José Pires serves as a cross-industry Excellence & Innovation executive leader and advisor for organizations ranging from startups to Fortune 50, guiding executives and high-performance teams on the journey to award-winning cultural, business, and digital transformations for value creation. He has held Excellence & Innovation and Business Transformation leadership positions across multiple industries, including electronics (Sony), semiconductors (Cymer-ASML), food / retail (Nestlé), energy / water / telecommunications infrastructure (Black & Veatch), and oil & gas / energy / retail (Andeavor-Marathon Petroleum)++++++++++++++++++++++++++Excellence & Innovation combines highly disciplined innovation methods with elements of venture capitalism, crowdsourcing, intrapreneurship, and collaborative leadership to deliver cross-industry improvements, innovations, and transformations that create value for all.Its track record of innovation, leadership development, strategy execution and value creation over nearly three decades has earned multiple industry awards and accolades, including the Global Award of Excellence (Rice Global E&C Forum), the Top U.S. Private Company for Leaders (Chief Executive Magazine), and the Business Transformation & Operational Excellence World Summit award.The program for Excellence & Innovation acceleration, culture, business, and digital transformation, and operational and business excellence includes more than 50,000 professionals and 1,000 organizations in technology, healthcare, retail, finance, banking, insurance, energy, oil & gas, petrochemicals, power generation, infrastructure, engineering, construction, telecommunications, law, transportation, electronics, semiconductors, food, manufacturing, education, government, and non-profit organizations in more than 30 countries.