Amit Eitan   BSc, MBA, PMP

• IT Strategy & Leadership advisor - Advising/Supporting a no. of CIO's in the development of corp. IT strategy and related IT transformation plans, Business/IT alignment and other IT leadership matters.
• Non-Executive Director at Enterprise Intelligence (UK) - a start-up providing a revolutionary guest-centric technology enabled solution for the Hospitality & Leisure industry (Hotels/Airlines/Cruiseliners).
• Non-Executive Director at Prisma-BI (Israel) – a Business Intelligence solutions provider with a wide and fast growing customer base in Israel across many different industries. Among its clients are some of the largest corporations in Israel.

Vice President, Client Services & Consulting – EMEA

Member of the company Executive Management team with overall responsibility for the consulting & services business across the EMEA region from Pre-Sales to post implementation support:

• Built from the ground up a best-in-class EMEA professional services team.
• Introduced new processes and best practices contributing to a high level of client satisfaction and operational excellence.
• Achieved 100% client satisfaction ratio across the region for existing and new clients.
• Increased EMEA services revenue consistently (40% annualized average growth).
• Grew service margins from 35% to 45% through operational excellence.
• Grew service revenue from 30% to 50% share of EMEA total revenue.
• Developed, trained and supported the Corp’s strategic partners network in the region.
• Successfully implemented PLM software solutions for clients such as – Electrolux, Mars, Cadbury.

CIO - EMEA  (12 countries, 30 sites, 2,500 users)                                                                        Interim Executive

Member of the EMEA leadership team with overall responsibility for IT strategy and operations across the region and all business units (The Boats Group, Marine Engines, Life Fitness and Bowling/Billiard):

• Designed & Introduced a new IT Strategy & cross-divisional organization for EMEA.
• Implemented new IT governance and controls structure, to comply with current regulatory requirements, such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX).
• Negotiated / implemented new sourcing partnerships for IT hardware and telecom services.

Global Programme Director  (Innovation Group)                                                           Interim Executive

Overall responsibility for various Global Business Innovation Programs, focusing on the development and introduction to market of PerfectDraft® (JV with Philips):     

• Provided strong leadership to a large multi-company, multi-functional team, achieving excellent collaboration across InBev, Philips and 3^rd party suppliers.
• Managed the stakeholders and supply chain’s 3^rd parties in China, Taiwan Singapore and Italy.
• Introduced project management best practices, used as a template for future Group projects.
• Achieved program objectives with highly successful launch, on time and within budget.

Read the case study (Belgian Press, September 2004)

IT Director – Strategy and Integration                                                               Interim Executive

Responsible for – IT Strategic roadmap (EMEA), Project Management Office (PMO), Enterprise Applications Integration (EAI), Collaborative Commerce, ERP (Baan) and IT procurement:

• Developed the EMEA IT PMO function through introduction of best practices and increased its adoption.
• Initiated and led IT B2B initiatives, to support the corporate global value chain initiatives.
• Led a benchmark study for IT TCO, proposing the roadmap for IT spending and sourcing upon completion.
• Led the implementation of EMEA ERP system (Baan) and the integration with other business systems (Tibco as EAI platform).

European Project manager - ERP (Navision)                                                   Interim Executive

Led the implementation of Navision ERP solution across Europe:

• Successfully managed the project, and related change management internationally.
• Completed the Project on time and within budget.

CIO– EMEA  (20 countries, 70 sites, 4,000 users)

Member of the EMEA business leadership team with overall responsibility for the IT Strategy and Operations across the region:

•  Developed & implemented EMEA IT Strategy, Portfolio Management and Governance model.
•  Built a new, best-in-class, EMEA IT organisation. 
•  Transformed the region’s outdated IT infrastructure to be modern, standard and Integrated.
•  Modernised and streamlined EMEA Applications Architecture, reducing SW solutions from >80 to 15,  resulting in a significant increase in business productivity and reduction of SW costs by 50%.
•  Increased IT environment uptime to 99.9% and reduced TCO by 50%, saving $6m pa.
•  Executive role in a global change programme for customer service excellence, budget $200m.
•  Co-led the implementation of PeopleSoft as the ERP solution supporting the above business change Improved significantly IT services levels in quality, reliability, TCO and customer focus
•  Smooth Y2K and Euro transition across the region.

IT Director - Chivas and Glenlivet Group (T/O $4bn ,25 sites, 2,000 users)                           1996-7

• Led transformation of the IT Org. in terms of skills, staffing level, culture, business focus & Best Practices.
•  Realigned IT with business needs through new IT strategy.
•  Led the successful implementation of a new, fully automated Global Distribution Centre ($15m project).
•  Led transfer of the data centre from Scotland to USA, negating $11m (potential) daily downtime costs.

Business Systems Director – Seagram Northern Europe                                                     1995-6

•   Contributed to the setup of the EMEA Shared Services Centre with new software solutions.
•   Led the Roll-Out of JD Edwards – Financials across the businesses, on time and to budget.

EMEA Project Manager / ERP Solutions  - Seagram EMEA                                                   1992-5

•    Led development of bespoke ERP solution with internal and external resources.
•    Drove the necessary change management and ‘buy in’ from the regional business heads.
•    Led the successful rollout and decommissioning of legacy systems.

Senior Consultant/Project Manager

Delivered 2 successful implementations for Fortis and Rabobank with budgets of $1.75m.

Earlier career background includes progression of Software Development and Implementation roles – from Systems Engineer (4 years), to Project Manager (5 years) and Business Systems manager (3 years).