Global Advisory Board
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| Tom Olavi Bangemann Tom worked at Arthur Andersen for 9 years, and at The Hackett Group for 19 years. He is a senior advisor with profound experience in delivery, sales, business development and international consulting practice leadership. He is also a subject matter expert for GBS, benchmarking and KPI models. Tom was a regular Board member of a publicly listed software company. He was also named “HR Superstar” by HRO Magazine 5 times between 2005-2019 and has mentoring and coaching experience up to the level of mentoring CHRO of 1bn listed company. Tom has been a regular event speaker, chairman and panelist, and author. He has been voted onto SSON expert panels G6 Europe, G6 Australia, D6 Germany and C6 China. He was Chairman of the Arab Outsourcing event twice and chaired GBS events in China for 10 years. Tom received the award of "Thought Leader of the Year" from SSON in May 2010.He is also the founder of several GBS communities, and proactive supporter of new business setups. |
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| Saswata Kar Saswata is Head of Master Data, Analytics & Data Sciences for Philips GBS, globally. He leads the Master Data, Advanced Analytics and Data Sciences operations teams in GBS spread across multiple sites, world-wide. He is also responsible for driving and managing the analytics mandate for the Supply Chain, Marketing, Services, Quality & Regulatory, Sales functions for Philips internally. Saswata brings nearly 20 years of experience in the Advanced Analytics, Data Sciences (Marketing, Digital, Operations, Supply Chain & Risk) and Performance Management domain from leading Healthcare, Retail Services, Cards, Consumer Lending, Mortgages and Automotive organizations. He has a proven track record in improving organizational effectiveness by leveraging advanced analysis and operational excellence practices. He is proficient in handling multiple state-of-art analytical tools and techniques designed to help monitor and predict operational performance, backed by his experience and deep understanding of the key drivers of businesses across verticals. In 2021 and 2022, Saswata was ranked as one of the Top 150 AI and Analytics Leaders and Influencers in India by 3A1, a leading AI and Analytics industry forum in the country. |
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| Venkat Raghavan Venkat Raghavan and leads the Enterprise Analytics team in Tesco Business Services, which is Tesco’s group wide Analytics Centre of Competence. Venkat has 18 years of experience in analytics predominantly focusing on retail and consumer goods. He started his retail analytics journey in 2003 with a project on pricing optimization for a US based office supplies retailer. Subsequently, Venkat partnered with various multinational retailers including Best Buy, HEB, Asda, Walmart, Walgreens, The Home Depot, and eBay operating from India and US. Before joining Tesco, he was with The Boston Consulting Group where he was a part of BCG GAMMA (BCG’s analytics practice) Asia Pacific leadership team and node leader for the GAMMA Bangalore hub. Prior to BCG, he played key strategic roles in Manthan systems, Mu Sigma, and Wipro Technologies. Venkat is a keen sportsman and regularly plays cricket and volleyball. He spends his leisure listening to music and loves exploring cultural heritage sites. |
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| Petr Galík Petr Galik held a number of Business Finance and Finance leadership roles in FMCG, Retail and Pharmaceuticals with emphasis on business partnering. He enhanced this capability by also taking 2 commercial roles as part of his career in order to understand how it feels like to be directly responsible for business outcomes. In the recent years Petr has been focusing on unlocking the value of Data to support decision making and enhance company performance, currently working at Takeda Pharmaceuticals as a TBS Global Head of Data, Reporting and Analytics. |
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| Dara Meath Dara A Meath is the Divisional Chief Information Officer and Head of Digital / Ecomm at Conair Corporation.Dara provides executive leadership and is responsible for all aspects of strategic IT planning, support, and implementation worldwide as an integral component of the business plan. She is also leading the digital and e-commerce planning and development. Before devoting her work fulltime to Conair Corporation, Dara served as vice president of The Camuto Group LLC. She has reengineered, developed, and advised technology platforms globally. In addition, Dara sits on several advisory boards and is actively involved with over 30 organizations in technology and business. Dara continues to write for various magazines like CIO Review and Tech Reviews. She has also won numerous awards for her global IT leadership.
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| Damian Granowski Damian is currently the Senior Director of Global FP&A Reporting and Management Information Systems at Discovery Inc, the global leader in real life entertainment, available in 220 countries and territories and 50 languages. In his role with Discovery Damian is responsible for the Global FP&A and GBS analytics and reporting. Damian is a manager, expert with 20+ years of experience in the following areas: Analytics, Business Intelligence, MIS & Reporting, Data Warehouse across a variety of business areas like FP&A, controlling, business finance and industries like banking, insurance and media. Prior to Discovery, Damian has worked in senior management roles at Nationale-Nederlanden, GE Capital (Bank BPH) or Deutsche Bank, setting up high performance engaged analytics/ BI / reporting teams, being Finance Division Data Governance Leader. Damian has a consistent track record including strategy definition and execution, change management, processes standardization and automation. |
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| Vijay Samuel Seasoned Leader with strong functional experience within the Captive Global Business Services Market and has been pivotal in setting and scaling up numerous SSC’s with several accomplishments which includes winning the maiden recognition at ESAB as the “Top 20 Most Admired Shared Services Organizations of 2020” from SSON Analytics In his current role, he is the Global Director & Finance Site Lead at Twilio India providing a vision for the future state of the team, building out a global structure which supports the business, and driving process improvements across the organization. As a Digital Transformation Enthusiast leveraging Cutting edge technologies he has been instrumental in setting up Enterprise Analytics Services providing Operational workforce Insights, real-time data visualizations & standardized dashboards functioning as a Decision Support CoE. |
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| Khurram Shahzad Shared Services Leader with proven track record of setting up, running and transforming shared services operations in Malaysia, Romania, and Pakistan. Over 25 years of experience covering Leading Global Business, Managing Large & Global Teams and Delivering Business Transformation. Consistently Delivery of outstanding business results by creating a clear vision and fostering a growth mindset across teams. |
