Tony Almeida's Linkedin Analytics

I am a seasoned BFSI Client Partner, Market Maker, and Practice Revenue Growth leader with 25+ years of experience. I have developed and grew both new and existing global practices through successful go to market efforts leading multi-disciplinary teams to propose, sell, and deliver $2+ billion of capital investments. These successes included new and existing logos of Global 1000 firms in 11 countries (USA, Canada, England, Portugal, Spain, England, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Japan, Austria). My IP Value Creation and People leadership have been paramount to my success, often engaging in Conferences, Forums, Publications, Market Analysts presentations and informal CxO conversations. Some of my core successes include: - The creation and execution of the Strategy and Go to Market plans for 4 business units as well as helping clients in their strategy roadmap plans of their innovation journeys. - The creation of a "2024-25 BFSI CxO Transformation & Innovation Priorities" a primer for a strategic go to market playbook. - I pioneered the Predictive Analytics BU in 2006 with solutions for BFSI, Manufacturing, CPG, and High-Tech, well ahead of the market adoption. - Member of major global consultancy BFSI Analytics CEO Advisory 5-year strategy plan. - Proposing and selling an average of $100M+/yr for Consulting/Advisory, Systems Integration (Agile/SDLC, AppDev/DevOps, DataOps, MLOps), and Managed Services (AO, BPO). As a Global BFSI Strategic Transformation Client Partner I have led as many as 350 people, 8 direct reports across 4 continents, and budgets from $5M to $100M+. My market making success results from linking my industry expertise to digital enterprise solutions leveraging design thinking and process intelligence to implement emerging technologies across the value chain: Product Innovation, Pricing, Regulatory & Legal, Underwriting, Sales & Distribution, Customer Services. These solutions and services, whether custom, accelerators, or offerings, were often in partnership with product vendors for: Cloud, Digital, Analytics, Applied AI (ML/GenAI/RPA/NPL/AR-VR). These successfully delivered transformative solutions and services addressed: - Systems of Engagement: Digital and Cognitive Solutions for operational optimization and gain share. - Core Systems: Billing, CRM/Sales, Product, G/L, and Application Rationalization/Modernization across the BFSI value chain. - Support Systems: Analytics & Insights to enable Customer Profitability Improvement, Product Innovation, Pricing. - Back-Office: Shared Services, including HR, Finance, and Operations.