Nov 2020 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Evangelizing Aera's brand and products through keynote speaking, customer engagements, social media campaigns, influencers collaboration, articles, blogs, webinars/podcasts, books, videos, client workshops and whitepapers
• Brand ambassador and thought leader, I champion the story of Aera. My focus is on expanding opportunities, building credibility, inspiring, and educating. I deliver this through a wide range of initiatives including event speaking, customer engagements, social media campaigns, articles, blogs, webinars/podcasts, books, videos, and whitepapers.
• Aera is the first Cloud Platform to support, augment and automate business decisions. Pioneer in Decision Intelligence, Aera combines the most cutting-edge technologies to understand how your business works, predict outcomes, make real-time decisions recommendations, and execute them autonomously

Oct 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 5 mos

• ● I inspire companies and people with my keynotes about innovation, technology, and people
• ● I give a voice to game-changing products, services, and events through my articles, white papers, webinars, and podcasts
• ● And I create engagement and visibility by making them shine on social media!
• >> More here: www.pascalbornet.com

Jun 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 9 mos

• Forbes Technology Council is an invitation-only community for world-class CIOs, CTOs, and technology executives. Members are vetted and selected by a review committee based on the depth and diversity of their experience. Criteria for acceptance include a track record of successfully impacting business growth metrics, as well as personal and professional achievements and honors.

Aug 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos

Dec 2017 – Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Asia Pacific

• As a leader of the McKinsey Digital Labs, I am the founder and leader of the AI and Automation service line: a multi-disciplinary team delivering high impact to clients through innovation, research, strategic partnerships & investments, and cutting-edge product & solution developments. In this context, over the last 3 years, I generated USD 250M+ business impact. Key components are:
• Innovation, product and solution development: creation and management of a portfolio of distinctive cutting-edge solutions, technologies and IP leveraging Automation, Digital, and Advanced analytics. This portfolio, generated through deep tech innovation management & investment, product development and strategic alliance creation, aims at enabling successful implementations at scale and creating a clear competitive advantage.
• Multi-disciplinary team building: building and supervision of multi-competency teams including data scientists, data engineers, developers, system architects, experts, designers and business analysts. Our team won the McKinsey innovation competition in 2018 (New Ventures Competition).
• Strategic Partnerships: Development of partnerships and investment strategies with innovative startups, IT implementation service companies, consulting and technology partners. These partnerships have enabled to spearhead multi-partner original business solutions and complex client transformations at the crossroads of several industries, accelerating companies’ competitive advantage & growth.
• High impact client project delivery: advisory to our client’s CEOs on designing and implementing their vision, transformation & technology road-maps, business cases, and building their Teams. Designed and led sustainable transformations through multi-site global teams, delivering sustainable transformations.
• Thought leadership: regular articles publications, keynotes and speech deliveries on AI, Automation, Analytics, and the Future of Work.

Jul 2017 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Jun 2014 – Dec 2017 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• Founder and head of the EY Asia Pacific Automation and AI Center of Excellence: delivered USD 14M projects over the last two years; built a team of 200+ people across 12 countries, deploying Automation projects.
• I also played a key role leading some of the largest Intelligent Automation client projects in the region, including:
• Global Automation project for a large institution: involving strategy, planning and transition activities for transferring 600+ FTEs towards digital workforce, and global/regional SSCs. Project has generated 25%+ cost savings and significantly improved process quality, and customer experience. I led the set-up and alignment of Management's expectations through the design of the overall Automation strategy, business case and the creation of the 3-year deployment road-map. Led regular steering committees to monitor Management's expectations, and to report on project performance. Supervised the vendor selection, and the deployment of 400+ robots and applications including process assessments, processes redesign, digital workforce estimation, RPA robots configuration, change management and training. Supported the design and set-up of the client’s internal Automation center of excellence and governance for sustaining benefits.
• Cognitive Automation: through the use of natural language processing and machine learning technologies, this project has allowed to redeploy to higher value activities the 23 people who used to key in manually the 400,000 paper based invoices received annually by a manufacturing company from 500+ different vendors (unstructured data).
• Intelligent Chatbots: automation of help desks for HR, IT, quality and legal departments. Project phase 1 freed up 20% of the employees’ workload through the implementation of Intelligent Chatbot answering the first level of questions from users. Project phase 2 has increased the impact in FTE savings by integrating the intelligent chatbot with RPA, increasing the scope of services.

Jul 2010 – Jun 2014 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Helped Multinational Companies improve their back office functions (finance, HR, procurement, and customer service) to support their growth in Asia:
• SSC, GBS, Robotic Process Automation and Outsourcing Projects for back office functions (design, implementation and optimization) involving planning and transition activities for moving 20 to 300+ people transactional teams toward outsourcing and global/regional shared services.
• Back office strategy and operating model design: led location selections; designed process split; designed and sized the target organizations; estimated efficiency savings; led opportunity assessments for RPA.
• Designed and implemented Business Partnering and Centers of Excellence
• Project change management: led stakeholders’ management, change impact assessments, training and communication plans.

Aug 2008 – Jul 2010 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Assisted French and International clients on Finance Performance Management, management of finance transformation projects:
• Financial processes optimization (accounting, planning, budgeting/reporting and consolidation) - Focus on quality improvement, costs optimization and closing cycle time reduction
• Organization of Finance departments, resources and skills planning
• Business performance management: design of dashboards, Key Performance Indicators…
• Shared services for finance function
• Post merger and acquisition integration programs
• Implementation of Business Performance Management systems, creation of dashboards, definition of Key Performance Indicators
• Cost reduction programs

Sep 2007 – Aug 2008 · 11 mos

• Supported Ernst & Young audit teams in their review activities, specifically related to financial reporting and statutory consolidation (subject matter expert):
• Audit of consolidated statements under IFRS
• Analysis and assessments of risks and controls on financial reporting processes and systems.
• Audit of financial systems and projects
• SOX implementation and reviews
• Audit and internal control over financial processes

Aug 2004 – Aug 2007 · 3 yrs

• Assisted a large client in the Telecommunication industry, head quartered in Middle East, with the following activities:
• Design and implementation of finance ERP for budgeting and financial statutory consolidation
• Implementation of IFRS
• Closing cycle reduction project
• Assistance to finance reporting and consolidation activities
• Group Chart of Accounts design and procedures set up
• Implementation of Business Performance Management system, creation of dashboards, definition of Key Performance Indicators

Jul 2001 – Jul 2004 · 3 yrs

• Responsible for financial control and management reporting on subsidiaries: Franprix/Leader Price, Monoprix and Disco (Uruguay). Reviews of financial planning, budget and actual. Driving of the financial and business performance, forecasts and variance analysis. Reporting of the monthly dashboard to the Board of Directors
• Involved in the following projects:
• Design and implementation of the new financial reporting system (unified for management reporting and consolidation): Hyperion Financial Management (HFM)
• IFRS implementation, Group Chart of Accounts design and Group accounting procedures set up

Aug 1999 – Jul 2001 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Design and implementation of the Management Information System
• Costs, profitability and business analyses. Management control over Human Resources function