Charles Picasso

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Managing Partner @ InfoDecisions LLC
California, United States
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San Francisco Bay Area, United States, United States
About Charles Picasso

Senior International Leader with an indelible reputation for delivering inventive business strategies and client-focused solutions that improve margins. Recognized for transforming global operation systems profitably and productively. Mobilize top-tier talent to create high performing culture that consistently achieve in volatile markets. Broad experience building profitable start-up division growth business lines, deal transactions and streamlined operations. Build three publicly trade technology-enabled information companies into industry leaders, while maximizing shareholder returns through strong operating results. Made five strategic sales, more then twenty acquisitions and an IPO. Decades of C-level experience across multiple industries range from large Fortune 500 enterprises to nimble startups - from telecommunications and cloud computing to aerospace and information services companies (Xerox, AEDS, NCR/AT&T, Digital Island/Cable & Wireless, IHS Markit): - Mergers, acquisitions and systems integrations. - Cross-cultural talent acquisition and development - Risk management and performance metrics - Cross expertise in Europe, Asia and EMEA. - Strategic business planning and execution. - Complex change management. - Fiscal accountability and P&L management.Highlights:• Narus, Inc.: A pioneer in Cybersecurity. As Executive Chairman led the turnaround of the company, a new round of funding and the acquisition by Boeing. • IHS, now IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO): President & CEO, by leveraging vision and customer-centric culture, transformed IHS, a privately held business information, into a very profitable, high growth leading global provider of critical technical information, decision-support tools. Led the successful completion and integration of more than 24 acquisitions, leading to a successful IPO on the NYSE.• Digital Island, (Nasdaq): President & COO, By spearheading innovative change and driving acquisition, Digital Island was the industry-first internet content delivery network managed solution fully integrated within data center infrastructure. Differentiated market offering and revenue growth led to $800m sale to Cable & Wireless.Since September 2017, Senior Advisor to CEOs of technology companies (TMT, cybersecurity, cloud services) and private equity firms in the US and Europe, with an emphasis on operational excellence and effective growth achievement.

Charles Picasso's Current Company Details
InfoDecisions LLC

Infodecisions Llc

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Managing Partner
California, United States
Charles Picasso Work Experience Details
  • Infodecisions Llc
    Managing Partner
    Infodecisions Llc
    California, United States
  • Eve Group
    Partner
    Eve Group Jul 2024 - Present
    Help businesses unlock their true potential by driving operational efficiency, financial discipline, and strategic alignment. EVE Group specializes in tackling stagnation, inefficiency, and scaling challenges, empowering companies to achieve sustainable growth. Our team provides data-driven insights that enhance decision-making, ensuring streamlined processes and team alignment. By focusing on holistic transformation, we deliver lasting results that boost company value, benefiting stakeholders across the board, from employees to shareholders.
  • Infodecisions Llc
    Managing Partner
    Infodecisions Llc 2017 - Present
    Since September 2017, Senior Advisor to CEOs of technology companies (TMT, cybersecurity, cloud services) and private equity firms in the US and Europe, with an emphasis on operational excellence and effective growth achievement. American Society of Mechanical Engineers: ASME serves a wide-ranging engineering community through quality learning, the development of codes and standards, certifications, government relations, and other forms of outreach.- Senior advisor and worked very closely with the Chief Strategy Officer, CEO and Global Knowledge Solutions Business teams (Techstreet Enterprise, and Twinify Technologies) to plan, develop, and scope deliverables, required resources, work plan, potential venture partners to bringing value-added products and services.SAE International – Advancing mobility knowledge and solutions (Aerospace, automotive, and commercial vehicle industries)- Senior advisory services to the Chief Product Officer, driving from standards, document,drawing approach to meet needs in engineering digital age, collaboration and mobility.- Manage a 4-stage process outlining a roadmap that enabled SAE to develop key deliverables:Kenna Security: A SaaS risk and vulnerability intelligence platform that accurately measures risk and prioritizes remediation efforts (Since June 2021 is Cisco Vulnerability Management.)- Senior advisor to the CEO and Board:- Driving Corporate governance: appropriate board procedures, committee works, and information flow.- Executive team effectiveness.- Operational excellence driving growth and value.
  • General Aviation Manufacturers Association
    Board Member
    General Aviation Manufacturers Association Oct 2015 - Present
    Washington, Dc, Us
    The General Aviation Manufacturers Association is an international trade association representing more than 90 of the world's leading aviation manufacturers, general aviation airplanes and rotorcraft, engines, avionics, components, and related services.
  • Atp Information Services
    Ceo
    Atp Information Services 2015 - 2017
    San Francisco, California, Us
    ATP — The aviation industry’s premier source of maintenance tracking, inventory management, technical manuals, regulatory content, flight operations, chronic defect analysis and troubleshooting solutions for the aviation. - Collaborated with a private equity firm, managed ATP and Casebank Technology's acquisition and merger.- Amount of capital raised was nearly $100 million.- Built high-energy, forward-thinking team to modernize legacy operations and keep organization agile in changing conditions. - Architected an innovative strategic vision to broaden the company’s focus as a solution-oriented provider that creates efficiency for aircraft operators and maintenance providers through smart content, predictive approach for detecting, managing defects and better information management.- Grew company revenue by 15% year over year.- Reduced operational cost by 20% and grew product development by 80% during the first 12 month period following the merger.- Cultivated and maintained strong aviation industry relationships and customer partnerships to capitalize on opportunities and maximize business growth.- in 2017 the company's SaaS cloud based solutions were serving more than 7,500 customers in nearly 96 countries, 60+ aviation manufacturers and were ensuring the highest levels of safety, compliance & productivity.
  • Passare Inc.
    Founder - Ceo
    Passare Inc. 2012 - 2015
    Abilene, Texas, Us
    Passare’s industry-first End-of-Life Marketplace SaaS platform enhances communication and collaboration with funeral homes and their families. - Created the company with engineering, marketing and sales team that delivered a marketplace platform that grew from a powerpoint concept to a fully transaction engine processing over $60m annually in just two years.- Raised more than $10 million. With the commercial success a major insurance company who also was one of the strategic investors decided to acquire the company seeing the value . The successful acquisition was completed at the end of March 2015.
  • Corelink Data Centers
    Chairman Of The Board
    Corelink Data Centers Jan 2011 - Jul 2012
    Mt. Prospect, Il, Us
    • Corelink Data Center LLC, headquartered in Chicago, IL, a high growth data center hosting and managed services provider of critical services delivered on a “state of the art”, robust and environmentally friendly technology platform across the United States.The company's assets were acquired by ViaWest and by Zayo's ZColo business unit.
  • Movea
    Executive Chairman
    Movea Jun 2009 - May 2012
    • Movea’s unique motion processing capabilities enable customers to quickly add motion intelligence in their products, through its easy-to-integrate technologies.• Movea is headquartered in Grenoble (France) and has subsidiary in the Silicon Valley, California.• Mission: lead the strategic realignment of the company and the successful search for new investors. The company was sold to InvenSense the leading provider of intelligent sensor solutions.
  • Softlayer Holdings Inc - The Planet.Com
    Independent Director & Chair Of The Compensation Committee
    Softlayer Holdings Inc - The Planet.Com Mar 2010 - Dec 2011
    SoftLayer gives the highest performing cloud infrastructure available. One platform that takes data centers around the world that are full of the widest range of cloud computing options, and then integrates and automates everything.• Mission: Oversee the merger of the two companies.
  • Narus Inc
    Executive Chairman Of The Board & Chair Of The Compensation Committee
    Narus Inc Jun 2007 - Jul 2010
    Sunnyvale, Ca, Us
    • Narus Inc. is a leader in providing real-time traffic intelligence for the protection and management of the largest Internet Protocol (IP) network around the world.• Evaluated departmental performance, developed improvements to key operations and contributed to strategic revitalization for revenue expansion (15% year over year) • Led new round of capital taking capital funding to more than $100 million.• Participated actively negotiating the sale of Narus to Boeing in July of 2010.
  • Ihs Inc
    President, Chief Executive Officer
    Ihs Inc Dec 2002 - Dec 2006
    London, United Kingdom, Gb
    • IHS, Inc. (IHS Markit) (Nasdaq: INFO): As President and CEO, transformed the company through technology integration and strategic acquisitions (24 in an 18 month span), streamlined operations, and grew revenues— leading to a successful NYSE IPO• With over $1,300 million in annual sales IHS is the leading global provider of critical technical information, decision-support tools and related services to customers in the energy, defense, aerospace, electronics and automotive industries in over 100 countries.• IHS has developed a comprehensive collection of technical information that is highly relevant to the industries it serves.• Its decision-support tools enable customers to quickly and easily search and analyze this information and integrate it into their work flows.• IHS operational, research and strategic advisory services combine this information and these tools with extensive industry expertise to meet the needs of the customers.• The customers rely on these offerings to facilitate decision-making, support key processes, and improve productivity IHS solutions include Internet subscriptions, customized solutions such as information portals, parts management and content integration.• During tenure as President and CEO, helped IHS turn around and going public through: -Double digit organic growth in Revenue and EBITDA -Improved operations via realignments and driving better product mix, resulting in 20%+ EBITDA margin. -International expansion, particularly in Asia. -15 accretive acquisitions, globally, while building a pipeline of 150+ targets (Capital deployed: $155million)• In November 2005, under leadership, IHS was successfully listed at the New York Stock Exchange and since the listing the shareholder value has been multiplied by 6.2 (IPO pricing: $16 per share and currently trade above $100 per share).
  • Cable & Wireless Communications / Digital Island Inc.
    Chief Operating Officer
    Cable & Wireless Communications / Digital Island Inc. Aug 2000 - Dec 2002
    • Digital Island/Cable & Wireless (Nasdaq: ISLD): As COO, spearheaded innovative change as first competitor to offer customers a global e-business delivery network and full-service managed solution.• Differentiated market offering and revenue growth led to sale to Cable & Wireless in $340m transaction. Cable & Wireless, a communication company headquartered in London (UK) and through a reverse merger, took over all worldwide internet services of Cable & Wireless to create a company, who acquired later the Exodus assets, under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, to enhance their own assets.• In the end, the merger of Digital Island/Cable & Wireless/Exodus created a group with 3,500 associates worldwide, 35 Data Centers and revenue of $700 million.• The transaction was valued at $800 million, $450 million paid in cash.• Led the transition and left after its successful completion.• Acquisition during the period: -SandPiper, Content deployment provider (CDN). -SoftAware: Internet Services provider to Entertainment Industry with marquis customers such as Paramount, MGM, Universal, Fox, Revenue: $25 million, EBITA 8%; Transaction value: $480 million, 10% in cash, 90% in DI Inc. shares. -Storeway: Storage on the network, Revenue (in aggregate $8million) 19% net Margin. Transaction value: $3million in cash.• Joint Ventures: -JTONG (Chinese Telco) Revenue generated $5million (annualized) for Content Delivery resell in China and Data Center space in Beijing. -PCWW (Honk Kong Telco) Revenue: $10 million (annualized).
  • Ncr
    Senior Vice President Worldwide Professional Services
    Ncr 1995 - 1999
    Atlanta, Georgia, Us
    • NCR (NYSE: NCR) and AT&T (NYSE: T): Entrusted to senior management positions by Fortune 500 enterprises to run large professional services organizations• Following the breakup of NCR and AT&T, was appointed Senior Vice President of NCR’s Worldwide Professional Services (WPS) organization.• Reported to the Chairman and CEO of NCR. WPS primarily served financial, retail and communication markets worldwide with organization that had 4,000 associates around the world and revenue of $700 million.• WPS provided consulting and technology services related to the business and technology solutions offered by NCR.• The WPS staff included project managers, application developers, industry consultants, networking staff and a knowledge management organization.• WPS also had software centers in the United States, Southeast Asia and Europe.• Strategic focus has been on achieving revenue growth and margin improvement while building and managing WPS’s professional assets with an emphasis on attracting consultants with the right skill at the right levels.• Developing functional excellence with regard to project management, business IT consulting, e-commerce solutions, as well as systems integration.• In addition, defining and deploying methodologies, tools and processes to support the business solution model.• Took over WPS, revenues were $550 million, which included approximately $100 million of revenues related to system engineering support which were transferred over to Customer Services. The remaining focus was shifted to building data warehousing, IT architecture, e-commerce and network design capabilities.
  • At&T
    President & Ceo At&T Istel Internet Services
    At&T 1994 - 1996
    Dallas, Tx, Us
    • Managed a professional services organization specialized in IT services, networking and e-commerce solutions for financial institutions as well as manufacturing and energy industries.• The organization had approximately 1,000 associates and generated revenues of $180 million annually.
  • Concept Group Sa
    President And Ceo
    Concept Group Sa Dec 1990 - Jan 1994
    • In 1992, was appointed President & CEO of the concept Group which was a European software and computing services company that specialized in financial management software packages and other related professional services with subsidiaries in Belgium, Luxemburg, Italy Spain, Switzerland and Germany.• Concept was listed at the Paris Stock Exchange and generated income of approximately $700 million annually.• The mission was to design and implement a business strategy, which allowed for renewal of the product line and services within an 18-month period that would regain a positive level of profit for the period 1993 to 1994.• The business plan also called for selling off business units not related to the core business, as well as selecting and developing partnerships in accordance with company’s technology direction.• In 1992, brought Concept Group’s operating profit close to breakeven as opposed to approximately $120 million loss in the previous year.• Performance results were achieved through launching several new application software products and developing several major client relationships throughout Europe.• Also signed partnerships with Arthur Andersen, Coopers & Lybrand, IBM, SUN and Oracle.
  • Control Data Corporation
    Executive Vice President, Western Europe And Asia
    Control Data Corporation Jan 1988 - Jan 1990
    • As Executive Vice president of European Operations, responsible for a region, which included subsidiaries in France, The UK, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Greece and distributors in South Asia (India, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia) as well as Australia and South Africa.• In 1990, was given the responsibility for the development of Eastern Europe.• Revenues for the region in 1989 were $320million, which included $60 million of third-party maintenance.• The balance of the business was from the sales of proprietary mainframes and super computers.• As one of the three Executive Vice President, reported to the Chief Operating Officer of Control Data Corporation in Minneapolis, Minnesota.• Key task was to streamline operations in a very tough European market.• More specifically, restructured the sales organization, as well as the technical support and services; operating expenses were reduced by 20% while simultaneously sales productivity was increased by 15%, divested the third-party maintenance organization and a very large unused data center.

Charles Picasso Skills

Strategy Strategic Partnerships Management Data Center Crm Saas Professional Services Enterprise Software Leadership Cloud Computing Information Technology Start Ups Business Strategy Integration Telecommunications Business Development Mergers And Acquisitions Consulting Executive Management Managed Services Networking Analytics Project Management Sales Management Program Management Product Management Customer Relationship Management Vendor Management Sales Process E Commerce Software As A Service Go To Market Strategy Security Network Security It Management Disaster Recovery Ceos Fundraising Datacenter Virtualization

Charles Picasso Education Details

  • Ucla Anderson School Of Management
    Ucla Anderson School Of Management
    Corporate Governance
  • At&T Corp.
    At&T Corp.
    Management & Business Administration
  • Universite De Montpellier I, France
    Universite De Montpellier I, France
    Computer Sciences

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