Laurent Dresse

• Partner with Sales and Customer Success: Support pre-sales conversations with strategic customers, translating technical capabilities into business value. Identify support trends and remediation opportunities.
• Act as Company Evangelist: Represent the company's technical vision to customers, partners, analysts, and at industry events. (Gertner, BigData ...)
• Solution Design: Collaborate with clients to architect scalable, secure, and effective solutions based on our platform.
• Product Feedback Loop: Serve as the voice of the customer to influence product strategy, roadmap priorities, and feature development.
• Thought Leadership: Create and deliver whitepapers, webinars, and conference presentations to strengthen the company's credibility in the market.
• Drive Complex Sales: Assist in navigating long, technical sales cycles, especially in regulated or enterprise environments.
• Support GTM Alignment: Work cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, Product, and Engineering to ensure GTM success and technical alignment.
• Support relationship with market research analysts and participate to RFI/Briefing process.
• Support and deliver internal and external enablement content to continuously educate external market and internal workforce (CDO Masterclass, Data Governance Kitchen,....)

• Definition, validation and execution of Data Governance Framework (People, Process & Tools) for AI related Use cases in Belgium, UK and Portugal.
• Guiding Vietnam Entity in defining Data Management strategy and roadmap.
• Close relationship with local teams to ensure agreed framework is rolled out.
• Identification of technology gaps and market assessment to provide the best option to local IT needs (Data management).
• Support in Building of data catalog and Business Glossary (Classification, Retention, Definition & other Metadata ….) leveraging the DataGalaxy platform.
• Creation of related processes and templates to support Data Governance.
• Definition, validation and execution of Data Governance Framework (People, Process & Tools) related to Supply Chain.
• Close relationship with IT Governance and Performance Analysts to define, clean and implement Data Sets.
• Coordination with the business to identify and implement datasets related to logistics and warehouse performance reporting.
• Building of data catalog and Business Glossary (Classification, Retention, Definition & other Metadata ….) related to AI uses cases.
• Creation of related processes and templates to support Data Governance including training delivery.
• Reporting to EMEA Data Governance Mgr.

• Scrum Master of the project.
• Definition of Business requirements and translation into technical solution.
• Coordinating the implementation of data governance principles Corporate Financial global reporting.
• Coordinating the definition and implementation of Enterprise business glossaries & Lineage (Collibra).
• Coordinating the implementation of End2End data validation and correction process.
• Project Management & Support reporting to Management on progress.
• Feature Owner (Agile).
• Leading the coordination of data ingestion into Data Lake.
• Coordinating the implementation of data governance principles for Data lake.
• Coordinating the definition and implementation of Data Quality rules.
• Coordinating the implementation of End2End data validation and correction process.
• Leading Collibra to IGC migration.
• Coordinating input and process of Change management (Release to production).
• Coordinating execution and delivery of off-shore teams.
• Program Management & Reporting to Management on progress & Budget.
• Contact point for other department dependencies on data lake activities.
• Leading the coordination of data model enhancement with IT teams and business owners.
• Leading bi-weekly Data Management meetings.
• Implementation of data governance principles.
• Redesign of SharePoint workflows and sites.
• Development of Solvency II QRTs (EIOPA).
• Implementation of a data lineage solution based on MS-Access and Excel.
• Definition and implementation of a data quality dashboard and Incident management process.
• Knowledge centralization, documentation and transfer to new department.
• Support in legacy system migration to corporate platform (Metadata validation vs. data model).

• Managed the requirements definition for the IDD platform (Products)
• Managed the integration of IDD with Oracle, SAP and legacy AS400 based software
• Managed the Data standardization/cleansing for 4 Business Units.
• Managed the UAT and post go live support
• Owner of the Data Governance board
• Providing reports on activities – Direct reporting to the CFO
• Managing the Offshore and local teams

• In charge of financial processes improvements for the COO
• Representing the organization at meetings.
• Providing status reports on activities,
• Coordinating business activities in the implementation of an interface between business
application and Oracle Financials
• Coordinating the implantation of an automated diallerv

• Managed the team (30FTEs) providing support to office users.
• Managed the team providing support to manufacturing plants
• Managed the integration of two call centers through virtualization.
• Department P&L and people management

• Led cross-functional teams to enhance operational efficiency and streamline workflows.

• Managed Outsourcing of Clinical Trial data capture
o Customer requirements definition and formalization (Scope of work)
o Logistics coordination (Laptop provisioning & Shipment)
o End user training & daily support
• Report back to clients on activities and problem trends