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For the last 5 years Eelko van Leeuwen has been the CIO of ABN Amro Clearing Bank, which clears and finances over 16 million trades per day and covers 90 of the world's leading exchanges. It guarantees that agreements between all sides of transactions in financial markets are honoured. Eeelko has led two impressive, massive transformation programs - integrating and unifying backoffice systems for...

Luis Engrossa has an MBA in International Marketing and Finance - and a life-long passion for IT. He has dedicated his career to developing and managing IT systems for public services - for 15 years as CIO of the Portuguese Water and Waste Services Regulation Authority (ERSAR). Today he is leading the Information Systems and Training Division at ICNF (Institute of Nature Conservation and Forestry)...

Luis Engrossa has an MBA in International Marketing and Finance - and a life-long passion for IT. He has dedicated his career to developing and managing IT systems for public services - for 15 years as CIO of the Portuguese Water and Waste Services Regulation Authority (ERSAR). Today he is leading the Information Systems and Training Division at ICNF (Institute of Nature Conservation and Forestry)...

Charles Forte was appointed CIO of UK's Ministry of Defence in 2017. With 36 years of industry experience, he is now running IT operations in a complex organisation employing around 200 thousand people, managing an IT budget of 3.7 Billion Pounds, one of the largest in Europe. In this episode of Leadership Deep Dive, Charles talks with Hendrik Deckers about his role that he defines as "Chief Conne...

Charles Forte was appointed CIO of UK's Ministry of Defence in 2017. With 36 years of industry experience, he is now running IT operations in a complex organisation employing around 200 000 people, managing an IT budget of ₤3.7 Billion, one of the largest in Europe. In this episode of Leadership Deep Dive, Charles talks with Hendrik Deckers about his role that he defines as "Chief Connection Offic...

PART 1: https://soundcloud.com/cionet/lionel-chaine-le-grouple-la-poste-cio-business-models-it-architecture Lionel Chaine, CIO of Services-Courier-Parcel Division at Le Groupe La Poste, has been with this French national post office group since 1995. Since becoming CIO in 2016 he has undertaken a daring mission to create and support through IT, several innovative business models and services. He h...

Lionel Chaine, CIO of Services-Courier-Parcel Division at Le Groupe La Poste, has been with this French national post office group since 1995. Since becoming CIO in 2016 he has undertaken a daring mission to create and support through IT, several innovative business models and services. He has transformed La Poste's IT organisation with agile practices, reduced the number of legacy applications by...

Armando Laurenti, CIO of BVLGARI, has led the digital transformation of this innovative luxury brand. On Leadership Deep Dive he tells us about bringing digital customer experience to Chinese markets, transforming the traditional Selling Ceremony, and how the IT department at BVLGARI is managing a bi-modal operating model, combining waterfall-based backoffice systems and agile service development...

Armando Laurenti, CIO of BVLGARI, has led the digital transformation of this innovative luxury brand. On Leadership Deep Dive he tells us about bringing digital customer experience to Chinese markets, transforming the traditional Selling Ceremony, and how the IT department at BVLGARI is managing a bi-modal operating model, combining waterfall-based backoffice systems and agile service development...

In this episode of Leadership Deep Dive, Markus talks about his transformation project that was nominated for our CIO Of The Year Award: a modernisation of a legacy customer portal of the Agency, transforming it into a positive user experience. Register for CIONEXT to learn from CIOs nominated in the B2B and B2C category! https://cionet.info/2R93ORo Markus Schmitz, CIO of Germany's Federal Agency...

WATCH PART 1: https://soundcloud.com/cionet/martin-bellamy-cio-fca-cloud-transformation Before joining FCA as CIO, Martin Bellamy has accrued massive experience in both the public and commercial sector. He has managed IT operations at Cambridge University (as CIO), Reuters, Department of Work and Pensions, Ministry of Justice - to mention a few. He also holds a phD in cloud computing. Financial Co...

Before joining FCA, Martin Bellamy has accrued massive experience in both the public and commercial sector. He has managed IT operations at Cambridge University (as CIO), Reuters, Department of Work and Pensions, Ministry of Justice - to mension a few. He also holds a phD in cloud computing. Financial Conduct Authority is one of the most important financial authorities in the world, overseeing the...

Geert Van Mol is Chief Digital Officer and board member at Belfius - Bank and insurer used by 30% of Belgian citizens. He has held this position for 4 years and joined the Management Board last year. Belfius is the pioneer in mobile banking in Belgium. Their mobile application has been recognised for its cutting-edge functionality and user experience. Since the banking crisis of 2008 the Bank's le...

In this episode of Leadership Deep Dive, Hendrik Deckers talks to Erwin Verstraelen - Chief Digital and Innovation Officer at Port of Antwerp. Erwin is a finalist of the European CIO Of The Year Awards, nominated for his ambitious large-scale project to turn the Port of Antwerp into a digital open innovation platform - a Partnership ecosystem where new ideas are tested, incubated and applied for b...

"No great things are achieved by being realistic" And yet, Charlotte Light, CIO of Channel 4, has achieved quite a lot by pragmatically balancing the expectations of multiple partners, stakeholders and diverse teams. For her transformation of All 4 (Digital TV program at Channel 4), Charlotte was nominated to the #ECOTY Award this year. In this episode of Leadership Deep Dive Charlotte talks with...

Euronext is the largest stock exchange in continental Europe and developing a trading platform requires unconventional technologies and highly specialised developers. Based in Lisbon, despite a difficult job market, Euronext Technologies managed to overcome that challenge. In this episode of Leadership Deep Dive, Manuel Bento, CEO of Euronext Technologies and CSO of Euronext, talks with Hendrik De...

Bernd Gross became the CTO of Software AG after he chose the company to acquire his successful IoT startup, Cumulocity. In this episode of Leadership Deep Dive, Hendrik Deckers takes a detour from the ECOTY tour into exploring what makes a leader successful in product-based companies, like Software AG. Bernd has a unique perspective of someone who went a long way from nearly two decades in corpora...

eObuwie.pl offers over 50,000 models of shoes and they are selling most of them in fully digital brick-and-mortar stores with no merchandise exposition and 4 to 24 hour delivery time. This biggest online footwear retailer in Poland decided to fix all the problems of online shopping (inability to try on selected shoes) and offline shopping (difficulty to search and incomplete stock) by creating a c...

Geert Standaert is the CTO of Belgian telecom company Proximus and the next ECOTY finalist in our Leadership Deep Dive series. In this episode, Geert talks about the ambitious transformation projects he has led at Proximus, but perhaps even more interestingly - about his very open philosophy on learning, teaching, creativity and motivating people. Before his IT career took off, Geert took lessons...

No one, independent of the size or the market background will survive in the future without strong collaborations. - Nino Messaoud In the 5th episode of Leadership Deep Dive, Hendrik talks to Nino Messaoud, CDO of manufacturing company Barry-Wehmiller. This conversation is a must-watch if you needed inspiration on how a CIO or CDO can disrupt not only the status quo of their industry, but even the...

Miguel Teixeira has been at Renault Cacia for the past 14 years, having advanced from Business Unit Manager to head of Information Systems, Technologies and Digital Manufacturing. In the 4th episode of Leadership Deep Dive, Miguel and Hendrik Deckers talk about Miguel's impressive accomplishment integrating multiple data and application ecosystems across the Renault IT organisation, about blockcha...

Günther Ghijsels is the CIO and CDO of Randstad Group Belgium. He is a member of the Executive Committee as of January 2018. He is also this year's finalist of the European CIO of The Year Awards 2020. In this episode of Leadership Deep Dive, Günther talks to Hendrik Deckers about his philosophy as a business-oriented CIO, his experience with Agile transformation of a company whose motto is "Striv...

Rui Pedro Silva, Head of Technology Deployment at Maersk Logistics & Services, is the first finalist of The European CIO Of The Year contest that we have the pleasure of hosting on LEadership Deep Dive series. Rui's background started with business and management education. He has gone through all the different levels inside of a technology organization and today he is talking with Hendrick Decker...

For the past 10 years, Sabine Everaet has been driving digital processes and innovation at Coca-Cola as CIO of the EMEA region. As the Chair of The Coca-Cola Company European Women Leadership Council, she is helping to bridge the gender gap in IT career opportunities and boost diversity in the board rooms. Hendrik Deckers, founder and managing director of CIONET, is talking with Sabine about data-...