Jean-René LYON

Education

Ingénieur Ecole Centrale Paris 1970
MS Computer Science Stanford University 1972

Professional Experience

A unique professional activity for 35 years: how to build well structured Information Systems adapted to company strategy, with 4 roles:

As a Consultant, (1972-1978).

As an IS Manager in large financial companies:
• Information Architecture Director for BNP (1979-1982)
• CIO for Credit du Nord: design, development and implementation of a full banking system based on a modern architecture which allowed huge increase of productivity and increased time to market.
• CIO for AXA Group and AXA France: Definition and implementation of the Group IS policy  (1988-1992)

As an Entrepreneur
• Lyon-Consultants (1992-2000): consulting company helping large institutions to simplify their Information System. Obtained the first price of Best Software Companies in France in 1997.Grew within 6 years to a 200 consultant company, then was acquired by CGI, and became CGI-France
• Wyde (2001-2006): software editor providing development tools for large applications and an insurance application package (www.wynsure.com) built with the most modern approaches and technologies.

As a Teacher: founded CEISAR (from 2007), Center of Excellence for Enterprise Architecture inside Ecole Centrale Paris (www.ceisar.org) to formalize best practices and transform them into training for Students and Companies.

 Pierre-Frédéric ROUBERTIES

Education

• Graduate from Ecole Centrale Paris 1992 (Computer Science)
• Executive MBA : ESSEC & Mannheim Business School

Professional Experience

Pierre-frédéric has 15 years of experience in many different jobs in IS/IT departments of major international companies (from software development to strategic planning).

His last position was IS/IT Director for AstraZeneca France (French subsidiary of one of the leaders of the pharmaceutical industry) 

He has learnt how to deal with the complexity of IS/IT solutions and how to:

• Align IS/IT strategy with the business
• Deliver return on investment on IS/IT assets
• Define a target Enterprise Architecture
• Manage major change programs (ERP, Sales Force Automation & CRM, Business Intelligence)
• Optimize day to day operations (application maintenance, IT infrastructure management outsourcing) using best practices like COBIT & ITIL
• Manage and develop a team of IS/IT professionals

International experience:

• Pierre-Frédéric has lived for 3 years in North America ( and work 1 year in the IBM Watson Research Center)
• has worked for 10 years with a UK-based pharmaceutical company (AstraZeneca) operating on a global scale 

Laurent CHARLIER

Education

• Graduate from Institut Supérieur de Gestion Paris 1972
• Master of Economic Sciences Paris Assas 1973

Professional Experience

A unique professional activity for 36 years: how to reengineer Business processes and implement well structured Information Systems adapted to company strategy, with 5 roles:

As an Auditor for Ernst & Young (1973-1977).

• Texas Instruments, Shell, Fruehauf, Continental Grain,... .introducing new computer based audit approaches.

As a CFO

• MSA (1977-1981): Reengineering and computerization of all business processes of the French subsidiary of this US leading firm in Safety equipment and appliances.

• Dentsply (1981-1983) : Reengineering of all back-office processes of the French subsidiary of this US leading firm in Dental supply.

As a Consultant

Ernst & Young Consulting (1983-2000)

• Management Consultant

• Partner in charge of the French IT Management Consulting Practice : Large ERP implementations, business processes reengineering and change management which allowed huge increase of productivity and reduced time to market to large companies of the Utilities, Oil & Gas, Retail and Consumer products sectors mainly.

• Partner member of the International Taskforce (6 members)  in charge of the Ernst &Young Global  Service Delivery model reengineering based on new Practitioners tools, Messaging and Collaboration solutions, Global Infrastructure and new Workstations.

As a CIO

• Ernst & Young (1996-2000): Partner in charge of the design and Implementation of the new E&Y France MIS based on Peoplesoft, covering Sales Management, Service Management, Human Resources Management and Financial Management. Implementation in France of the new Global Service Delivery model based on the Global standards and solutions and full outsourcing in parallel of the French practice IT Department

• Ernst & Young (2001-2007) : CIO of the Western Europe Area of E&Y. Integration and rationalization of 27 Countries IT departments, infrastructure and MIS.

• Ernst & Young (2001-2007): Deputy Global CIO coordinating 120+ countries, in charge of regional IT integration and alignment, Deployment, Communication, Global Standards adoption with the help of teams based in New York, London and Singapore. As an example, Integration of former Andersen Practices in 50+ Countries(27 000 Professionals) and migration into E&Y global IT architecture, solutions and standards in 6 months. Leading the E&Y Global Technology Executive Committee.

 As a Teacher

• Ecole Centrale de Paris (from 2007): Training Students on Enterprise architecture basics and best practices in support of the Center of Excellence for Enterprise Architecture.

Alexandre FERAY

Education

Alexandre Feray is a graduate from Ecole Centrale Paris, where he majored in
Computer Sciences.

Professional Experience

In his teen years, he developed a Forth programming language which was awarded Best Program of the Year and commercialized by Apple Computer. In 1992, he started working for IBM Research (TJ Watson Research Center) in New York on one of the first publicly available Internet multimedia email systems, under the direction of Genaro Cuomo, IBM fellow and Websphere father.

He then joined Alcatel Research in Paris where he led a research group on advanced supervision systems based on distributed objects and software buses. He published several papers and patents on the subject.

In 1999, he joined Air France as lead IT architect of the Operations Control Center reengineering project where he designed the new decision support systems for integrated day-of-operations control (handling aircraft, crew, maintenance and commercial movements).
He then became Air France’s product line manager for Crew Management, here he had the responsibility of the information system in charge of the 18,000 flight crew members. He led dozens of IT projects and defined Air France’s strategy for Crew Management System renewal and legacy migration, currently under implementation. He also led the Air France-KLM Crew IS convergence study during the merger.

In 2007, he set-up a consulting company (Nextops) specialized in IT architecture with a strong focus on legacy renewal.

Joachim TREYER

Education

•    Graduate from Ecole Centrale Paris 1992 (Industrial Engineering)
•    Postgraduate Degree, Institute of Business Administration : IAE Paris

Professional Experience

Joachim started his career, in 1993, at IBM as a pre-sales engineer for the Banking, Finance & Securities Business Unit. Two years later, in the e-business unit, he developed the multi-channel, contact center & CRM business.
In 1999, he joined Datamedia, a software vendor specialized in multimedia & telecom servers used by major companies. He created the consulting department and acquired in-depth expertise in terms of Contact Centers and related technologies through the set up of the first VoIP virtual contact centers in France and the US.
In 2005, convinced that best practices from industry can be transposed to IT, he joined Cost House, a consulting company, expert in Economic Performance: tracking costs and increasing earnings by combining economic and technical levers.

Denis ZANDVLIET

Education

• Graduate from Ecole Centrale de Paris (1979)
• Doctor-Engineer in Earth Mechanics and Structure (1982)

Professional Experience

Denis has 27 years of experience in IS/IT Services and Consulting.  He worked in global companies like Ernst & Young, Olivetti and LogicaCMG. 

He started as quality engineer for software developments.  He managed and supervised dozens of projects for the benefits of manufacturing, financial, service, energy and public companies. 

IT/IS Projects concerned hardware operations, software development, software maintenance and ERP implementation.  He also performed IT/IS audits and increased software performances.

As consultant, he managed organizational projects.  He defined KPI, evaluated business processes, valuated their costs & benefits, designed processes, wrote procedures and charters, and helped change management for various business sectors.

As manager, he developed new IT/IS services (outsourcing, E-document…).  He was in charge of sales and development departments and IS services business unit (90 engineers).  He built up tools to forecast load of work (and so profit & lost) of complex projects at fixed price.  He brought total quality approach to his teams with close follow up, in transparency facing the customers.

He strongly believes in pragmatic use of methodologies, like Merise, SADT, BPR, TCO, Balance scorecard, WBS, SWOT, Activity-Based Costing, Monte Carlo simulation… and Quality approach.  His own approach is an overall and comprehensive understanding of both customer business and IT constraints and abilities in order to get that one names “strategy and IT alignment”.

Finding out what the Value and the Returns the project will provide, how to get it, pushing and pulling to success it, is his challenge.

His consulting company (Value360) is specialized in risks, opportunities and projects valuation.