Soren Christoph Kessler

Director of Operations at regional level (Italy, Switzerland, Turkey, Greece, Israel) in the Shared Services Center of Publicis Groupe providing services to approx. 2.000 Employees. I lead an international team of more than 20 Professionals.

I lead the IT department at group level and I managed an international team of over 30 IT professionals. 7 Regional IT Managers were reporting directly to me. Key Responsibilities: • Definition of ICT policies and strategies • ICT Budget and Procurement • Strategic planning and realization of IT architectures and solutions • Collection of business requirements • Selection and worldwide introduction of new IT solutions • Program/ Project Management, coordination of multiple IT Projects

More than 10 years of experience advising on and managing large scale business change enabled by ERP (mainly SAP); Packages and systems selection, design and configuration managing as Program/ Project Manager the full Implementation lifecycle. I worked on multiple advisory projects for domestic and international clients.