Professional Experience

Managing Partner Forestay Capital SA

                                                                                                                             Mar 2018 to- present

Digital advisor for all tech investments of the Waypoint Group via its special fund Forestay Capital SA

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Head of Group Strategic Development & Chief Digital Officer – Waypoint Capital

                                                                                                                           Mar 2015 to- Dec 2018

Responsible for supporting the development of Waypoint's investment strategy, overseeing the review of all investment opportunities outside of Waypoint's existing business lines and leading the Digital agenda for the Group.

 

 

Chief Information & Technology Officer – Waypoint Capital                       Oct 2013 to- Feb 2015

Global responsibility for Information Services and Technology at Waypoint Capital, a business enterprise for the managers and advisers of the funds and investments associated with the Bertarelli family. The group is active in two areas: Life sciences and asset management, including real estate. Chaired by Ernesto Bertarelli, Waypoint is headquartered in Geneva, with offices in London, Jersey and Boston.

 

 

​Chief Information Officer & Head of BPM - Merck Group                               Aug 2011 to Sep 2013

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On top of the CIO role, responsible for harmonizing the core business processes of the Merck Group, standardizing the related data structures and streamlining the underlying IT platform accordingly in order to speed-up execution and decision making across the company.​

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Chief Information Officer – Merck Group                                                      Apr 2010 to Aug 2011
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Global IT responsibility for the Merck Group covering the four divisions of the Pharmaceuticals and Chemicals business sectors of the company.
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In charge of defining and implementing a new IT Vision, Mission and Strategy for the next decade.
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Structured a program approved by the Executive Board aimed at substantially reduce the cost of running IT in the next 5 years while increasing business innovation and employees productivity.
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Responsible for supporting four divisions running four different operating models and about 40’000 employees across 67 countries supported by an IT team of about 1’050 staff members and related budget of about 500M euros worldwide.

Senior Vice President IS Chemicals – Merck KGaA  Oct 2010 to Apr 2011
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Global IT responsibility for the Chemicals division of Merck, a Specialty Chemicals and Life Sciences leader covering the Performance Materials and the Merck Millipore divisions.
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Member of the IT management team reporting to the Corporate CIO and to the Head of the Chemicals division, General Partner and member of the executive board.
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Responsible for the IT integration of Merck Millipore (a global Life Sciences division including about 10’000 employees and more than 40’000 products sold in 64 countries) in the Merck Group, with the complete re-design of the application landscape across the entire value-chain.

 

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Senior Vice President IS Pharmaceuticals – Merck Group                                  2007 to Oct 2010
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Global IT responsibility for the Pharmaceutical division of Merck, a Biopharma leader with more than 15’000 employees and 5 Billion Euros revenue.
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Member of the IT management team reporting to the Corporate CIO and to the Head of the Pharmaceutical division, General Partner and member of the executive board.
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Responsible for the IT integration of Serono (a global biotech group of 5’000 employees in 30 countries) in the Merck Group, with the complete re-design of the application landscape across the entire value-chain.
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Responsible for the IT divestment of the Generics Division (a global division of 4’500 employees in 21 countries) with the carve-out of all related applications and infrastructure.
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Development of a 3 years strategic plan supporting the projected growth of Merck Serono, the biotech company of Merck’s Pharmaceutical division.
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Responsible for implementing a Governance & Controlling Corporate department in the Group with the objective of reaching ISO 9001, ISO 20000 and ISO 27001 certifications worldwide.

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Chief Information Officer – Serono                                                                              1999 to 2006
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Owner of the IT strategy and directions in line with the company business objectives.
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Development of the Long Range and Annual Operating plans in light of the business orientations, market trends and industry opportunities.
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Transparency and delivery vis-à-vis internal customers for what concerns IT service levels.
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Governance of frameworks aimed at capturing and implementing internal and external compliance requirements, certifying functional staff on key competencies and recruiting talents, managing financial and physical IT resources in an optimal way.
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Supervision of IT operations in every subsidiary of the Group with proper application of IT practices and standards.
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Definition of roles and processes to ensure daily interaction and capture of requirements with the various business units.
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Supervision of the content and format of global IT communications to ensure proper projection of the IT image and values.
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Active monitoring of the solution development life-cycle from business requirements collection to final solution go-live for any new IT project.
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Guaranteed support and maintenance of the software application landscape on a global.
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Provision of a customer chain of services from request and issues collections (Service Desk), to the management of the incidents (Incidents Management), to the analysis of recurrent issues for process optimization (Problem Management).
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Provision of an operational chain of services to implement the required changes in the IT environment in a controlled manner (Change Management), to ensure proper version control of IT upgrades (Release Management), to the inventory of every IT component into a formal database (Configuration Management).
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Guaranteed overall security of the company IT environment from potential undesired penetration.
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Active monitoring of the needs for IT resources (Capacity Management), up-time of the systems (Availability Management) and possible recovery of the critical IT assets in case of disaster (Continuity Management) for Voice & Data telecommunications, Software and Hardware services.
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Assignment and monitoring of responsibilities for IT research and innovation through-out the organization and maintenance of an appropriate level of standardization across the Group.

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Vice President IT/IS – Serono Corporate IT                                                                    1998 to 1999
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Responsible of all IT matters worldwide as Head of the Function
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Set-up of a structured function with multiple competence centers
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Implementation of the company network, mailing system and ERP backbone

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Director Worldwide Application Development – Serono Corporate IT                      1995 to 1997​
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Implementation of a software development framework
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Responsible for the development of the group software platform
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Roll-out of custom developed and packaged solutions in each subsidiaries

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Manager Reporting Procedure  – Serono Corporate Finance                                      1993 to 1994​
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Design and implementation of the reporting and consolidation procedure for the group
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Responsible for the consolidation process every month
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Production of reports for the Head of Finance

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Financial Analyst   – LSA Manufacturing plant Serono                                              1991 to 1992​
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Establishment of standard costing for the entering manufacturing plant.
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Control if inventory levels.
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Preparation of budget and control processes