Cornelis V.

Driving profitability and efficiency by prioritizing the digital investments that really matter.

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

About

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

Experience

  • Assemblin Caverion Group ()
    • Head of CIO Office
      Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

      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.

    • Director, Strategic Projects, CIO Office
      Sep 2024 - Dec 2024 · 4 mos

      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.

  • Head of Operations, Group IT at Caverion
    Mar 2020 - Sep 2024 · 4 yrs 7 mos

    Leading the development and operations of IT infrastructure, application & support services at Caverion, a business delivering intelligent solutions for buildings, industries and infrastructures.

  • Head of Global IT Infrastructure Services at ANDRITZ
    Jun 2017 - Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos

    Leading the development & operations of global IT infrastructure services at ANDRITZ.

  • Microsoft (3 yrs 2 mos)
    • Strategic Vendor Manager, IT Director
      Jan 2016 - May 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos

      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.

    • Area IT Manager, Principle IT Service Operations Leader
      Apr 2015 - Dec 2015 · 9 mos

      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.

    • Director, End User Computing
      Apr 2014 - Apr 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo

      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.

  • Nokia ()
    • Director, End User Computing
      Oct 2012 - Apr 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos

      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.

    • Head of Collaboration Platforms
      Oct 2008 - Sep 2012 · 4 yrs

      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.