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Leading the development of an AI-centric startup that will revolutionize mixed asset portfolio management for the wealth management industry. A key focus concerns equity and alternative asset price forecasting and dynamic asset allocation. The primary offer is designed to help optimize total returns in alignment with client goals, risk tolerances and other policy considerations. Artificial Intelligence capabilities power every aspect of a sophisticated platform.Some focus areas include:▪ Client Engagement -> Client Policy▪ Market Insights (equities and alternative investments)▪ Dynamic Portfolio Optimization▪ Portfolio Stress Testing▪ Market Timing▪ Gemstone price forecasting and risk estimation▪ Other alternative assets

Redmond, Washington, Us

Originate and drive large scope customer C-suite advisory engagements as an IC and manager across Business Strategy, Offer Innovation, Customer Experience, Workforce Experience, and AI-enabled Operations Optimization. Increasing levels of responsibility within Microsoft’s Management Consulting business spanning multiple roles, including: ▪ Sr. Director, Manufacturing Strategic Advisory▪ Sr. Director, Americas Strategic Advisory▪ Director, WW Strategic Advisory▪ Strategic Advisor A well-known personal brand within Microsoft. Joined at the ground floor and played a prominent role shaping the management consulting business into what it has become today. ▪ Authored Microsoft's Ignite sales method for originating large programs of change▪ Lead author for Microsoft's Digital Advisor Academy; award winning instructor for global landing▪ Authored Microsoft’s Digital Maturity Model and led landing program▪ Developed an investment-centered approach (versus time) to 3-Horizon planning and helped land globally across Microsoft; this became a key tool for "Going BIG" with customers▪ Designed and landed effective practices for large deal and partnership development used to successfully secure large, high impact strategic partnershipsMy team and I are successfully igniting and driving large programs of change with Microsoft’s most important customers across manufacturing, retail/CPG, travel & hospitality and logistics. ▪ Consistently achieve the highest performance level among the industry-aligned strategic advisory teams, driving more than $1.5B USD annual revenue▪ Built largest and highest quality pipeline among the various teams of industry advisors by strengthening alignment with subsidiary leaders and their teams▪ Strengthened the team’s thought capital and landed with customers and within Microsoft

Redmond, Washington, Us

▪ For the CIO of a F500 CPG company, developed a holistic workforce experience vision and program; factoring the voices and participation of key business executives▪ For the COO of a G500 pharmaceutical company, led a company-wide workforce experience program to improve satisfaction, retention and recruiting▪ For the President of a G500 logistics company, developed a business strategy and strategic partnership featuring continuous co-innovation and mutual investments. Developed a digital logistics brand vision and program to strengthen digital intensity of the business and change market perceptions▪ For the SBU GM of a G500 integrated energy company, led an effort to develop a digitally intense business strategy and corresponding operating model transformation roadmap▪ For the SBU EVP of the world’s largest juice company, assessed critical business capability gaps hampering realization of the company’s vision. Led award-winning efforts that delivered the business strategy and operating model and roadmap. Led two of the initial transformation programs. The client produced a testimonial video highlighting Michael’s work▪ For the C-Suite of a F500 gaming resort company, developed a business strategy shifting from resort to experience-centricity, and encompassing a much broader set of precision personas and corresponding monetization strategy. Completely redesigned the customer experience and journeys for select personas▪ For the CIO of a prestigious international airline, developed a revolutionary customer experience vision and program leveraging and highly segmented and detailed (over 1000s of attributes) customer personas and hyper-personalization approach▪ For the EVP Sales and CIO a F500 CPG company, developed an operating model vision and program that leverages AI modules to predict customer fulfillment needs, forecast revenue, manage key account risks, optimize the placement of sales resources and distribution fleet

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

Joined to incubate a Management Consulting business designed to increase stickiness and create pull-through for traditional services. Played a prominent role shaping the business, including consulting offer definitions, staff development, revenue generation and account management. Also, directly lead initial meetings with C-suite and other senior business leaders and resulting engagements and account penetration efforts. Specializing in business and IT strategic planning, operations optimization and digital business transformation management. Select client engagements include: ▪ For the SBU EVP and CIO of a F500 manufacturing company, developed a business strategy and roadmap to reinvent itself as a service provider rather than a hardware product manufacturer. Drove execution, providing joint program oversight▪ For the CTO of a F500 P&C insurance company, led engagement to co-envision a direct-to-consumer strategy, and then structure and drive the implementation program▪ For the CIO of a F500 publishing company, led engagement to define a more centralized organization design and streamlined IT operating model and core processes▪ For the CIO of a G1000 logistics company, led engagement to develop an annual IT Strategic Plan and implementation roadmap, together with recommendations to improve the IT strategic planning processes that the CIO characterized as “the best IT Strategic Plan I have ever seen.”▪ For the CIO of a F500 financial services company, led an initiative to improve IT strategic planning. Delivered the initial plan for a new rolling planning process that I designed▪ For the EVP of a F500 consumer products company, led a divestiture carve-out program, leading to a successful separation of two business units▪ For the CTO of a F100 insurance company, led a “Speed-to-Value” initiative to improve key abilities, including transformation management, innovation management, stakeholder management and communications

Hired by company founders (references available) to strengthen company valuation ahead of a sale and founder exit. Successfully designed and led a multi-point strategic plan to strengthen founder exit strategy, leading to rapidly increasing revenues and earnings, which involved: ▪ Managed a global team of 100 personnel▪ Development of the product vision leading to both organic and partner-based entry in the enterprise architecture and business process modeling and enactment markets, including BPMN, BPEL and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).▪ Enhancement of marketing and sales effectiveness, product portfolio, marketing channels, customer orientation, and operational efficiencyThe flagship software product, MagicDraw UML, emerged as the #1 award-winning standards-based architecture and modeling tool. Acquired by Dassault Systemes.

New York, Ny, Us

Help clients grow shareholder value by developing business and operations improvement strategies, and implementation plans. Led a global sales improvement program involving a new approach and framework for business development. Incubated the approach regionally and rolled out globally, strengthening new business generation capabilities and the new opportunity pipeline. Developed regional business across priority competency areas, penetrating key targets and increasing regional brand awareness. Played a key role expanding the offer portfolio beyond pure business strategy to include technology enablement planning and business/IT alignment. Helped shape and develop intellectual capital in the areas of business agility and business/IT alignment. Also managed and delivered client engagements. Select engagement include pricing strategy for a satellite company, acquisition due diligence performed on behalf of a private equity firm targeted at communications companies, and a business strategy case for a software client that identified new product opportunities. Following development of a strategic plan for a software company, joined that company as CEO to execute the plan.

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Rapidly increasing levels of responsibility with the world's largest Internet network company (at the time) across various horizontal and industry vertical domains: ▪ Vice President, Financial Services▪ Vice President, Enterprise Integration▪ Executive Director, Telecommunications▪ Director, TelecommunicationsInitially an IC, supporting client engagement delivery, engagement management and intellectual capital development. Quickly moved into management roles that include responsibility for P&L management, financial analysis, client care and contracts, staff and capability development, alliance and partner development, corporate strategy development, acquisition diligence and management and mentorship of business development personnel. Organically built three rapid growth consulting units from the ground up, including:▪ Telecommunications▪ Financical Services▪ Enterprise Application IntegrationEstablished business development reputation with big wins at telecommunications and manufacturing companies.

Post Graduate, Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning: Business Applications

Product Management Program, Product Management

Supply Chain Management

Ms Electrical Engineering, Control Systems

Bs Electrical Engineering

Graduate, Radar System Design