Zug, Zug, Switzerland
Senior IT Executive with 20+ years of experience in leveraging technology to drive Business and IT Transformations in global organizations. Expertise within the manufacturing-oriented Industry with a specific focus on Pharma and Medtech. Proven Track Record in enabling organization to accelerate growth by leveraging new technologies for defining and executing new company and business strategies. Specialist in increasing operational excellence and strengthen competitiveness by focussing on cross-functional value creation. Deep expertise in leading complex international transformation programs across ERP, CRM, cloud, data, and cybersecurity environments and optimizing IT operating models and costs. Consulting and corporate leadership experience, combining a broad cross-industry perspective with a proven ability to translate strategic ambitions into business value, organizational transformation and long-term cultural change. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Developed a non-executive board framework to validate, how new technology is leveraged by the management to foster top and bottom-line growth. • Created a data and AI roadmap complementing the overall company strategy to enhance sales growth and operational efficiency. • Transformed a med tech company to build up a new business unit and enabled a top line growth of >$100m/year. • Stabilized IT operations and achieved cost savings of 12million/year. • Scaled an IT team from 400 to 1500 people building up new technology capabilities. KEY COMPETENCIES Board Experience - Executive Management - Corporate Governance - Business & IT Strategy - Digital Transformation - Organizational Change - Technology Innovation - Data and AI - Program, Project & Risk Mgmt - Partner & Alliance Mgmt - IT Service Mgmt & IT Operations - Stakeholder Mgmt Studies of biochemistry and mathematics and a strong passion for science. Guest lecturer for digital transformation at the University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration Zürich (HWZ).
Provide IT advisory services for Digital Transformation, Program Management, Assessments, Outsourcing/Offshoring, Complex Contracting/Procurement, Innovation and Delivery Models.
Guest lecturer for Technology Innovation & Transformation.
As Chief Digital Officer I was responsible for defining and executing the digital strategy of Ivoclar across functions, regions and markets. This included: - Leading the digital portfolio to enable growth through creating customized and integrated experiences across multiple channels and touchpoints. - Defining and implementing a data strategy to drive data science, analytics and AI empowerment for additional value add. - Promoting digital working to further build an organizational digital culture and mindset. - Building partnerships related to digital innovation with start-ups, technology companies, devices, academia and manage the relationships and outcomes.
As Head of Corporate Services, I was selected for defining and delivering a transformation of the corporate services for Alpiq. In this role I was leading the CIO, Chief Information Security Officer, Chief Procurement Officer, Facility Mgmt, General Counsel and Head of Compliance, including a team of 350-400 people. I had a budget accountability of above CHF100m, whereof the majority was related to IT. My main contributions and achievements included: - Contributed to the overall transformation journey of Alpiq by being part of the Executive Board. Supported the definition of the new vision and mission, the strategy, execution and cultural change. - Restructured the departments and processes and positioned new leadership to achieve the defined bottom and top-line results. - Merged 2 large IT departments into one, focusing on removing redundancies, establishing business-oriented service structures and clearly defined governance and priorization processes. - Stabilized the operations of the corporate services with a special focus on key systems relevant for trading and financial closing. Reduced business critical outages to zero and significantly improved the overall stability.
Served as member of the Board of Directors in all 3 subsidiary companies of Alpiq Holding AG with a focus on technology and transformation.