Principal Technology Architect
Working with Life Sciences customers in Switzerland and Europe

• Working with the Retail, Consumer Goods, and Life Sciences Group (RCL)
• Focusing on Life Sciences R&D
• Co-creating new solutions in Life Sciences
• Trusted Technology Advisor for customers on executive level

1/2009—4/2012

Dr. Hellmuth Broda Consulting
Basel, Switzerland

Executive Information & Communication Technology Advisor
Working with international organizations, consulting companies, IT companies:

• Associate Partner, Innovia Ventures
• Chairman, careon Avalis, Switzerland
  
• Authorized Partner, ABOS-CONWORKS Company Network
• Preparation of a study with an international organization (IKED) on “Enabling ICT for Innovation Development” for a country in the Middle East
  
• Business Development Advisor for several IT companies
  
• Executive Advisor with Experton Group
  
• Consulting Expert and Council Member with Gehrson Lehrman Group and Guidepoint Global

9—12/2008

First Ondemand Ltd.

VP Business Development
First Ondemand Ltd., Fareham, Hampsire, UK; working remotely from Basel.

First Ondemand builds enterprise-class identity authentication solutions, which are designed to prevent and minimize counterfeiting, theft and fraudulent activities.

Responsibilities:

• Present First Ondemand’s solutions to national and international trade and industry associations, at conferences, to press and analysts 
  
• Grow the business by using the high-level contacts network 
  
• Contribute to creating a concise messaging for the company

Accomplishments:

• Established over 70 new contacts for the company 
  
• Represented the company at the 2nd Identity Conference in London and at the Global Forum 2008 in Athens

• Promote the group's strategy that enables Sun technology to be used as a social utility
• Connect Sun to the world's ultimate service providers – Govern­ments
• Represent Sun to a wide variety of audiences promoting key Sun positions to ensure leverage of opportunities
• Member of Sun's Liberty Staff team and the OpenDocument group

• Represented Sun to a wide variety of audiences to reinforce key Sun positions (especially in Identity Management, Open Source,Open Systems, Open Standards, OpenDocument, Sustainability)
• Delivered 60 keynotes and customer presentations to governments and the private sector
• Represented Sun in the Liberty Alliance Business Marketing Expert Group, in the Public Policy Expert Group and the e-Gov SIG (Spe­cial Interest Group), contributed to privacy work in and recruited many members for the Liberty Alliance
• Continued to serve as chairperson for the annual European Net-ID conference (since 2005)

• Strategic technology transfer to customers of all indus­tries
• Keynote speaker at industry conferences
• Speaker and “storyteller” at the Executive Briefing Center
• Member of Sun's Liberty Staff team and the corporate strategy & vision team
• Active contribution to Liberty Al­liance Business Marketing Expert Group (BMEG)

• Facilitated several large deals
• Gave 75 keynotes and customer and partner presentations
• Contributed content to and appeared as speaker in the internal Sun training video on “Strategic Insights” for the field
• Contributed my material on identity/trust/privacy to the formal presentations for Liberty Alliance and recruited many members for the Alliance
• In 2005 recognition through Sun's “Chairman's Award for Innova­tion” with the Liberty Alliance team
• Promoted to Distinguished Marketing Director.

• Translated Sun's “Vision and Strategy” (V&S) messages for the Eu­ropean market following a request by the EMEA SVP
• Produced a training DVD on Sun V&S which was distributed to the Sun sales force in EMEA
• Compiled a team of 16 experienced speakers from 12 different countries, formed the “EMEA Vision Council” and led and managed the council 1999—2005
• Contributed to and worked with the global vision council (1998—2004)
• Gave over 200 keynotes and executive presentations
• Contributed to the use case scenarios and specification work for Federated Identity and recruited many members for the Liberty Al­liance.

• Introduced Java to Swiss customers, the market and media
• Evangelized Sun's vision, strategies, and technologies by delivering over 170 presentations to executive management at seminars, trade shows and conferences
• Led the system engineers (SE, pre-sales), held the weekly SE meetings
• Consulted customer management on strategic technology issues

• Re-railing and recovery of a large international database project
• Introduction and organization of a monthly informatics seminar
• Organization and Implementation of a “Software Producing Unit Maturity Assessment” (BOOTSTRAP)
• Introduction of a project-based (flat) organization for the department
• Co-author of “Roche Pharma Project Management Guidelines”
• Internationalization of a logistics project for the Galenics Group
• Introducing IT systems standards in the company

• Specifications of the detailed user requirements in AGRO Research.
• Database design for complete research information in AGRO.
• Contributed to the introduction of standard software (Unix, C, ksh; TEX for document generation; C-WEB for integrated documentation inside the code base)