Kurt De Ruwe

CIO at AkzoNobel

Antwerp Metropolitan Area

About

Experienced CIO with a solid track record of delivery and driving innovation both for business process and IT technology related activities. Operated in a couple of multinational companies and enjoyed both the English, the German and US way of doing things. Has been involved in some major change management and SAP projects and managed a couple of big M&A deals that required significant reenginering to make the intergration a success. Specialties: Strategy development, conceptual design of new systems to support improved business processes, eBusiness, SAP and Data Warehousing

Experience

  • Chief Information Officer at AkzoNobel
    May 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

  • CIO at Signify
    Feb 2013 - Apr 2022 · 9 yrs 3 mos

  • Member Curatorium of the Executive Master (EM) IT-Auditing of TIAS at TIAS School for Business and Society
    May 2016 - Mar 2022 · 5 yrs 11 mos

  • CIO at Philips Lighting
    Feb 2013 - Feb 2016 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • CIO at Bayer MaterialScience
    May 2007 - Jan 2013 · 5 yrs 9 mos

    Define and implement a program that introduced singe global business processes supported by a single SAP ERP. The program includes supply chain optimization, customer and product rationalization, legal entity consolidation, training and education for 12.000 users. Introduction of internal Social Media capabilities supported by IBM Connections to drive and enable better and more open information and knowledge management. Introduction of a new office environment based on the latest versions of the Microsoft tools.