Description

• Advancing business strategy by leading the development and implementation of long-term strategic plans for Data, Analytics, and AI solutions improving business value and stakeholder benefits. • Anticipating future requirements and ensuring appropriate mitigations are in place to adjust to changing business direction or external landscape: adopt novel frameworks (e.g. Data & AI Ethics, AI Governance, ML Ops, XAI, etc.), tool rationalisation and re-tooling, ensure appropriate processes are in place, and establish communication strategies. • Conducting change management and transformation in complex matrix organisations with diverse stakeholder needs. • Building and adhering to cost – benefits frameworks that ensure on budget delivery and business value realisation. • Leading, inspiring, and motivating teams to achieve their goals, define what good looks like, give ownership through clarity, and drive towards an open, transparent, and accountable culture. • Industry experience in technology, financial institutions, life sciences, consulting, retail & e-commerce, and telecoms. Areas of expertise: AI, Data & Analytics, Business planning, Change management, Financial planning, Go-to-Market Strategy, Governance, Market analysis, Product management, Stakeholder management, Strategy

Languages

English
Native or bilingual
Romanian
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Barcelona (up to 50km)

AI Readi – AI Readi
Founder, CEO & CPO
DIGITAL AND IT
August 2024 - Today (1 year and 10 months)
Barcelona, Spain
• • Establishing the company and product vision and strategy and finding the right market fit and go-to-market strategy.
• • Building the product strategy, roadmap, delivery, and user experience for AI Readi's portfolio of products and services.
• • Leading organisations to achieve their Data and AI transformation goals; acting as a catalyst for change management by leading teams and securing senior stakeholder sponsorship & buy-in.
• • Building the company culture, values, and talent acquisition and retention strategy.
Data Governance artificial intelligence Product management Product Development Corporate strategy
Nike Direct EMEA
Director, Data Strategy
RETAIL (LARGE RETAILERS)
October 2021 - July 2024 (2 years and 9 months)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
• • Led Nike Direct's development and execution of the Data Strategy and roadmap to improve business value with data, data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence use cases; collaborated with local and global leaders toward business effective decisions, business strategy alignment, and unlocking execution blockers.
• • Led the Consent and Preference Platform (a critical business enabler) deployment, ensuring requirements and objectives are met or mitigated, to unlock hundreds of millions $ of topline impact over the next 5 years.
• • Collaborated with business, technology, and legal leaders and their teams to ensure data initiatives are responding to the business goals and current challenges, developed risk mitigation strategies and proactive resolutions.
• • Chaired the Consumer Data Council to ensure alignment with the Nike Direct Leadership Team's objectives.
• • Mentored and coached cross-functional product and programme leaders that support the data strategy initiatives.
Business Intelligence (BI) Strategy artificial intelligence Product management Corporate strategy Data Governance
Gartner
Associate Director, Data & Analytics, AI & ML
CONSULTING AND AUDITS
October 2019 - October 2021 (2 years)
London, United Kingdom
Led the strategy and go to market execution of newly developed Gartner Consulting’s AI & ML Services; leveraging and leading a team of ~50 consultants to address market requirements and provide mission critical solutions. • Led organisations in achieving their data, analytics, and AI transformation programme goals; acted as a catalyst for change management by leading client teams and securing senior stakeholder sponsorship & programme buy-in.
AI and Advanced Analytics artificial intelligence Business Intelligence (BI) Strategy Corporate strategy Data Governance