Jiri Donat, Ph.D.

Current

CIO for Czech and Slovak operations at SODEXO (former SODEXHO)

Past

Associated Director at A.T. Kearney
Executive Teacher, MBA programs at University of Northern Virginia
Managing Consultant at Capgemini

Head of Corporate Strategy at Siemens
Senior Manager at Deloitte
Country General Manager at Nortel
Country General Manager, Czech Republic at Lotus Development
Senior Manager, Information Services at Unisys

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Education

Czech Technical University
Univerzita Karlova v Praze

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Industry

Management Consulting

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Jiri Donat, Ph.D.’s Summary

Multilingual internationally experienced business leader and visionary management consultant focused on telco, IT and other converging industry sectors.
20+ years’ experience.
Opinion former - columns and analyses in business and IT journals.
Frequent Chairman and speaker on conferences; teacher of MBA courses.
Author of three books (“E-business For Managers” - Grada 2000, a sci-fi novel "Stab in the back on the information superhighway" - Grada 2000 and "The ABCs of Entrepreneurship In The Web 2.0 Era" - Alfa 2007).

Jiri's life-time passion is creating visions and business scenarios for commercial sectors that are impacted by discontinuous innovation caused by information and communication technologies.

Can be contacted on: +420 606 655 988 or on Skype: jiridonat.
Blog: http://jdonat.blogspot.com/

Jiri Donat, Ph.D.’s Specialties:

Functional:
• Business strategy
• Strategic BPO
• Organizational design and change management

Industry:
• Telecommunications & Media
• High Tech & Electronics
• Financial institutions
• Utilities

Specialization:
Developments in information and communication technologies and their consequences to human society and business, including transformation of various business sectors into new converging industries ("e-business").

Jiri Donat, Ph.D.’s Experience

CIO for Czech and Slovak operations

SODEXO (former SODEXHO)

(Public Company; Facilities Services industry)

December 2009 — Present (1 month)

Managing IT operations at Czech and Slovak markets of world's leader in On-site Service Solutions and Motivation Solutions
Associated Director

A.T. Kearney

(Partnership; Management Consulting industry)

February 2007 — November 2009 (2 years 10 months)

Associated Director with the CHT (Communications and High-Tech) practice. Focus on strategy consulting in Telecommunications and on IT Transformation projects. Projects include strategy consulting for telcos in India and Saudi Arabia, strategy consulting for Egyptian government and multiple IT transformation projects across Europe.
Executive Teacher, MBA programs

University of Northern Virginia

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2005 — November 2009 (4 years )

Lecturing eBusiness, IT management and Corporate Strategy courses in Prague and Beijing.
Managing Consultant

Capgemini

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CAPMF.PK; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2006 — January 2007 (10 months)

Managing international projects and developing the company offerings along IT/Telco Strategy. Lecturing at Capgemini Transformation Consulting Winter University.
Head of Corporate Strategy

Siemens

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SI; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

January 2003 — July 2005 (2 years 7 months)

Mapping and optimizing corporate HR processes; designing and implementing the Management Information System.
Senior Manager

Deloitte

(Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Management Consulting industry)

January 1999 — November 2001 (2 years 11 months)

Manager, since September 2000 Senior Manager, Management Consulting.
Leader of the E-Business Group.

Built an expert image for Deloitte & Touche Central Europe in the area of e-Business. Consulted a variety of internet-related and banking projects. Regularly chaired business conferences on ebusiness, banking, and finance.
Country General Manager

Nortel

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NT; Telecommunications industry)

1997 — 1998 (1 year )

Directed all P&L and financial functions in Czech Republic, staff of 6.
Country General Manager, Czech Republic

Lotus Development

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

1996 — 1997 (1 year )

Built the subsidiary from ground up and grew the business by 64% in one year.
Senior Manager, Information Services

Unisys

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; UIS; Information Technology and Services industry)

1994 — 1995 (1 year )

Successful Bid Management of one of the biggest project in the Czech market

Jiri Donat, Ph.D.’s Education

Czech Technical University

Ph.D. , Computer Science , September 1998 — April 2005

Dissertation subject: Method of Continual Monitoring of EEG Spectral Bands. Published in Journal "Neurologie pro praxi", 2005.

Activities and Societies:

The Gaudium Praha Mixed Choir
Univerzita Karlova v Praze

MSc. , Mathematics (MFF UK) , 1982 — 1987