Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Cornelis is an experienced ICT Strategy & Transformation Leader with passion for people and technology and with significant exposure to cultures across all continents. He has Board certification and is open to participate in boards, keen to represent owners and shareholders with his leadership experience and skills in analytical thinking and technology understanding for IT Strategy, IT cost optimization, IT Sourcing, M&A integrations and Finance. He helps international organizations to get the maximum value from their IT investments, by increasing their profit margins through delivery of strategic change programs in IT optimization, sourcing and transformation. He is result-oriented with strong abilities in technology understanding and in people & change leadership. He has featured as speaker at multiple events, including Management Events (Finland and The Netherlands), IntraTeam (Denmark), Ability Partner (Sweden) and Digital Workplace Group (UK). His key skills include: • Board membership (certified) • IT Strategy & Transformation • IT Services Leadership (+ITIL v4 certified) • People Leadership • Information Security / Cybersecurity (+CISM certified) • Artificial Intelligence - ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok, MS Co-Pilot (+AI fundamentals certified) • Service Business • Business IT Relationship Management • Business Digitalization • Cloud Services Integration (+MS Azure certified) • Agile Software Development • M&A - Mergers & Acquisitions Integrations • Engineering Application Services • Program & Project Management • IoT, Big Data, data lake, machine learning, automation • Business case creation • Network transformation with Software Defined WAN - SD-WAN • Zero trust security • Lencioni model deployment for healthy team environments
Leading strategic initiatives, supporting the CIO in driving IT strategy and business engagement, Financial Control, IT service management, sourcing & procurement, Portfolio & Project Mgt and M&A integrations, among other things.
Helping the CIO with planning and execution of strategic projects, incl. M&A merger integration, IT Sourcing strategy, vendor transitions, Lean IT transformation and Business IT engagement.
Leading the development and operations of IT infrastructure, application & support services at Caverion, a business delivering intelligent solutions for buildings, industries and infrastructures.
Leading the development & operations of global IT infrastructure services at ANDRITZ.
Leading the strategic vendor engagements for Microsoft IT global site operations. Have delivered the transition of technical support services at all Microsoft locations into a unified vendor model with a preferred global partner.
Accountable for IT Site Operations services across 28 countries in the EMEA region. Supported global technology deployments and new solution adoptions effectively at the local business level.
Leading a team of 35 people through a major M&A integration program, covering a wide range of global IT services. In this role, I was part of the cross-functional integration leadership team.
Leading end-to-end IT products & service development and operations in the End User Computing domain. Accountable for product & services development, performance and financial budget control. Have led a large team through a global IT outsourcing transformation program.
Accountable for IT business collaboration products & services, and software development to a global user base of 50.000, with a team of 45 people. Responsible for an annual budget of 50 MEUR.