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Director, Chief AI Architect driving portfolio value creation through AI at MGX’s Operating Partners team

Stockholm, Stockholm, Se

• Lead AI Acceleration Initiatives: Spearhead the integration and acceleration of AI technologies across EQT Group's portfolio companies, ensuring concrete value creation and AI maturity;• Strategy Development and Support: Assist deal teams, boards and portfolio companies in formulating strategies for leveraging AI, ensuring alignment of latest tech with business objectives, technological capabilities.• AI Playbook Development: Craft comprehensive playbooks to guide portfolio companies in AI implementation, focusing on practical and impactful applications.• Due Diligence and AI Assessment: Support AI potential assessment and dd in the context of deal and strategy formation;• AI Think Tanking: Engage in forward-thinking AI forums, monitoring emerging technologies, analyzing proven use case archetypes, and keeping abreast of value chain movements to identify strategic opportunities for innovation and growth within EQT's portfolio.

Stockholm, Stockholm, Se

Stockholm, Stockholm, Se

• Architecting EQT MotherBrain Labs, building analytics experiments focusing on Portfolio Value Creation use-cases, leveraging alternative data, new angles, and state-of-the-art data technology;• Advising at EQT Digital, developing AI and Analytics strategies with/for the Equity portfolio. Software blackbelt with emphasis on Enterprise Tech, Automation, Collaboration, Dev Stacks, Modern Data Stack.

Stockholm, Stockholm, Se

Stockholm, Stockholm, Se

Leading the Architecture group at EQT, responsible for:• Designing the long to short term strategies for Business Systems across all domains;• Systematic research and incubation of new capabilities and tech via pilot projects; • Driving digital transformation and process excellence. Applying lean, design and system thinking;• Building thought leadership / points of view on business tech trends;• Leading the Architects that drive software engineering best practices across application domains;• Managing a team of rockstar devops engineers;Listening, experimenting, learning, adapting, communicating.

Stockholm, Stockholm, Se

• Delivered a global cloud ERP project and transitioned to continuous improvement service. • Established and led a modern DevOps team focused on integrations and data engineering. • Led a full stack data initiative including data pipes, warehousing, analytics and MDM.• Developed bespoke applications for handling Treasury reporting.• SM Expert advisory for complex Business System initiatives on Portfolio (financial systems/data)

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Se

• Member of Management Team for Business Information Systems, leading 50+ people on aspects of Organisation, Vision and Delivery;• Drive Strategic procurement Initiatives including ERP, Integration Platform from Selection to Negotiation;• Program Manage large scale business tech initiatives such as ITGC, Integration, ERP;• Design long term IT Strategy and Architecture for Business Information Systems to meet the challenges of hyper growth;

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Se

• Line Manage and grow a team of engineers responsible for Financial Systems;• Develop business IT Architecture and Strategy;• Project Manage complex IT initiatives;• Continuous improvement of engineering practices;• Have fun, tons of fun on the best company in the world!

Carnaxide, Pt

Carnaxide, Pt

Value Delivered• Supported 5+ international BPM programs by providing worldclass BPM services• Setup of a nearshore BPM Support and Operations center, rendering aggressive SLA, outstanding customer satisfaction and significant cost reductions• Off the marks customer satisfaction as proven by a 35% growth and 60% internationalization.Responsibilities• Selecting and developing world-class BPM professionals• Enabling international customers on BPM best practices, with a focus on value anticipation.• BPM Architecture and Project Management• Full Sales cycle management

Value Delivered• Streamlined financial closing process and consolidation on two major Banking delivering >75% reductions in time and effort.• Increasing corporate accountability and visibility, while increasing budgeting frequency (yr to quarterly) through the implementation of complex multi-corporation budgeting and reporting solutions.• Supported treasury management through an automated Liquidity reporting for ALCO committees.• Improved BPM adoption through the implementation of a collaborative business processes repository.Responsibilities• Sales and pre-sales of products and services to multi-sectorial clients, focusing on Corporate Performance Management (CPM) and Business Process Management (BPM) solutions• C-Level communication, proposals and negotiation• Managing complex performance management projects, consistently delivering on time and on budget solutions of financial management, business process management and system integration• Overseeing international software vendors partnerships and deploying global activities on the portuguese market• Coordinating internal activities including marketing, customer support and IT management• Experience in Banking Sector, Manufacturing, Construction and Transportation

Value Delivered• Successful execution of long term IT strategy for major Health provider. • Roll-out of an integrated, multi-site Hospital Management Solution covering all business processes.• Enablement of continuous improvement practices of IT ProcessesResponsibilities• Project Management and IT Architecture on a large-scale, multi-site and multi-technology deployment, including ERP, Hospital Management System, Integration Services and Business Analytics• Coordination of all data Migration, Integration, Go-live and support operations• Reengineering of the holding’s financial reporting and auditing processes• Outsourcing Team coordination

Dublin 2, Ie

Value Delivered• Supporting the execution of a pluri-anual Strategy for a major Transportation Corporation through the adoption of a fully automated Balanced Scorecard.• Full automation of a multisite hospital management solution for a large Health care provider.Responsibilities• Technical team leadership on large scale ERP, integration and development projects• Pre-sales for the industrial and health care sectors• Business analysis and implementation of Performance management and BI solutions• Financial process analysis and reengineering and Activity Based Costing implementation

Lisboa, Lisboa, Pt

• Teaching Assistant for a first year undergrad course on Algorithms and Data Structures• Research Assistant at the Synthetic Characters Group at INESC• Published research results on three peer reviewed conferences (IVA01, IVA02, ICVS02)

• Developed a workflow management solution for make-to-order companies, EU funded project• Developed dynamic websites (ASP, FLASH, JS, JAVA) • Authored a custom image meta tagging software for a Large Portuguese Foundation

Msc, Computer Science

Artificial Intelligence: Implications For Business Strategy

Diploma, Entrepreneurship And Innovation Management (Paegi)

Licenciatura, Computer Science

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