Elevoro is an inclusive community of global leaders that elevate human potential and drive positive change. We orchestrate connections between companies, experts and investors with common values and goals. We cultivate a culture of continuous development, empowerment and innovation while genuinely seeking to improve lives.• Passionate about bringing Silicon Valley values and practices to the youth and entrepreneurs in Africa and the Middle East, participating in funding, scaling, partnering, and maturing startups - from pre-seed/seed to M&A/IPO.• Build global teams of seasoned business and technology executives and SMEs to attain our customers' most complex business outcomes using an innovative approach and an extensive partner network.• Provide advisory services, mentorship, coaching, and guidance geared towards empowering executive teams to increase business agility, technology enablement, and organizational effectiveness.• Focus on the following key areas of innovation: digital transformation, business and technology strategy, roadmap development, modernization and organizational change management.

As a member of the World-Wide Technology team, I serve in the role of an AWS executive advisor to high-growth, innovative and strategic customers disrupting their industries through digital transformation initiatives, new products or services, and the adoption of cloud-enabled technology solutions. • Provide unbiased, prescriptive guidance that is grounded in real-world experience and industry expertise to enable our customers to accelerate business outcomes, do more with less, and transform organizational culture.• Launched a pan-AWS multi-cloud working group with a focus on customer obsession, working backwards from our customers to develop thought leadership content and guidance to address their most complex challenges with the adoption of a multi-cloud strategy.

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The mission of SPEAK is to Support, Prepare, and Empower Aspiring Kids with a strong focus on girls of immigrant and first-generation American families.

• Member of Leadership Team and Operating Committee in a fast-paced, high-growth, mission driven financial technology company with 3000+ employees.• Developed three-year roadmap and technology strategy, establishing a set of quick wins and key programs to support Oportun's fast-growing footprint of 6 corporate offices, 200+ retail stores, and its 5 internationally-based contact centers. This included detailed business case development and financial analyses, such as Total Cost of Ownership and Return on Investment.• Led all information technology transformation initiatives to enable 30%+ YoY company growth, helping the company reach a recent milestone of $5 billion in disbursements, faster time to market, improved resilience and security. Example programs include major infrastructure and application re-architecture and upgrades, cloud migration of all production workloads to highly available and scalable design standards, and a focus on automation, orchestration, machine learning and other disruptive technologies.• Defined the organizational structure and talent strategy, growing the team from 8 resources to 100+ technology and security professionals across multiple disciplines.• Lead enterprise-wide functions and processes that extend beyond the typical realm of Information Technology, including the Enterprise Service Desk, Crisis Management, Corporate Incident Response, Business Continuity and Knowledge Management.• Lead all functions related to Enterprise Architecture, Cloud and Platform Services, Automation, DevOps and Engineering Operations, Network, Telephony, Enterprise Service Management, Security, End User Services, ITGRC, Financial and Vendor Management.

• Established and grew three new practice areas within Slalom’s Technology Enablement practice: Cloud and Data Center Transformation, IT Service Management, and Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery.• Developed new consulting service offerings, go-to-market strategies, pricing models, sales collateral and delivery methodologies, continuously exceeding all targets.• Designed key frameworks for maturing organizations through various stages of growth, including IPO readiness assessments.• Successfully executed against numerous project delivery activities, working closely with key account teams and delivery resources to develop pipelines and QA deliverables.

• Served as key lead within EMC Consulting’s practice focusing on service offerings revamps, delivery engagement and quality execution of engagements with a focus on virtualization and cloud strategy-related services.

• Established and matured EMC’s consulting arm in Europe South, Middle East and Africa; a region comprising 40+ countries, including Spain, Italy, South Africa, Egypt, and the UAE.• Grew the business from $80K to $12MM in Year 1, further exceeding targets in Year 2.

• Selected by Accenture partners as a key resource to develop the newly-formed EMC Consulting organization, participating in service offering development, customer engagement and effective deliverable execution. • Transitioned to a large, global role within months of joining EMC.

• Participated in a wide range of consulting engagements across a variety of technology areas, including data center migrations, virtualization, disaster recovery, IT Service Management, financial analyses and process-related assessments.

• From a data architect role designing trading systems and managing global database teams to leading disaster recovery, M&A efforts and application rationalization initiatives, a start date of September 10th, 2001 certainly makes for an exciting start to my career on Wall Street and serves as a great ice-breaker conversation!

• Performed analysis and design functions to provide clients with solutions for improving performance, automating manual processes, and increasing efficiency• Provided 24/7 support for customers in the United States, Africa and the Middle-East

• Interpreted for all Francophone and Arabic-speaking patients during their entire evaluation, consultation and stay as international patients at Mount Sinai Hospital• Communicated regularly with international insurance companies and maintained good relations with embassies and other medical institutions abroad to ensure optimal care for 250+ patients

• Worked closely with the Ambassador and Public Relations Officer on major assignments, including the development of foreign investment strategies, infrastructure, travel and tourism• Provided systems analysis and design functions to provide technology recommendations for local and wide area network, e-Government systems for visa and passport application processing, and other significant technology projects for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs