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Uwe Dmoch
Uwe Dmoch, CIO at Alba, is responsible for the two equal and independent pillars of the ALBA Group, Alba and Interseroh. Apart from common Service Delivery Management he is responsible for the continuous re-alignment of the IT structures with the diverse business areas of the Alba Group.
Uwe Dmoch paved the way from a technology oriented IT to an IT that is closely aligned with business processes and which adds significant value both in heterogeneous as well as in complex business areas. To be able to successfully control demands he pursues a sustainable connection of strong competence in methodology and business processes in his organization which is mainly based in Berlin, Cologne and Dortmund.
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Riekie Erasmus
Riekie is a senior IT / telecommunications specialist in Telkom SA with extensive experience across several areas of ICT management. With 30 exciting years in the ICT industry she is a veteran in technology and management changes. She worked through the ranks and domains of business analysis, project management and architecture and acquired a passion for IT strategy specifically in the domains of CRM and service provider billing.
In August 2007 Riekie was recognized for success achieved in the establishment of cross functional teams; she was the winner of the “Telkom Women of Value Awards 2007”, in the “Entrepreneurial and Innovative Spirit” Category.
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Marcus Friedrich
Marcus is as the ICT Security Manager for DB Schenker Rail responsible for the Security of the ICT systems used in the rail bound logistics services of Deutsche Bahn AG (DB AG) and as such is a member of IT Governance of DB Mobility Logistics AG.
After 10 years working for the internal ICT Service Provider of DB AG in different roles he joined the CIO-department of DB Energie, the utilities company of DB in 2007, where he was responsible for EAM- and COBIT-related topics. He also was a member of the project team that rolled out the methodology of EAM enterprise wide and among other colleagues helped shaping DBs approach toward architecture management.
Since end of 2010 Marcus joined the IT Governance department of DB AGs corporate Headquarters taking responsibility for the Logistics business as the Security Manager for the Europe-wide rail-bound logistics activities of DB AG (Schenker Rail). Based on his experience in EAM he is now driving the development of several IT-governance activities towards a good usability of their results in security and risk management.
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Dr. Wolfgang Mai
Dr. Wolfgang Mai is head of the Business Architecture department in the Deutsche Post BRIEF division since 2008. As head of this division, Mai is responsible for ensuring the business integrity and flexibility of the IT application landscape, which is supported and facilitated using a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach. Mai has consistently developed and established governance methods to ensure successful collaboration of the enterprise architecture and business units.
After completing his studies in electrical engineering at RWTH Aachen University, he led the research of object oriented Finite Element Simulation at the Institute for Electrical Machines. He then served as a strategy consultant in business technology office of McKinsey & Company for five years. Since 2006 Mai is with the Deutsche Post AG and was responsible for IT service design among other things for Deutsche Post BRIEF. At the end of 2007 he joined Dr. Johannes Helbig, CIO, as Chief Architect and a founding member in the SOA Innovation Lab, Germany’s first business initiative for SOA and architecture management.
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Raj Madan
Raj Madan is the Managing Director of the Strategic Technology Group (STG) at BNY Mellon. The STG performs several tasks, including but not limited to: tracking emerging technologies, rapidly prototyping technologies for business applications, conducting diligence for corporate transactions, and delivering research (leveraging multiple channels and mechanisms) to the BNY Mellon’s employees and customers. The STG's goal is to "Drive innovation and agility by engaging businesses and Information Technology in advanced technology research, efficiency improvements and development agility.”
Raj’s career at BNY Mellon started in 2000, working as an Application Architect and Manager for Technology of Treasury Services. In January of 2006, Raj moved over to the Enterprise Architecture Group (EAG) and worked as an Enterprise Architect. In July 2008, he took over the manager’s position of the Strategic Technology Group (STG) under the Enterprise Architecture Solutions Division (EAS).
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David Mangold
David Mangold is Director of Architecture for Commercial and Consumer Markets at The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc; where he leads the Claims Enterprise Architecture team. He is responsible for the strategic direction of the Claim Application Portfolio and managing a team supporting all phases of the software development lifecycle. Additionally, he has led the implementation and ongoing roll-out of PlanningIT across the enterprise.
David has worked at The Hartford for over 8 years in a variety of technical roles and has over 15 years of experience in the IT industry as a developer, architect and project manager. He has delivered a range of information systems for a variety of clients, spanning small data collection applications to multi-year, multi-million dollar platform investments.
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Dr. Urs Matter
Urs Matter is, as Senior IT Architect, responsible for the definition and implementation of the application architecture “IT for IT” in the UBS Group Technology.
A major part of this architecture forms the integration of an Enterprise Architecture and Portfolio Management solution.
Following his studies and doctorate in Mathematics, he led the implementation of the data management at Swissair Informatik for four years. He continued his academic and professional carreer as a lecturer at a University of Applied Sciences (Mathematics and Information System Management and independent consultant with consulting assignments in the fields of IT Strategy, Application Architecture, IT Asset Management and Data Standardization in the airline and financial services industries.
Hannes Rosskopf
Hannes Rosskopf has extensive international experience in streamlining, re-organizing and restructuring IT organizations, their processes and products. His expertise in project, people and business management stems from his work in Switzerland, the USA, and the Middle East – including working as Executive Director, Global CTO at UBS AG, Global Head of CTO Tools & Processes at CREDIT SUISSE, CIO at Theodor Wille Intertrade, as Senior Manager NetInfrastructure Service Delivery at BDO Seidman’s consulting division Wavebend, and as Software Engineering Manager at Digital Equipment Corporation in Zurich.
He spent a combined six years with CREDIT SUISSE in Zurich and New York City and joined earlier this year UBS in Stamford, Connecticut, where he is as Senior Program Manager responsible to establish the Enterprise Architecture and Portfolio Management which creates transparency and accountability and allows to advance the IT landscape along different dimensions: Enterprise architecture, complexity, functionality, technology, cost, governance, IT risk, information/data, etc. He has a MBA focused on Computer Science and Economics from the University of Zurich.
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Daniel Matthies
Head of IT-Architecture and Integration Technology at Volkswagen Financial Services since 2005.
ERik Köhler
Manager of the Business Area Business Process Management at ITARICON and project member at Volkswagen Financial Services. His expertise lies in the area of bringing business requirements and processes together with IT-Architecture. |
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Dirk OStermann
Dirk Ostermann studied Mining Engineering at the Technical Universities of Clausthal-Zellerfeld and Berlin.
Subsequent to having held several positions in the mines of the former Ruhrkohle AG and after a stay in South Africa, he turned to the administration in 1998 and was appointed Vice Manager in the field of central enterprise planning and governance. Since the end of 1999 – when RAG AG had completed its major outsourcing activities – he is head of the Information Technology division and is responsible for its development and management at today’s RAG Deutsche Steinkohle.
On January 1, 2007, he was appointed head of the central division IT Strategy and is responsible for the strategic alignment of IT at today’s RAG AG.
Markus Wald
Since 1988 Markus Wald successfully conducted organizational and IT projects both as employed IT Manager and independent business consultant in various organizations in the mechanical engineering, sanitary ware, mail order, and food industries.
In 2005, he was appointed Leader IT Strategy at RAG Aktiengesellschaft. In addition to managing a variety of Carve Out projects, SAP release changes and establishing Enterprise Architecture Management on an enterprise-wide level, he played a significant role in creating the organization’s overarching IT strategy.
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Peter Schneider
Peter Schneider studied Physics and Computer Science. In 1991, after 2 years with IBM, Peter moved to Daimler-Benz AG and started in the IT Research & Technology.
From 2006 to 2008, Peter was CIO for Daimler in in the UK. Since July 2008, Peter took over the position of Director ITA (Enterprise Architecture
Management and Governance) and as Daimler IT-CTO.
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Peter Tan
Peter has 18 years of experience in IT in public and private sector in a variety of roles, ranging from Education, Internet, B2B e-Commerce, e-Government, and now Healthcare.
Peter was a founding staff member in MOHH Information Systems Division, which has rapidly expanded from a team of 7 including the CIO in March 2008, to its current strength exceeding 100. Peter’s role has evolved from Strategy Development to Enterprise Architecture (EA), starting in 2009 with the federated EA for realising the National EHR. He has since extended the architecture to cover areas such as National Health Identification, Community & Integrated Care and Personal Health Management. His current focus is two-prong: continual refresh of the EA to support the evolving National Health Informatics Strategy, and establishment of EA Governance across the Healthcare ecosystem to support MOHH’s role as national coordinator of Healthcare IT.
Prior to this, Peter was Assistant Director (eHealth) at the Ministry of Health, responsible for national e-health strategy and implementation. He implemented the EMR Exchange system in 2004, the first live system that facilitated the realtime transmission of medical records on-demand across the public sector healthcare providers.
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Claus Thiede
Claus Thiede is, as Chief Executive Architect, responsible for the implementation and development of Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) at Continental.
He has worked at the company in various IT functions for 15 years. For more than 8 years he was manager of the SAP PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) competence center and responsible for the implementation, development and running of the worldwide SAP PLM solution. In this area was present during, amongst other things, various mergers and acquisitions, for example those of TEMIC and Motorola as well as that of Siemens VDO.
Following the acquisition of what had been Siemens VDO he was head of the PLM Architecture & Standardization group, before he moved at the start of 2010 to the newly created area of Strategy and Processes.
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