Verodat

As a Data Advisor at Verodat, I specialise in delivering innovative AI-driven data solutions that transform how businesses operate and make decisions. With a passion for leveraging cutting-edge technology to solve complex problems, I help organisations harness the power of accurate and reliable data to fuel their AI initiatives.

At Verodat, we have developed a deep understanding of data supply chains and the critical role they play in the success of AI applications. My background includes a blend of technical expertise and strategic thinking, allowing me to bridge the gap between technology and business needs.
I work closely with clients to understand their unique challenges and provide tailored solutions that drive measurable results. I design and implement data strategies that ensure high-quality, accurate data for AI projects, enhancing performance and outcomes. I lead workshops and training sessions to empower teams with the knowledge and tools they need to succeed in a data-driven world.

I am always open to discussing how innovative data solutions can drive your business forward. Feel free to reach out to me for a conversation about your data challenges and goals. Let's explore how we can transform your data into a strategic asset for AI.

Executive Data Advisor

gather360

gather360 seamlessly sources, structures and optimises data, and connects it directly to the AI-enabled tooling of your choice. Deploy the right data to AI with gather360.

Senior Account Executive

Product Manager

Product Marketing Manager

Cassidy Travel

Managed the product strategy and development of websites for three travel companies; Cassidy Travel, Classic Resorts & Cassidy Golf. Identified usability issues and scoped features to improve. Created new features to enhance product experience. Managed all communications with an external team of developers overseeing Website Product Experience, Customer Journey, Marketing & Lead Assignment, Advertising, Branding, SEO & Web Content.

Defined new features and optimised performance. Improved usability, demonstrating notable improvements in conversion rates and on-page metrics.

Website Product Manager

Planned online marketing strategy & managed team to execute marketing activities.
Generated increase in online revenue and increase in PPC revenue

Online Marketing Manager

Web Summit

Planned & executed highly segmented email marketing & attendee fulfilment email campaigns for four global conferences. Worked with multiple teams to create a comprehensive communications strategy.

Head of Email Marketing

UKtoStay in the EU

Created a national (UK), grassroots and cross-party movement built to empower people who want to campaign for the UK to remain in the EU. Generated website content to secured 500,000+ impressions throughout the campaign and coordinate a volunteer network of 500 on the ground campaigners.

Co-Founder & Content Director

Google

Temporary Contract with Harvey Nash for Google Ireland Ltd.

Coordinate three EMEA wide Sales Training Programs for different areas of the Global Business Organisation. Developed program from pilot phase to global success & help project manage one of Google’s largest global training programs.

Training Coordinator

Temporary Contract with Harvey Nash for Google Ireland Ltd.

Coordinated interview schedules for a high volume of external and internal interview candidates.

Recruitment Coordinator

WDM Group

Publication editor, responsible for content planning, securing interviews, writing and editing content and liaising with designers to create final proof. Managed design, advertising and content team to publish monthly online issue to large subscriber base. 

Secured interviews with C-Level executives in major global logistics firms such as DHL, Pall-Ex, Maersk and others. Improved SEO performance of website.

Editor of Supply Chain Digital

Village People Magazines

Worked with the Editor in Chief on two publications, copy-editing articles, writing bespoke editorial and producing page plans. Researched new distribution areas for additional publications, contacting prospective advertisers.

Freelance Writer

The Medwire (Student Newspaper)

Co-founded and developed an independent online student news website and print magazine. Primarily responsible for sourcing, editing and uploading daily news stories, managing a team and developing the website to add more content, improve aesthetics and increase traffic.

Online Editor

Solar Essence

Team leader in a busy call centre, handling warm and cold leads to sell solar heating.

Profile Salesperson

If it takes ages to get the data you need, I'm here to help. 

I work with core business teams to design actionable reports that drive value. And deliver them fast (think weeks, not months). 

Say goodbye to over-complicated dashboards, massive Excel reports, or exporting data from systems. 

Get valuable dashboards or alerts, with the information you need, at the moment you need them.

We specialise in delivering forecasting solutions fast that grow with your business.

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Who do you work with? 

Think Evolve Solve has spent the past 10 years honing the workflow for delivering data projects. 

So much so, that we can deliver data projects faster than the competition. 

We've spent the past 5 years developing easy-to-use tools and frameworks that help non-technical people convert data into actionable information. 

We've supported business teams to:

→ Reduce data delivery time by 94%
→ Give 60% of time back to analysts
→ Upskill the board and business to work with data
→ Minimise data quality issues

Everyone should have the power to use data to make informed decisions, and our approach focuses on empowering teams to do just that. 

With a background in business and a knack for simplifying complex data concepts, I've helped business teams in multiple industries to unlock the potential of their data and drive growth and success.

If your data projects are taking too long, your business teams aren't getting the data they need, or your data quality is an unknown quantity, reach out to me, I love to chat :) 

Book a call - https://meetings-eu1.hubspot.com/copeland

Find out more - https://thinkevolvesolve.ie/

Ella Copeland

HCL Technologies B.V. Netherlands

Currently associated with Nestle, Switzerland/Global. Part of HCL’s Digital Consulting (Europe) practice – generating value with global organizations on their Digital transformation journeys…

Senior Solution Director

Feedback INFRA

Group CIO role - for all Feedback Infra subsidiaries - with operations across India, Middle East, Africa and South East Asia

Feedback Infra is a leading infrastructure services organization  - with extensive coverage across transportation, energy, real estate and social infrastructure.  Business value creation - through diversified business operations (advisory, project management, engineering; O&M services - tolling operations, electricity retailing, captive power plants, etc)

Develop Multi year Transformation roadmap, towards enabling Digital strategy - in alignment with Board and executive team

Key transformation pillars:  Set up secure Digital foundation - retire accumulated Technical debt, and develop cyber security framework (leveraging state of the art Zero trust architecture paradigm).  Setup Connected Digital Workplace model, with deep adoption across all subsidiaries - appreciated by senior business leadership/chairman

Revitalizing (Microsoft Dynamics AX) ERP. Involves: business process (P2P, O2C, R2R) standardization and roll out across all BU's, in concert with business -  towards generation of single source of truth (SSOT) and leverage for  project profitability

Rolled out, multiple Change management interventions.

Chief Information Officer (CIO)

Ramboll

Regional CIO role

Global role - working with team/s across Europe, Singapore and US.  Key member of the Global IT Leadership team  - along with  responsibility for India IT captive setup.  Accountability for Middle East & Asia geographies, within Global IT. Reporting to Global CIO (Denmark) and MEA MD, Dubai.  India and Middle East IT Heads/management report into this position

Develop and identify Digitization & Innovation transformation opportunities – with focus on identifying new business models.  Capability map / use cases - towards leveraging Drones for tower inspections, surveying, traffic monitoring, etc.  POC completed for Virtual Reality (VR/AR).  POC on Chatbots (RPA) in progress – for language translation capability/L1 call (automation)

Part of the team responsible for defining Group Digital (IT) strategy (2017-2020).  Steering committee member, Global IT Transformation (ITT) program.  Global BIM strategy development

Setup GIC (India captive) for India IT resources across verticals (IT Infra - Servers, SCCM, Networking, ITSM, Project Mgt, Sharepoint, Business Apps, etc). Develop One Team (engagement) plan: involving CSR activities, Hackathon, etc.  Act as bridge across Indian and European managers.  Setup team matrix structure balancing functional/local anchoring needs

Key member of the Global IT BRM Center of Excellence (CoE).  Certified BRM (BRMP) from APMG International, UK.  Lead BRM globally, for Smart Cities and IOT technologies

Setup India IT Board/Governance structure with representation across business BU’s/directors and Global IT stakeholders - to drive transparency and business-IT alignment

Manage MEA IT budgets.  Reduced IT costs : India (60%); Middle East (30%)


Ramboll (Danish multinational) is a leading global engineering, design and consultancy services company - employing close to 13,000 dedicated specialists worldwide in over 300 Offices across 35 countries

Global IT BRM - Middle East & Asia (MEA) Region  

PepsiCo India

BPA Lead.  Business leader/s engagement.  Demand management and solution delivery aligned with global and (AMEA) regional IT solutions/roadmap

Successful implementation of cloud based CRM solution (Wilke Thornton, Australia) and global PepsiCo HR Transformation program (Self Service - AON Hewitt/SAP Success Factors platform) as India IT Lead – involving teams based out of Australia, Middle East (Egypt, Lebanon, UAE) and US

Substantial cost savings / productivity gains - through transition of legacy BPM (Invensys) workflow application portfolio support to outsourced managed services model.  Migrated legacy intranet platform – to global collaboration (myPepsiCo) platform based on IBM Web sphere architecture

General Manager IT - Business Process Automation

Unilever Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore)

Global Consulting role - based out of Singapore

c/o Computer Science Corporation (CSC), US.  Active engagement in business case finalization, solution architecture development, conceptualization (POC) / delivery of multi million Euro / multi country SAP IS Retail (Next Gen Distributor Management) program across the region/globe – as part of the Business Innovation (Customer Development) team – working with senior business/IT stakeholders (global functional leads, country business leads / IT heads).  Enterprise mobility framework/solution and support delivery of analytics platform (iQ) across the region 

Role involved managing the application project portfolio, business case preparation, developing PMO/governance framework (based on Gartner’s Program Lifecycle), managing program budgets, risk management (risk register, risk matrix, etc), Change management and  partnering with global IT Program Leads for resolving IT dependencies across strategic IT Initiative/s (Global Cross Big Bet Forum)

CD IT PMO Manager - Asia, Africa, Central & Eastern Europe (AAC region)

Starbucks Coffee, Singapore

IT Head role, based out of Singapore

Part of the business leadership team, reporting to the Managing Director.  Active engagement with global, US IT teams.  Initiated the Cloud journey, with bespoke retail inventory solution (across stores)

Developed IT strategy and managed senior business leadership/stakeholders - delivering business goals, leveraging technology.  Managed IT operations - Budgets/AOP's, application portfolio support, managing outsourced vendors/partners (vendor liaising)

ERP Evaluation.  Detailed functionality evaluation of three solutions – SAP, Microsoft Navision, Sun system (Infor), as part of proposed IT plan for Starbucks India market entry 

Managed IT setup for 64 retail outlets and corporate office. Opened 22 new retail outlets.  Negotiated FMS contract and established SLA for IT support at retail outlets. Identified infrastructural gaps in the IT architecture and implemented upgradation plan

Setup IT organization structure – and defined team roles, responsibilities. Recruited IT team

Key Highlights: Developed 3yr IT strategy roadmap, using structured BSA methodology – which was presented and approved by the Asia Pac business leadership. Conceptualized & developed cloud based retail inventory solution (web 2.0 BPM framework) with multiple interfaces (retail POS, ERP, logistic systems) – alongwith DHL, Singapore. Implemented web based retail dashboard (mymicros) solution with deep linkages to Micros POS, for real time transactional data

IT Head

Yum! Restaurants International [Pizza Hut, KFC]

Regional IT Head role

Manage IT systems (infra,apps) ramp up, as market grew from 37 retail outlets to 150 Pizza Hut outlets across India region. Active Franchise Engagement – to manage, influence and support franchisee IT teams across India subcon region.  Part of the market launch/startup team – for Pizza Hut and A&W entry into Bangladesh

Define IT strategy (3yrs) for the business (Pizza Hut, KFC) – aligned with cross functional business team & franchisee leadership

IT Lead - KFC India Market entry. Project leader for deployment of Micros solution (KFC Brand) across retail outlets. Successful implementation within aggressive business timelines – involving extensive engagement with business stakeholders, global IT teams and vendor/partner, based out of Australia  

Deployment of bespoke data warehousing (MIS)/BI solution - led cross functional team, to identify business requirements and roll out with interfaces to third party systems

Developed call center strategy for Pizza Hut (Outsourced vs Owned, Distributed vs Centralized).  Led multiple stakeholders – call center management, application vendor & franchise IT teams to streamline call center operations (reduced ATT and improved calls/order ratio). Benchmarked with International Pizza Hut call centers in Korea, Australia

Detailed retail POS solution functionality evaluation & analysis. Solutions evaluated - Micros, Compris & Brainpower

Manage enterprise/corporate IT, office relocation, etc - Vendor Liaising and interfacing with global IT teams in Asia Pacific and US

IT Manager - YRI (India Subcontinent)

Honeywell International (India)

IT Head role for Metglas SBU.

Business Partnering.  Worked with departmental heads, to identify business (IT) priorities, pain points - and develop prioritized IT solutions portfolio, with timeline phasing.

Manage ERP Implementation, at Manufacturing Plant : (BaaN) ERP Version Upgrade, Multi site ERP Implementation - extended ERP implementation to other business units in US & corporate office for company wide consolidated reporting. Organized Value Discovery Workshop with Polaris to identify gaps/optimizations to unlock ERP business value – and develop a structured roadmap for the next three years

Vendor Liaising. Plan and execute roll out of Managed Services / Outsourcing Model.

Rolled out Bar Coding solution for sales dispatch process, with ERP integration

IT representative for Metglas Solutions as part of the Honeywell – GE  Integration team. Worked with GE (General Electric) Plastics, North America to develop application integration interface with Oracle Financials 

Leverage Six Sigma methodology (Green Belt trained) for improved process efficiency

Interim IT Head (pan India) for Honeywell India Corporate (6 months) – during GE integration phase.  Promoted within one year of joining.

Asst IT Manager

New Holland Tractors (India) -  [Fiat Group Company]

Learning (all) the technology ropes in a green field project, immersed with European stakeholders.

Joined Fiat Group, as Management Trainee through Campus Recruitment. Cross Functional Immersion.

Management training (on Fast track) onsite at Fiat's European offices/plants - for better understanding of Fiat management methodologies and deeper understanding of Manufacturing processes. Based out of Turin, Italy and Antwerp, Belgium (Manufacturing plant)

Core team member responsible for Planning / installation of IT Infrastructure for greenfield Manufacturing plant – Networking, Servers, Storage, etc

Implementation of Baan ERP Manufacturing package - with focus on SFC, QMS, Routing, BOM, MPS and MRP modules

Baan Tools & AIX administrator responsible for SQL queries, MIS reports , uptime availability and liasing with Baan Global support to resolve software bugs.  Database migration from Baanbase to Oracle RDBMS. Worked on Seagate Crystal Report Writer

Executive - Information Systems

Award winning business savvy technology professional with extensive multi industry transformation experience across – FMCG, Retail and Manufacturing

Having lived across geographies (Netherlands, Singapore) - Nitin is an institution builder and provides a practitioner's perspective towards effecting business value realization through technology mediated digital transformation/s

He has in depth experience across enterprise processes, Organization Change management, IT strategy road mapping, Cloud implementation, various ERP's, CRM and analytics roll out and setting up India (shared service) IT captive / GIC's

Across Nitin’s diversified business IT experience, he has worked with leading American and European multinational organizations : Fiat, Honeywell, Yum Brands (Pizza Hut, KFC), Starbucks Coffee, Computer Science Corporation (CSC), Unilever, PepsiCo and Ramboll – across global, Asia Pac and India sub con roles. He is an MBA with an engineering background - with multiple industry certifications across various IT domains- PMP, BRMP, ITIL and Agile framework/s.

Nitin also has diverse multi cultural exposure – having worked with C  level executives - across Europe, Middle East, US, South East Asia and Nordics.

Key programs handled include : Setup Digital Transformation roadmap (aligned with company Board/leadership), Implement Connected Digital Workplace, India IT Captive/GIC Setup, #Digital Strategy definition, #CRM rollout (Wilke Thornton), myHR transformation (Aon Hewitt/SAP Success factors platform), Deep Analytics (iQ, mymicros), KFC India market entry (Micros Fidelio), Next Gen Distributor Management Systems (#SAP IS retail), Customized Supply chain solutions (DHL), IT Governance setup, Business case development, multi site ERP rollout/s - with application interfaces, 3 yr strategy IT plan/roadmap for Starbucks).......

Specialties:

• Business #Consulting, Solution #Architecture, #Outsourcing and #Startup experience #Innovation #Platforms
• #Digitalization - #Transformation roadmap, #BI, Analytics, #CRM, #BIM Strategy, #AI, #Drones, #IOT, Immersive Computing (#AR / #VR), #Cloud leverage, #digitaltwins
• IT Mgmt – Business Partnering, #IT #Governance, Cost Optimization. Strategic IT road mapping, 
  #Franchise operations, #Regional & #Global role, #ERP Impln, #GIC Setup, Vendor Liaising
• #FMCG #Retail, #Manufacturing, #Energy, #Infrastructure #Digital.

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