Verifiable track record

32 years of leadership and architecture

Case-study clients are not named for confidentiality; roles, dates and employers are verifiable.

Founder

Since November 2026

TAIARO (registration November 2026) Current position

Independent advisory practice for Boards, CIOs and Private Equity funds, following 32 years of operational experience in-house and in consulting.

Partner & Associate Director, Specialized Financing & AI

May 2024 – October 2026

Teamwill Consulting | E-flo Connect

Strategic mandate with a major automotive industrial group (€1.5M, €8M multi-country potential): AI business accelerators adopted at executive level.

Chief Technology & Innovation Officer

May 2022 – April 2024

Capgemini Financial Services

Created the CTO Office of Capgemini Financial Services in France; turned the key-account Account Architects into Account CTOs. Development of a major global bank account: C-suite relationship, +10% additional revenue over 2 years.

Digital Advisory Director, Chief Architecture Officer, Executive Committee Member

May 2019 – April 2022

Ippon Technologies

Founded an architecture advisory practice, profitable within 3 months (30 consultants).

Advisory Practice Director, Management Committee Member

August 2017 – April 2019

Margo Consulting

Advisory practice with full P&L ownership: €0 → €1M revenue in 12 months. Open banking / BaaS program for Franfinance (Société Générale group).

Financial Services Director

March 2013 – July 2017

OCTO Technology

Grew the BNP Paribas account ×7 in 3 years. BNP Paribas group IT overhaul plan (€150M) validated with the Deputy CEO. AlphaCredit master plan (2015) and BNP Paribas Personal Finance group rationalisation plan (2016-2017), as mission director, with a team of architects, tech leads and agile coaches.

Enterprise Architect, Financial Services

March 2000 – July 2012

Capgemini

Core banking transformation for BNP Paribas, Société Générale, Barclays, Nomura, Natixis.

Founder of an IT services firm & a construction company · Advisor to the Minister of Education

1994 – 2000

Lebanon — Entrepreneurship & Public Advisory

Founded and ran an IT services company and a construction company. Advisor to the Minister of National Education.

Case studies

Three experiences, with no figure claimed. Clients are not named for confidentiality.

2022 Technology review during a fintech acquisition

Capgemini Financial Services · Account CTO

Full analysis of a fintech, in seven days, for a large bank

Situation: A large bank was acquiring a fintech. The acquirer is a bank, not a Private Equity fund; the real state of the target had to be measured.
Action: I carried out the full analysis of the target in seven days.
Outcome: Red flags and a dependency on the founders were identified. Follow-up: reconfiguration of the application-maintenance (TMA) team.

2020 – 2021 Architecture advisory, turned into transformation advisory

Ippon · team of three: myself and two IS architects

Taking over a core-business transformation programme

Situation: An architecture advisory engagement for an international perfumery and flavours group undertaking the transformation of its core business. A "big bang" option, based on a new architecture and a new technology, was on the table.
Action: I judged this option costly and unwise. With my team I applied a strategy of rationalising and progressively running down the existing estate, and I brought digital transformation in its business meaning, not its technology meaning, for the whole company and not only the IT teams.
Outcome: The client came to understand what digital transformation had to involve, and what had not been approached the right way. The architecture engagement became an advisory engagement.

2022 – Q1 2023 Programme recovery

Capgemini Financial Services · Account CTO

Recovery of a multi-country programme at a subsidiary of a large European banking group

Situation: A programme in difficulty, delivered by several vendor teams.
Action: Strategy reset, programme put back on track and business-IT alignment, built on a relationship of trust with the client's CIO.
Outcome: A programme put back on track.

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