A highly accomplished and driven senior IT executive with extensive experience in IT operations, business engagement and thought leadership, driving return on technology investments, operational excellence, program leadership, IT strategy development and implementation, organizational transformations, acquisitions and divestments and strategic sourcing. Skilled at organizational and technology leadership transformations in complex multinational environments. Recognized for ability to direct, develop and implement enterprise-wide, long-term strategic plans for both breakthrough and continuous incremental performance improvements. Serves as a key driver and valued team player in creating valuable solutions for business-focused initiatives that lead to long-lasting success for a company. KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS• Eliminated USD85+ MM annual costs, returning USD 200+ MM of value to the business in three years• Reduced business applications from 10,000+ to 4,000-, eliminating related interfaces, complexity, infrastructure, and costs by leading Application Decommissioning for total Philips. • Increased Service Desk service levels compliance from low 60% to high 80% for total Philips (over 120,000 users) by leading a corrective program. Corresponding increase in user satisfaction as measured by Net Promoter Score.• Equipped 12,000+ customer facing staff (Field Sales & Service, order desks etc) with new Laptops & PC’s in close collaboration with SalesForce.com deployment• Delivered Operational Cost Savings USD 150+ MM on platform operations of mission critical applications• Delivered world class availability and performance for mission critical systems together with stronger security & compliance.• Created a single service desk and support structure for over 60,000 users in 50+ Countries• Native English speaker, fluent in Dutch