Jan Gravesen

Experience

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  PwC

  Jan 1997 - Jan 2001

  Principal Consultant

  Hired from BMC Software into PWC’s Technology Management practice. Substantial experience performing due diligence consulting and independent validation and verification of large-scale IT projects. Led PWC’s IT Management Practice in Denmark, working with public agencies and private companies on the development of digital transformation programs, optimizing IT Service Management, and CIO Advisory management. Responsible for designing, planning and performing several very large scale (VLS) technology projects and digital transformation programs for public and private organizations, including procurement and selection, vendor management, technology assessment and selection, vendor negotiations, risk assessment and management, feasibility analysis, enterprise architecture, and IV&V. Clients included LM Ericsson, Copenhagen Municipal Region, biotech firm H. Lundbeck, international services giant ISS, Post Denmark, Government of Denmark’s Tax and Revenue Service, Government of Denmark’s Statistics Agency, Government of Denmark’s Department of Labor. Show less

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  Gartner

  Jan 2001 - Feb 2002

  Director

  Hired from PWC to start up Gartner Consulting in Denmark. Business development to build new client base for Gartner Consulting and delivering advisory CxO engagement. Built client base with marquee clients such as Novo Nordisk and Astra Zeneca, biotech firms Genmab and Lundbeck, Government of Denmark’s Companies and Commerce Agency, Government of Denmark’s Digital Task Force, Scandinavian Airlines, Danish Rail Services, and several Danish banking groups. Responsible for designing, planning and performing several very large scale (VLS) technology projects and digital transformation programs for public and private organizations, including program design, technical roadmap, runway management, procurement and selection, vendor management, vendor negotiations, risk assessment and management, feasibility analysis, and IV&V. Gartner 100 Percent Club recipient. Show less

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  A.P. Moller - Maersk

  Feb 2002 - Jan 2005

  Principal

  Hired from Gartner to start up a new management consulting firm under the Maersk brand, Maersk MPROVE, specializing in digital reinvention and organizational IT management for the Maersk Group and for international transportation companies. Responsible for developing white space accounts and projects under the Maersk Group, its overseas business units, and for its business partners. Sold and led innovation projects for APM Terminals (global technology strategy, and global ERP implementation), Maersk Logistics (global technology strategy), Maersk Line (business strategy and the $500M divestiture project of the Maersk Data Group to IBM). Led the M&A planning of Maersk Line’s acquisition of UK-shipper P&O Nedlloyd, resulting in the world’s largest container shipping line. Led the Maersk Data Group’s enterprise architecture project – comprising shared services across 20 operating units with 3,500 employees. Led the Maersk Group’s NXT Project, an advanced scenario planning exercise to study outcomes from a divestiture of the Maersk Data Group from the Maersk Group, leading to the $500M acquisition of the Maersk Data Group by IBM in 2005. Show less

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  IBM

  Jan 2005 - now

  CTO for IBM's engagement with State of California. Concurrently, CTO for IBM’s CA-MMIS program that manages California’s $75 billion Medi-Cal program for 15 million beneficiaries and 160.000 healthcare providers. Qualifications and Experience:Building, leading, transforming and mentoring large technical teams with 300+ technical architects, site reliability engineers and software engineers, practicing Agile and CMMI-compliant software development activities. Defining and implementing organizational and cultural frameworks that stimulate technical team growth, team innovation, and sustained personal/professional development. Crafting impactful digital strategy and transformational change programs, and managing product lifecycles.Implementing enterprise-wide Autonomic Transformation, sustained by agile governance, across development, security and operations. Leading transformation from waterfall and classical CMMI to DevSecOps culture. Building and leading enterprise-scale CTO offices. Leading large-scale public procurements and comprehensive technical bids (ranging from $50M up to $1B), governing solution architecture, leading negotiations, managing business partners, and synthesizing multiple technologies and business lines/business partners to deliver compelling digital transformation. Developing large outsourcing programs, assessing and selecting outsourcing partners, and managing technical governance in outsourcing programsRemediating and revitalizing stalled or derailed technology programs and projects.Building and managing Design Authorities for large-scale delivery programs. Show less Established and led IBM’s Cloud Application Innovation (CAI) Services across the four Nordic countries, managing 250+ systems architects, PMs and systems engineers. Responsible for managing P&L and for growing Revenue and Gross Profitability (GP) through targeted growth plays. Grew CAI Services Revenues 55% and GP from 10% over two years. Grew SOA project revenues from 0 to $50M. Led significant practice growth with organizations such as Nokia, Danish Medicines Agency, Danish Defense, Danish Tax and Revenue Services, managing a portfolio of 100 concurrent CAI projects across Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland. Responsible for leveraging and integrating IBM global delivery services from the Baltics, Romania and India into CAI projects in Scandinavia. Designed and built multiple large-scale outsourcing programs, leveraging innovation centers, global delivery resource centers, and IBM practice organizations. Show less Responsible for building growth and develop ‘white space’ opportunity across the Maersk Group, bringing in IBM Research’s On Demand Innovation Services (ODIS) and IBM Cloud Application Innovation (CAI) services. Engaged IBM Research Mathematical Sciences Department on Maersk Line’s global route optimization problem, IBM Research’s Common Integration Core on Maersk Oil’s upstream oil exploration and cross-disciplinary collaboration, and with IBM Research Zurich on developing secure container lanes for Maersk Line. Developed a digital transformation strategy for Maersk Line, leading to a $6M engagement for IBM Cloud Application Innovation services and IBM iX. Led the business development of the $12M strategic outsourcing deal of Maersk Drilling to IBM. Show less

  • IBM Account Technology Director | IBM Distinguished Engineer

    Jan 2022 - now

  • IBM Field-CTO | IBM Distinguished Engineer

    Jul 2010 - Jan 2022

  • IBM Associate Partner | Cloud Application Innovation (CAI) Practice Leader

    Jun 2007 - Jul 2010

  • IBM Executive Consultant

    Jan 2005 - Jun 2007