listen In: Want to explore the intersection of tech and sustainability? Check out my recent podcast episode, The Hidden Environmental Cost of AI and the Cloud, where I break down the growing carbon footprint of global data infrastructure.

position: Board Member Executive Committee

company: Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

description: As the Board Secretary and member of the Executive Committee, I work closely with the Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer, and Volunteer Co-Chair(s) to direct and fulfill the organization’s mission and objectives, ensure operations run smoothly, and create an environment that helps committees carry out WCS strategies.

position: Industry Director, Growth Advisory Energy and Environment

company: Frost & Sullivan

position: Research Director, Digital Grid

position: Global Program Leader and Principal Consultant, Digital Grids

position: Principal Consultant, Energy

position: Senior Consultant, Energy and Power Systems

position: Program Manager, Backup Power Systems

position: Industry Analyst – Industrial / Power Supplies & Batteries

content:
Our second series of WCS Talks Unplugged dropped today. Check out this episode on the formation of SmartWaste Inc, a technology-agnostic Zero Waste Management company, founded by the brilliant Sara Eve Fuentes.
It teaches us lessons in humility, in owning our triumphs, and in the power of listening.
Great job, Anandi Yadav, Ph.D., in capturing the true essence of Sara and her company 💚

content:
I just registered for RE+ Storage 2026! Learn more & register: https://lnkd.in/gUfDzbn3 . Join me along with hundreds of clean energy professionals in Sacramento.

RE+ Storage brings energy storage professionals together for two days of collaboration, connection, and discovery. Energy storage plays an ever growing role in meeting energy demand and RE+ Storage is your hub for the latest insights an

content: Heading to Trellis Group Impact 2026? Before our calendars get completely packed, connect with the Women in Cleantech and Sustainability community! Trellis is massive, and walking onto the expo floor is always better when you already have a crew in your corner. Whether you want to talk shop about circularity and grid orchestration, meet corporate leaders and investors in a relaxed setting, or just

content:
I’ll be at Trellis Impact 2026 in San Francisco and would love to connect while we’re there!

Before the conference kicks off, join me and Women in Cleantech and Sustainability for a happy hour on Monday, June 22 at Trellis Coworking & Events, sponsored by Clean Energy Counsel, LLP.

It will be a great opportunity to meet entrepreneurs, investors, sustainability leaders, innovators, and fellow cli

content:
From start to finish, this has been an incredible experience creating our first Women in Cleantech and Sustainability podcast series with Marieke McArthur and Sara Eve Fuentes. Check out our full list of guests, mentors, and hosts below.

All 8 episodes are now available on your favorite podcast platform. Stay tuned for our upcoming series, dropping soon, where we will explore entrepreneurship in

evidence_experience: "As an Industry Director at Frost & Sullivan, I steer strategic research and advisory for global digital grid markets, DERMS, VPPs, and demand-side energy management."

resolved_account_name: Frost & Sullivan Healthcare & Life Sciences


Cowan Pettigrew

publicIdentifier: cipettigrew

sourced_title: Chief Digital Officer (CDO)

headline: Ngati Porou | Technology Strategist  | Trusted executive | Capability builder | strengthening competitive advantage through outcome delivery

about:
Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa - Greetings everyone

Pepeha - My history

Ko hikurangi te maunga - Mt Hikurangi is my mountain in the Gisborne Area
Ko Waiapu te awa - The river Waiapu in the Gisborne area
Ko Horouta te waka - My tribal ancestors arrived in Aotearoa on the waka Horouta
Ko Ngāti Porou te iwi - Ngati Porou is my iwi (Tribe) - Gisborne Area
Ko Rongowhakaata te hapu - Rongowhakataa is my kinship group
Ko Manutuke te marae - Manutuke is my marae
Nō Tamaki Makaurau tōku kainga - I live in Auckland
Ko Cowan Pettigrew tōku ingoa - My name is Cowan Pettigrew

Nō reira, kia ora koutou - And so, Kia Ora everyone

Amorangi - Leadership

Koronga - Purpose
He manako kōura i kore ai - Wishing for the crayfish wont bring it.

Leadership with purpose.  Let’s get going.

I like to lead from the front alongside the teams that make it all happen. It’s not about the technology for me, it’s about the secure capabilities and outcomes that technology can deliver when used correctly.

My approach using continuous innovation frameworks combined with data-backed insights to drive decision making.

I have a proven record of achieving successful business outcomes through transforming IT systems, business processes and staff engagement, from conception to implementation, delivering successful projects and strengthening competitive advantage.

Ngā mihi nui

Cowan

position: South ASPAC CISO

company: KPMG New Zealand

description: Regional CISO role focused on reducing cyber risk and enabling trust-led growth across for KPMG South ASPAC.

position: Transformation lead (NZ Firm)

description: I’m pleased to be taking on the role of IVC Transformation Lead for KPMG New Zealand, supporting the firm’s adoption of the Integrated Value Chain. This role focuses on turning global IVC ambition into local delivery—modernising how we work across finance, engagement management, operations and data, while ensuring change lands in a way that improves productivity, resilience and client outcomes. It’s a critical step in building a more connected, AI enabled operating model for the NZ firm and the

position: Chief Digital Officer (CDO)

description:
As the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) at KPMG New Zealand, I lead the firm’s digital transformation strategy, driving innovation and implementing technologies that enhance business performance and client solutions.

I have a focus on emerging digital trends to ensure the firm is leveraging the best technology available to achieve our strategic objectives. I oversee the integration of advanced technologies like AI, data analytics, and cloud computing to empower our people and our clients with transf

position: National Information Security Officer

description:
As the National Information Technology Security Officer (NITSO) at KPMG New Zealand, I am responsible for safeguarding the firm’s information assets, ensuring resilience against cyber threats, and leading a robust cybersecurity strategy.

This role requires an in-depth understanding of the evolving digital landscape and the ability to anticipate and mitigate potential risks. Utilising the KPMG global cyber security framework I am responsible for the implementation and management of the security

position: Chief Technology Officer

description:
As the CTO of KPMG New Zealand, I am focused on developing & operating client technology platforms through our KPMG NZ Managed Services team. There is growing local and global demand from our clients for KPMG to deliver our solutions ‘…as a service’.

I am working with all KPMG divisions to build and deliver a range of managed service type solutions to our valued clients under the ‘KPMG Managed Services' banner.

position: CIO

company: KPMG

description:
As the CIO of KPMG NZ I am responsible for delivering the technology roadmaps to support the needs of the firm, our people and our clients.

KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. We have 207,000 outstanding professionals working together to deliver value in 153 countries and territories.

In Aotearoa, KPMG with its 1300 staff have a long tradition of professionalism and integrity, combined with a dynamic approach to advising clients in a di

position: AWS technology Services (ASPAC)

description:
I have been involved with this new service line as the overall sponsor on behalf of the ASPAC Technology services group. Its' been a very exciring time as between 3 member firms Australia, Japan & NZ combined with KPMG ITS global we have built out the AWS platform as described below. This capability will go a long way towards supporting our cleint solutions now and for tomorrow.

Challenges:

KPMG member firms had started adopting AWS Cloud Services in various ways and were looking for a way t

position: Senior Consultant

company: Techspace Consulting Limited

description:
IT consultancy role for one of New Zealand’s leading technical advisory companies.  Completed a variety of projects specialising in cloud adoption strategies for the varied client base of Techspace.
Projects completed:
Government Super Fund Authority – RFP design and implementation.
Holmes Consulting Group – Azure cloud architecture and Lead member.
KPMG NZ – Management Consulting (CIO).
Morrison & Co – Azure cloud architecture and strategy.
Livestock Investment Corporation – AWS and Azure clo

disposition: STRONG

primary_strip: B

internal_vs_external: internal

evidence_experience: "As the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) at KPMG New Zealand, I lead the firm's digital transformation strategy, driving innovation and implementing technologies that enhance business performance" and "I am responsible for safeguarding the firm's information assets, ensuring resilience against cyber threats, and leading a robust cybersecurity strategy" and "This role focuses on turning global IVC ambition into local delivery...building a more connected, AI enabled operating model for the NZ firm."

resolved_account_name: Global Strategy Group, by KPMG


Christopher Lundstrom

sourced_title: Senior Client Partner - Digital Transformation

headline: Chief Corporate Development Officer

about:
Christopher is the Chief Corporate Development Officer at Howwe Technologies.  Howwe is the market-leading Transformation Platform company with hundreds of customers at CEO and executive-level worldwide.

Christopher holds multiple board seats and has a 20-year track record of creating new market opportunities and revenue streams in the US and Canada. Working with Fortune 500 companies, company boards, Presidents / CEOs, multibillion-dollar private company owners, and key decision-makers.

Christopher created the North American business for a French-Scandinavian handset manufacturer from scratch. Christopher grew revenue from zero to 40% of total global revenues in 3 years (10-year tail) capitalizing on a second-mover advantage.  The initiative was groundbreaking for AT&T and MediaTek especially and the driver for the 20x enterprise value increase.

Prior to starting Oakpoint, Christopher spent 10 years in executive management and business development roles working for PE/VC-driven companies consolidating acquisitions into a platform company.

Christopher has American and Swedish citizenship, and has lived and worked in New York City, Mexico City, London, and Frankfurt. Christopher started his career as a at Coopers & Lybrand (PriceWaterhouseCoopers).

position: Chief Corporate Development Officer

company: Howwe Technologies

position: Partner

company: Oakpoint, LLC

description: Oakpoint, LLC is a boutique market development and management firm focused on business and product flows into the USA and Canada primarily.

position: Executive Vice President, North America

company: Doro Group

description:
Reported directly to the Global CEO.  Created and build the North American business from zero to +30% of global revenues in less than 3 years capitalizing on a second-mover advantage.  Created and managed direct relationships with AT&T, T-Mobile, Consumer Cellular, Tracfone, and the Canadian carriers Rogers, Bell, TELUS.

The North American market success spearheaded European growth including several strategic acquisitions and was a significant milestone in the company’s history with a the most

position: VP Business Development & Product Management

company: AFS Technologies, Inc.

description:
AFS - Venture driven US Technology Company with off-shore development in Bangalore, India.

P&L responsibility for company product revenues, responsibility for business development, sales, marketing and product management, worked closely with the board on improving revenue quality and defining growth strategies, executed the company’s growth strategy through acquisitions and cross-selling products to new installed bases.

position: Director, Business Development

company: Lectra USA Inc.

description: Responsible for retail and fashion business development.

position: Soultion Sales & International Business Devlopment

company: G-Log

description:
Expatriated to London, UK to drive the start-up of the European operations office.  Solutions Sales for F500 companies, Global Key Account Management.

G-Log later sold to Oracle.

position: Mangement Consultant

company: PricewaterhouseCoopers

band: review

band_reasons: disqualified; company_concern

evidence_experience: Christopher created the North American business for a French-Scandinavian handset manufacturer from scratch... Chief Corporate Development Officer at Howwe Technologies... Partner at Oakpoint, LLC is a boutique market development and management firm focused on business and product flows into the USA and Canada


Rami Maalouf

publicIdentifier: rami-maalouf

sourced_title: Head of AI Lab

headline: Head of AI Lab at Strategy&

position: Head of AI Lab

company: Strategy& Middle East

company: SNGLR Group

description: We are a unique combination of tech experts & developers, venture capital firm and advisors for exponential technologies

position: Solutions Managing Director - MENA

company: ConsenSys

position: Principal

company: Strategy&, part of the PwC network

internal_vs_external: unclear

band_reasons: disqualified; ie_unclear; low_conf

evidence_experience: "Partner @ SNGLR Group... unique combination of tech experts & developers, venture capital firm and advisors for exponential technologies" and "Solutions Managing Director - MENA @ ConsenSys" indicate external advisory/venture/solutions delivery, not internal function ownership.

resolved_account_name: PwC Experience Center


Dietmar Eder-Dianitsch

publicIdentifier: ederdianitsch

sourced_title: Chief Information Security Officer

headline: EFESO Management Consultants - the leading global pure player in operations strategy and performance improvement

about:
Dietmar has fundamental and in-depth IT know-how aligned with business and management experience. His focus is advisory in combination with implementation skills paired with best practices.

Trusted Adviser
Digital Transformation
Digitalization
Execution competence
Problem solving
Executive Experience

He has gained international experience in Croatia, Bulgaria, India, USA, China and DACH.

position: Chief Information Security Officer

company: EFESO DACH

position: Manager

position: Honorary Member of the International Advisory Board

company: WU Executive Academy

company: CZIPIN Produktivitätssteigerungs-GmbH

description: CZIPIN steigert die Produktivität seiner Klienten wie kein anderer!

position: Managing Director

company: Procurion

description: Procurion provides support for selection and implementation for eProcurement and eSourcing applications. We also advise in strategic or operational topics in IT or procurement. Our experts combine technical know-how, business expertise and best-practice experience.

company: Expense Reduction Analysts

description:
Every organization needs to strengthen its competitive position and its shareholder value. We analyse the situation, create options and support implementation on site.

What makes us different? Value through insight! Know-How, Insights, Experience and Success-based Fees.

description: President of International Advisory Board (IAB)

position: Vice-President

description: Vice-President of the International Advisory Board (IAB)

content: #teamleadership #individualizationtech #digitaltransformation #topteam

content: I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Chief Information Security Officer at EFESO DACH!

disposition: WEAK

band_reasons: title_mirage_body_contradicts; ie_unclear; low_conf; company_concern

evidence_experience: "I'm happy to share that I'm starting a new position as Chief Information Security Officer at EFESO DACH!" - no further detail on scope, team, or internal knowledge/AI/IP-reuse remit; prior 25+ years are client delivery, procurement, sales/BD, and program management roles with no internal-function ownership language.

resolved_account_name: EFESO BELGIUM


Martin Povelsen

sourced_title: Partner, COO and Head of Digital Risk

headline: Partner, COO and Head of Digital Risk

about:
Experienced Digital Trust consultant, who has been evaluating, designing and implementing solutions for the past 15 yers.

Very strong skills set and vast experience in CyberCrime Defence, Enterprice Architecture and Identity & Access management, gained through international assigments with major european customers.

Personal skills include high integrity, strong analytical skills, management of troublesome business issues and managing stakeholders.

Industry expertice: Finance, Health Care, Public sector

position: Partner, COO and Head of Digital Risk

company: KPMG Denmark

description: Advising on how to mitigate risks and providing business opportunities by managing Information Security effectively by using the latest tools, methodologies and technical initiatives. Provides pragmatic approaches to building efficient controls, and understand how to both make this work in a complex technical environment, and in an ever-changing organisation.

company: Implement Consulting Group

description:
Implementing strong, efficient but also pragmatic information security solutions, for both public and private companies. Based on my many years of experience with raising the security level through both organisation, architectual and operations improvements, I advise on how your organisation can meet your goals and ambitions while maintaining a high level of information security.

This also includes developing solutions that are both user friendly, and allows for and minimum level of intrution i

position: Interim CTO - Security & Identity Services

company: KMD

position: Member of PA's Management Group

company: PA Consulting Group

company: PwC Consulting

position: Consultant

company: Pricewaterhouse

evidence_experience: "Advising on how to mitigate risks and providing business opportunities by managing Information Security effectively... Provides pragmatic approaches to building efficient controls" - describes advisory work for clients, not ownership of KPMG's internal knowledge/AI function.


Sujan Sami

sourced_title: Research Director

headline: Senior Research Director and Global Program Manager at Frost & Sullivan I Test & Measurement I Market Research and Growth Consulting

about:
20 years of experience in the market research and growth consulting sector.

Steering Frost & Sullivan's Electronics & Measurement sector, my role as Research Director involves leading a dynamic team to deliver growth insights and revenue forecasts through comprehensive market analysis. The focus is on B2B market assessments, competitive benchmarking, and business model innovation.

With a rich background in managing research projects and nurturing client relationships, my recent endeavors include forging strong partnerships with Business Development Managers and Growth Leaders, contributing to the company's success in navigating the global market landscape and driving customer retention.

position: Senior Research Director

company: Frost & Sullivan

description:
• Spearhead the development of a collaborative team culture, enhancing skills and internal processes across the GOA business.
• Drive corporate-level initiatives, aligning strategies with counterparts from various business practices to maximize impact.
• Identify and analyze market growth opportunities, contributing to the overall content development of programs.

position: Research Director

description:
Directly manage the team focusing on Electronics & Measurement sector covering electronics test, general purpose test, communications test, mechanical test and analytical instrumentation. Focus on providing growth insights, revenue forecasting combining both quantitative and qualitative analysis in the abovementioned areas. 20 years of experience working across these sectors provides me with great knowledge that I have gathered collaborating with global companies across the world.

Working curre

description:
Lead the Electronics & Measurement global team.
Drive and create new business opportunities.
Focus on customer relationship building and increase renewal rates.
Manage individual team members' on-time and high quality projects.

position: Research Manager

description:
Research Manager leading a team of 20 analysts in the Chennai office. Continue to lead the analytical instrumentation sector.

Responsibilities include:
Resource allocation
Global Research Production
Day-to-day Resource Management
Responsible for analyst performance to ensure they meet their KPI

position: Program Manager

description:
Program Manager for Analytical Instrumentation sector. Also prevalent in working across various other sectors including general purpose test, communication test and mechanical test.

Analytical Instrumentation coverage:
Chromatography
Spectroscopy
Mass spectrometer
Liquid Analyzers
Material Testing
Gas Analyzers
Informatics
Surface Science Techniques

position: Program Manager - Production - Measurement & Instrumentation Global

description:
Handle production plan for 7 sectors comprising of 25 analysts across six countries.
Responsible for timely completion of projects with superior quality.
Coordinate with various other program managers to ensure they meet their production targets.

position: Industry Manager

position: Team Leader

content: Focusing on the LIMS through our unique Frost Radar deliverable. Please feel free to connect to feature in it!!

content:
And that’s a wrap for MWC 2026. What an exciting and insightful event with strong momentum across the test and measurement (T&M) ecosystem.

A few key highlights that stood out from a T&M standpoint:
• The journey from 5G to 6G: Significant focus on early 6G research, advanced device validation, and testing capabilities needed to support next-generation wireless technologies.
• AI transforming net

content:
Great meeting with Amy Wettenhall, Dave Tulis, and Yasmeen Adl from Infovista at MWC 2026. We had an engaging discussion around some of the key technology areas the company is focusing on.

A few highlights included:
• AI-driven network intelligence: Advancing AI capabilities through platforms like VistAI and VistaOne to enable more autonomous network operations and convert complex network data in

content:
Had an engaging discussion with Mr. Jonathan Borrill from Anritsu at MWC 2026. It was great to learn more about how Anritsu continues to strengthen its presence in the test and measurement (T&M) space through several forward-looking initiatives.

Some key focus areas include:
• Accelerating the path to 6G: Showcasing advanced test and measurement solutions that support early 6G research, standardi

evidence_experience: "Directly manage the team focusing on Electronics & Measurement sector... Focus on providing growth insights, revenue forecasting combining both quantitative and qualitative analysis" - this is client-facing market research delivery, not internal knowledge/AI function ownership.


Manjusha P.

publicIdentifier: manjushapothireddy

sourced_title: AVP Quality Engineering & Practice Head

headline: Associate Vice President Quality Engineering - Practice Head | AI-Driven QE Transformation | Fortune 500 Clients

about:
With over 22 years of experience in the IT industry, I am a Senior IT Management Consultant at NBCUniversal, where I lead end-to-end delivery and quality assurance of digital products and solutions for global clients and stakeholders. I am a Certified Product Owner and an accomplished Agile coach and leader, with expertise in data analytics, complex media, Microsoft, cloud-based, and big data projects.

As a former Head of Delivery and Senior Vice President at Claim Genius and BNY Mellon, I have successfully managed offshore and onshore QA teams, developed and reviewed business and functional requirements, created and integrated user acceptance testing plans and schedules, and reduced defects for legacy and new projects. I have also demonstrated strong skills in managing teams globally, executive leadership, and cybersecurity. My mission is to leverage my technical and managerial skills to deliver high-quality, innovative, and user-centric solutions that meet the needs and expectations of the digital era.

position: AVP Quality Engineering & Practice Head

company: Marlabs LLC

position: Senior Information QA Management Consultant

company: NBCUniversal

position: Head of Delivery ( Product/Client)- Dev/QA/Data Analytics/Data Science

company: Claim Genius

position: Sr. Vice President and UAT Strategist- Agile Implementation Partner

company: BNY Mellon

position: Director Of Integration -Program ADAM-QA

company: AMC Networks

description: Program -ADAM

position: Director  Weather Analytics/Ad-Technology

company: The Weather Channel

position: Software QA Manager

position: Leader, Mobile Automation, Digital Products

company: HBO

evidence_experience: "I lead end-to-end delivery and quality assurance of digital products and solutions for global clients and stakeholders."

in_612: no

match_method: unresolved


Krishnan Ramanathan

publicIdentifier: krishnan-ramanathan

sourced_title: Global Research Director

headline: Experienced Market Analysis and Research Professional

position: Global Research Director

description:
Be a thought leader in the ‘Machines’ domain, engage with top management at client organizations
on what mega-trends/disruptors will impact their industry and how clients must develop and
formulate relevant strategies

Analyze emerging trends, market opportunities and technologies in the ‘Machines’ program and work with the Vice President, team members, and clients to produce impactful syndicated reports to help clients in their product development, market entry, expansion, and investment goal

position: Industry Principal

description:
Worked on high value consulting projects on competitive analysis, market entry and expansion strategies for renowned organizations in industrial machinery, automation and process control sectors

Managed the ‘Machines’ program by working with Directors and C-Suite executives of global clients, identified the type of deliverables that best suit their requirements (GOA/GPAD/Brand & Demand Initiatives) and offered customized solutions wherever possible

Developed expertise in ‘Machines’ program are

description:
Worked with international clients on consulting assignments involving market analysis and expansion strategies, and business development initiatives in the machines segment covering high pressure pumps, blowers, and compressors

Prepared and delivered presentations to prospective clients in the ‘Machines’ domain thereby developing expertise on the subject (SME)

Mentored a team of analysts on Frost & Sullivan processes, analytical skills, data interpretation, and award nominations

Worked with

position: Industry Analyst

description:
Worked with global clients on consulting assignments involving competitive analysis, and expansion strategies, and business development initiatives in industrial automation and process control industry

Developed product expertise, market knowledge, and understood challenges faced by clients in ‘Machines’ program area on pumps, motors and drives

Worked with Principal Consultants and Senior Vice President- APAC in developing go-to-market strategies for clients in automation and industrial machin

position: Senior Research Analyst

description:
Worked closely with Senior Consultants and Principals based in Singapore, Malaysia, and Australia on consulting (GPAD) engagements on industrial machinery and automation.

Mentored a team of new colleagues on Frost & Sullivan processes, analytical skills, and data interpretation.

Worked with Editing and Quality Assurance (QA) departments and followed up with Publishing Teams to ensure effective posting of studies on frost.com

Authored market insights and articles for the automation and proces

position: Research Analyst

description:
Developed subject matter expertise in Industrial automation and Machines program area through secondary research and by holding discussions with industry experts on growth rates, trends, etc.

Provided key insights to clients through GOA, and worked on competitive analysis in the industrial machinery and automation sectors

Worked with Editing and Quality Assurance (QA) departments and followed up with Publishing Teams to ensure effective posting of studies on frost.com

Worked with Director of

position: Assistant Manager 2

company: ICICI Bank

description:
Achieved sales targets by cross-selling asset products such as personal loans, and mortgage loans

Worked with Regional and Country Heads, and Credit Departments to obtain approvals

Supervised a 25 member sales team and was responsible for achieving targets in Chennai’s North zone

position: Senior Officer

description:
Worked with product heads in marketing of loan products and supervised team leaders on the same

Was responsible for lead generation and handled loan portfolio for one of India’s largest branches

evidence_experience: "engage with top management at client organizations on what mega-trends/disruptors will impact their industry" and "Manage and drive the 'Machines' program by working with Directors and C-Suite executives of global clients" - all client delivery, no internal knowledge/AI ownership.


Sherine Zaghloul

sourced_title: Head of Research Middle East


Howard Lamb

sourced_title: CIO

headline: CIO at Celerant Consulting

position: CIO

company: Celerant Consulting

description: Focus on SaaS solutions and Outsourcing

position: EVP Engineering

company: GetConnected, Inc.

position: CTO/Head of Operations (Americas)

company: celerant consulting

position: IT Director

company: Getronics

company: Digital Equipment Corp

position: Computer Programmer

company: IBM

evidence_experience: CIO @ Celerant Consulting (2007 - Present): Focus on SaaS solutions and Outsourcing - a long-tenured internal technology leadership role at the consulting firm itself, but the description is generic (SaaS/outsourcing focus) without explicit mention of knowledge-base/IP-reuse ownership, so not scored higher.

resolved_account_name: Hitachi Consulting (formerly Celerant Consulting)


headline: CIO at Celerant Consulting

band_reasons: ie_unclear; low_conf

evidence_experience: CIO @ Celerant Consulting (2000 - Present) - no further detail on scope of role provided in profile.


Trent Seashore

sourced_title: Practice director, Business Intelligence & Data Management

headline: Business Intelligence Technology Director

company: Safenet Consulting

company: GMAC-RFC

band_reasons: disqualified; ie_unclear

evidence_experience: No narrative About or Experience description provided beyond titles; prior role was "Director of Enterprise Business Intelligence & Reporting Platforms @ GMAC-RFC" - also a BI/reporting technology role, not knowledge/IP-reuse ownership.

resolved_account_name: SafeNet Consulting (now Eliassen Group)


Keith Robinson

sourced_title: Research Manager/Director

headline: Research Manager/Director at Frost & Sullivan

position: Research Manager/Director

company: Frost & Sullivan

band_reasons: weak_title2_only; ie_unclear; low_conf

evidence_experience: No detail provided beyond title and company; no About section, no description of scope, deliverables, or internal vs external focus.


Hyun Kim

sourced_title: Head Of Operations

headline: Head Of Operations at SafeNet

position: Head Of Operations

company: SafeNet

band_reasons: weak_title2_only; ie_unclear; low_conf; company_concern

evidence_experience: Head Of Operations @ SafeNet ( - Present) - no further detail provided


Corné Versloot

sourced_title: Head of Data Platforms and Architecture

headline: Head of Data Platforms and Architecture

about: I am a consultant & architect within the fields of Big Data with extensive knowledge of state of the art including: Azure (certified Azure architect), Databricks Security practices and data modelling. I love to support organisations becoming more data driven by providing advice and hands-on support during design and development of their data solutions. While I started as a data engineer I currently focus on design and delivery of large scale Azure data platforms which include advanced analytics, Lakehouse architectures, streaming and IoT.

position: Head of Data Platforms and Architecture

company: Eraneos

description: Responsible for the team of data engineers, architects and consultants within the Data & AI practice which focus on delivering data platforms and insights. Solutions range from data warehouses, lake houses to IoT platforms generating (real time) insights on complex datasets.

position: Azure & Data Architect

description: Design and deliver large scale Azure oriented data platforms for both operational and analytical workloads. These include data integration and operational insights from for example machine/IoT data, Lakehouse architectures, advanced analytics using machine learning and reporting.

position: Big Data Consultant & Engineer

description:
As a Big Data Consultant and Solution Engineer I support customers with their journey to become more data driven. This includes:
 - Support sales / give workshops to help customers understand both the possibilities but also the pitfalls of Big Data
 - Design, implement and validate solutions
 - Give training on Elasticsearch and Apache Spark

position: Consultant / Engineer

company: TNO (ICT)

description: Enabled customers to get more insights from large quantities of textual/audiovisual data by designing and/or evaluating (custom-made) information retrieval solutions. Most software is based on state of the art open source like Storm, Hadoop, WEKA and Lucene.

position: Innovator

description: Translating scientific knowledge into usable solutions for the market.

evidence_experience: "Responsible for the team of data engineers, architects and consultants within the Data & AI practice which focus on delivering data platforms and insights" and "I support customers with their journey to become more data driven" - all roles are external client delivery of data/AI services.

resolved_account_name: Eraneos Netherlands


Pascal Biese

sourced_title: Digital Factory AI Lead

headline: AI Lead at PwC </> Daily AI highlights for 80k+ experts 📲🤗

about:
As the founder of LLM Watch, my goal is to curate the most relevant Large Language Model (LLM) research and make it accessible to a broad audience.

I distill complex technical topics into summaries that respect your time.

Before embarking on this journey, I led Deep Learning R&D at one of Europe's largest telecom companies. There, I spearheaded numerous AI projects with a focus on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR).

With more than 6 years of experience in AI, I was there before the hype.

I try to offer a healthy balance between shiny new things and what really matters.

position: Head of AI Engineering

company: PwC Austria

position: Digital Factory AI Lead

company: PwC

description: Doing AI R&D and leading a team of Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs)

position: Principal AI Engineer

position: Founder

company: moatless

description: Helping industry experts and researchers to navigate the sheer endless sea of Large Language Model (LLM) research & innovation because everybody deserves to find the best information.

position: Founding ML Engineer

company: Stealth

description:
I was part of a 6 month government-funded Entrepreneurship program that enabled me to work on my own projects and ideas within the LLM space.

During this time, I gained experience in building LLM-powered backends with popular in-demand tools. The prototype I ended up building included the following:

- Fetching data from an external API & processing the response (Python)
- NoSQL database (MongoDB, Postgres)
- PDF Processing (PyPDF2, PyMuPDF)
- Document Extraction (Textract/Document Transformer)

position: Senior Data Scientist

company: A1 Telekom Austria AG

description:
During my time as a Senior at A1, I was the DS lead for the company's most advanced NLP projects.

My work included

- Reporting results to several levels of management
- Representing cutting edge Deep Learning & NLP at the company
- Pitching these topics to the C-Level and other influential exexutives
- Giving expert talks & presentations
- Participating in workshops
- Taking part in the recruiting process for full-time Data Science internships
- Guiding selected interns and assigning them rol

position: Data Scientist

description:
I was in charge of a Social Media Listening project for Facebook, Twitter and Online Newspapers which included the following

- SQL & MongoDB databases
- Web scraper for the newspaper(s)
- Processing Facebook & Twitter API data
- Transfer Learning & Language Model Finetuning on in-domain texts
- Multiclass and Multilabel Text Classifiers based on Embeddings and Transformers (the original PyTorch implementation of BERT)
- Tableau Dashboard

On top of that, I was developing intents & entities for

position: Junior Researcher

company: Universität Wien

description:
Research in Cognitive & Economic Psychology:

- Dual process theory (Type I/II thinking)
- Metacognition theory
- Experimental assessment of cognitive biases
- Leveraging aggregated mouse cursor movement data

content:
No training. No preference labels. Just ask the model to read back the prompt.

That's how SpectraReward turns any pretrained multimodal LLM into a reward model for image generation.

The standard approach to improving text-to-image models with RL requires training a separate reward model on human preference data. That means annotation costs, reward hacking risks, and a pipeline that breaks every

content:
RL post-training at 2.1 million tokens on just 8 GPUs.

No custom hardware. No million-dollar cluster. A fixed budget of H20s.

Here's the problem: inference engines already handle million-token contexts, but RL post-training - the step that actually aligns models to follow instructions and use tools - typically caps out around 256K tokens. That's a 4-10x gap. AI agents that accumulate long trajec

content:
A 9B model hits 31.2% on BrowseComp without learning from a stronger teacher. It taught itself.

Most web search agents today are trained by distilling trajectories from larger, more capable models. The problem: you're capped by your teacher's ability, and those trajectories are static - they don't adapt as the student improves.

Researchers from Tsinghua and other institutions built DeepSearch-Wo

content:
A 0.6B active-parameter model just hit gold-medal performance in Math and Physics.

Not 600 billion. 0.6 billion.

Looped Transformers have been around for a while. The idea is simple: instead of stacking more layers, you run the same layers multiple times. Reuse instead of scale.

The problem was equally simple - it never worked well enough. Given the same compute budget, adding more parameters

content:
Most personal AI memory systems treat video, audio, and text as separate retrieval problems.

You query one modality at a time, hope the right chunk surfaces, and stitch context together yourself.

LightMem-Ego comes with a unified hierarchical memory that organizes multimodal streams on a shared timeline and routes queries to the right memory level automatically.

The system from Zhejiang Univer

band_reasons: disqualified; builder

evidence_experience: "Principal AI Engineer @ PwC: Reshaping industry workflows by developing AI solutions and effective agentic systems." - describes building AI products/solutions, not owning an internal knowledge-reuse or governance function.


Craig Stumpf

publicIdentifier: craigstumpf

sourced_title: Senior Manager Advanced Technology Centers - Americas Capability Lead

headline: Leader | People Developer | motivator | organizer | interrupter | Consulting Mobilization | Team Builder | Culture Creator | Talent Developer | Strategic Collaborator | Cross-Functional Impactor | LION | Blob Launcher

about:
My Credo..."Help Others" Communicate | Cultivate | Complete | My direction - Disrupter with impact.

I build what companies need most when growth is the goal: high-performing teams, scalable systems, and a culture where people stay, grow, and deliver.

Across multiple industries, I've stepped into ambiguity and built from the ground up — the leader organizations turn to when execution can't afford to slip.

I'm drawn to companies that treat their people as their greatest competitive advantage, where leaders are empowered to build, not just manage, and where success is measured in the talent left standing after the work is done.

If you're scaling something meaningful and need a proven builder in the room, that's where I do my best work.

The 3 P's: How I Lead and Work

PEOPLE — Who I build with

Point — People are the point, not just of a job, but of life.
Philosophy — People-first isn't soft philosophy; it's performance strategy.
Proof — I scaled teams to 250+ consultants while keeping attrition under 3%, one-fifth the firm average, because people stay where they're valued.

PURPOSE — Why I build

Purposeful — I don't build by accident; every team and framework starts with what the organization actually needs.
Principled — Purpose goes deeper than planning, because character outlasts even the best strategy.
Proven — Five practices went from nothing to thriving, year over year — growth that isn't luck, it's deliberate.

PLAN — How I build

Pieces — Structure is what most organizations, and most lives, are missing.
Particulars — Details aren't bureaucracy; they're what make things simple for me, the company, and the clients we serve.
Permanence — I build repeatable frameworks, not one-time wins.

The through-line: I'm a builder. Give me ambiguity, and I'll give yo

company: Accenture

description:
Trusted leader who enables revenue by making delivery scalable, predictable, and safe to sell—especially when complexity, speed, or ambiguity are high.
The leader trusted to bring structure, clarity, and momentum when delivery complexity, talent risk, or capability health is at stake.
Capability owner who builds, stabilizes, and scales complex delivery organizations.

Stood up, grew and led Workday, RPA (Automation), Epic, Industrials & ServiceNow capabilities across the Americas Technology Cent

position: Senior Manager - Advanced Technology Center - Workday/ServiceNow NA Lead

description:
Leading the Workday, ServiceNow Capabilities across North America.
Growing teams of professional software application developers.
Developing team members towards their top potential.
Impacting clients with best in class consulting.
Delivering technology software solutions.
Stood up, developed, managed and trained leaders for both the NA Epic and RPA teams within the ATC network.

position: Senior Manager - Advanced Technology Center - Workday/ServiceNow/Epic/RPA Nashville Lead

description:
Leading the Workday, ServiceNow, Epic & RPA Capabilities.
Growing teams of professional software application developers.
Developing team members towards their top potential.
Impacting clients with best in class consulting.
Delivering technology software solutions.
Stood up, developed, managed and trained leaders for both the NA Epic and RPA teams within the ATC network.

position: Manager - Advanced Technology Center - Epic/ServiceNow/Workday Lead

description:
Leading the Epic and ServiceNow Capabilities
Growing and leading a team of professional software application developers.
Developing team members towards their top potential.
Impacting companies with best in class consulting.
Delivering technology software solutions.

position: Manager - Advanced Technology Center - RPA Lead

description: Growing and leading the automation practice. Developing people to become leaders.

position: Manager - Advanced Technology Center

position: Behavioral Healthcare Executive Leader - Built strategy, a stronger team and durable growth.

company: Acadia Healthcare

description:
- Architected and cultivated high-value relationships with large corporate clients and regional leadership teams, developing multi-layered strategic growth plans that expanded market presence and deepened client retention.
- Led organizational structure & growth strategy for the sector and region, identifying key opportunities, realigning team resources, and building a scalable framework that positioned the team for sustained long-term success.
- Mentored & empowered team members by providing ha

position: Contributor

company: LinkedIn

description: Part of the initial group invited to contribute long-form articles on LinkedIn. LinkedIn has allowed the opportunity to for me to write and to help other writers through it's official group. It's an awesome away to help others. Several articles have been featured on LinkedIn's news feed, The Pulse. Grateful to have this privilege and hope that my articles positively encourage you as you read them.

content: Feedback week. Feedback should always provide direction, grow skills or create teamwork. I’ll provide some simple ideas around how feedback can be used. Today is G.R.O.W.

content: Do them anyway…

content: Simply being positive can have a huge impact on you and others!

content: Balance is always needed. Ebb and flow happens in business, but without leadership support and a team effort, burnout can come quickly.

content: Feedback week. Feedback should always provide direction, grow skills or create teamwork. I’ll provide some simple ideas around how feedback can be used. Today is C.A.R.E.

evidence_experience: "Stood up, grew and led Workday, RPA (Automation), Epic, Industrials & ServiceNow capabilities across the Americas Technology Centers, owning strategy, staffing, delivery governance, and leadership development." and "Impacting clients with best in class consulting. Delivering technology software solutions." - this is client-delivery capability/staffing leadership, not internal knowledge/IP-reuse ownership.

resolved_account_name: umlaut company


Shahid ch.

sourced_title: AI System Arichtect | Data & AI Lead | Digital Transformation Manager |

headline: AI Architect & Transformation Leader | Building AI-Enabled Enterprises | Speaker & Mentor | Accenture EU |

about: As an experienced Cloud Transformation Manager, I've spearheaded intricate cloud transformation initiatives for clients spanning diverse industries. My proficiency in fostering seamless collaboration with stakeholders at every organizational tier, coupled with my adeptness in devising cloud strategies, orchestrating migration blueprints, and designing cloud architectures, has consistently ensured punctual and budget-compliant outcomes. I've also taken the helm of a sizable Global Cloud Platform Engineering Team, further amplifying my leadership capabilities.

description:
Develop and implement a cloud transformation strategy that aligns with the
company's business objectives and drives digital transformation.
Manage the planning and execution of cloud migration projects, ensuring that
they are completed on-time, on-budget, and to a high standard of quality.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for cloud
adoption and develop use cases that demonstrate the value of cloud
technologies.
Develop and maintain a cloud governance framework th

position: Principle Cloud Architect | Cloud | Devops |

company: Customer Experience Group

description:
Collaborate with clients and internal teams to understand their business
objectives, requirements, and technical challenges. Design scalable, reliable,
and cost-effective cloud architectures that align with clients' needs and best
practices.
Lead a team (15 Engineers) of cloud architects, engineers, and developers to drive successful
cloud projects. Provide technical direction, mentorship, and guidance to ensure
the team delivers high-quality solutions.
Work with clients to develop cloud adoptio

position: Infrastructure Architect

company: Emerging Global Technologies

description: Directed cloud and DevOps strategy for large-scale digital workflow systems operating across multiple geographies. Implemented full automation pipelines and monitoring tools, improving platform stability by 40%. Mentored engineering teams on infrastructure-as-code and modernisation best practices. Led proactive problem-solving efforts for complex infrastructure challenges, driving continuous improvement across teams.

position: Lead Infrastructure Engineer

company: Digital Globe Services, Inc.

description:
•    Architect, build and maintain cloud infrastructure to support team and customer initiative
• Design, implement and manage the company's Linux infrastructure, including
servers, storage, and networking components.

• Work with other infrastructure and application teams to ensure that Linux
infrastructure is designed to meet the needs of the application development
teams.
• Develop and implement backup and recovery plans to ensure that data can be
restored in the event of a system failure or

position: Senior Voip Engineer

company: TRG Customer Solutions

description:
•	Managing and Giving Support 24/7 to VoIP switches CCM (Contact Center Manager) application deployed locally and internationally and more than 20 campaigns running on it.
•	Installation and configuration of Asterisk server.
•	Managing all ACD servers running at Pakistan, USA, Philippines, Manila, Sterling
•	Managing and operating failover service of ACD servers.
•	Taking a system’s backup of voicemails, system recordings, system configuration, CDRs, and Operator Panel configuration to be taken.

position: Sr. Network /System Administrator

description:
•	Installation and configuration of Windows and Linux servers.
•	Configuration of AD, managing, users, rights, groups, and    Ou,s.
•	Setup the AV (Kaspersky) server, manage all clients and run the update weekly.
•	Maintain backups of critical servers on daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis
•	Configuration of wireless devices (Headset, Routers etc.)
•	Enabling administrator account authentication
•	Managing administrator accounts and permissions of Linux server
•	Maintenance of VPN Infrastruc

position: Network/Hardware support engineer

company: Punjab Rural Support programe

description:
•	Administrations of stuff of servers like Linux, Microsoft server 2008, 2003.
•	Trouble Shouting of Clint OS, Windows XP VISTA and 7.
•	Installations and Configuration of Active Directory.
•	To Provide Installation and Support Services for Software and Antivirus
•	Installations and Management of Firewall.
•	Installation and configuration of IP phones like Cisco’ Polycom’ Mitel & Avaya
•	Installation and trouble shooting of Video conference device (Polycom)
•	Installation and configuration of Ci

position: System Support Engineer.

company: OrthoClear

description:
•	To Provide Hardware and Network support to all Dept.
•	Troubles Shouting of Windows XP, Windows Server 2003
•	To Provide Installation and Support Services for Software and Antivirus
•	Installations and Management of Firewall

content:
lessons from the field
20 years of building enterprise platforms and Leading a big technical team. Here are 5 things I wish I had known at the start:
1⃣ Architecture is a communication skill first, a technical skill second. The best architecture diagram in the world fails if you cannot get a room of stakeholders aligned behind it. Learn to tell the story, not just draw the picture.
2⃣ Complexity

content:
Agentic AI vendor lock-in - the hidden enterprise risk
The most important AI decision your organisation will make in 2026 is not only which model to use.
It is which AI architecture to commit to.
This is the trap I see many enterprises walking into:
→ Select a frontier AI vendor
→ Build agents on that vendor’s proprietary orchestration layer
→ Embed prompts, workflows, tools, and data flows deep i

content:
AI Governance is not a blocker. It is the foundation for scaling AI with confidence.
Many organisations still treat AI governance as a compliance tax.
The leading organisations are treating it as a competitive advantage.
This is one of the clearest mindset shifts I am seeing in 2026:
When governance is added at the end - after agents are built, workflows are live, and teams are already experimenti

content:
Most enterprises are not failing at AI ?
They are failing at architecture.

I have spent couple of years building workflow and automation platforms across financial services complex enterprise environments. And the pattern I see repeating in 2026 is this:
Companies rush to deploy AI agents → they work in isolation → no reuse → technical debt compounds → the promise stalls.
Here is what actually wo

content:
Cost cutting won’t cut it.

 That is the theme of the new Accenture Growth In:Sight issue and a good provocation for B2B leaders

Read the full magazine here:
 👉 https://lnkd.in/e8cx52Am

evidence_experience: "Develop and implement a cloud transformation strategy that aligns with the company's business objectives and drives digital transformation. Manage the planning and execution of cloud migration projects" - this is client/enterprise cloud delivery work, not ownership of an internal knowledge/AI function.


Anh Khoa Jonathan Nguyen

publicIdentifier: emarketing

sourced_title: Senior Digital Transformation Leader

headline: Enterprise Digital Growth & Transformation Executive | Built €400M Ecommerce Business | Former MediaMarkt, AXA | Scaling Digital P&L & Multi-Market Growth

about:
I am a senior Digital, Ecommerce and Commercial leader with 20+ years of experience building, scaling and transforming online and omnichannel businesses across Europe.

I have led digital growth, ecommerce, performance marketing, customer experience, omnichannel transformation and commercial operations in international organisations across retail, insurance, healthcare, media and consumer-facing businesses. My experience includes full P&L ownership, digital strategy, ecommerce trading, digital marketing, CRM, customer acquisition, conversion optimisation, team leadership, operating model design and business transformation.

Over the course of my career, I have:
- built and scaled MediaMarkt’s ecommerce business into a major revenue engine
- led large-scale digital transformation initiatives at AXA
- accelerated profitable growth and restored performance at CASA
- driven group-level digital and ecommerce transformation at Medi-Market across multiple countries

My work sits at the intersection of strategy, execution and organisational transformation: defining growth roadmaps, improving profitability, building and leading teams, redesigning operating models, and turning digital into a measurable P&L driver.

I am particularly interested in leadership opportunities such as:
Digital Director, Ecommerce Director, Head of Ecommerce, Digital Transformation Director, Chief Digital Officer, Commercial Director, Growth Director, Omnichannel Director, GM / Managing Director.

I am open to permanent, interim and fractional / advisory opportunities, with a strong interest in Belgium, Switzerland and international roles.

position: Senior Digital Transformation Leader

company: Onepoint

position: Founder & Senior Manager Consultant

company: Digital Avenues

position: Head Of Digital & E-Commerce

company: Medi-Market Group

position: Head of Ecommerce a.i.

company: Casa International

position: Chief Executive Officer

company: Produpress

description:
• Shareholder Management: Effectively managed relationships with shareholders, ensuring a smooth transition and alignment with company goals.
• Leadership: Recruited and built a new executive team, fostering a high-performing culture focused on innovation and excellence.
• Strategic Planning: Formulated a comprehensive strategical plan for 2023-2025, guiding the company towards sustained growth and success.

position: Chief Digital, Experience & Information Officer

description:
• Digital Transformation Leadership: Spearheaded the company's digital transformation, encompassing Marketing, Saleshouse, and Publishing departments.
• Leadership Team Contribution: Played a crucial role as a member of the Leadership Team, contributing to the overall strategic direction and decision-making.

position: Advisory Board Member

company: Andy Drink Delivery

description: Advising Andy, a zero-emission delivery scale-up service for drinks and beverages in Belgium, to enhance their ecommerce business

position: Client Development Director

company: UPTHRUST - digital projects & experts

description:
► Growth Strategy and Implementation: Led the development and execution of growth marketing and CRO (Conversion Rate Optimization) strategies, achieving substantial results.
► Strategic Client Management: Successfully managed key clients across various sectors, with emphasis on retail (Media Markt, Fnac Darty, Krefel, Multipharma, Cowboy), Automotive (Toyota & Lexus), Insurance (AXA), Services (Sodexo) & FMCG (Spadel)
► High-Impact Projects: Oversaw critical projects and initiatives, driving bus

content:
Great opportunities are opening up at Onepoint! 🚀

We are currently looking for talented professionals to join our teams and contribute to high-impact projects, particularly within the banking sector and IT operations environment.

Open positions include:
🔹 Junior Project Manager
🔹 Senior Project Manager
🔹 Cloud & Data iOps experts
🔹 Senior Java Developers
🔹 Java Leads and Architects

If you are l

content:
I am thrilled to announce that I have officially started a new chapter as a Senior Digital Transformation Leader at Onepoint!

With over 20 years of experience driving digital growth and scaling e-commerce organizations, I am incredibly excited to join an organization that truly embodies the role of "change architects". At Onepoint, we go "beyond the obvious" to deliver end-to-end support—from st

evidence_experience: "I am a senior Digital, Ecommerce and Commercial leader with 20+ years of experience building, scaling and transforming online and omnichannel businesses across Europe" - entire career is P&L/ecommerce/growth ownership or selling growth/digital transformation consulting to clients (Media Markt, Fnac Darty, Toyota, AXA, Sodexo, Spadel per Upthrust client list), with no mention of internal knowledge base, IP reuse, or confidentiality governance.

resolved_account_name: Onepoint


Dawn C Simmons (Khan)

publicIdentifier: dawncsimmons

sourced_title: Senior Business Transformation Leader

headline: Building Trusted Enterprise AI | Founder, Women AI Labs | AI Governance • Trusted Data • Enterprise Modernization • Healthcare • Public and Government Sector. ITSM/SecOps | Cognizant ServiceNow Business

about:
I help leaders build trusted, resilient, future-ready organizations through enterprise modernization, ServiceNow transformation, trusted data, and responsible AI.

As a Cognizant Senior Business Consultant, I partner with healthcare, public sector, and enterprise leaders to modernize operations, strengthen governance, improve decision-making, and align people, process, and technology around measurable outcomes.

 I founded Women AI Labs™ to close the gap between how fast AI is changing careers, supporting University to Laid of AI Worker career training and tooling, and how slowly institutions are building safeguards against algorithmic bias.  #FixTheAlgorithm exists to expand access to AI education, mentorship, and leadership while advancing transparent, accountable, human-centered technology.

AI bias impact is embedded in Public Safety and Commercial workflows into hiring, promotion, layoffs, healthcare, education, government services, customer support, and everyday work decisions. Meanwhile, talented people are being displaced, students are entering a workforce they were not fully prepared for, and women remain underrepresented in the systems shaping the future.

Women AI Labs™ exists to change that.

We are building a Chicago-anchored, globally connected nonprofit effort focused on three urgent outcomes:
Help laid-off and AI-impacted professionals connect to their next careers.
Elevate women, students, career changers, mentors, researchers, and developers into visible AI leadership.
Identify, test, correct, and report algorithmic bias using practical responsible AI methods.

Our work is powered by the DAUGHTER Framework:
Detect > Analyze > Understand > Govern > Human-review > Test > Evaluate > Report

This method helps businesses, colleges, workforce partners, civ

position: Founder

company: Women AI Labs

description:
Women AI Labs™ is a Chicago-anchored nonprofit initiative helping communities respond to AI disruption with equity, career resilience, responsible AI governance, and measurable bias correction.
This mission comes from decades of work in social business solutions, enterprise delivery, ServiceNow transformation, and AI governance. Across that work, one lesson has remained clear: people, process, and fairness determine whether technology creates help or harm.

I am fortunate to have worked with the

position: Vice President of Sponsorship

company: HDI Chicagoland Chapter

description:
VP of Sponsorship of Showcase the industry best practices and highlight Chicago’s best in service, grow our membership, and support students and professionals.

As we look to the future contact us to participate in how We are connecting learning and growing our support world value, strategy and innovation for our industry, community, the businesses, governance and support world eco system.
	•	Secure Sponsors: Build partnerships with local businesses, schools, and service organizations.
	•	Cre

position: Senior Business Transformation Leader

company: Cognizant

description:
Leads end-to-end digital and AI-enabled process transformation for enterprise clients across the ServiceNow ecosystem. Translates complex operations into scalable future-state workflows, delivery roadmaps, Agile stories, and measurable business outcomes using ServiceNow, AutomatePro, RaptorDB, Performance Analytics, Integration Hub, and Generative AI.
Areas of expertise include ITSM, ITOM, ITAM, HRSD, Healthcare, FSM, CSM, SPM, Public Sector Digital Services, Data Quality Management, and enterpr

position: Senior Technical Consultant

company: Nous Infosystems

description: Senior IT Principal Consultant providing information technology solutions, digital transformation, application, product engineering, business intelligence, infrastructure services and solutions for banking, financial services, insurance, healthcare, life sciences, retail, travel and logistics business sectors.

position: Senior Business Consultant

company: Thirdera

description: Senior Business Consultant responsible for Digital Business Transformation, building strong client relationships, understanding their business needs, and providing expert ServiceNow and Business Best Practice guidance. Analyze and optimize client processes, design and implement solutions, offer training and knowledge transfer, and maintain comprehensive documentation. Continuous learning and staying updated on technology trends are essential to a thriving ServiceNow Business Community and World

position: Engagement Manager

company: JIT

description: JIT Engagement Manager for California government client. responsible for overseeing client engagements, acting as the primary liaison between the client and the project team. Manage project scope, resources, budgets, and timelines to ensure successful execution. Focus on maintaining strong client relationships, resolving issues, and evaluating project performance for project success with continuous improvement.

position: Business Consultant/ Business Analyst

position: BPC:  ITSM, CMDB, SAM INC, Knowledge, Service Catalog and Request Management

description:
Thirdera Business Process Consultant for The Broad Harvard, MIT: ITSM Incident Management Reboot and ITAM/SAM, CMDB, Knowledge Projects.

Business Analyst for PPM, ITFM, Idea, Demand Management.

Trainer for Incident, Knowledge CSI, Service Catalog, Request Management, CMDB, SAM, ServiceDesk Enablement.

content:
❓ During an HDI Enterprise AI call, Erica Marois, asked a power question:
“What is one prediction you are willing to make that most people in our industry would disagree with?”

🔥 Doug Rabold XLA®, HDI-CI: warned that AI is advancing without adequate safeguards. He fears only a major AI failure will force organizations to adopt real safeguards and accountability.

🧯 He and we, hope he is wrong. A

content:
My friend, Enamul Haque has written a "bookshelf" of 3 books on Artificial Intelligence Foundations for learning, AI and The Human Experience, and the AI Powered Enterprise.

Enamul is one of my treasured Strategic Solutions Leaders, who understands the dimensions of delivery, people, process and technology.

content:
🚨 POV: A LinkedIn salesperson just “checked in” for the fifth time…

🎙 Dawns Voiceover thought:
“At this point, I’m convinced some LinkedIn sales teams qualify leads like this…”

⸻

🎬 Scene 2

🎙
“Client qualification checklist…”

☑ Do you have a LinkedIn account?

☑ Are you breathing?

🎉 Congratulations! You’re a qualified lead!

⸻

🎬 Scene 3

Salesperson:
“Hi!”

Me:
“…”

Salesperson:
“Just f

evidence_experience: "Leads end-to-end digital and AI-enabled process transformation for enterprise clients across the ServiceNow ecosystem" - explicitly client-facing delivery, not internal firm knowledge ownership.

resolved_account_name: Cognizant Consulting France


Ramesh Poolakkil

publicIdentifier: ramesh-poolakkil

sourced_title: EAS Transformation leader NA -  RCG&TH

headline: EAS Service Line Leader @ Cognizant | P&L Owner, SAP Leader, AI Transformation Leader

about:
Senior SAP Practice and Service Line Leader with 26+ years of end-to-end SAP sales, delivery, presales, and P&L management across the US, Canada, LATAM, MENA, Sri Lanka, Japan, and India. Currently managing a multi-million dollar SAP & AI portfolio at Cognizant across retail, consumer goods, travel, and hospitality—with an additional mandate to scale an AI service line.

Proven track record of building SAP practices from the ground up, winning large-deal pursuits, and delivering complex S/4HANA transformations for Fortune 500 clients. Leading SAP HANA sales and presales executive and an artificial intelligence evangelist with expertise in AI/ML, SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP, Joule, Signavio, SAP CX, and SAP Business Cloud—combined with sharp commercial instincts as an entrepreneur who built a multi-million-dollar consulting firm with 350+ resources.

Recognized as Cognizant Global ‘Service Line Leader of the Year 2023 & 2024’ and Best Growth Service Line RCGTH 2025. Known for bridging C-suite strategy with ground-level execution, maintaining >40% proposal win rate, and consistently delivering above-target revenue across 48+ enterprise accounts. Established clear market share and lead with industry analysts, partners and account leadership

position: SAP Practice Leader - NA

description: Accomplished and results-driven Digital leader, P&L owner with experience in managing relationships and delivering large scale programs for customers across Retail, Consumer Goods, Travel and Hospitality. Working as a CXO advisors driving the large complex clients to modernize their landscape and identifyng the opportunity and enable them to drive to leverage GenAI / LLM's and AgenticAI's. Helped Fortune 500 companies define their Digital, Data, Cloud and Innovation strategy to grow their busine

position: SAP Transformation leader, CxO Advisory, Canada, US East

description:
Driving Digital strategies with major clients at C-suite level to strategically align clients' business goals to transformational initiatives. Responsible for SAP S/4 transformation, digital enablement and market growth of Canada and East region of US.

Responsible for revenue growth, incremental TCV, Providing SAP executive advisory, Strategic advisory, business development, client management, program governance, global delivery management, software evaluation, Cloud services, product enablem

position: Founder and CEO @ tophyre.com

company: Tophyre

description: An AI/ML Based Interview and Vetting platform and marketplace to identify top 3% of Cream resources across IT & BPM Skillsets. It provides 360* view of a resource shortlist and map with the role he fits including Psychometric assessment. Thriving to be an Artificial intelligence Evangelist to save 50% of hiring time across industries.

position: Founder & CEO, A Digital Evangelist (CX, IoT,AI,ML & Cloud)

company: Arrowhead Consulting Group Inc

description:
(Acquired by a Large Investment Group, UAE, MENA)

Strategic Entrepreneur with forward thinking professionals addressing key business and technology issues. We transform fundamentals of business to Competitive edge by leveraging digital tools & technologies ... "Digital Transformation"  .

We helped organizations assess how to minimize their IT investments and works with them to achieve their vision. We help our client to prepare the roadmap, implement technology to improve our clients' product

position: Director - SAP Projects

company: Cognizant Technology Solutions

description:
Responsibilities Includes :
Heading Delivery and Business development of strategic accounts in the retail and CPG industry vertical of North America. Managing the regional Presales, Solutions, Account mining (Revenue Generation), Profitability, Client Aquisition

Strategic Advisor for several key clients..

Bid Management, Proposal response, Proposal defense and devising winning strategy. Build best delivery model ( Innovation driven Integrated delivery Model) leads to an award for show casing

position: Presales and Delivery Head - India & Sri Lanka

company: Fujitsu

description: I was responsible for P&L of all customer accounts and new business in India and Sri Lanka. I was Also heading the PLM competancy of Fujitsu consulting India

position: SAP Presales & Delivery Head, Fujitsu Consulting UAE

description: Heading Presales & Delivery of Middle East region Including UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman & Qatar.

position: Senior Manager - SAP Practice

description: Responsible for P&L management of central region. Build the PLM competancy of North america region..

content:
For 26 years, I slept 3.5 - 4 hours a night.
Tried everything. Doctors. Ayurveda. Yoga. Great advice from mentors I deeply respect.
Nothing moved the number.
Two days back, my sleep specialist showed me something I didn't expect.
My brain is now getting 28 extra minutes of rest.

The reason? I started offloading my pending work to AI before bed.
No open loops. No 1am mental rehearsals.
Brain fin

content:
Truly delighted to meet Sindhu Gangadharan at SAP Sapphire 2026, Orlando, along with my friend Arun Ramanathan.

Sindhu has played a remarkable role in shaping SAP Labs India into one of SAP’s most strategic innovation hubs globally. Meeting such an inspiring woman leader was a privilege.

I, at Cognizant, am deeply involved in scaling GenAI and Agentic solutions to our enterprise clients, while S

content:
After sitting on the panel at the Bengaluru Climate Summit - Alternate '26, I felt compelled to write. Not a report. A reflection.

We spoke about floods, air, water, waste. But one thing stayed with me — e-waste. Bengaluru generates 2–3 lakh tonnes a year. 90% handled informally. 80% of the toxins silently entering the soil and groundwater of 13 million people. The city powering India's tech econ

content:
Friends are friends. Titles don't change that.

SAP Sapphire 2026. Thousands of people. Big energy everywhere.
And then my college mate Saravan Chellamuthu walks up, now leading AI transformation at PepsiCo, also a client of the company I work for.

Didn't matter. Within thirty seconds, we were just two guys from college catching up.

That's the thing about real friendships. They survive titles, r

content:
AI is table stakes now. Here's what actually separates the winners.

Context is the moat. Everything else is a commodity.

Palo Alto. This week. SAP RPT-1.X Workshop — not yet released to clients. First look.
And the first thing I'll tell you is this.
RPT is not GPT. GPT is a language model. Text in, text out.
RPT is a data model. Built from the ground up for structured, tabular business data. Tra

evidence_experience: "Working as a CXO advisors driving the large complex clients to modernize their landscape and identifyng the opportunity and enable them to drive to leverage GenAI / LLM's and AgenticAI's... Responsible for sales growth and delivery of 40+ clients in America's"


Julius Heriban

publicIdentifier: julius-heriban

sourced_title: Practice Lead for Cloud Migration and Modernisation (MiMo) for ASG/DACH region

headline: Director, Cloud First Solution Architecture at Accenture, Unleashing the full potential of the Cloud

about:
Chief Technology Officer and Lead Cloud Architect with 20 years’ of experience in enterprise architecture and the Management of teams related to solution development, engineering, business analysis and business strategy, digitalization, major bid/sales engagements, Consulting, Outsourcing, C-Level Advisory, Stakeholders management....
Accomplished public event speaker and thought leader on a variety of subjects ranging from Cloud and Software Defined Datacentre, thru security to application modernization up to business model transformation and digitalization.
Leadership and Chair for Community of Practice for Architecture, Engineering, Cloud Transformation and Disaster Recovery domain, providing the leadership and inspired by the constantly evolving market and technology which we operate today and tomorrow.
Responsible for maintaining a comprehensive working knowledge across a broad technology spectrum, specializing in innovation management, technological evolution, cloud strategy development and implementation.
Experienced in running platform and product development initiatives, based Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Scrum, Kanban but as well traditional project Management (PMI) and service Excellence by Six Sigma and ITIL.
Skilled in customer consultancy, bid and pre-sales support by, driving the architecture and technical aspects of the solution on vendor/provider side and bridging it to the customers. This incl. business case construction, cost justification and overall value proposition.
Extensive expertise on transition and transformation projects for enterprise customers, especially Datacentre consolidation and cloud sourcing and migration projects.
Maturity in Service Delivery and operational processes, incl. steering and abstracting the Technical and Engineering

position: Financial Services Practice Lead for Cloud First Solution Architecture

company: Accenture DACH

description: Lead Solution Architect and Practice Lead for the Financial Services (FS) domain of Cloud First for the DACH region, managing the intersection between FS customers and Cloud Solutions

position: Director Solution Architecture, Cloud First

description: Helping customers to unleash the full potential of Cloud based solutions and as result to innovate faster and grow sustainable digital business.

company: Accenture

description: Leading the Cloud First Solution Architecture Practice for the domain of Cloud Migration and Modernisation (MiMo), mainly focused on customer business/projects in the region of Austria, Switzerland and Germany (ASG) and related MNCs headquartered in this region. Focus mainly on Business Development, (pre) Sales and Solution Architecture to satisfy the needs of our customers and drive their value resulting from Cloud adoption.

position: Chair of Technical Architecture Board for Cloud and DR, SAFe Enterprise Architect

company: Amadeus

description: Chairman of the Cloud DR (CDR) Technical Alignment Board (TAB), Team Management of Senior Architects, Engineers and Manager, each representing distinct technical domain critical for the Cloud transformation of Amadeus. Bringing together the Application Owners of the Business Units with the tech experts and Engineering leads to power the company wide Cloud transformation. Aligning the technical aspects of the cloud based technologies supply with the internal and external customer requirements for

position: Senior Technical Manager and Chief Platform Architect, CTO Office, TPE-ATG, Amadeus Data Processing

description: As Senior Technical Manager and Chief Architect within the CTO Office of the Platform Unit of Amadeus Group, I have the pleasure to work with bleeding edge technology and drive the development and delivery of services powering the travel industry.  This includes engineering leadership, C-Level advisory for the infrastructure/cloud architecture and digital innovation of the portfolio for major mission critical applications based on Java, C++, Web 2.0, micro services, event driven and streaming or

position: Technical Product Manager for Hybrid Cloud Disaster Recovery

description: Next to my duties within the CTO Office of the Amadeus Technology, Platforms and Engineering unit, I've took over the technical responsibility of big corporate initiative tasked with solutioning and procuring a large-scale Disaster Recovery (DR) capability. This had to be based on the Hybrid Cloud, predominantly Public Cloud such as AWS/GCP/Azure/IBM-Cloud and by this use flexible commercial model of Cloud to enable the financial burden of DR, while deliver the business critical RTO/RPO and 99.9

position: Director of Enterprise Architecture and Cloud Transformation, Cloud CTO Office, Digital Division

company: T-Systems International GmbH

description:
Driving the Cloud Strategy, Portfolio Development, Digital Transformation and Digital Innovation within the CTO Office of the Cloud Partner Products and Eco-systems (CPPE) of T-Systems. Establish and manage parter relationships with leading vendors for public clouds such AWS, Microsoft, VMware, Veritas, NetApp, Dell... and oversight over the domain of IaaS, PaaS incl. Kubernetes/K8S and development of managed services and IT services management models on top.
Evaluation and selection of Technolo

position: vCloud Chief Architect and CTO for the VMware reletad Ecosystem,

description:
Chief Architect for the DSI-vCloud (IaaS) Offering and the CTO for whole VMware Ecosystem incl. the on-top build PaaS and SaaS Products of T-Systems and Deutsche Telekom.
Architecting and further developing various aspects of the Cloud Offering in close cooperation with the technology vendors and various internal units (from delivery to sales).
Steering the solutioning and engineering team for platform development and project delivery.
Integration of multiple products to the leading Cloud IaaS o

content: I’m now Successfully certified for Reinvention with Agentic AI badge from Accenture.

evidence_experience: "Leading the Cloud First Solution Architecture Practice for the domain of Cloud Migration and Modernisation (MiMo)... Focus mainly on Business Development, (pre) Sales and Solution Architecture to satisfy the needs of our customers and drive their value resulting from Cloud adoption."