Profile:
- Highly experienced technology leader
- ?in global & regional CIO roles for 8 years with broad and international experience in many areas of IT as well as large transformation programs (digital and beyond). Major focus on strengthening cyber resilience/maturity
- Taking strategy to execution
- ?by having led post-merger & acquisition integrations including large scale SAP transformations, new strategy and operating model definition & implementation as well as innovating in the area of new digital products, Industrial Cloud and employee experience anticipating future Business needs
- Innovating IT at the Core
- ?by having established modern Agile DevOps practice with ?Cloud First? vision including the startup of new digital capability centers in Hungary and India to hire and develop digital transformation-enabling talent
- Delivering competitive advantage
- ?as a people-centric entrepreneur by experimenting with new IT capabilities and emerging technologies while leveraging stakeholder relationships and demonstrating practical business acumen
Experience:
- 8+ Global/regional CIO roles
- 18+ in IT, 13 in leadership roles
- 6+ Digital Transformation
KEY CAPABILITIES
- Digital Enterprise Transformation
- Effective communicator
- Champion of creativity & innovation
- Data Strategist
- Risk tolerance & experimentation Mindset
- Building people, not systems
Work experience:
01/2021 - today
Role: Vice President & CIO
Customer: on request
Tasks:
- Leadership of global IT function with ~1000 employees and ~$320m yearly budget including digital offboard product responsibility
01/2020 - 12/2020
Role: Vice President, IT EME & DCX
Tasks:
- Responsible for IT in Europe and Middle East with 350 IT employees and evolving company-wide digital transformation program
- Strong technology and business leadership scaling the organization for next generation of digital products as part of Digital Customer Experience (DCX) transformation
11/2017 - 12/2019
Role: Director, IT EME & DCX
Tasks:
- Leadership of global Digital Customer Experience (DCX) transformation including introduction of modern practices like Agile and DevOps ? next to regional CIO role for Europe and Middle East
12/2016 - 10/2017
Role: Director, IT EME & EAS
Tasks:
- Leadership to global Enterprise Application Services (EAS) group with large scale SAP implementations ? next to regional CIO role for Europe and Middle East
06/2015 - 11/2016
Role: Director, IT EAME
Tasks:
- Regional CIO for Europe, Africa and Middle East
07/2014 - 05/2015
Role: Director, IT Delivery Management
Tasks:
- Responsible for IT portfolio delivery in two regions (EAME & APAC)
- Global IT lead of major new product introduction program including all aspects of IT (including SAP) for new greenfield factory in China
01/2011 - 06/2014
Role: Senior Manager Global Systems
Tasks:
- Leading global application support group for AGCO?s Aftersales Business as well as delivery management for IT projects in sales & marketing
07/2009 - 12/2010
Role: Solution Architect
Tasks:
- Responsible for solution architecture for AGCO?s global Aftersales IT platforms (master data, purchasing, forecasting & planning)