Accenture SAP Leadership Council 2019

Christian joined Amadeus in 1989 as Finance Manager for the R&D subsidiary of the group, based in Sophia Antipolis, France.

Christian holds a Master’s degree in Finance and Accounting from the ESA in Grenoble and the Legal and Taxes Certificate for the Diploma of French Chartered Accountants. He is a member of the Board of the French Association for Finance Executives (DFCG).

He began his career in an audit firm in Nice, France, and also spent 6 years with Dow Corning, in Sophia Antipolis, where he held various positions in the Finance and the Health Care Business Europe area.

Christian was appointed Finance Director in January 2001, responsible for the Finance Division in Sophia Antipolis site as well as being in charge of Financial Controlling for the worldwide R&D activities of Amadeus.

During the next 15 years, as the activity of Amadeus was steadily expanding in size, business diversification and geographical presence -the R&D center in Sophia Antipolis reached 5,000 employees - he has been involved in several large projects, including in particular the set-up of new R&D centers around the world, the largest one being opened in 2012 in Bangalore, India.

In 2015, reporting to Amadeus Group CFO, he was appointed Program Director of Global Finance Template, a large transformational redesign of the Finance processes, systems and organization for Amadeus Finance worldwide. In 2017, two other programs, Order-to-Cash and Corporate Project Portfolio Mgt, were also grouped under his responsibility to form the worldwide Finance Transformation Program of Amadeus, largely built on SAP/4 Hana suite of Financial, Reporting, Billing and Portfolio Management (PPM) applications.

The first pilot migration of a group of companies in USA and Central America was performed successfully in July 2018, followed by the main migration milestone of another group of larger Amadeus companies covering three continents, and including the headquarter company in Spain, that happened in January 2019.

Steve leads the overall strategy, design and implementation of Blue Diamond Growers information technology services, working closely with the business to define solutions that provide value to our growers and our customers. Steve has led strategic efforts of large scale application and infrastructure deployments throughout his career, including successful digital and e-commerce, security, cloud and business analytics solutions. He brings a strong balance of technical, resource and financial management leadership. Steve has been with Blue Diamond since March 2016. Prior to that, Steve has held a variety of Information Technology leadership positions including VP of IT and Workplace Services for Unisys; Chief Information Officer for Hostess Brands and CompuCom; VP of Information Technology for Quaker State; and acting Chief Information Officer for Booz Allen Hamilton. In 2012, Steve was named one of Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders.

Brian is a proven business leader with 20 years of experience spanning strategic planning, business development, and operations. He is known for being a leader that excels at building high performing teams and delivering financial results.

He is currently the Vice President, Business Transformation at Briggs & Stratton Corporation. Under his leadership, the company recently implemented SAP S/4HANA across the organization globally.

Combining an engineering degree and an MBA, he has had success in a variety of roles throughout his career including product & channel management, new product development, strategic supplier management, and manufacturing. He has participated in a number of industry associations, including serving as President of the Pressure Washer Manufacturing Association (PWMA).

He resides in Menomonee Falls, WI with his wife and two sons. They are an active family and he serves on the Marquette University M-Club Board of Directors.

Jawaz Illavia has more than 20 years experience in leading technology functions across industries and from startups to global organizations. At Carlsberg, he heads up Commercial and Digital technology services for the company. Throughout his career, Jawaz has been passionate about driving change - whether it’s about mindset, technology or business outcomes.

Retha Hunsicker co-leads Duke Energy’s Customer Connect Program as vice president of Customer Connect Solutions. She is responsible for consolidating and modernizing our legacy billing systems into one customer service platform to deliver the universal experience customers expect. Customer Connect will simplify experiences for customers and employees; strengthen our business through modernized technology and increased efficiencies; and advance opportunities through speed to market, new products and services and enabling a modern, skilled workforce.

Previously, Retha served as vice president of customer care operations, where she had responsibility for six contact centers, training and quality assurance, workforce and vendor management, and Consumer Affairs. Prior to that, she was responsible for Duke Energy’s Midwest customer contact operations.

She has also served as general manager of smart energy systems and processes for the company. In this role, she was responsible for the delivery of tactical and strategic customer projects enabled by two-way data. This included business architecture, strategic roadmaps, project implementation, governance and operational integration. In addition, Retha served as a grid modernization lead during integration planning for the Duke Energy/Progress Energy merger.

Originally from Indiana, Retha earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Indiana Wesleyan University and has multiple certifications in call center operations, project management, training and strategic leadership.

Retha has been with Duke Energy for 37 years and resides in Charlotte, N.C., with her husband of 36 years.

Olivier Wettel is the Business and Digital Applications Director at Faurecia Group Information Systems. He has been with Faurecia for 12 years and his responsibilities include Central Applications PMO; Distributed MES-LES Systems (including JIT); Manufacturing/Logistics core model design; Cloud, Collaborative and Web Solutions; and Enterprise Architecture.

Sandra Marsden Clement is the BPC Implementation Lead at FMC Corporation. She has been with her company for over 7 years, holding positions in Global Consolidations, Global Accounting Operations, as well as System Integration projects of acquired companies. Prior to FMC, Sandra was an auditor at KPMG, LLP. for 5 years. Sandra holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting, and graduate studies in Business Process Management and Accounting Information Systems

Mike is a very accomplished and motivated IT professional and leader with 30 years of experience in IT and 13 years in leadership positions in the retail industry. Mike has over ten years of experience in designing and implementing large ERP solutions, from architecture, hands-on design, configuration and process engineering to team leadership in senior management positions. IT background includes vendor management, developing delivery strategies, multi-million-dollar project portfolio management and leadership over multiple functional areas and applications. Recognized as a strong leader, innovative, executing on large transformations, team player and collaborator, goal oriented and easy to work with, Mike enjoys working in fast pace areas with strong focus on delivery.

Mike’s experience includes development and implementation of new modernization applications in the Supply Chain space as part of Y2K, Championed company consolidation of IT Solutions across Loblaw Banners across the country, Integral in driving a refresh of Supply Chain technologies from Planning systems through execution systems in OIM, TMS and WMS as part of a Supply Chain 2010 Program. Integral in driving the transformation to move Loblaw’s onto SAP (Master Data, Financials, Conversion of 21 Distribution Centers and over 1200 Stores) across Canada, Integral in driving the IT consolidation of Shoppers Drug Mart onto Loblaw common systems (SAP). The SAP implementation is one of the largest most complex implementations given the channels of business within Loblaw and the transaction volume based on servicing most consumers across Canada.

Randie Schlamowitz is executive director of the PLM program at Merck. She has responsibility for delivering the technology, processes, data and user experience required to integrate product information across research and manufacturing.

Randie has been an IT professional for over 30 years starting her career with AT&T. Prior to her current role, Randie led Global Operations and Strategy introducing automation and analytics to enhance our operations.

Eric Doucet holds a Master of Industrial Economics from the University “Paris XIII”. He started his career in 1992 at United Parcel Service (UPS) France as a Method Engineer. Afterwards, he worked at Thomson Multimedia as Planning Manager before joining the Moulinex Group in 1995 where he held the same position. From 1997 to 2001, he took over the logistic activity for the American continent from Mexico.

Back in France, he joined the lngenico Group as Director of Logistics, prior to joining the Pierre Fabre group.

On September 2, 2002, Eric Doucet started as Director of Logistics in the Pierre Fabre Group. As such, he was responsible for animating and guiding the Logistics project team and the team in charge of Distribution in line with Bruno Foucaud’s prior activity.

From 2006 to 2015, he worked for “Pierre Fabre Dermo-Cosmétique” branch, under the responsibility of Jacques Fabre. He managed the Operations (including the Logistics Worldwide, Logistics France, Projects and Process Optimization divisions and the Supply Chain project).

As of 1st January 2016, he is appointed Director of the ERP France Program.

Frank Westerhof is the General Manager Enterprise platforms in Shell based in The Hague. As such Frank is responsible for driving the strategy of the collective of top 30 IT platforms in Shell building on a “market standard (SAAS) unless” foundation. An SAP strategy is a key part of this agenda; Shell is committed to adopting S/4HANA Cloud as a key lever to help drive a fundamental simplification of the Shell business model. Frank is playing a key role in shaping this journey for Shell.

In his more than 30 years with Shell, he has worked in both Downstream, Upstream and Corporate functions in quite a number of Shell locations across the world.