Mark O'Loughlin Founder, Author, Keynote, Director

Founder | Advisor | Leader | Author | Keynote

County Dublin, Ireland

About

Founder | Digital Transformation Strategist | Global Thought Leader | Author | Keynote A strategically focused Founder, Digital Transformation Strategist, and an Executive Management Consultant with an MBA and the rare distinction of being one of only 140 ITIL Masters globally. As a Business and Technology Leader and Fellow of the Irish Computer Society (ICS), I have a proven track record of delivering mission-critical business objectives and outcomes by aligning people, process, and digital technologies with core corporate strategies. I specialise in navigating the complexities of digital transformation and have a reputation for successfully recovering distressed, business-critical programmes. Working directly with the C-Suite and Executive Teams, I design and deliver strategic programmes of work and initiatives necessary to transform their corporate objectives into measurable results including revenue growth, efficiencies, operational resilience, and organisational change.

Experience

  • Program Director at EY
    Nov 2023 - Present ยท 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Red Circle Strategies (18 yrs 6 mos)
    • Founder and Managing Director
      Sep 2015 - Present ยท 10 yrs 10 mos

      Founded a strategic advisory practice specialising in digital transformation, cloud strategy, and operating model evolution for leading global enterprises. Delivered high impact programmes across financial services, pharma, technology, utilities, and public sector organisations, including AIB, Amgen, BOI, Cisco, Dell, Ericsson, ESB, Fidelity, HPE, IBM, IQVIA, LeasePlan, McAfee, Stryker, VMWare and Zurich. #DoingDigitalRight ๐ˆ๐๐•๐ˆ๐€ โ€“ ๐†๐ฅ๐จ๐›๐š๐ฅ ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐ญ, ๐‚๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž & ๐“๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ฌ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง Appointed as a strategic advisor to evaluate and redesign global service operations as part of a multi year transformation towards a Centre of ITSM Excellence. Developed the target operating model (TOM), improvement roadmap and governance approach, partnering closely with IQVIAโ€™s delivery management teams who owned execution. Supported senior ITSM leaders with targeted coaching and advisory oversight throughout all programme phases. ๐…๐“๐ˆ ๐”๐Š โ€“ ๐€๐œ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ƒ๐ฎ๐ž ๐ƒ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐€๐๐ฏ๐ข๐ฌ๐จ๐ซ Engaged as a specialist advisor to support commercial and market due diligence for the acquisition of a โ‚ฌ100M Irish IT services company. Contributed deep familiarity with the Irish and UK technology landscape to shape the investment view. ๐‚๐ฅ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ƒ๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ฅ ๐’๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ฒ ๐„๐๐ฎ๐œ๐š๐ญ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐†๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฎ๐“๐ž๐š๐ฆ Served as an exclusive global trainer and examiner for the Professional Cloud Service Manager certification. Delivered training programmes to thousands of learners worldwide, maintaining a 98% pass rate and 99% satisfaction score, helping individuals and teams strengthen their cloud and digital capabilities.

    • Speaker and Keynote at International IT Conferences, Seminars and Webinars
      Jan 2008 - Present ยท 18 yrs 6 mos

      Mark presents and keynote regularly at local and international conferences, seminars and webinars.

  • Commercial Director at The Project Foundry
    Aug 2022 - Aug 2023 ยท 1 yr 1 mo

  • Managing Director of Cloud Credential Council at Cloud Credential Council
    Jan 2018 - Mar 2023 ยท 5 yrs 3 mos

    ๐†๐ฅ๐จ๐›๐š๐ฅ ๐๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ: Expanded global reach through strategic podcasts, research reports, and interviews, positioning CCC as a primary authority in digital learning and certification. ๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐†๐ฅ๐จ๐›๐š๐ฅ ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ: Cultivating a worldwide network of partners and experts to champion digital literacy and modern cloud standards. ๐๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ง๐จ๐ฏ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: Led the launch of executive-level learning products covering Cloud, IoT, Big Data, AI, and Blockchain. ๐“๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐‹๐ž๐š๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ: Host of the CCCTalks podcast, engaging with global industry leaders to understand emerging trends and navigate the complexities of digital disruption across people, process, technology and culture.

  • Programme Director | Global Recovery Specialist at Gate One
    Jan 2022 - Jul 2022 ยท 7 mos

    Appointed to lead the recovery of a high-risk, mission-critical separation programme during the GSK / Haleon demerger. ๐ƒ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ž ๐‘๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ: Successfully realigned an recovered a distressed global initiative involving cross- functional teams covering the US, India, Ireland, UK, and Poland. ๐Ž๐ง-๐“๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ: Delivered the programme on budget and within the critical timeframe for demerger. ๐‘๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: Awarded a formal commendation for the significant turnaround and leadership of a complex, multi-national team.