EUROPE
Yan Beynon
Chief Digital Officer - RDC
Yan Beynon , 44-year-old Swiss born , has earned a Master in IT & Telecommunication and graduated from IMD Business School . In the first stage of his career , he led several large IT projects for market leaders such as : BMW , ICI , AT & T . In 2000 , he became Managing Director of Urbanet , the first European start-up offering high speed Internet over Cable TV . After a successful sales development and integration of Urbanet within UPC Group ( member of Liberty Global ), Beynon led the build of its customer services organisation for its newly created B2B segment , including : pre-sales , customer support , pmo and billing .
For the last 16 years , he specialised in transformational CIO and CDO roles with country , regional and global scope , has successfully driven innovation , revenue growth and lead major transformations in various industries ( telecommunications , government , manufacturing and logistics , Pharma and Medical devices ), such as :
IT realignment and digitalisation of a Swiss government ,
Transformed country based organisations into global shared service centers of a major airline catering and travel business ( Gate Group ),
Led the transformation of Hoffman-la-Roche France and Belgium IT and business functions ,
Drove the transformation of Hoffmann-la-Roche global IT shared service center ( 500 FTE ) in Madrid ,
Lead Roche Diabetes Care carving out and optimising a global medical devices business with presence in 100 + countries with 6,000 + employees ,
in a greenfield approach , lead design , implementation and run of a new global IT organization , new core systems and business processes to enable more autonomy , agility and deliver 170 + mio CHF yearly savings .
Yan is currently CDO and CIO , heading the digitalisation of Roche Diabetes Care aiming to create the leading Digital ecosystem in Diabetes management and generate top line growth by bringing to market new business models .