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Global VP of Quality for the ZF Groups Electronics & ADAS Division. Also run a private consulting firm in Lean/Ops/Quality

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In my current role, I leverage my skills in product management, strategy, innovation, and communication to identify opportunities for methodology enhancement, analyze options, develop insights, and propose recommendations and solutions. I also manage the program roadmap and ensure project deliverables and milestones are achieved against agreed timelines. I work with the technology and implementation team to develop the solution, and with senior stakeholders to communicate and engage them on the progress and outcomes. I have successfully driven the prototype modeling and rollout of the new methodology and design in target countries, enabling Citi to optimize its digital investments and performance.

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I lead product management function for a business unit here at LPL. In my product portfolio, I have a suit of technology and service products. I am responsible for product P&L, customer acquisition, and retention. I oversee product development and manage technology budget. I guide the product teams for product management initiatives.

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A staunch proponent of the value created through partnerships between enterprises and startups, Niko Casagrande is Vice President of Digital Innovation & Strategy at Citizens.  He focuses on building FinTech ecosystem relationships, managing accelerator and VC partnerships, pairing emerging technologies with key opportunities in the bank, and helping high-potential FinTechs navigate the organization.Niko drives internal and external value through community-led partnerships and revenue generation opportunities, as well as surfaces startups that represent viable investment/acquisition opportunities.

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Innovative IT Application Leader with significant experience in Software Architecture Framework focused on human-computer intelligence and leading global project teams. Leverages technology and data-driven decisions to transform businesses, drive growth and position IT as a competitive advantage in the Digital Marketplace. Hands-on management of continuous integration of design, development, and deploying software applications. Respected for inspiring teams, leading by example, collaborative problem-solving, and delivering on promises. High performer, able to prioritize assignments, mentor game-changing teams, and provide end-to-end business transformation and Digital Product Ownership capabilities empowering Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, and e-commerce Operations across the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Enthusiastically takes on the most challenging projects, creates detailed project plans, motivates teams, and exceeds expectations.

 Strategic Business Head and board member of Executive Leadership team for Commercial division of Mohawk

Executing enterprise business data solution that is innovative and one of its kind which has been approved and sponsored by the senior leadership for all brand sites and B2B customer facing apps 

Work closely with eCommerce and Digital Transformation teams to optimize and strategize Web application performance and customer experience.

 With specialization in HCI (Human Computer Interaction), redesigned and repositioned the entire Web Design process for brand sites in collaboration with IS, Design Team and eCommerce team.

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I am responsible for defining and executing the enterprise-wide data & analytics roadmap to align information assets with key business objectives, define and oversee governance framework and organizational structure that supports data quality, prioritization of workstreams, Artificial Intelligence and Innovation efforts, and data monetization approach.

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Lead, Manage, Direct, and Promote EquinoxGold Continuous Improvement (CI) program and culture across all facilities and activities globally, with accountability and responsibility for the CI performance across EquinoxGold. Partner with business leadership to drive key initiatives and transformation activities that improve KPI’s and other business performance indicators such as ROI, margin improvement. Establish and integrate the CI system as part of the overall EquinoxGold Operating System. Develop, implement, and refine the EquinoxGold CI Management System, consistent with our processes and practices across the organization. Work closely with all organizational functions to document processes and improve the methods that we use to execute our business plans. Become an invited member and welcomed supporter to all EquinoxGold Operations. Work closely with local Country SVPs and CI/Lean leaders to provide CI System roadmap direction and support. Identify process optimization opportunities within the organization through onsite observations and use of Current State evaluation and Future State target. Coach, Facilitate, and Lead advanced improvement projects as necessary within the organization. Build a Continuous Improvement organization with required bench strength to support the corporate CI initiatives. Coach, mentor and teach all levels of organization on CI concepts and tools, including actively leading GB training & kaizens. Lead, Manage, Direct and Promote the Green Belt Training program and establish other training programs such as Yellow belt, LSS Black Belt as needed. Assist in coordinating and managing projects and events such as Kaizen events, office & manufacturing improvements, and other tasks as assigned. Be a leader, mentor, and coach towards integration of CI principles, values, philosophies, and tools for driving continuous improvement through coaching, guiding and hands on support over multiple projects. Work with value stream owners to create a system to ensure everyone is conducting the CI principles correctly and consistently. Assist in the development and management of a best practice sharing internal network supported by Safety, Quality, and Continuous Improvement Principles. Provide monthly and quarterly performance reports as assigned.

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Leading the Change Management Office (CMO) for Nike HR, driving change management strategy for enterprise-wide HR transformation (business operating model rollout, job and pay architecture, technology implementation) and sustainment actions impacting 80,000+ global teammates. Developing and measuring key performance metrics that will be used to assess what successful change management looks at NIKE through adoption targets, change readiness assessments, change adoption assessments, training assessments, engagement metrics. Developing strategic change capability within Nike HR and business partners, engaging senior leaders in their sponsorship role and ensuring stakeholder alignment. Acting as the key point of intake for new change management initiatives within HR organization, assessing and prioritizing resources against the Annual Operating Plan. Managing and mentoring a team of 25 change practitioners, implementing change management tactics to drive knowledge, engagement, and sustained adoption Managing budget of $7Million USD and relationship with selected external partners such as Deloitte and Contractors for change management efforts.

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Currently tasked to drive the transformation of the Cloud Native Operating Model and build a new 3-year technology vision. Shape Cyber Security IT strategy and technology roadmap by engaging with business and functional leaders to define needs, objectives, and opportunities. Oversee technology leadership integration team spanning IT functions Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, Digital & Software Development, Portfolio Management & Delivery, IT Administration, Services & Support, Data & Analytics, Security, and Innovation. Led key elements of Covid-19 crisis response. Effectively communicated and influenced others toward future state solutions, often engaging with C-Level executives and Board of Directors (BOD) to secure buy-in

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I lead strategy and operations across Adobe International ( EMEA, Japan, APAC ) with focus on our digital media business (b2c). This includes all marketing operations, budget planning, organisational strategy and customer journey strategy. Passion points include sustainable Generative AI and Diversity & Inclusion and in particular cultural diversity.

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● Partner with C–Suite and business unit strategy leaders to define company strategy - both long range and annual, and responsible for localizing and aligning the strategy to the top 100 leaders through the enterprise OKR process.

● Lead the Transformation Management Office - consisting of EPMO, Continuous Improvement, Business Process Management Align our PMO, Change Management, and CI efforts to the top 50 initiatives. Define, visualize, and manage the transformation governance structure with QBRs, MBRs, Initiatives – highlighting value realized, resource constraints, execution risk and gaps – focusing on building strategic agility throughout the organization.

● Led the Customer-Centric Growth Strategy and CX Team, identifying $600 million revenue opportunity through premium-pricing, lowering the cost to serve, and furthering our customer satisfaction.

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Of the full portfolio of 161 global partners in the Industry Partner Solutions org within Microsoft, I manage the team that handles the co-innovations across the app innovation, infrastructure, and Azure security solution areas. Through these co-innovations, the partners my team supports contribute more than a billion dollars in revenue to Microsoft.

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Responsible for utility strategy development and implementation, operational excellence, organizational change management, enterprise asset management and business analysis, federal grant programs, and overall transformation roadmap and initiatives.

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Leading company Materials Velocity effort by driving E2E process design of overall cyber ECO-System. Introducing Industry 4.0 to the enterprise allowing the teams to leverage and exploit a connected data/process flow.

Manage creation of future standards and architectural design of the E2E physical process and integrated architecture to lead enterprise digital transformation of our factory systems, processes, technology, and people. Responsibility of BPM implementation at the enterprise level to drive operational transformation.

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Responsible for design and roll out of the "Integration Managment Office" which ensures company acquisitions are efficiently operationalized in a way that realizes synergies defined in investment hypothesis.

Recognized the need, and established a global, cross-functional "Transformational Community" to help the company operations purposefully evolve to support long term growth targets.

Foster multi-divisional efficiency programs designed to ensure profitability margins

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Accountable for quality organization across all Petrofac businesses and monitoring the quality performance and delivery of the company outputs and deliverables to serve customers and clients globally.

Leading a team of 200+ passionate quality experts, promoting operational performance, streamlining our work processes and driving continuous improvement across the group.

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Provide strategy & operational oversight to a $500m consulting practice for Adobe. Lead a team of 70 people covering the following; Sales & Revenue planning & management (20-30%+ YOY growth), sales & revenue forecasting operations, contract management, resource management office, partnerships, program management, reporting and analytics, business process management, interns and associates academy, technology transformation.

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Advancing the organization to become an industry catalyst through the oversight of Communications, Change Management, Leadership and development, Performance and Succession management and spearheading the company's culture and brand initiative and Future of Work strategy.

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At SAP, Saurabh is currently serving in the role of "Global Vice President - Head of Digital Modalities" leading a global team of innovative product managers & digital evangelists who create digital innovations & roll out incubations for the execution of SAP's Digital strategy across the regional digital hubs across the 7 regions globally. My business unit is the central organization empowering our regional SAP Digital Hubs across the end-to-end sales cycle from lead generation to sales closure with the latest & greatest next-generational digital innovations & incubations like SAP Enterprise GPT & AI Avatars to increase SAP talent productivity & provide memorable customer experiences to 1000's of customers worldwide. 

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Aaron Washburn is the Senior Director of Business Process Improvement at CME Group, overseeing the office of Business Process Improvement and is responsible for designing, leading and fostering a culture that embraces a continuous improvement mindset.  He has over fifteen years of experience of driving operational effectiveness and improving the Customer Experience across various industries.

Aaron earned a MBA from the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, DePaul University.  He is a certified TQM instructor and a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.

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I lead a global team that focuses on AI, Operations Research, and Insights. In my role, I own the strategic decision-making as well as tactical execution to produce business value. I own P&L responsibility for a significant budget related to new technologies

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Design, implement and manage program governance and project management operations for Chubb's Global Analytics. Global Analytics spans models, analytics platforms and curated data assets for underwriting, and claims across all global Chubb businesses as well as application of Generative AI across the company.

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As the global head of digital for our 3.5B Production Solutions business segment, I oversee both commercial (external) and enterprise (internal) digital programs. My team of product managers, project managers, scrum teams, and implementation experts serve both our customers and our product lines to leverage technology to adapt their business. Our programs range from leveraging AI to predict failures of equipment for customers (one of our commercial software offerings), to optimizing our internal S&OP processes so our business can run with better margins.

My main focus is ensuring that we are addressing the most impactful opportunities, with the best technology and rigorous execution to deliver tangible results. Most of our initiatives have components of data management, tech stack improvements, and organizational change management.

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I lead a cross-functional team to solve complex business problems using an operational excellence framework that takes a channel agnostic view of the customer and works across the organizational silos of the bank to reimagine the target state for our customer and our colleagues.

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As a seasoned Director of Organizational Change Management (OCM) within the Transformation Management division of Cognizant's prestigious Consulting practice, I am passionate about shaping the future of organizations by driving transformative change.

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