Bio

Olivia is a thought leader and practitioner in driving business digital transformation and sustainable growth through data/technology enablement and leveraging the innovation ecosystem. She has over 25 years in Regional/Global CIO roles in well-renowned multi-national corporations including Coca-Cola, Bacardi, Kraft Foods and Philip Morris. She combines diverse experience working for large MNC, medium sized private corporations as well as a Startup. She has experience working out of Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Geneva and Bahrain, with good command of spoken and written English and Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin). Her strengths include stakeholder relationship management, ecosystem partnership and collaboration, organization and talent development. Ability to operate at both strategic level and hands-on delivery. Possess strong influential skills in driving collaborative Business/IT strategy alignment. Deep understanding of the cultural diversity to collaborate effectively with teams in China, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North and South America. A dynamic and agile business leader with entrepreneurial mindset who can lead end-to-end beyond IT. In her last global role in Coca-Cola, she led a consortium of global CIOs of top 10 bottlers in driving digital transformation programs for the Customer & Commercial function. Proven experience in combining IoT, Big Data and Analytics to drive business decisions and business growth strategies at a global scale with Coca-Cola. Possess strong influential skills in driving Global/Local (China) IT strategy alignment. Olivia has solid experience in Consumer-Packaged Goods and Logistics industries, and recent years in FinTech digital payment. Her expertise is in driving digital transformation in New Retail, Contactless Payment, IoT, Route-to-Market Execution, eCommerce, Omni-channel CRM and Big Data Analytics. Resourceful in driving digital innovation with established network in the Startup ecosystem in China, US, Israel, Middle East and Southeast Asia.