Kirsty Barkhuizen

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sourced_title: Associate Director Digital Product | Enablement | Innovation

headline: Digital Product & Transformation Leader | Creating customer-first experiences | Platform-minded, outcome-led

about:
With over 22 years in the digital arena, I specialize in strategic transformation, advisory, and leadership roles. My unique perspective on business challenges enables me to develop innovative, practical, and sustainable solutions that drive significant change.

As a seasoned leader, I've successfully built and rehabilitated high-performing teams from the ground up. My journey through the digital landscape has equipped me with a comprehensive understanding of what it takes to transform a business digitally. I've played a pivotal role in forming and executing enterprise strategies across diverse sectors.

My leadership approach is collaborative and people-centric, focusing on leveraging each team member's strengths. I excel in connecting the dots, creating a compelling vision, and guiding teams through transformative journeys. Resilience and creativity are at the core of my problem-solving approach, enabling me to overcome complex challenges and shift paradigms.

company: Accenture

position: Founder and Director

company: Cithara Studios

position: Chief Digital and Data Officer

company: Cell C

position: Chief Digital Officer

company: Nacelle

position: Business Director

company: Cognifide

position: Executive Head: Advisory Services and Strategy

company: Wyzetalk

position: Digital Transformation and Strategy

company: Deloitte South Africa

description: Contrated on a social enterprise project for one of the large SA mines

position: Head Channel Strategist

company: Absa Group

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Markus Uellendahl

sourced_title: Senior Partner | Global Practice Lead Operations

headline: Senior Partner | Executive Committee Member | Global Lead Operations

about:
Mich fasziniert die Suche nach dem nächsten “Step Change”.

Damit meine ich einen bedeutenden Sprung in der Leistungsfähigkeit eines Systems oder Teams, der wesentlich größer ist als die üblichen Optimierungen.

Das führt dazu, dass Vorstände, Manager und Produktionsmitarbeiter gemeinsam über die Fabrik der Zukunft schwärmen.

Denn dann wird die Produktion der Zukunft zum Wettbewerbsvorteil – sie transformiert den Betrieb vom Kostenfaktor zum Rendite- und Umsatztreiber!

Seit meinem Studium verspüre ich den Drang dazu, von Technologie inspiriert, Systemgrenzen zu verschieben. Mein Kommilitone und ich merkten Ende der 90er Jahre nicht, dass wir ein Tablet entwickelten, als wir das Interface „Bildschirm“ von der Recheneinheit des Laptops trennen wollten. Wir verwarfen unsere Vision damals und fokussierten uns auf den Abschluß an der TU Berlin.

Nach meiner Diplomarbeit bei Volkswagen in Mexiko startete ich in der Luft- und Raumfahrt bei Airbus. Dort merkte ich, dass Produktion und Logistik mehr als nur Kostenfaktoren sind. Als Fertigungsleiter begeisterte mich die Verantwortung, mit der Lean Transformation von über 240 Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern im 3-Schicht-Betrieb auf zwei Montagelinien zu einem echten Wettbewerbsvorteil für Airbus zu werden.

Als Senior Partner und Standortleiter unseres Berliner Büros sorge ich mit meiner Mannschaft dafür, dass Vorstände, Werkleiter, Anlaufmanager, Logistikplaner und Projektmanager genau wissen, wie die Produktionsstrategie der Zukunft für sie und ihr Unternehmen aussehen kann. Häufig überlagern sich neue Technologien mit alten Problemen der Fertigung. Gleichzeitig ermöglichen Innovationskraft und Innovationsgeschwindigkeit in allen Branchen neue Wettbewerbsvorteile für produzierende Unternehmen.

Für mich geht es dabei um mehr

company: Porsche Consulting

end: Present

description:
Global Practice Operations - turning strategy into value, from top floor to shopfloor:
- Operations Strategy
- Supply Chain Management
- Procurement & Supplier Excellence
- Manufacturing
- Quality-Driven Enterprise
- Industrialization & Launch Management

The result: customer-centric, profitable, resilient and circular value creation processes.

position: Senior Partner Automotive

description:
In this role I initiated projects for digital transformation in the factory or in the global production network.

This support ranges from the development of new business models and smart factory concepts to the scaling of solutions via a digital production platform or the industrial cloud. The updating of the production strategy or the necessary reorganization of indirect areas is of course also part of this.

In our Innovation Lab in Berlin, our consultants ensure that groundbreaking concepts

position: Associate Partner / Partner Automotive, Production Management and Factory Operation

description:
Result:
Successful architecture and management of all consulting activities of a global efficiency program across more than ten locations in the automotive industry.
-Program Office (management of twelve locations, committee work, roadmap, communication)
-Piloting of initiatives in the locations and coordination of roll-out (standards)
Employee responsibility: 14

position: Project Manager / Senior Project Manager Production & Logistics

description:
Result:
Sustainable successful factory operation (eight projects in the areas of factory cost reduction, ramp-up management, material cost potential and global footprint)

position: Senior Manager Assembly Vertical Tail Plane A320/A340/A350

company: Airbus Operations GmbH

description:
Result:
"Step Change" Lean Production A320 assembly line, 20% increase in productivity and lead time, reduction in shifts and span of control, culture of improvement in cooperation with the works council
Award for Excellence "Act with Courage”
Employee responsibility: 10 foremen, 240 employees, 3-shift operation

position: Manager Line Support Systems Installation A380

description:
Result:
Successful transnational start-up management of the operational work preparation in the series start-up of the A380 flowline (process planning, production control, technical support)
Employee responsibility: 110

position: Team Leader Logistics Planning CoE Fuselage Assembly Hamburg

description:
Result:
Award for Excellence "Efficiency", planning and implementation of logistics concepts from the supplier to the point of use for two new assembly lines, further development of the materials management centre (company size 150 employees) including order management
Employee responsibility: 14

position: Supply Chain Manager

description:
Result:
Development and implementation of delivery concepts for hydraulic systems and air conditioning pipes

content:
When it matters, getting it done is the real difference.

On my way to the U.S. today — joining a team fully committed to one mission: helping a global high-tech client revitalize production rate and enable its ambitious growth agenda.

This is where industrialization becomes real.💪🏻

On the shop floor, across functions, with suppliers, engineering, operations, and leadership aligned around one ob

content:
A proud moment.

Congratulations Fabian Aymanns on your promotion to Associate Partner.

Some promotions feel especially rewarding...
and this is definitely one of them.

You have earned your stripes across countless projects in Europe, China, and the US. Over the years, you have become a true Swiss Army knife of our Operations practice, someone we can rely on to create operational, financial, and

content:
🏆💡 AI is no longer about potential. It’s about real impact now!

Where companies achieve measurable results with AI, these successes deserve visibility – and an inspiring evening in Munich 🥨.

The AI Impact Award by Porsche Consulting x manager magazin shows, where Artificial Intelligence is rigorously embedded into processes, products, and industrial reality.

Three winning companies perfectly st

content:
Center Stage - HANNOVER MESSE: Sharing the spotlight with Barack Obama, Céline Flores Willers and Carsten Maschmeyer.

In reality – our team of four manufacturing partners Ole Sassenroth, Tobias Helberg and Robert Heiler lived the „Think Tech Forward" spirit on the ground.

An excellent stopover to gauge latest tech readiness on innovations like humanoids and AI agent platforms. These insights con

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Bertrand Baret

publicIdentifier: bertrandbaret

headline: Onepoint - Directeur Général Délégué / Chief Operating Officer

about:
30+ years of international experience in Strategy, Operations & Digital/Technology Consulting

Managing Partner of large European Consulting Business Unit – P&L management
(transformation and accelerated organic and M&A growth)

Business development and long-term C-level client relationships building in France/Europe

Selling and management of transformational strategic and performance improvement
programs for mid to large sized Groups (Retail, Consumer Products, Government, Industry, Energy)

After obtaining a Master of Science from Ecole Polytechnique, I developed my skills over the next 30 years working for various management and strategy consulting firms such as; Accenture, A.T Kearney, Roland Berger, Bain and EY Consulting before joining OnePoint.

My extensive experience has enabled me to help clients achieve their full economic potential with sustainable results.

Specialities :
Strategy, Global Strategic Transformation Programs, Post Merger Integration, Change Management, Synergies Generation, Purchasing Optimisation, Manufacturing Optimisation, Operational Performance, Restructuring in many different industries.

company: Onepoint

description: 110 Partners - 3.900 business and technology consultants

position: EY Consulting - France - President & Managing Partner

company: EY

description: 100 Partners - 1.500 consultants

position: EY Consulting - Europe West - Deputy Managing Partner

description:
France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Portugal, Maghreb, Ivory Coast
450 Partners - 8.500 consultants

position: EY Consulting - Western Europe & Maghreb (WEM) - Managing Partner

description:
France, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Maghreb, Ivory Coast
160 Partners - 2.400 consultants

position: EY Consulting - France Deputy Managing Partner

description: Senior Partner in EY Consulting, a leading global management consulting firm dedicated to developing practical, action oriented insights to deliver sustainable results. EY Consulting partners with global clients across all industries on their most critical decisions involving strategy, operations, digital, technology, organization, mergers and acquisitions and tax & law.

position: Board Member

company: Syntec Conseil

position: Senior Partner

company: Bain & Company

description:
Responsible of the Performance Improvement Practice
Member of the Industrial Goods & Services Practice (Energy & Utilities, Transportation, Process Industries / Engineered Products)
Founder  and responsible of the Public Services Practice

Main achievements
• Selling and delivery of large scale projects for global clients
• Strong growth of PI turnover with industrial clients (+21% annual growth over 2010-2012)

company: Roland Berger Strategy Consultants

description:
Member of Management Committee and HR Committee
Founder and leader of the Public Services Competence Center
Co-founder and co-leader of the Operations Strategy Competence Center
Co-leader of the utilities Competence Center
Co-founder of Roland Berger office in Morocco

Main achievements
• Restructuring and accelerated growth of RB : tripled the turnover and size from 60 to 200 consultants in Paris, building of a recognized player with strong brand on the French market
• Creation and development

content:
Recherche fondamentale au sein de l'Institut et Education : la singularité qui fait que Onepoint est unique !

Bravo à Muriel Touaty et à toutes les équipes !

content: Bienvenu à bord de l'aventure de la croissance accélérée de Onepoint Anthony Cirot

content:
On ne “matche” pas avec un agent par hasard.

Chez Onepoint, nous avons intégré l’IA au cœur du travail des consultants, avec une plateforme d’agents conçue pour amplifier leurs capacités au quotidien.

Analyser plus vite. Structurer mieux. Décider avec plus de précision.
C’est tout l’enjeu de notre nouvelle campagne de recrutement : proposer à chacun de “matcher” avec l’agent qui lui correspond,

content:
Le Revolution Summit 2026 de Onepoint : 3500 participants dont de nombreux CEO et tous nos partenaires stratégiques.

Un grand succès au service de la généralisation concrète de l'IA et de l'agentique à l'échelle pour nos clients ! L'avenir s'écrit en ce moment même.

Merci à La Lettre du conseil d'avoir participé.

David Layani Matthieu Fouquet Jean-Fabrice COPE Gontran Peubez Maria José Lopez

content: merci de votre confiance Bertrand Savouré

disposition: QUALIFIED

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Dr Anish Shivdasani

sourced_title: Head of Digital Assets- Digital, AI and Entrepreneurship Practice

resolved_account_name: Roland Berger


Lucia Rahilly

publicIdentifier: luciarahilly

sourced_title: Global Editorial Director, McKinsey Publishing

headline: Global Editorial Director & Deputy Publisher at McKinsey & Company

position: Global Editorial Director & Deputy Publisher, McKinsey Publishing

company: McKinsey & Company

position: Global Publications Director, McKinsey Publishing

position: Director, Global Editorial Services

position: Executive Editor, Knowledge Services

position: Managing Editor, Knowledge Services

position: Managing Editor

company: Horsesmouth

position: Writer, Development Communications

company: Harvard University

content:
Everyone’s talking about what #AI means for our #productivity. But what does it mean for the health of our brains?

Join McKinsey Health Institute's Erica Hutchins Coe, Kana Enomoto, Jacqui Brassey, PhD, MA, MAfN and me this Thursday, June 25 at 1030am ET, for a McKinsey Live webinar on why brain capital matters in the age of AI—and what leaders can do to strengthen it.

Register here: https://ln

content:
I've said it once before, but it bears repeating (to quote #TheWhiteStripes): One of the best parts of my job at #McKinsey is having the opportunity to sit down with our experts and talk about their latest research. And on Tuesday April 21, I'm doing exactly that, live--and you're invited.

Join me for a McKinsey & Company Live webinar with Senior Partners Rob Levin and Kate Smaje, co-authors of

content:
Frank, funny, and really effing smart: McKinsey & Company ’s North America Chair Eric Kutcher brought the elusive trifecta to our conversation on what he calls “the most interesting transformational moment we’ll live through in our professional careers.”

Listen here for Eric’s insider POV on today's make-or-break test of CEOs’ leadership skills, what some executives are getting wrong, and what th

internal_vs_external: internal

evidence_experience: Career progression entirely within McKinsey's internal Knowledge Services / Global Editorial Services / Publishing functions (Managing Editor, Knowledge Services -> Executive Editor, Knowledge Services -> Director, Global Editorial Services -> Global Publications Director -> Global Editorial Director & Deputy Publisher), indicating long-tenured ownership of McKinsey's internal editorial/publishing operation, but not explicitly framed as IP-reuse, confidentiality-scrubbing, or AI-on-the-knowledge-base ownership.

resolved_account_name: McKinsey New Ventures (part of McKinsey & Company)


Kris Burkhardt

sourced_title: Chief Information Security Officer


Lyn Welsch

publicIdentifier: lyn-welsch

sourced_title: Vice President Digital Strategy

headline: Vice President Strategy at OMMAX - BUILDING DIGITAL LEADERS | Digital Strategy and Implementation | Digital Business Model and Growth | Commercial, Tech and Data Due Diligence

position: Vice President Digital Strategy

company: OMMAX

position: Director Digital Strategy

position: Digital Strategy Manager

position: Senior Digital Strategy Consultant

position: Senior Marketing Manager

company: Experteer

position: Marketing Manager B2B

position: Project Management

company: EO Executives - German

position: Consultant

content: Dr. Anja Konhäuser shared her perspective on AI in the fitness industry at the #DIFG Wirtschaftstag this week. The main takeaways apply well beyond fitness: Use AI to build resilience, put business before tool selection, start small and align fast (e.g., hold hackathons to transition from potential to pilot), and encourage leadership-driven adoption.

content:
Sharing this great recap of the #KNOW Breakfast hosted by KPMG Network Of Women in Munich.
The numbers speak for themselves: while most CFOs see AI as central to their strategy, execution remains the real hurdle. The takeaway I appreciate most: 80% organization, 20% technology.
AI success depends on governance, leadership, and clarity of purpose – not just tools.

role_nature: other

evidence_experience: Progression through Digital Strategy Consultant -> Manager -> Director -> VP Digital Strategy at OMMAX, all client-facing digital strategy/due diligence roles with no internal knowledge/AI function ownership described.

resolved_account_name: OMMAX


Anna van den Breemer- Kleene

publicIdentifier: anna-van-den-breemer-kleene

headline: Partner EY | AI & Digital Transformation Leader | Helping Institutions Lead with Trust, Ethics & Impact  (former Board Member Microsoft)

about:
I believe AI should do more than drive efficiency — it should strengthen trust, elevate human judgment, and create long-term value for society.

As Partner at EY, I work at the intersection of AI, leadership and complex systems — guiding organizations across the public sector, education, healthcare, financial services and beyond. My mission: to help leaders harness AI not just to transform operations, but to amplify purpose and integrity in how they serve people.

With more than a decade of experience — including 10 years at Microsoft — I now help boards and executive teams:

▸ Navigate responsible AI strategies and governance at scale
▸ Build future-proof digital capabilities in regulated environments
▸ Balance innovation with ethical, legal and societal risk
▸ Align technology with public trust, inclusion and leadership culture

I specialize in transitional spaces — where industries are being reshaped by regulation, trust is fragile, and systems must adapt to accelerating change.

I believe that the most meaningful innovation happens between disciplines, sectors and people — and that AI can be a force for public good if we design it that way.

If you’re working at the intersection of technology, leadership and social responsibility — let’s connect.

position: Executive Board Member

company: Merem Medische Revalidatie

position: Diversity and inclusion sponsor Microsoft NL

company: Microsoft

position: Public Sector Lead - Leadership Team Microsoft NL

position: Sales lead Government

position: Account Executive - Public Safety & National Security

position: Bestuurslid

company: Vereniging De Gooische School

position: Account Director

company: Oracle

content:
I was asked to reflect on a critical question: what role can the Netherlands play in the age of AI, and what will it take to strengthen its competitive position in Europe and beyond?
This question sits at the heart of the 'EY Netherlands Attractiveness Survey 2026 (NAS)', which examines the forces shaping investment decisions and competitiveness in an increasingly complex global environment.

🌟 Ye

content:
Turning AI Ambition into Enterprise-Scale Reality! Proud to share the next step in our EYx Microsoft alliance.
Today, EY announced a US$1bn+ joint investment to help organizations move beyond AI experimentation and truly scale AI across the enterprise.
What makes this exciting to me is the combination of strengths: Microsoft’s engineering power and EY’s industry depth, brought together in one inte

content: Having an AI agent as your personal assistant may sound futuristic, but for Michel Bouman it’s already becoming reality 🌟💫 . Michel is one of the most inspiring visionaries I know, and hearing him talk about his personal AI assistant 'Red' and the possibilities of agentic AI genuinely blew my mind💛. This was a glimpse into how we may all work in the near future: supported by intelligent agents tha

content:
Dear AI, I have a writer’s block..
…and I don’t want you to solve it.

That may sound strange. I work in AI. Every day, I talk to clients and teams about how it accelerates work, boosts productivity, and unlocks new ideas. Yet when I sat down to write this, I caught myself thinking: I can’t ask AI to write it for me. Because when AI writes my content, it doesn’t sound like me. And people notice th

content:
Our EY X Microsoft growth ambition is bold! 💛 That is why Julie Linn Teigland our global vice chair alliances visited our Dutch EY and Microsoft LT. Many thanks for the warm welcome Joris Schoonis and team..
As agentic AI accelerates: focusing on orchestrating across core processes with deep client context, and sovereign AI becomes essential in regulated markets, strong partnership between busin

evidence_experience: "I work at the intersection of AI, leadership and complex systems — guiding organizations across the public sector, education, healthcare, financial services and beyond... I now help boards and executive teams: Navigate responsible AI strategies and governance at scale" - this is advisory work sold to clients, not internal EY function ownership.

resolved_account_name: EY ifb


Gareth M.

publicIdentifier: garethmclaughlin

sourced_title: Global Director of Talent Attraction- Ops and Enablement CoE (AI, Digital, Tech and Capability)

headline: Global Director of TA Operations and Enablement (AI, Digital, Process and Capability) at McKinsey & Company

about:
Strategic Talent Acquisition leader with 20 years’ experience shaping and running global hiring operations across Europe, Asia, South America, and USA. Experience spans campus, professional, and executive recruitment for client-facing and internal functions, with particular strength in building scalable ways of working, supporting geographic expansion, and modernizing technology in complex global organizations.

Known for a collaborative, down-to-earth leadership style and the ability to build trust at all levels. Brings energy, humility, and sound judgment, with a pragmatic, hands-on approach informed by a deep understanding of frontline work and its impact on candidates, recruiters, and hiring managers.

Experienced in:

-Leadership of diverse International teams.
-Technology implementation and AI solutions development.
-Driving recruitment delivery initiatives across a broad spectrum of skillsets from Director level to high volume and BPO.
-Executive and leadership succession planning.
-Strategic business partnership on key global start up initiatives, including building TA process for high growth operations centres in Latin America, USA, EMEA and Asia Pacific.
-Diversity and Inclusion programme development and implementation, including executive sponsorship and participation with Employee Networks.

description: Leading the newly created Enablement Center of Excellence for Global Talent Attraction and oversight for our TA Operations function globally. The CoE works across the Global TA ecosystem to enhance our distinctive candidate experience with market leading processes and innovative digital solutions, enabled by AI.

position: Global Director of Talent Attraction- McKinsey Global Services

description: Leading an incredible global team of over 100 recruiting professionals globally overseeing hiring across McKinsey internal functions.

position: Senior Manager of Talent Attraction, Americas

description: Leading the delivery of internal function hiring across the Americas region, hiring high impact roles for core functions including Technology & Digital, Learning, Communications, Finance, and Global Support Offices.

position: Head of Talent Acquisition, EMEA (1 year Assignment)

company: State Street

description:
Contract assignment due to temporary relocation to Ireland.

Leading a diverse team of 70 Talent Acquisition professionals across the EMEA region, delivering c.6,000 hires per annum. Accountability for driving optimization across Talent Acquisition delivery, with focus on recruiting and operational excellence to deliver a seamless client and candidate experience.

position: Talent Acquisition Director- Global Shared Services, Claims and Operations

company: AIG

description: Global oversight responsibility for Global Shared Services, Claims and Operations representing an employee population of approximately 17,000 across 16 global sites. Responsible for establishing a scalable Talent Acquisition delivery solution for new and high growth centers across Latin America, USA, EMEA and APAC.

position: Director- Head of Talent Acquisition, Latin America and TA Program Manager, Americas Shared Services

position: Director- Head of Talent Acquisition, Asia Pacific

position: Vice President- Executive Recruitment Manager APAC- Treasury and Security Services

company: J.P. Morgan

content:
We built Prep Partner to help candidates prepare with confidence.

We know preparing for consulting interviews can feel intimidating, especially around "the math." Prep Partner is a GenAI-enabled tool that helps candidates who have been invited to our consulting interviews practice using their quantitative skills to help solve business scenarios.

We're excited to add Prep Partner to the range of

content:
🔔 Ready to grow your influence and impact? Next Generation Women Leaders is your opportunity, and applications are still open!

This April, women from across Europe will come together in Paris for a pivotal, three-day experience focused on growth, learning, and connection.

At McKinsey & Company, we’re proud of our commitment to developing talent—including being ranked #1 on TIME’s Best Companies

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evidence_experience: Leading the newly created Enablement Center of Excellence for Global Talent Attraction and oversight for our TA Operations function globally... enhance our distinctive candidate experience with market leading processes and innovative digital solutions, enabled by AI.


Eileen Hoggett

sourced_title: Chief Operating Officer and Head of Corporate Affairs

headline: Chief Operating Officer at KPMG Australia

about:
I am currently a member of KPMG Australia's National Executive Committee as the COO of KPMG Australia and the South ASPAC Group. Prior to being appointed COO in July 2023 I was KPMG's National Managing Partner - Audit, Assurance & Risk Consulting since July 2021 and prior to that I was Partner in Charge - External Audit since 2017.   I have been with KPMG for over 33 years, specialising in providing audit and assurance services to clients in the property, construction and funds management industries. I was made partner in 2005 and was on the Board of KPMG Australia from 2016 for 5 years.

I am currently KPMG's executive sponsor for Domestic and Family Violence and an Advocate for Women's Community Shelters.

I am a board member of the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute and previously a member of the Audit Committee for St Vincent's Health Australia. I have also previously been a Board member of Alzheimer’s Australia (NSW) and, a Board member and Audit Committee Chair of CatholicCare, the welfare agency of the Catholic church.

https://home.kpmg.com/au/en/home/contacts/h/eileen-hoggett.htmlam currently

position: Chief Operating Officer of KPMG Australia and South ASPAC Group

company: KPMG Australia

position: Partner

description: Extensive experience in the property, construction and funds management industries from servicing the major participants in the industry.

position: Auditor

position: Partner in Charge - External Audit

content: Happy IWD to all the amazing women in my life. This is one of my most favourite quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt. When we are put in hot water, that’s when we shine and grow.

content: #HarmonyDay is about creating environments where people from all backgrounds feel a genuine sense of belonging and can contribute at their best. Being part of the South ASPAC Group, I see the benefits of this diversity every day - how it strengthens our thinking and enables us to deliver stronger outcomes together. I’m proud to be part of a team where diversity isn’t just celebrated, it drives the

content: At KPMG, we believe corporates play an important role in supporting victims and survivors of domestic and family violence.  If we ask our people to bring their whole selves to work, we must be prepared to support them, wholeheartedly. Last week we hosted a powerful conversation in support of St Vincent's Open Support who helps women and children experiencing family violence rebuild their lives thr

evidence_experience: Career is audit/assurance partner track (33 years); COO role is broad corporate operations (finance, ops, corporate affairs) with no explicit mention of owning knowledge/IP-reuse/AI/confidentiality-governance function specifically.

resolved_account_name: KPMG Australia


Edward (Ted) Kwartler

publicIdentifier: edwardkwartler

headline: Transformative Technical Leader in ML, Generative AI, LLMs and Red Teaming; Adjunct Professor & Published Author

about:
As a visionary executive and strategic leader, I bridge the gap between technology innovation and business value. With 20+ years of experience spanning operations, product management, data science, sales, and executive strategy, I excel in aligning multidisciplinary teams to actually apply AI/ML solutions.

Key Strengths & Experience:
- Responsible AI Advancement: Developed and spearheaded agentic Responsible AI red teaming initiatives for large LLM providers, enterprises, and streaming platforms.
- Generative AI Expertise: Facilitated communication between executives, data scientists, engineers, and end-users, ensuring seamless integration of generative AI solutions.
- Cross-Disciplinary Leadership: Proven track record of leading, mentoring, and expanding high-performing teams across operations, engineering, and data science.
- Strategic Guidance: Provided clarity and direction to executive management and technical teams, prioritizing initiatives and overcoming ambiguity.
- Data Science Acumen: Combined technical expertise in coding, NLP and data science with executive vision to drive enterprise solutions, enhanced by teaching and mentoring expertise.

Professional Impact:
With expertise spanning multiple industries, I empower organizations to harness data-driven insights, leverage technology, and drive transformative change. Let's connect and explore opportunities to revolutionize business landscapes.

position: Managing Director, Americas Practice Lead for Advanced AI

company: Accenture

description:
As the Americas Advanced AI owner, I lead Accenture’s comprehensive Advanced AI Practice, overseeing strategy and delivery execution for Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative AI (GenAI), and Responsible AI (RAI) projects. In this capacity, I help accelerate the creation of enterprise AI systems, the adoption of cutting-edge technologies, and enterprise innovation while remaining steadfast for real and practical solutions.
My deep technical and strategic expertise helps clients across multipl

description: The Managing Director, North America Responsible AI Lead is a pivotal executive role at Accenture, defining the development, implementation, and overall management of Accenture's Responsible AI offerings for the North American market.  The role integrates business strategy, machine learning, and generative AI, along with consulting services to increase AI adoption in a responsible, ethical, and explainable manner for Accenture's clients.

position: Adjunct Professor

company: Harvard Extension School

description: I teach the graduate level course "Data Mining for Business" where we explore the intersection of data with practical business applications.  The curriculum focuses on real-world, challenging data to inform business decisions rather than on theoretical application.  Computer science topics span the basics of machine learning, technical trading indicators, time series modeling, AI Ethics, web-scraping and new product growth modeling all applied in realistic business situations.

position: Professor

company: GSERM Global School in Empirical Research Methods

description: I instruct PhD candidates on empirical research methods using NLP and text mining approaches.  These intensive one week courses in Ljubljana (Slovenia) and St Gallen (Switzerland) help researchers learn the basics and intermediate techniques used by data scientists to extract meaningful insights from natural language.

position: Field, CTO: GenAI

company: DataRobot

description: As a Field CTO, focused on generative AI uses I guide product management initiatives and special project development based on customer and prospect interactions. As a member of executive leadership, I align with external partners and address industry analysts, promoting our large language model (LLM) and AI tool capabilities. These efforts include mentoring on the risks and capabilities of LLMs, strengthening NLP feature extraction, and enhancing knowledge bases used in production environments.

position: VP, Trusted AI

description: I manage a worldwide team of passionate software engineers, product managers, and data scientists seeking to engender trust in DataRobot's product suite.  We are concerned with responsible and ethical implications of ML/AI technology.  Therefore, our goal is to inform practitioners and those affected by AI so the technology is fair, unbiased and benefits society.  We execute by providing industry thought leadership, improving governance, and creating technical trust signals used in AI systems.

position: Advisor

company: Bureau of Economic Analysis

description: The Advisory Committee on Data for Evidence Building will review, analyze, and make recommendations on how to promote the use of Federal data for evidence building. Its duties include assisting the Director of the Office of Management and Budget on issues of access to data and providing recommendations on how to facilitate data sharing, data linkage, and privacy-enhancing techniques supporting all agencies in the Federal government. As a member of the committee, I will provide strategic guidance

position: Advisory Board Member

company: DataCamp

description: As an instructor advisory board member I ensure that the concerns of the broader instructor community are addressed within the educational ecosystem at DataCamp.  Further I help shape curriculum development so that their courses align to emerging technology, employer trends and address pedagogical differences among a diverse and inclusive student population.

content: Over the weekend I was proud to speak at the College of Education and Human Development - George Mason University degree celebration in front of thoursands!  Giving a speech to honor the graduates, the University's mission and to encourage a human-led AI future was a memory I will not soon forget. Not to brag but I think the speech landed really well (https://lnkd.in/ekvbNyeY)

content: Not surprising to see Xavier N. growing his company Momus Analytics and doing so well.  #AI in the legal space was truly a breakthrough years ahead of the industry.

evidence_experience: "The role integrates business strategy, machine learning, and generative AI, along with consulting services to increase AI adoption in a responsible, ethical, and explainable manner for Accenture's clients." and "My deep technical and strategic expertise helps clients across multiple aspects of the AI lifecycle."


Magali TESTARD

sourced_title: Senior Partner - Head of Operations, Restructuring, Perf. Improvement & Transformation (RB France)

headline: Senior Partner - Head of Operations, Restructuring, Performance Improvement & Transformation practice - Roland Berger France | France Management Team

about:
+25 years experience in Performance Improvement and Transformation, leading large and complex programs across multiple industries for Corporates and Private Equity companies (Value Creation, Full Potential programs)

My role: Team and P&L management, Business Development, Program/Project Management

Main industries:
Consumer Goods (cosmetics, luxury, food & beverages, FMCG)
Chemicals
Packaging Equipment
Materials & Process Industries
Aerospace & Defense

Functional Expertise:
Target Operating Model design and implementation
Performance Improvement
Value Creation Plan
S&GA optimisation
Operations (Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Spare Parts management, Operational Excellence)
Finance, HR

company: Roland Berger

position: Partner Strategy & Operations, Head of Operations Service Line

company: Deloitte

description:
Operations Strategy & transformation
Digital Operations and digital Procurement strategy
Sourcing & Procurement, Manufacturing,, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Maintenance, Spare
Parts management

Aerospace & Defense, Chemicals, Infrastructure Equipment, Consumer Goods, FMCG, Cosmetics and Luxuary goods

position: Partner- Strategy - Operations  - Sourcing & Procurement Practice Lead

company: ACCENTURE

description:
Sourcing & Procurement lead for all industries
Supply chain lead for CMT industries
Operations Transformation & Excellence
Lean Logistics, Transportation, Inventory Management, production management

position: Managing Director - Business Unit Director "Consulting Sourcing & Procurement"

company: CENTRAL COST

position: Manager Supply Chain and Logistics

company: AXELBOSS Consultants

position: Senior Consultant - Sourcing & Supply Chain Management

company: KPMG

content:
High uncertainty is keeping procurement teams up at night. Linear planning in one scenario just doesn't cut it anymore. Companies must now think in scenarios, keeping multiple futures on their radar and building strategies that work across them all.

Our new study “Procurement Endgame 2.0” shows four plausible futures for procurement, shaped by two forces no hashtag
#CPO can control: the pace of t

evidence_experience: "My role: Team and P&L management, Business Development, Program/Project Management" and "Operations Strategy & transformation... Sourcing & Procurement, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management" describing client industry work for Corporates and PE companies.


Jiani Zhang

sourced_title: Global Chief Product Officer

headline: Global Chief Product Officer | Chief Software Officer | President | General Manager | Managing Director

about:
Accomplished C-level executive with >1B P&L responsibilities and extensive achievements in business growth and business turnarounds. Has successfully grown newly established businesses and product portfolios from conceptualization to successful go-to-market and proven results in turning around struggling businesses to achieve consistent growth and profitability. Fully versatile business and technical leader with experience in M&A, strategy, global sales, product management, marketing, and product development. Holds a strong track record in establishing and leading international, cross-functional teams with responsibilities in general management, client management, strategy development, and execution.

Specialties: Strategy and Product Management, Go-to-Market Strategy, Market Development, Technology, International Operations, Technology Management

position: Global Chief Product Officer

company: EY

position: Member

company: Forbes Technology Council

position: Executive Vice President and Chief Software Product Officer

company: Capgemini Engineering

description: I lead and drive the growth of Capgemini’s Global Software Product Engineering Growth Platform where we enable our clients to master their software-driven transformation, driving outcomes by building embedded software, digital product software and industry software platforms for intelligent industry.

position: President, Alliance and Industrial Business Unit

company: Persistent Systems

position: General Manager and SVP, Industrial and IoT Solutions

position: Managing Director, Offering Management, Industrial Analytics/IoT and Watson IoT Platform

company: IBM

position: Global Senior Manager, Offering Strategy and Marketing

position: Sr. Managing Consultant, Strategy and Transformation

content:
SOA didn’t just change how we built systems. It changed how we structured teams.

When organizations moved to service-oriented architecture, the smart ones quickly realized the technical decisions and the organizational decisions were the same decision. Melvin Conway captured this in 1968 — organizations inevitably design systems that mirror their own communication structures. Get the team boundar

content:
When I wrote earlier in the week about tokens as the new runtime, several people asked the natural follow-on question: so how do you actually build well?

The discipline has a name. It’s called context engineering. And it’s quickly becoming one of the most consequential skills in AI product development.

Most people still think of prompting as the core skill — craft the right instruction, get the

content:
Single-customer dependency is one of the most seductive traps in B2B product development.

A team builds something exceptional for a major customer. The fit is real and the relationship deepens. The product gets shaped around that customer’s workflows, their terminology, their edge cases. And then one day, the team needs to deprecate it—or evolve it—and realizes they’ve built themselves into a cor

content:
When I was studying computer science, the professors who left a mark weren’t the ones who taught us to write code that works. They were the ones who taught us to think about how it works — the ones who made us obsess over runtime complexity, space trade-offs, and the cost of every operation at scale.

Big O wasn’t a theoretical exercise. It was a discipline. It shaped how we designed systems, made

content:
Context engineering is new terminology for a very old instinct.

Anyone who lived through the shift to service-oriented architecture will recognize the challenge immediately.

Before SOA, the default was monolithic systems — everything sharing the same memory, the same state, the same surface area. They worked until they didn’t. And when they broke, they broke in ways that were expensive and hard

evidence_experience: "I lead and drive the growth of Capgemini's Global Software Product Engineering Growth Platform where we enable our clients to master their software-driven transformation, driving outcomes by building embedded software, digital product software and industry software platforms for intelligent industry."


David Johnson

publicIdentifier: drjpro

sourced_title: Managing Director | Enterprise AI Strategy and Enablement

headline:
Managing Director | AI Visionary | 4 Patents | Driving Enterprise AI Transformation & Innovation |
Reimagining and implementing the art of possible with AI.

about:
I am a global AI strategist, innovator, and industry thought leader, specializing in building and implementing scalable AI solutions that drive productivity, revenue growth, and competitive differentiation. As a trusted advisor to Fortune 500 executives and public sector leaders, I translate complex AI concepts into practical, high-impact business strategies.

With a deep technical foundation and a sharp business acumen, I lead transformational AI initiatives, leveraging consumer emotional insight data, generative AI, and cognitive intelligence to shape market trends and disrupt industries. I create alignment across the C-suite and board of directors, fostering trust and credibility to ensure AI adoption and sustainable success.

I am passionate about assembling and mentoring high-performing, multidisciplinary teams, cultivating an environment where collaboration, learning, and AI-driven innovation thrive. As an AI evangelist, I actively contribute to industry discourse, sharing strategic perspectives with analysts (Gartner, Forrester), media, and ecosystem partners. My mission is to push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI—ensuring organizations not only keep pace but lead the AI revolution.

description: I focus on advancing KPMG's AI agenda - building our AI enablement strategy, architecting next-generation technology solutions, and leading development of our AI & Data Strategy offering. I also drive the operationalization of AI across the firm: reimagining operating models, accelerating adoption, and establishing the talent and upskilling programs that prepare our people for what's next. In parallel, I work with clients to help them reimagine their operating models for an AI-driven world - tra

position: Sr. Managing Director | Global AI Practice Leader

company: North Highland

description:
As Senior Managing Director and Global AI Practice Leader, I spearhead enterprise AI transformation, positioning North Highland as an AI-enabled consultancy. I established the AI Center of Excellence, built scalable AI frameworks, and led AI adoption across business functions, enhancing productivity and driving revenue growth.

Drove AI Strategy & Transformation: Established the AI Center of Excellence, scaling AI across business functions, improving productivity 4.5X.

Generated $50MM in AI-Dri

position: Vice President, Insights and AI Enterprise Architecture

position: Founder, Chairman of the Board, CEO and President

description:
As Founder, President & CEO of Decooda, I built a pioneering AI company specializing in cognitive intelligence, linguistic analysis, and behavioral AI. I secured major clients, revolutionized AI-powered consumer insights, and positioned the company for acquisition by North Highland.

Developed Award-Winning AI Solutions: Created a first-of-its-kind AI platform, leveraging generative AI and cognitive intelligence to analyze human emotions, behavioral patterns, and decision-making.

Drove Financia

position: Vice President Business Development

company: MarketBridge

description: Key hands-on leadership role in driving demand generation, business development and sales.

position: Vice President Sales

company: Dendrite Marketing Services

description:
Transformed company from commodity tactic provider, to industry’s leading strategic Integrated Marketing Services solutions provider.  Established new cutting-edge integrated multi-channel marketing product and solutions vision.  Implemented structured solution selling methodology that enabled the collective sales team to achieve break-through sales results.

Identified $20MM in pipeline and closed strategic wins with multiple Fortune-500 clients.

Initiated the development of a Global Social Me

company: CommerceQuest, Inc.

description: Responsible for leading a turnaround team with P&L accountability for sales, pre-sales, strategic consulting operations, product innovation. By transforming our team to focus on value-based sales methodology, we were able to drive top-line revenue and strategically position the company for acquisition by Opentext.

position: Regional Vice President

company: i2 Technologies

description:
Worked closely with executive leadership and board members at Ford, GM, and Stellantis, playing a key role in establishing i2’s market dominance in the automotive sector.

Scaled the Automotive Industry Business Unit from $12M to $200M in revenue within two years, directly contributing to i2’s trajectory toward $1B in revenue and a market cap that surpassed both Ford and GM.

Built and led a high-performing team of PhDs in supply chain and operations management, driving end-to-end strategy, plan

disposition: STRONG

primary_strip: B

internal_vs_external: mixed

evidence_experience: "I also drive the operationalization of AI across the firm: reimagining operating models, accelerating adoption, and establishing the talent and upskilling programs that prepare our people for what's next" and "I established the AI Center of Excellence, built scalable AI frameworks, and led AI adoption across business functions"

resolved_account_name: Global Strategy Group, by KPMG


Mark Lee

sourced_title: Global Director, Thought Leadership

headline: Global Director, Thought Leadership, ERM

about: Mark Lee is the Director of the SustainAbility Institute by ERM and an ERM Partner. Mark sits on the Advisory Board of Sustainable Brands as well as the Sustainable Brands Board of Directors. Mark is the co-author of All In: The Future of Business Leadership (2018) and The Sustainable Business Handbook (2022) as well as numerous reports and articles. He is based in Berkeley, California.

position: Global Director, Thought Leadership

company: ERM

position: Director, the SustainAbility Institute by ERM

position: Co Host

company: All In - The Sustainable Business Podcast

position: Executive Director, SustainAbility

company: SustainAbility (an ERM Group Company)

position: VP Member Services, Director Governance & Accountability

company: Business for Social Responsibility

position: Corporate Social Responsibility Manager

company: Vancity

position: House Advisor; Advisor

company: University of British Columbia

content:
While London's heat wave has broken, memories of just how hot it was during #LondonClimateActionWeek are fresh -- just like Sabine Hoefnagel's summary of LCAW learnings. Read our "High temperatures, high expectations" blog for details.

Aiste Brackley Lauren Kwok Irem Yerdelen Vivian Lack MCIM Linden E.

content:
Our latest quarterly ERM trends report! Dig in to hear our latest thinking on AI, views on sustainability value, the energy transition as well as the energy trilemma, and the every-shifting regulatory landscape.

Congrats Andrew Angle and team on all the work that went into this!

content:
Many thanks to my ERM colleagues Irem Yerdelen, Anna Jakobsen, and Jason Smith for joining the latest #SustainableConnections podcast to break down what happened at #LCAW2026.

With the event now so vast, we had to make topic choices. We explored how companies and others are working to turn climate ambition into delivery during what we perceive as a shift from ambition to implementation.

Listen

content: Thanks so much Marie-Hélène Pelletier, PhD, MBA for this discussion on individual #resilience. Your expression of it as something to develop rather than an inate characteristic is so on target! And could not be more important for #sustainability leaders to understand and take action to improve in themselves and their teams -- in fact, it's what will make attainment of their goals possible.

content:
⚽ World Cup got you excited, anxious, and distracted?
🍁 Canada Day celebrations planned for July 01?
🎆 U.S. Independence Day events coming on the 4th?

If you somehow have ten minutes to spare, please help shape the future of the #sustainability agenda by sharing your perspectives in the Sustainability at a Crossroads II r survey.

For a second year, ERM, GlobeScan, and Volans are working together

evidence_experience: Mark Lee is the Director of the SustainAbility Institute by ERM and an ERM Partner... co-author of All In: The Future of Business Leadership (2018) and The Sustainable Business Handbook (2022)

resolved_account_name: ERM


Yogi Panjabi

sourced_title: CIO, Business Applications

headline: PeopleLens.ai | AI Coaching Agents for Sales Managers & Reps | We’re hiring!

about:
I am a first time entrepreneur. After 2 decades in exec, operator and advisor roles, I leapt into entrepreneurship in 2021 to pursue my purpose - serving sales reps with delightful experiences and intelligent insights. We are excited to help sales teams get back into the equation and grow topline. We’re hiring across roles with a focus on character, chemistry and competence - in that order.

A student of range, I have been fortunate to thrive across a breadth of functions from - People to Product, Strategy to Sales, Finance to IT. I enjoyed tapping into my outsider advantage, as I learned to see the business through every lens. Developed strategic orientation at McKinsey, complemented it with execution skills in operating roles at Palo Alto Networks, Egon Zehnder, Mercer, HP & eBay. I am passionate about supporting the underdog and active on the Advisory Board of multiple silicon valley startups.

My leadership approach is to help those around me - grow, be their best version. Personally, I thrive in environments where authenticity, humility and hunger matter.

Specialties
Future of Work | Startups | Product Management | AI | Machine Learning | SaaS | SalesTech | Go-To-Market | GTM | Strategic Advisor

position: Co-Founder

company: PeopleLens

position: Advisor

company: PeopleTech Partners

position: VP, People Technology & Analytics

company: Palo Alto Networks

position: CIO, Business Applications

company: Egon Zehnder

position: CIO, Talent Business

company: Mercer

description:
- Led Talent Line-of-Business technology organization, building and delivering employee engagement, rewards and mobility products for CHROs; evaluated & acquired multiple product companies to expand product HR tech portfolio
- Led technology organization for Global Customer Engagement function, advising and supporting client employees on their health and wealth requirements; implemented Salesforce Service Cloud, introduced incubations including chatbots to enhance customer experience & colleagu

position: Senior Director, Customer & Market Insights

company: Hewlett Packard Enterprise

description:
- Led teams to deliver insights, intelligence and business implications to the Chief Strategy Officer / Executive committee, focused on customer, competitor and market opportunities
- Steered global operations, including annual planning, investment due diligence, performance management (KPIs / dashboard) and breakthrough innovation in business research via external partnerships

position: Director, Worlwide Digital Marketing

description:
- Partnered with CXO's to develop Pan HP digital marketing strategy for multi-billion dollar online business; led execution including product roadmaps to drive demand / lead gen KPIs
- Incubated and grew HP’s ecommerce store in China to deliver on revenue targets
- Managed operations and planning, guiding strategic investment to execute integrated digital marketing programs across web, social and mobile platforms

position: Senior Manager, Business Transformation

company: eBay

description:
- Built eBay's digital analytics strategic agenda and framework to leverage customer insights and big data analytics in business decisions; led overall execution and global rollout within product & business groups
- Grew eBay’s global operations, establishing regional centers of excellence (engineering, online marketing and analytics) in Europe and Asia (China, India) to deliver on revenue & cost targets

content:
𝟮𝟱 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗴𝗼, 𝘄𝗲 𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝗺𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘃𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗴𝗲, 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀.

India blessed me with deep roots - my parents, life, love, guru, and values. I hold deep gratitude for my origins and foundation.

America widened the aperture of my world. It gave me profession(s), family, friends, opportunities to serve, and PeopleLens. It gave me the chance to dream, become an entrep

content:
𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗲𝘀.

Thank you Frank Cespedes, Anjai "AJ" Gandhi, and Harvard Business School (HBS) Association of Northern California, GTM Leader Society for bringing HBS classroom energy to the Bay Area during an engaging evening on Winning Sales Strategy & Execution.

There were cold calls, competing perspectives, and the familiar reminder that

content: Welcome Alex Paladino! Excited to collaborate!

content:
𝗘𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲.

𝗧𝗼 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁.

Thank you Amy Morehouse and Sales Enablement Collective team for an energizing Seattle event and a great opportunity to connect with leading enablement leaders.

My favorite sessions:

𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴-𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁-𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 Alexander

content:
𝗪𝗲 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆’𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀.

Good managers aren’t simply born. They’re built.

But too often, strong individual performers are promoted into management and expected to coach without enough preparation, context, or coaching of their own.

Big thanks to Angelique A. and Tracey Windsor for the #Ascend: Stories of Scale conversation on coachability, data bli

band_reasons: disqualified; company_concern

evidence_experience: "Co-Founder @ PeopleLens (2021 - Present)" building and selling AI coaching agents to sales teams; earlier roles were People Technology, Business Applications IT, and Talent Tech leadership at operating companies (Palo Alto Networks, Egon Zehnder, Mercer), none of which is an internal knowledge/IP-reuse/AI-adoption function at a consulting firm.

in_612: no


George Korizis

sourced_title: Partner - Front Office Strategy & Transformation Leader

headline: Front Office Strategy & Transformation Leader at PwC | AI-Enabled Growth, Customer Value & GTM Execution

about:
I work at the intersection of growth, customers, and execution.

My focus is front-office strategy and transformation—sales, marketing, service, pricing—and now AI across all of it.

I help leadership teams move from ideas to results. Not decks that sit on shelves. Real change that shows up in revenue, customer behavior, and operating rhythm.

Over the years, I’ve led complex transformations across financial services, insurance, consumer, and tech-enabled businesses. Often when things are messy. Often when alignment is hard. That’s usually where the work matters most.

What I’m known for:
∙	Turning strategy into plays that teams can actually run
∙	Getting sales and marketing to stop blaming each other and start working
∙	Driving growth without losing sight of customers
∙	Bringing AI and data into the front office in practical ways
∙	Being calm, direct, and honest when stakes are high

I grew up between Greece and the US, which taught me to look for the story beneath the spreadsheet. The best strategies don’t come from models—they come from understanding what’s actually happening with customers, in the field, in the moments that don’t show up in dashboards.

I spend a lot of time with CEOs, CMOs, CROs, and heads of customer, helping them answer a few hard questions:
∙	Where is growth really coming from? (Not where we hope it’s coming from.)
∙	Where are customers leaking value—and why aren’t we seeing it?
∙	What should we stop doing? (This one’s always uncomfortable.)
∙	How do we make this change stick, not just launch it?

I believe the front office is where companies will win or lose in the next five years. And AI will separate the ones who move with intent from the ones who just experiment.

If you care about growth, customer value, and execution that actually lands, w

company: PwC

position: Partner - Front Office Consulting Co-Leader

description: George co-led a $1B+ business that encompassed all the key functions, technologies and people serving as the connective tissue for every business and its customers regardless of industry/ sector.

position: Partner - Customer Transformation Practice Leader

description:
George led a team of exceptional professionals focusing on outcome-based advice, innovative thinking, and delivery of outstanding customer-centric, cross-industry transformations (that meet the world where they are tomorrow).

How do we help our clients transform into the ultimate customer attractors? Learn more: www.pwc.com/us/customertransformation

position: Partner - Marketing, Sales, and Service GTM Leader

description: George was responsible for setting and executing the strategy and go to market approach for the Marketing, Sales, and Service functions.

position: Partner - FS Advisory

position: Managing Director (Partner) - Distribution & Marketing in Financial Services

company: Accenture

description: George led Accenture's Financial Services Consulting Services in the areas of CRM and Omnichannel in North America.

position: Insurance Broker for P&C (Lloyd's of London Syndicate)

company: Tysers

position: Financial Analyst

company: Attiki Fakelopoiia

content:
Sat in a room a few months back. CIO and COO, same company, same leadership team. We asked each of them, separately, to score their org's AI readiness.

Wildly different numbers. Not close.

Neither had realized they disagreed until we put both scores on the same page.

That gap was the real finding. Not the score. The fact that two people running the same company had two different stories about w

content:
Such a humbling moment to log into Yahoo News today and see the coverage of Ashley Korizis’ work.

If you don’t know her, she’s one of the kindest human beings you’ll ever meet. She’s also extremely restless and has like a million passion projects! (I don’t know how she finds the time, but it’s so inspiring to watch her go all out every.single.time).

Well, one of them is “E Pluribus Unum” (out o

content:
Bad framing beats good analysis every time.

Early in my career, I watched a team spend three weeks building a flawless business case. Airtight numbers. Clean slides. Confident recommendation.
The client rejected it in twenty minutes.

Not because the math was wrong. Because the team answered the wrong question. The client needed to decide whether to enter a market. The team built a case for how t

content:
Every bank and insurer I talk to right now has the exact same AI business case: "We will automate 40% of tier-one support and save millions in headcount."

They are walking into a trap. It is called the Jevons Paradox. When you make a resource more efficient, consumption doesn't drop. Quite opposite actually... If you drop the marginal cost of a customer interaction to near-zero, you don't empty o

content:
My dad used to say: don’t spend all your time talking to people who already like you.

Took me 20 years to realize that’s basically the entire B2B marketing playbook.

evidence_experience: "George focuses on helping clients set strategic direction and execute with discipline and precision when it comes to the front office functions of sales, service and marketing."

resolved_account_name: PwC Experience Center


Max Kneissl

publicIdentifier: maxkneissl

sourced_title: Partner Digital Strategy

headline: Partner Digital Strategy at OMMAX – BUILDING AI LEADERS | Transaction Advisory | AI Strategy | AI Business Transformation & Value Creation | AI & Tech implementation

about: BUILDING DIGITAL LEADERS: OMMAX is a fast-growing digital strategy consultancy in Europe, specializing in transaction advisory, strategy, and end-to-end execution of digital initiatives. It’s our vision to build digital leaders in Europe to foster innovation and accelerate digital growth and profitability. Over the past 12 years, OMMAX realized 250+ M&A deals with >€15B deal value and 1,500+ international value creation projects in various industries for leading private equity firms in commercial strategy, digital operational excellence, advanced data strategy, analytics, tech, and automation. As a front-runner for holistic data-driven strategy consulting and end-to-end execution, OMMAX is the leading consultancy within the European Private Equity sphere, designing and delivering best-in-class digital strategy and value creation.

position: Partner Digital Strategy

company: OMMAX

description:
Everyone can become a digital leader.

We are a fast-growing digital strategy consultancy, specializing in transaction advisory, strategy, and end-to-end execution of digital initiatives. It’s our vision to build digital leaders worldwide to foster innovation and accelerate digital growth and profitability.

Over the past 13 years, we realized 300+ M&A deals with >€20B deal value and 2,000+ international value creation projects in various industries for leading private equity firms in commercia

position: VP Digital Strategy

position: Manager

company: Bain & Company

position: Senior Consultant

position: Intern

company: Dafiti Colombia (Rocket Internet)

company: OC&C Strategy Consultants

position: Visiting Associate

company: The Boston Consulting Group

company: BASF

content:
🚀 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗻 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝗔𝗜 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 Lutz Finger 𝗥𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 OMMAX 𝗮𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗿 (𝗖𝗔𝗜𝗢)

This is an important step in our ambition to build Europe's leading AI, Data & Technology platform.

𝗟𝘂𝘁𝘇 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱'𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘀. After more than 25 years working at the intersection of AI, data, product, and business transformation - including leadership roles

content:
Most AI projects don't fail because of AI. They fail because organizations don't change.

In a recent discussion with a Private Equity investor, one question stood out:
"How do we get portfolio companies to actually use AI in their day-to-day work?"

That is exactly the right question.

Today, almost every management team is evaluating copilots, agents or automation. The technology has matured rap

content:
OMMAX and SINGULIER, the leading Paris-based AI-first consultancy, are joining forces to create a 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺.

This partnership brings together 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗔𝗜 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗺𝘀 with a strong 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗲𝘁, 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: working closely with business leaders and 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲

content: In light of the SaaSpocalypse, make sure to read our latest whitepaper on the development and the playbook helping investors distinguish true signal from noise.

content:
📢 𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗔𝗫 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗣𝗔𝗜 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 & 𝗔𝗜 𝗗𝘂𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗿𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗲

We are proud to have supported PAI Partners alongside SINGULIER, on the Technology & AI Due Diligence of Arlettie Paris, a premier international omnichannel platform for luxury inventory management and exclusive event-driven private sales, serving more than 220 premium brands.

Arlettie has built a unique

evidence_experience: "we realized 300+ M&A deals with >€20B deal value and 2,000+ international value creation projects in various industries for leading private equity firms in commercial strategy, digital operational excellence, advanced data strategy, analytics, tech, AI, and automat[ion]"


Gunther Tantner

sourced_title: Head of IT / CIO

headline: Head of IT and AI Researcher

about:
CIO at Porsche Consulting | Driving AI & Digital Transformation Across European and Global Industry 🚀

As CIO at Porsche Consulting and an AI researcher, I am dedicated to shaping a digital and AI-driven future for European and global industry.
My mission: enable innovation and collaboration by integrating AI into business and operational ecosystems—always with a strong „European“ perspective. 🌍

With a career built on three pillars—deep IT expertise, strategic thinking with commercial acumen, and a growing focus on AI—I bring a holistic approach to transformation.
Before joining Porsche Consulting, I held leadership roles at top-tier companies, building a proven track record in IT, AIoT, global IT operations, and increasingly AI strategy.
I combine expertise in AI, IT, and business process optimization with a leadership style rooted in lean principles and multicultural collaboration across functions and regions.

My experience in leading large-scale transformation programs in global matrix organizations and managing international IT and process teams enables me to help create a future where AI is innovative—and proudly European based. 🇪🇺

I believe Europe must not only adopt AI—it must actively shape its development through cross-industry collaboration and digital sovereignty.
Together, we can accelerate a future where AI drives progress and strengthens Europe’s position globally. 💡🤝

position: Head of IT / CIO

company: Porsche Consulting

description: IT & AI Strategy for a Data & AI-driven Company / AI Research / Collaboration MS O365 / Business Collaboration / PM Dynamics / CRM Salesforce / HR SucessFactors / Finance SAP HANA Public Cloud / Agile Project Management / Application Program & Roadmap Management / Devicemanagement Windows & IPhone & MacBook / New Work Solutions for Mobile & Offices & Hybrid / IT Service ITIL / IT Nearshore / IT User Journey Management / Infrastructure Network & Cloud Solutions / Information Security / Future-rea

position: Researcher in AI Ambidexterity

company: HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management

description: AI Ambidexterity in established Firms

position: Director Artificial IoT Project Management

company: Bosch

description: Leading of Major Artificial IoT Projects / Digital Transformation to an agile Organization /  Design & Implementation of a Process- & Artificial IoT Template

position: Director IT / CIO

company: Leuze

description: Applications (SAP Implementation; Office 365; Sharepoint Collaboration) / Infrastructure (Client; Server & Storage; Network) / Organization (Global IT; Service Processes; International IT Organization)

position: Head of Enterprise Applications & Member of AKKA IT Executive Committee

company: MBtech Group GmbH & Co. KGaA

description: SAP / Sharepoint / Notes Communications

position: Head of SAP Competence Center

company: Schindler Group

position: Director Operations US, Associated Partner, Geschäftsleitung

company: MHP – A Porsche Company

position: Associated Partner & Geschäftsleitung - Application Management

content:
Join our team at Porsche Consulting!
We have an exciting vacancy in our IT department at one of our locations – in Stuttgart, or alternatively in Munich or Frankfurt.
We look forward to receiving your application, preferably via our careers portal.

Werde Teil unseres Teams bei Porsche Consulting!
Wir haben eine spannende Stelle in unserer IT-Abteilung an einem unserer Standorte zu besetzen – in

content:
Join our team at Porsche Consulting!
We have an exciting vacancy in our IT department at one of our locations – preferably in Stuttgart, or alternatively in Munich or Frankfurt.
We look forward to receiving your application, preferably via our careers portal.

Werde Teil unseres Teams bei Porsche Consulting!
Wir haben eine spannende Stelle in unserer IT-Abteilung an einem unserer Standorte zu be

content:
11 km.  A bit more than one hour. For a good cause. 🏃♂
Great to be part of the CIO Charity Run & Bike initiative today.
Strong reminder: #Impact doesn’t always require big programs—sometimes it just starts with putting on your running shoes.
#Proud to contribute. 💙
And even more proud to see the CIO community moving together for purpose.
#CIOCharity #CIOCharity2026 #Running #Leadership #Impact #

content:
🚀 European Collaboration Summit 2026 | Cologne 🇪🇺

ECS 2026 made one thing very clear: Enterprise AI is no longer about pilots — it’s about operating models.

The focus has clearly shifted to AI agents, orchestration, and governance — embedding AI securely, responsibly, and at scale into daily work.

For companies, the key question is no longer what is possible but how AI creates measurable value

evidence_experience: "IT & AI Strategy for a Data & AI-driven Company / AI Research / Collaboration MS O365 ... Infrastructure Network & Cloud Solutions / Information Security / Future-ready IT Program" - describes ownership of the firm's own internal IT, data, AI and information security function, not a client-facing service line.


Kathy Awanis Garcia

publicIdentifier: kathyawanis

sourced_title: Senior Partner | Global Head of Data & Digital

resolved_account_name: Mercer Pacific


Noah Goldstein, Ph.D.

publicIdentifier: noahnexus

sourced_title: Research Director, Intelligent Buildings

headline: Sustainability Lead | Net Zero Carbon | Leading supply chains towards carbon and climate resilience | LEED AP

about:
Nothing excites me more than a hard problem and a group of people willing to work together to solve it. The challenge of climate change and the role of corporations in addressing that change could not be any more important.

An agile strategist and executive leader, I harness the complex interplay of policy, technology and commerce to help Fortune 100 companies adapt and thrive in a low-carbon, climate-resilient future. I've  fostered partnerships that matter, promoting innovation and collaboration across a wide range of corporate, government and non-profit stakeholders. I'm known as a trusted leadership advisor and frequent presenter on resilience, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) leadership, and the Circular Economy. My ultimate goal is to create a Circular Economy, influencing supply chains and investors towards low-carbon solutions.

Specialties:
*Long-view Business Strategy
*Business Process Design
*Market Research & Analysis
*Business Development & Sales
*Multi-client Convening & Networking
*Supply Chain Optimization
*Multi-stakeholder Collaboration
*Energy Planning & Strategy
*Marketing & Sales Communications
*Product Development & Design
*Financial Oversight & Analytics

Outside of the office, I teach Graduate-level Sustainability at UC Merced, a dynamic environment where the next generation of innovators is creating the future. You might also find me running through the redwoods and enjoying the views from the Oakland hills.

company: Google

description: Leading a team of sustainability experts and data center engineers in  Data Center construction to meet our sustainability commitments and compliance, specifically Google's Net Zero goal of 50% reduction of emissions, relative to 2019.

position: Sustainability Lead, Google Data Centers

description:
Championing the pursuit of sustainable data centers to support corporate and local goals.
Collaborating cross-functionally to support sustainable data center construction, working with construction and supply chain teams.
Guiding transformational nonprofits and industry coalitions to increase the transparency of the climate impact of the built environment and to leverage the power of supply chains to deliver a resilient world.

position: Lecturer

company: University of California, Merced

description: Teaching "Case Studies in Corporate Sustainability" as a part of UC Merced's Management of Innovation, Sustainability and Technology (MIST) Masters of Management program.

company: Guidehouse

description: Lead 20-person North American Large Corporates team targeting Fortune 100 companies in the Technology, Pharma, and Food and Beverage sectors. Develop and execute go-to-market strategy based on investor needs, market trends and opportunity. Direct efforts of a 70-person consulting team to establish and maintain long-term client partnerships in the C-suite, Investor Relations and CSR/ESG departments. Serve on Guidehouse CSR Council, engaging with non-profits to advance their sustainability strateg

description:
Helmed Intelligent Buildings Market Research group, managing a 50+-person team to drive custom projects from sales to delivery. Fostered relationships with clean tech start-ups, OEMs and investors to support market expansion and entry into new markets.

*Business line optimization - Directed sales and market analysis teams to grow custom market consulting for clean tech research by 30%+ for two consecutive years. Streamlined revenue and operations, coordinating projects and leading sales efforts

position: Program Assessment Leader

company: Energy Efficient Buildings Hub

description: Working with the  researchers at the DOE-funded EEB Hub, developed metrics and processes to evaluate the performance of this ambitious and needed program. Performed building energy efficiency simulation and modeling to optimize building design.

position: Energy Informatics / Sustainability of the Built Environment

company: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

description:
Led research projects on domestic and international energy topics spanning building efficiency, renewable power, spatial modeling of energy use, and the risk of urban wildfires. Ensured the lab site followed DOE’s sustainability guidance, guiding a multi-department team to develop and implement the lab’s site sustainability strategy. Published 25+ peer-reviewed articles.

* Energy Efficiency Buildings Hub - Directed LLNL’s computational building energy research for the DOE-funded $120M project

position: Director of Spatial Services

company: CTG Energetics, Inc.

description: Director of Oakland Office, Director of Spatial Services

content:
I'm looking forward to sharing my perspective on deploying sustainability at scale next week at Green Building Initiative (GBI)'s 3rd  Better Buildings: Data Center Seminar!
I'll be reflecting on how to balance technical, legal and social tools to pursue #NetZero.

📍 Dallas Arboretum & Botanical Gardens | May 6, 2026
📍 Register: https://bit.ly/4bOxwnS

#DataCenters #Sustainability #GreenBuildin

content:
It's exciting to see how the embodied GHG tool ecosystem is evolving. This is a big step for the users of #Tally!
Building Transparency
C.Scale

content:
It is exciting to announce the launch the Data Center Innovation Initiative (DCII), a deployment-focused investment initiative designed to accelerate next-generation energy and materials technologies.
Under the leadership of Elemental Impact, this convening of peers and leaders in tech and sustainability can help prove out market-ready and near-market ready technology in building materials and ene

evidence_experience: "Sustainable Construction Lead - Data Centers @ Google: Leading a team of sustainability experts and data center engineers...to meet our sustainability commitments and compliance, specifically Google's Net Zero goal"; "Director Of Sustainability | Energy, Sustainability & Infrastructure Segment @ Guidehouse: Lead 20-person North American Large Corporates team targeting Fortune 100 companies...C-suite, Investor Relations and CSR/ESG departments"

resolved_account_name: Navigant


Steve Kass

publicIdentifier: steve-kass

sourced_title: Chief Operating Officer

headline: Chief Operating Officer at Highspring

about: Highspring is a leading global professional services organization with three integrated service offerings—Consulting, Managed Services, and Talent Solutions. Vaco by Highspring specializes in delivering tailored Talent Solutions. Our expertise includes Accounting and Finance, Business and Digital Transformation, Risk and Compliance, Information Technology, and more. With more than 10,000 employees across 45+ offices worldwide, we give partners the agility to thrive, address challenges, and seize opportunities in a rapidly changing world. Get to know us at highspring.com.

position: Chief Operating Officer

company: Highspring

description: Highspring is a global professional services firm specializing in Consulting, Managed Services, and Talent Solutions. Vaco by Highspring delivers expert Talent Solutions in Accounting & Finance, Digital Transformation, IT, and more.

company: Vaco by Highspring

position: Chief Revenue Officer

position: Principal

company: SAK Digital Ventures

description: Providing Operational, Revenue Growth and Advisory Services in the areas of Digital and Business Transformation, Leadership and Operational Efficiency.

position: Chief Administrative Officer

company: Robert Half

description: Responsible for new technology, digital product and innovation initiatives, as well as global back office leadership.

position: SVP - Business Transformation & Innovation

description: Led cross-functional strategy and infrastructure for development and deployment of new digital and product initiatives.

position: President - Strategic Accounts, Professional Staffing Services

description: Global P&L responsibility for large SLA-based accounts.

position: Senior District President

description: P&L responsibility for several states across the midwestern United States.

content:
I had the pleasure of giving out a lot of awards at Vatopia ’26, and each one of them had something in common.

They represented a team that closed the gap between what was decided and what actually got done. That’s the whole game. Proud of what we’re building at Highspring and Vaco by Highspring.

evidence_experience: "Highspring is a global professional services firm specializing in Consulting, Managed Services, and Talent Solutions" - COO role is overseeing general business operations of a talent/staffing organization, not ownership of an internal knowledge/AI/IP-reuse function. No mention of internal knowledge base, AI adoption, or confidentiality governance.

resolved_account_name: Highspring


Jonathan Wattiaux

sourced_title: Head of Product Management, Data and AI

headline: Associate Partner, Head of Product Management at McKinsey & Company

position: Head of Product Management, Data and AI

company: McKinsey & Company

position: Director of Product Management, Data and Analytics Platforms

position: Principal Product Manager, Pricing Solutions

position: Product Manager, Pricing Solutions

position: Product Manager, SaaS app for Performance Management

company: Cockpit Group | Belgium

position: Project Manager, Performance Management

position: Consultant, Performance Management

position: Manager, Business Control

company: Carrefour | Colombia

evidence_experience: Progression through Product Manager/Director/Head of Product Management roles for "Pricing Solutions" and "Data and Analytics Platforms" - these read as McKinsey's client-facing software/analytics products, not an internal firm knowledge-reuse function.


Tonya Corley

sourced_title: Director, Development Culture & Expertise Enablement

headline: Sr Director, People Growth & Development Solutions

about:
I currently lead our Firm's umbrella efforts to transition to a growth-centered development culture through digital enablement. This includes continued leadership for learning & development tech enablement strategy through operations, as well as defining and implementing digital strategy in three critical areas:

•	Self-development journeys (e.g., skills taxonomy/ontology work, network maps, individual feedback and evaluation tools, leadership growth platforms, credentialing, etc) which will involve continuing a close collaboration across learning, professional development, talent management and evaluation committees alike
•	Best in class Team Experience  (e.g., engagement team surveys, team feedback, staffing assignments) tightly linking to the way we work aspirations for enabling healthy and high performing teams.
•	Infusing even more cutting edge innovation throughout our E2E development journeys – including thinking about how might we accelerate and scale new innovation by partnering across People Digital organization with our People Analytics and Technology & Digital teams.

Specialty skills/topics: Complex problem solving; ecosystem enablement;  implementation for strategy, systems and tools; Innovative solutions (includes implementation and the operationalization of solutions); software integration/implementation across platforms and organizations; data integrity and governance at scale for both bespoke and cloud solutions; project management, cross-functional/industry development; change management; organizational transformation leadership

position: Digital Strategy & Solutions Leader

position: Director, Digital Learning Platforms & Solutions

description:
I lead a team focused on the strategic advancement of digital learning - including innovation in platforms, vendors, and new digital solutions - in order to guide a significant shift in digital learning at McKinsey & Company.

Primary areas of responsibility include building upon the Firm’s existing capabilities to develop technology enabled learning, enable materials production and management of virtual platforms, and ensure a strategic and innovative focus that achieves high client impact.

position: Development Leader, Development Technology and Innovation

company: Deloitte Services, LP

description:
I am responsible for driving the overall technology vision and effectiveness on behalf of the Development Center of Expertise for the US. I work closely with other groups in the organization (including Talent, IT Services and Global Learning) for technology execution, and with CLOs and their teams in applying innovative, best-practice tools to “push the envelope” for development in the classroom and on the job, in order to improve business impacts.

Major Areas of Responsibility:
- Create the D

position: Senior Manager

description:
U.S. Talent Development, Virtual Learning Excellence Leader:
Mobile, virtual and social learning strategy/implementation expert

position: Talent Development Services and Learning Technology & Innovation CoE Leader

primary_strip: C

evidence_experience: "I currently lead our Firm's umbrella efforts to transition to a growth-centered development culture through digital enablement... skills taxonomy/ontology work, network maps, individual feedback and evaluation tools, leadership growth platforms, credentialing"


Masha Mikey

publicIdentifier: mariamikey

sourced_title: Global Content Strategy & Communications Lead

headline: Global Marketing & Communications Leader | Brand Storyteller | Content Strategy & Thought Leadership | Earned Media

about:
I help experts become the voices worth following.

At Charles River Associates, I build the content and communications function that takes world-class economic consulting expertise to market across digital, owned and earned channels.

Before that, a decade in leading communications agencies, embedded with Fortune 500 and globally recognized brands across tech, professional services and healthcare. Building executive platforms and industry presence for C-suite leaders. Developing integrated campaigns during high-stakes moments — product launches, regulatory scrutiny, brand repositioning. Managing multi-platform content programs like Pfizer Canada's Healthcare Hub. Telling AI stories for Accenture when the industry was still figuring out what AI meant.

I build teams, develop talent and work directly with subject matter experts to find the story inside the complexity.

company: Charles River Associates

position: Senior Director

company: Agnostic

position: Sr. Account Director

company: Zeno Group

position: Account Director

company: Proof

position: Senior Consultant

position: Consultant

position: Communications Specialist

company: C.D. Howe Institute

position: Communications Officer

company: KIMEP University

content:
Proud to share CRA’s response to the European Commission’s Draft Merger Guidelines. Our team’s perspective is grounded in practical experience, including work on roughly a third of the cases referenced by the Commission in the draft.

I’m continually impressed by the depth of insight our team brings to some of the most complex competition questions we see today. Thank you for your partnership in b

content:
Echoing Natalia Smalyuk, MBA, MA: Earned media is not a tactic. It is THE work.

To earn media coverage, you have to care deeply about your audience: What are they worried about? What are they paying attention to? What is the tension in the story? Who is the hero? Anti-hero?

This is where a lot of PR falls apart. Not because people don’t try, but because earned media gets treated as a box to chec

content: Looking forward to a great discussion with this fantastic group of professionals! Sneak peek: Earned media in 2026 is all about storytelling. Excited to be part of the conversation.

content:
In a world saturated with #AI hot takes, what’s actually worth adding?

Check out our new AI Knowledge Hub. While selfishly, it’s one of the first larger initiatives I’ve had the chance to shape in my new role... Boy, how proud am I of what this team pulled together!

At Charles River Associates, intellectual capital is what we trade in, so the bar for this work was high. The Hub reflects the anal

content:
Last year I took an intentional break. Stepped back to think about what I actually wanted to do next. Second only to moving across an ocean with $2,000 in my account, it was one of the scariest things I've done.

I've seen people quit without a safety net before, in search of something more meaningful. I found it remarkable yet didn't have the nerve to do the same for years.

Those of us who've

evidence_experience: "At Charles River Associates, I build the content and communications function that takes world-class economic consulting expertise to market across digital, owned and earned channels." Entire career history is agency/PR/comms roles (Zeno Group, Proof, APCO, CNN PR intern).

resolved_account_name: Charles River Associates


Stacey Wolcott

sourced_title: Managing Director, ?What If! Innovation Lead


Nakul Uppal

publicIdentifier: nakuluppal

sourced_title: Chief Product Officer & Chief Technology Officer, ProEdge Upskilling

headline: CPO | CTO | Operator | Building SaaS Products

about:
Seasoned C-suite executive with almost 20 years of experience in product management, customer success, engineering, and strategy consulting. I am a versatile and visionary leader who can drive innovation and growth for SaaS products by scaling teams, processes and business. I have successfully led product teams, technology teams, content teams and operation teams.  I have a strong background in computer science and an MBA from the University of Michigan.

Currently, I am CPO & CTO at PwC - Products & Solutions, where I am responsible for two enterprise-grade SaaS products: ProEdge, a workforce planning and upskilling platform that empowers citizen-led innovation and drives digital-based growth, and Astro, a voice / NLP / AI product that leverages natural language processing and artificial intelligence to enhance communication and collaboration. I lead a cross-functional team of over 150 members, including product, content, UX, engineering, data scientists, and research, and partner with sales, customer success, and operations to deliver value to our customers. Under my leadership, ProEdge has achieved double-digit millions in revenue, 200% year-over-year growth, and over 150 customers, while Astro has successfully launched and shipped multiple features to 75K+ users with 85% daily active users. I am passionate about creating products that solve real-world problems, delight users, and generate positive impact.

company: PwC

description:
- Successfully built and aligned product strategy with customer needs to drive sales and revenue growth to 2x year over year growth on licenses
- Collaborated with sales team to develop effective sales operations encompassing scoping, technology, security, and pricing
- Led product operations team, overseeing a large number of contracts with varying complexities, implementin transparent reporting processes and streamlined processes, and optimized budgets
- Fostered an inclusive, diverse and inn

position: Managing Director / VP Product & Content, ProEdge

description:
- Responsible for overall product, content, UX, engineering, data scientists and research to ship product releases; and partner with sales, CSMs and operations on revenue - realizing double-digit millions in revenue, 200% year over year
- Scaled cross-functional team from 25 to 100 people, deploying product to 150+ customers and shipping a large number of features every two-week sprint and fostering a collaborative culture
- Streamlined full product lifecycle from ideation, prioritization, roadm

position: Director of Product Management, Astro

description:
- Built product 0-to-1, directing a cross-functional team of 80+ members,crafting a forward-looking vision, setting clear objectives, & making decisions to ensure alignment, resulting in 85% daily active users for 75K+ users
- Structured the team for scalability, instituting regular release schedules and ensuring the adoption of standard scrum practices for consistent high-quality output, using standardized tools, templates, and efficient communication cadences
- Spearheaded a comprehensive mark

position: Director (Associate Partner)

company: Strategy&

description:
Sample consulting experience below

Growth Strategies:
• Led go-to-market strategy to commercialize analytics based on internet of things (IoT),
standing up a new business unit and projecting $8M revenue
• Analyzed FinTech market dynamics identifying disruptive technologies and business
models (e.g., blockchain), developing innovation strategy for client
• Assessed usage based insurance (UBI) market, identifying go-to-market strategies for a
$96B multinational conglomerate

Organization Transfor

position: Engagement Manager

position: Senior Associate

company: Booz & Company.

position: Operations Manager

company: Amazon

description:
- Pioneered and implemented new metric and multiple supporting processes, by training
250+ hourly associates across eight shifts in one of the largest warehouses, resulting in 20% defect reduction
- Worked with technology team to build a process using QR codes for floor associates and built a live analytics dashboard to identify issues, and show reduction in defects

content:
Energized after spending time with so many exceptional colleagues at the PwC leadership conference

As expected, AI was a constant thread throughout the conversations. It was powerful to see how intentionally we are investing in both talent and technology, while also learning from one another about the concrete ways AI is already creating impact.

It was great to share my own perspective on how we

evidence_experience: "I am responsible for two enterprise-grade SaaS products: ProEdge...and Astro...deliver value to our customers. Under my leadership, ProEdge has achieved double-digit millions in revenue...over 150 customers" - explicitly building and selling products to external customers.


Gopakumar Gopalakrishnan

sourced_title: Chief Innovation Officer, Infosys Ltd,. Germany

about:
Resilient and pragmatic professional with international experience in leading strategically significant innovation and organizational transformation projects.

I am passionate about harnessing the power of technology and behavioural science and the value it can create to develop new business models, enhance organizational effectiveness, and amplify the impact of leadership practices.

company: Infosys

position: Consultant - Talent and Organization Development

company: Tata Management Training Center

position: Research Associate – Leadership and Organization Development

company: Centre for Organization Development

position: Academic Associate - Organizational Behavior Area

company: IIM Ahmedabad

internal_vs_external: unclear

band_reasons: disqualified; ie_unclear

evidence_experience: "Multiple Roles in Talent development, Business Innovation and Organizational Transformation Areas" and prior roles all in Talent/Organization Development and Organizational Behavior - HR/L&D adjacent, not internal knowledge/IP-reuse/AI governance

resolved_account_name: Infosys Consulting


Nicolas Martineau

publicIdentifier: nicolasmartineau

sourced_title: Principal - Head of Data & AI Business Unit

headline: Senior Executive | Marketing, Product and Customer Experience | Data & AI | Digital

about:
Two worlds. One conviction: better decisions come from better use of data!

For 25 years, I’ve been navigating between Marketing leadership and Data & AI transformation. Not as separate paths—but as two sides of the same coin.

Today, I wear two hats that constantly feed each other:

- Head of Data & AI Business Unit at Headmind Partners
- Marketing Executive within client organizations

On one side, I lead the Data & AI Business Unit in Belgium at Headmind, a leading AI & Cybersecurity consulting firm with over 900 consultants across Europe. With a team of 40+ experts, we help organizations turn data into a real driver of performance and smarter decision-making.

On the other side, I operate at the heart of business. I take on senior marketing leadership roles, driving value proposition, acquisition, growth, and retention strategies—while leading transformation programs from the inside.

What makes it different?
I don’t just advise on transformation—I live it!

I bring together strategic vision, operational execution, and data-driven thinking to bridge the gap between business ambition and technological reality.

position: Head of Acquisition & Go-To-Market

company: Orange

position: Customer Value Proposition Director

position: Residential Marketing Director

position: Head of Customer Base Management

company: HeadMind Partners

position: Principal - Head of Digital Business Unit

description:
Projects:

- Telecom: Retention & Customer Base Management
- Telecom: B2B Customer Value Proposition

description:
Projects:

- Postal services: Retail User Experience (Parcels & Partners services)
- Telecom: In Store Phygital Customer Experience

position: Senior Manager

description:
Projects:

- Telecom - Customer Service Call deflation plan - Strategic 3Y roadmap
- Telecom - TV Product Management
- Financial Services - Internal Communication & Change Management
- Airlines Digital - CRM & Data Management

evidence_experience: "I lead the Data & AI Business Unit in Belgium at Headmind, a leading AI & Cybersecurity consulting firm... we help organizations turn data into a real driver of performance" and "I take on senior marketing leadership roles... within client organizations."

resolved_account_name: HeadMind Partners