Karl-Heinz Schulte-Interim Executive | Board Member for IT, Digital, AI, and Transformation
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Experience
CIO
- CIO at nutrition R&D and producer (family owned)
Strengthened IT Team, recovered IT service, reviewed and streamlined complex SAP landscape, reviewed IT security set-up, reviewed laboratory IT
Co-CIO
- Co-CIO at Biotech / CRO group (Nasdaq listed)
Diagnostic of the complete IT delivery and security set-up. Developed an overarching Target Operating Model, covering traditional IT, newly established data business, Artificial Intelligence - in-silico research and steering approach. Covered cost-cutting ambition and investment needs on the AI side.
CIO Sparring & PE Shareholder Advisory
- CIO Sparring & Private Equity shareholder Advisory
Task: Part time sparring and safeguarding, at previous placement to ensure that CIO successor copes with delivery and shareholder management
Lecturer for IT and Cybersecurity for Supervisory Board Members
- Lecturer for IT and Cybersecurity at Steinbeis Augsburg Business School for Advisory & Supervisory Board members: Enabling board members for the digital journey.
CIO & Board Member
CIO & Board Member at leading Laboratory group
- Private equity consortium of Goldman Sachs / Omers / Axa
- German critical infrastructure (KRITIS)
- Task: Re-build business oriented IT function, major invest of 44m€ in modern IT,
- automate industrial labs, build new LIS, introduce SAP S4/H, new outsourcing deal,
- build cyber security and recover from attack.. Close collaboration with PE.
- Size: 600m€ revenue / 4.500 employees / 100 sites / 4 countries
- In direct leadership 150 internal & 100 external employees & partners
CIO
- CIO at Biotech group (Nasdaq listed)
Task: Join 3 IT teams post-merger, agilize IT, professionalize IT, new sourcing deal. Size: 300m€ revenue / 1.800 employees / Boston & Munich In direct leadership 45 internal & 20 external employees & partners
CDO
- CDO at midsized tool manufacturer (family owned)
Task: Review IT TOM, cost review, industry 4.0, challenge e-commerce and digital business models. Sparring for owners and management board. Size: 260m€ revenue / 1.200 employees / GER, US, A In direct leadership 25 internal & 10 indirect in US
Board Advisory
- Board Advisory: Digitize business model (family office)
Reshaped the Business model of a heavy manual / people business into a digital backbone business, incl the core of the required IT TOM.
CIO Advisory
CIO: Carve-out of BU recycling (PE fonds)
CIO Advisory: IT procurement optimization
CIO Advisory: Sourcing and Vendor Mgmt
Digital Advisory Board Member
- We drive and shape digitalization in German supervisory boards.
CIO/CDO
- CIO/CDO at Gas Storage group (CAC40 listed)
International gas storage group, part of a French blue-chip energy group German critical infrastructure (KRITIS) Task: Calm and support the IT team, stabilize IT delivery, including security, work with global headquarters and audit.. Size: 800 m€ revenue / 1,000 employees / GER, UK, FR Direct leadership of 25 internal employees & broadly sourced IT steering
CIO Advisory
- CIO Advisory: IT-TOM Design
Global Director IT Resource Management
- Global IT function of the E.ON group > 1 billion Euro IT budget*
Lead of global IT resources, incl. more than 1,700 external experts and offshore centers in several Indian locations with several hundred experts, one offshore center in Vietnam, and nearshore centers in Slovakia and Hungary
Integration Manager IT: Mergers & Acquisitions
M&A deals and carve-outs worldwide
Head of IT: Change & Transformation
Lead of all global Transformation Program initiatives of a global DAX group with more than 170 FTE in the Program and financial scope of 144m€
Head of IT: New Regions
Head of an IT Integration Unit to integrate newly acquired countries into the global group.
Head of the subsidiaries in
- Italy
- Spain
- Bulgaria
- Romania
- Sweden
Manager Corporate Development
Shaped the future set-up of the IT in a global group, IT Strategy TOM design Sourcing Review
Member of International & German Board: Business Development Manager
- Inhouse consultancy, grew from start-up to SME with staff of 250 in GER, 740 globally*
Member of German Board: Head of Process Consulting Division
Consulting services for Airbus, particularly the engineering and manufacturing of the A380 aircraft
Consultant: Public Sector (e.g. Police Lower Saxony, Landtag NRW)
IT consulting for public sector clients
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Experienced in Utilities, Professional Services, Aerospace and Defense, Energy, Manufacturing, and Education.
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Experienced in Information Technology, Strategy, Project Management, Operations, Procurement, and Sales.
Summary
Recognized international Executive and Leader of people with experience across full IT lifecycle from strategy and governance to cybersecurity, global delivery and projects. A trusted partner in transformation and driving change towards digital excellence and artificial intelligence. A powerful catalyst in target realization, resolute and persistent.
Engaged leadership style, demonstrating strong personal drive, behaviors and values. Experience from global CIO, Managing Director, to global Director in a DAX group. Appreciates Private Equity, family offices, corporate and midsized environments.
Proven track record in pushing for value-driven digitalization of business and delivering sustainable multi-million efficiencies, data intelligence and quality improvements, including outsourcing and best-shoring. Design and adjustment of IT structures, enabling agility, future readiness and business intimacy. Realized several sensitive M&A and carve-out programs globally.
Accomplished designer of digital advisory boards, lecturer and author in this segment, enrichment for your advisory board or supervisory board on its way to cybersecure digitization.
Skills
- It Management & Governance
- Cybersecurity
- Kritis
- Digitalization & Innovation
- Change & Transformation
- Cloudification
- Artificial Intelligence / Ai
- Agility & Scrum
- Program Management
- M&A / Integration
- Sap / Non-Sap
- Nearshore / Offshore
- Sourcing & Vendor Management
- Digital Adoption
- Digital Advisory For Boards
- Supervisory Board Membership
- Author
- Lecturer
Languages
Education
Boston University
Micro Master Digital Leadership · Digital Leadership
Nordakademie
Executive MBA · International Marketing / Business Communication · Elmshorn, Germany
University of Dortmund
University Degree in Information Technology · Software Engineering · Dortmund, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Scrum Master Qualification
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