Bio

I oversaw technology-led transformation and decarbonization of industries and businesses as a global CTO, global CDO or region CIO working for Schneider Electric, Maersk, GE. Executing the transformations required changing the operating model & culture, launching new product lines & businesses, democratizing data, re-architecting business models and processes and most importantly recruiting, investing in and empowering world-class technical talent. Nowadays, I invest in, advise smaller companies with global Fortune 1000 clients, acting as their President, CRO, CTO, COO. Several of them are raising their next rounds of funding or moving towards an exit. I also invest as a limited partner in, mentor portfolio companies of VC funds that specifically focus on identifying and scaling international technology startups in both established and emerging technology hubs such as Eastern Europe, Israel. As a board director for public and private global companies, I enjoy working with CEOs and their management teams as they transform their business models, talent mix, make their companies more secure and create new revenue streams. I contribute to the boards and create value specifically with my diversity of experience and deep expertise on digital transformation, cybersecurity, AI, sustainability and global expansion. I also learn more every day through my participation in some of the world's best board education and Corporate Governance programs in top universities and through my NACD certification. I am very proud that most of the companies I have been a part of are the leaders in their industries and solve some of the toughest problems in the world, such as sustainability, energy transition, industry transition, enabling global trade, water scarcity, food security and population growth. I am deeply passionate about AI including and beyond ML and have spent years advancing the state-of-the-art as a scientist, operationalizing AI into business applications as a leader, re-architecting processes, business models with AI and launching new product lines powered by AI as a senior executive. There are still a number of open questions and unsolved problems and I am actively involved as an investor or an advisor to help move the needle whether it is for value creation, human consumption, trust, transparency or ethics. I also believe that, similar to what we have seen with AI over the last 20 years, crypto, decentralized web / web3 and blockchain will transform, revolutionize, disrupt and redefine most of the industries and business models we have today.