50 EXPERTS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Big Data Integration Specialist
Benjamin Braun, born 1980, has a record of 18 years in the IT. He has the University Diploma in Technology (DUT) in Computer Science from IUT D'ORSAY. In 2005 he joined Tenor as project manager. His knowledge of technologies, his know-how and his expertise in EDI project management have enabled him to support hundreds of large accounts customers in the industry, the automotive sector or mass distribution. Today, he manages Tenor's EAI offer and brings to his benefit 15 years of expertise for urbanization projects of data exchange between software.
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- Independent Textiles Sourcing Specialist
- Sustainable Textiles Sourcing Specialist
Fiona Coyne is an independent Textiles Sourcing Specialist with a passion for sustainability and CSR. With unparalleled experience in the textile industry and a network spanning three continents, she currently advises companies in the branch as to how best to redesign and optimise their textile supply chain, from fibre to garment.
Dinis Guarda - Chairman and co-founder ztudium, techabc and open business platform. Dinis is an author, speaker, entrepreneur, advisor, and CEO.
Job Titles:
- Chief
- Founder
- Entrepreneur and Thought Leader
Jayanta Chakravorty is the Founder & Chief Mentor of Asentrek Global - A Global virtual platform for Entrepreneurs, Thought leaders, Academic , Tech Masters , Consultant & Coaches.
Born in 1962, Martin Kraus holds an engineering degree and a PhD in Aeronautical Sciences from the Technical University of Munich.
In his career, he worked 20 years in Airbus Defence with functions in Engineering and Program Management, finally as VP of a large Program Unit in Airbus Defence.
In 2009, he became SVP Engineering of the BU Air Defence and Naval Systems within the Rheinmetall Group. In 2015, he became CEO of the BU.
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- Head of Strategy for Digital Business Transformation
Bill Limond is Global Board-level 'trouble-shooter' who delivers businesses out of trouble and provides failing organisations with lasting, tailored solution. To achieve this he acts as interim CIO who can safely deliver Digital Business Transformation, Excellence & Competitive Edge.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Hospitality and Tourism Expert
Emmanuel Treku is Chief Executive Officer, Chamber for Tourism Industry Ghana with over two decades of exposure in tourism promotion, tourism and hospitality business development.
Geordie Keitt has devoted over twenty-five years to rescuing transformation programs affecting technology, platform, and development methodology through a single-minded devotion to understanding work. During the first wave of web enabled business Geordie championed user-centered design and testing to streamline bloated and aimless webification efforts. He brought XP principles and the Hologramming mindset to high-stakes financial services projects, rejuvenating and launching them.
Job Titles:
- Data Mining and Data Visualization Advisor
Hans Sleijpen, born in 1965, has 30+ years' experience in business control and business consultancy, both in the private sector (e.g. large chemicals producer) and the public sector (large public health group).
Job Titles:
- Head of Academic Relations
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- IT Service Management Advisor
Johannes Volckmann born 1961 in Locarno, Switzerland and a learned Mathematician. He excels in organizational restructuring of organizations in the light of Digital Transformation as an expert in standards like ISO-20000, ITIL and more.
Job Titles:
- CTO and Cyber Security Expert
- CTO With Experience in AI
Jorge Sebastiao is a seasoned CTO with experience in AI, Blockchain, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Disaster Recovery, Big Data and a managed services professional focused on business value. He created the process A6 of security: Assess, Architect, Apply, Administer, Awareness and Agility.
Mr. Sebastiao architects practical & business focused solutions using standards and industry best practices, designed SLAs to meet today's business resiliency using cloud computing & managed services business requirements. Jorge has delivered advice in several AI, ML, ICO, STO with comprehensive understanding of technology disruption effects caused by both Artificial Intelligence & Blockchain technology.
Mr. Sebastiao has been the speaker at numerous international conferences with topics including: Blockchain, AI, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Big Data, & Managed Services.
Jyothi Varma, Director Outreach, JYT Ventures Pvt ltd, is a Travel and Hospitality Industry veteran, with an almost three decades of exposure to corporate travel, GDS, Travel technology, Payment Solutions, Business development, Education session, Events etc.
She has close exposure to organisations like Amadeus, Interglobe, American Express, Carlson Wagon-lit, WWStay, ACTE (Association of Corporate Travel Executives) and has worn hats like Sr Vice-president, COO, Regional Head.
Currently she has joined hands with Digitravel Consulting USA to bring in Agile, Dynamic, Quantified, Digital Readiness and Travel Strategy to the Indian Corporate travels to embrace and encompass the upcoming changes and new solutions.
Karl Friedrich Schmidt is a serial-entrepreneur and business enabler with more than 20 years' experience in organizational and business development and the consulting of multi/nationals as well as SME.
He owned companies that were specialized in management and IT Consulting (mainly SAP) for Machinery and Automotive and helps now start-ups finding a proper path in to the market.
As a lecturer at University for Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern for "Industry 4.0" he now concentrates in evangelizing Industry 4.0 and integration of the shop floor level into main company processes including the development and implementation of modern IT-solutions.
Job Titles:
- Principal
- SAP Industry & Traceability Expert
Kevin Wilson is a Principal SAP Solution Engineer with a primary focus of facilitating solutions for companies experiencing Supply Chain process and traceability challenges. His solutions cover the various applicable toolsets provided by SAP to accomplish real value, whether it is SAP Workflow, SAP Global Batch Traceability (GBT), SAP NetWeaver PI, SAP EDI / ALE / IDoc, ABAP, SAP Object Event Repository (OER), SAP Transportation Management or SAP Event Management (EM). Since 1996 he has utilized these skill sets to help many companies automate their processes and more recently bringing traceability solutions (Track and Trace) through SAP Event Management and SAP OER.
He is an active leader in the SAP Event Management community as the Influence Council representative working with fellow users and SAP to help better the product and also moderates the SAP EM forum on SAP SCN. Kevin is also a very active thought leader and evangelist in both the Traceability and EDI areas and manages the popular portal EDIGenie.COM with exclusive EDI related content.
Kevin speaks regularly at user group meetings and at conferences and has spoken in Massachusetts, Georgia, Florida, Nevada, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Czech Republic, Brazil and France. He regularly gives webinars and training sessions to users on all topics in his area of expertise including SAP Event Management, SAP EM / TM Integration, SAP OER, SAP Workflow, SAP EDI / ALE / ABAP and Supply Chain Management.
Kevin runs several other SAP related on-line communities including ERPGenie.COM and the SAP Community Network's SAP Event Management Forum.
Education
Bachelor's Degree - Computer Science, Mathematics (1990 - University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
Diploma in Project Management (1995 - Cum Laude - School of Project Management, South Africa)
As a 25 year veteran in SAP, Kevin has led the way in leveraging many of SAP's solutions in innovative ways. A focus on "Doing it Right, First" enables clients to benefit from a faster ROI and lower TCO. Kevin, the founder of ERPGenie.COM (formerly SAPGenie), pioneered the way for many in the industry, by freely sharing key pieces of info with the community. Even today, he continues with this focus on sharing his knowledge with others through the website, speaking and authoring engagements.
Kevin and his colleagues are experts in what they do but they pride themselves in leaving folks, not only in a better place from a solution standpoint, but also from a personal "knowledge-gain" standpoint
Lynton Grice, born 1979, is a passionate programming artist with close to 20 years of integration and programming experience who is well known amongst his peers as a "troubleshooting and debugging master" and often called upon to solve very complex technical issues and advise decision makers on technology trends and strategy and lead their team of technical resources.
Job Titles:
- Expert in Aircraft Maintenance Repair and Overhaul ( MRO )
For more than 30 years Mallik Vempati enjoyed a career in aerospace & aviation whereof 20 years in service for the Indian Air Force as aircraft engineer for maintenance, modifications, structural repairs, service bulletins, system integration, technical services and IT.
Job Titles:
- Process Improvement Advisor
Marco Stikvoort, born in 1956 has a 40+ year long track record in IT and logistics. After joining some outstanding firms, he (co-)owned several consultancy firms specializing in project management and process improvement including SAP implementation and Lean Six Sigma. Now he engages in new business forms, using systems theory, data driven approaches, service oriented architecture and finite economy/ecology concepts.
Martin vom Bruch, born 1972, has more than 20 years of experience in IT. After a leading position in the transportation and logistics industry, the desire for creative freedom and for assuming more responsibility prompted him to found MVB CONSULTING GMBH, which he sold the company after ten successful years with up to 15 employees and joined as a member of the board Tuleva AG to build their cloud service strategy for Azure and AWS.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Technology Committee
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- Managing Partner of Informatis
Michael Fuchs, Managing Partner of Informatis has 25 years of IT consulting experience. He managed and accompanied as executive consultant large scale consolidations, restructurings and mergers and acquisitions for global market leaders. With his IT and financial know how, he supports international IT mergers and acquisitions projects across the departments.
Job Titles:
- Advisor to Policy Makers and International Business
Mr Deepak Kumar Sareen dedicated his 40 years of experiences to successful implementation of techno commercial projects of national importance and export development and worked in various private and government positions..
Mr Deepak Kumar Sareen is a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communications from MIT and a post-graduate in Marketing Management from Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi with over 39 years of work experience dedicated to successful implementation of techno commercial projects of national importance and export development.
In 1982, Mr Sareen and his team conceived and successfully delivered the Colour TV project in India using Low Power TV Transmitters (LPTV's) broadcast and the INSAT satellite systems to cover the entire country for Asian 82 games. This was the first time colour TV broadcast relayed throughout the country and sparked the beginning of enterprise content development throwing open the market entry of private businesses to enter the market. The manufacturing sector of Low Power TV transmitters also opened up thereafter to private sector and generated employment for thousands of young engineers and technicians.
In 1984, Mr Sareen and his team developed the Security related electronics industry in India for the Non Aligned Ministers meet that required special security measures. This endeavour later developed into a whole new industry of Security Electronics that thrives on latest technologies even today.
From 1990 onwards, Mr Sareen has worked extensively with the Indian ICT industry for development of Software & Electronics hardware exports contributing US $143 billion into India's export basket of $500 of merchandise exports and services during 2018-19.
Mr Sareen also has over 30 years of professional experience in several assignments related to foreign trade and development, market study and research, with over 25 years' experience in export promotion of Computer Software, Information Technology and Electronics.
He also has vast experience with major markets of export namely, USA, Canada, Japan, Russia, China, Israel, South Korea, Brazil etc.
Mr Sareen has represented in several high level focused Committees of the Government like E-Commerce, E-Governance, Free Trade Agreement Consultations, Bilateral Trade and Cooperation, Business Councils etc.
Through his interface with industry, Mr Sareen has been instrumental in facilitating business relationships by providing valuable and important network to foreign companies, financial institutions, venture capital firms and specialized trade bodies and associations to facilitate strategic alliances, joint ventures, business collaborations and partnerships with Indian electronics and information technology companies in different parts of the world.
In addition, Mr Sareen has been engaged and involved in various assignments with United Nations (UN), World Electronics Forum (WEF), Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), Denmark Import Promotion Organization (DIPO) Centre for the Promotion of Imports from Developing Countries (CBI), The Netherlands, UKTI, US-IBC etc.
Mr Sareen is also a part time Volunteer with Isha Foundation having completed several of their Meditation & Yoga programs. He is actively involved in Social activities of assistance to the causes of under privileged education, health care, advancement through Self Help groups with Charitable Trusts funding etc.
Job Titles:
- Expert
- SAP Supply Chain Management Expert
With worldwide 43 SAP Projects and 20 SAP Go-Lives Faruk Sevinc can look back to a long history of SAP Projects. Faruk helps SAP clients to implement SAP S/4 HANA and other SAP Digital Solutions in greenfield and brownfield projects and takes the management and functional lead as well as process design, reengineering and improvements.
Mr. Faruk Sevinc is a highly skilled SAP Expert within the Supply Chain Management area and works as an
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- Strategic Advisor / Founder Chairman of InnoCorp. Ltd, India and Innoglobal DMCC Dubai / Chairman of Deed Edtech, Kastech Software Solutions, FZCO, Dubai
Mr. Prasad Garapati is a successful entrepreneur who believes in converting competition into collaboration and sees opportunity in crisis by going an extra mile and thinking out of the box, with proven 40 years of background of business experience and operational expertise. With his keen business acumen and vast global exposure, he has been successful in business ventures that span cross sectors: from trading to manufacturing to information technology services and solutions to power infrastructure to food, education, media and entertainment in India, USA and UAE. His contribution to Indian IT sector as Chairman of ESC is truly remarkable by playing a major role of organizing Indiasoft 2007, 2008, 2012, 2017 and 2020 in Hyderabad. He led ESC delegation from India to several countries including GITEX, Dubai for the last 15 years. His leadership and motivation led 100+ IT companies joining synergies with ESC and APEDB to create IT Parks in AP.
Job Titles:
- President African Chamber of Commerce Cameroon
Mrs Mary Anchang is a lawyer by profession specialized in intellectual property, woman entrepreneur, passionate fighter for a better Africa, and Director of African Chamber of Commerce Cameroon. She has the Founding Chair of the African Chamber of Trade and Commerce (ACC) that was created in 2015 with the purpose to innovate and find adapted African solutions to African problems in an all-inclusive manner.
Mushtaq Khan is an accomplished global management professional offering over 30 years of cumulative, wide international experience of driving technology led business transformation programs across multiple industry sectors. He is a very capable senior executive with outstanding interpersonal skills combined with the intellect, drive & technical expertise to consistently deliver exceptional value to clients.
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- Member of the M & a Committee
- Implementations and Middle East Expert
- SAP Fast Implementations and Middle East Expert
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- Expert for Private Sector Development in Africa
Oumar Seck created and owns Emerging Africa Consulting, an international consulting and advisory firm based in Johannesburg with reach in Lagos, Nairobi and Kinshasa for Finance, Entrepreneurship, Private Sector Development (PSD), Oil-Gas-Mining, and Infrastructure. Oumar Seck is presently managing the EU-ACP PSD Platform, a Fund of Fund, as Team Leader and helped build Africa's Entrepreneurial Finance Infrastructure.
Job Titles:
- Visionary and Strategic Advisor
In 1971, he saw the technological revolution of integrated circuits with the advent of the computer.
With pioneering spirit, visionary, he has been passionate during all his career on how to put at the service of organizations, humanity, the contributions of new technologies.
He naturally advised and assisted institutions and companies from all sectors in different countries in the management of changes and strategic projects.
Job Titles:
- Professor and Sr. Data Scientist
Dr. Mahendra Gawali is a dedicated and passionate mentor for young talents to make them ready to face real time challenges. He has more than 15 years of experience in training and research to solve societal real time problems.
Dr. Mahendra Gawali has experience in artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, reinforcement learning etc. He earns a master's degree in computer engineering and a PhD in information technology with specialization in cloud computing. He was a reviewer of many of the leading reputed journals like IEEE Transactions, Springer, Taylor and Francis etc. He is a committed and result oriented strategy planner which helps the institutes to lead and reveal the new areas. He knows exactly how and when to turn people efforts into right direction which will be beneficial to the organization.
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- Airport and Aviation Strategist
Ralf Schirrmacher, born 1961, has a long experience record of lead roles in aviation and airport building projects. He started his career with Frankfurt and Munich Airport and then brought his skills and knowledge to many airport projects all over the world.
Ralf Schirrmacher has 20 years of experience in strategic airport development from the perspective of many different stakeholders (airport planner, airport builder, airport owner, airport operator, airlines, providers of services and infrastructure and regulatory bodies like government and aviation-related international organizations). He understands that successful and smooth operations of an airport as perpetual management and improvement driven by innovation. Its success depends widely on the well-coordinated and orchestrated setup of the airport stakeholders in order to achieve valuable results timely and at costs in line with budget targets.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Strategy Committee
- Management Coach for Digital Transformation
Ravi Ramanathan is a senior management mentor who teaches in his own way the needs and skills for next generation technology.
Job Titles:
- Airport and Aviation Strategist
- Senior Civil Engineer
Rolf Dittberner, born 1948, is a passionate civil engineer and has a AAA reputation in airport planning and execution. In the past 40 years he was in responsible roles in management and supervision of many critical airport projects, amongst them over 20 years with Frankfurt Airport where he managed with absolute competence to avoid the problems that caused the infamous delays in Berlin now.
Rolf Dittberner is a Senior Civil Engineer with now 40 years of experience in the field of project management, project coordination and supervision for a wide variety of projects, including more than 20 years with Frankfurt Airport.
His responsibilities included establishing, monitoring & review of detailed project schedules to ensure compliance and consistency with approved master schedules and master plan; project pre-implementation of planning as well as procurement steps in order to meet the project goals.
His reputation makes him still a welcome advisor at decision making levels in the aviation business that allows him to maintain a large and influencial network.
Examples of activities where he was in charge of are:
negotiation of planning and procurement steps and phases and ensuring of compliance
reporting of progress figures and others such as of contract, changes, budget etc.
identifying any possible conflict during pre-implementation, execution and recommendation how to overcome these conflicts (risk management)
regular monitoring of progress, contract and budget figures as well as reporting procedures
Thumbiko Shumba had a career as former Deputy Director of Finance in Malawi Government and is now CEO of TK Computers & Consultancy in Malawi that he founded in 2017.
Job Titles:
- Enterprise Strategy Advisor
Walter Feiler has over 30 years of professional experience especially as Chief Operating Officer and in negotiating large enterprise deals with international companies. he has a passion for complex questions and simplifying the context while identifying pragmatic solutions.
Walter Feiler worked for many multinationals such as SAP, Bosch, e.On, Novartis and RWE. As SAP's Chief Procurement Officer he implemented system-based global processes and optimized SAP's suppliers by closing international contracts and managed an annualspend volume of up to 2.3 billion Euro. As Chief Operating Officer for SAP's development organization, he was in charge of optimizing and harmonizing global processes. In this function he was in charge of SAP's Labs organization on a global base and for the newly built of SAP Labs Hungary. He follows a collaborative approach in which he engages with partners, who can contribute parts of the solution. Walter holds a degree in industrial engineering
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- Airport and Aviation Strategist
Walter Prenzler, born in 1952, is an aviation professional with more than 35 years' experience in international and multicultural aviation businesses. He was former regional director for Lufthansa Dubai and held senior management positions in Germany, MEA and Asia for aviation consulting companies as well as for aviation IT solution providers.