Syed Abbas

Chief Information Officer for multiple business segments, with a cumulative revenue of $8B. Responsible for all Digital and IT initiatives to support Corning's product lines of Display Technologies, Automotive Technologies, Life Sciences, Mobile Consumer Electronics (Gorilla Glass) and Solar. Leading company wide transformation programs and global teams across APAC, EMEA and North America regions.

Global responsibility for BD’s data management function. Leading teams of technologists, data professionals and process experts to help improve the quality of BD's data and reliability of high impact business analytics. Driving key business initiatives around inventory health, margin improvements, and regulatory compliance to faciliate BD's vision of advancing healthcare.

• Recipient of Honeywell Chairman Award 2019 for driving inventory optimization through data & process excellence • Reported into the Business Transformation Leader, with global responsibility for process improvement, automation, data, and analytics across Honeywell's $10B Performance Materials & Technologies (PMT) business that designs and manufactures high-purity, high-quality performance chemicals and materials and software-based systems. • Established a full-fledged master data management practice in one of Honeywell's four key business units, in less than 12 months. Set up master data platforms and partnered with Commercial Excellence, Supply Chain and Working Capital teams to deliver multimillion business value initiatives across the areas of working capital, inventory reduction and productivity. • Drove organizational transformation by centralizing disparate data organizations under respective functional leaders, championing talent upgrades and driving focused training and education campaigns. • Implemented Enterprise data governance and data quality platforms and drove their usage and adoption through leadership visibility and change management. • Drove $60M of business value across 3 years through various data and process improvement initiatives focused on margin improvement, inventory cost reduction, pricing efficiencies (inflation pass-through), touchless order processing and better dispute/claims management handling.

• Led digital transformation and strategic initiatives for several key functional areas within Schlumberger, including design, build and delivery of digital products, automation services (BPM, ODM, RPA), software platforms, mobility solutions, and UI/UX and AI solutions. • Built the data delivery team and set up governance model to cleanse, construct and convert data for SAP implementation across Schlumberger. Delivered data governance and data quality platforms and strategies. • Conducted audits and drove process transformation across all North America sites and operations to assess process, systems and change readiness for IT Transformation. • Established and led the Automation COE for Schlumberger, focused on transforming organization’s capability to make faster decisions (Business Process Management), and execute on them (RPA).

A $100M boutique consulting company, specialising in process re-engineering & business transformation • Established a management consulting arm for an IT Services client, which provided IT solutions and services to Fortune 500 organisations across Manufacturing, Healthcare, Oil & Gas and Consumer Products industries. • Acted as a strategic thought-partner to C-level executives from companies that are market leaders in the Home Improvement, Oil & Gas, Food Services, Retail, Health & Beauty Products industries. • Oversaw the end-to-end growth strategy for the company and helped deliver several strategic process re-engineering and business transformation initiatives in the areas of transportation management, warehouse management, change management, HR systems management, business process management, and overall organisational growth and development.

Responsible for IT Programs and Operations across ERP, CRM and Mergers & Acquisitions for a $2B manufacturer of diagnostic imaging agents. Led digital initiatives including implementation of cloud-based CRM platform (Salesforce.com), customer portals and ecommerce solutions. Led global ERP Simplification strategy across 22 global sites, 6-8 different legacy ERP platforms and several thousand users. Transitioned to be the CIO for the business, reporting to Global Healthcare CIO/GE Officer. Led overall global IT organization and operating budget of $140M.

Managed Oracle ERP & Business Intelligence implementations for a highly dynamic $3B P&L within GE Energy Infrastructure.

Managed IT operations for a landscape of 15-18 applications including Oracle ERP, data-warehouse & customer facing web-applications for a $3B global distributor & supplier of Parts & Equipment. Led company-wide initiatives to reduce total cost of ownership across the application portfolio, by stabilizing support operations, optimizing infrastructure & implementing automated tools. Provided leadership to all other IT Operations teams across GE to drive towards common standards of application availability & performance, infrastructure optimization and reduced cost of ownership. Managed strategic vendor alliances and partnerships for support of all IT applications. Reported to Company CIO.

Led Operations across all Oracle & SAP ERP platforms for a COE (Center of Excellence) that supported a $10B + GE Energy Services business, including field services, distribution, repairs and contractual services sub-businesses.

Six Sigma Black-Belt, responsible for driving improvements in performance & availability of IT applications, managing data-warehouse environments and supporting connectivity to remote customer sites.