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• CIO Saab AB since 2010
• Previous: Chief of Staff Aerosystems Saab AB 2007-2010
• 2015 CIO of the Year.
• Saab Group is a Swedish aerospace and defense company, founded in 1937. From 1947 to 1990 it was the parent company of automobile manufacturer Saab Automobile.

Saab CIO Mats Hultin says be open, flexible and agile – or die / Computer weekly

His biggest task is to ensure Business Value from IT, Integrating 40 separate IT organisations into one. "Saab is very much an IT company in itself. We already have a lot of IT in our products. It is important to take full advantage of our internal IT and make it interact with IT in our products and solutions." says Mats Hultin.

"The challenge for the IT organization at Saab is to cope with as much as we need to do. Saab markets 400 different products, ranging from a defense system like Gripen - which consists of 2,000 integrated products - to software, simply as part of security solutions. As an IT organization, you must be able to support both development department, sales department, production, integration with partners in different countries - and our biggest challenge is to do it in an agile and efficient manner as the business requires. "

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Savinay leads Cloud Services and strategy for OpenText. As part of this, his team is responsible for commercializing and productizing all the cloud offerings. In addition, he leads the GTM for all SaaS applications across the company. Prior to joining Opentext, Savinay led Product Management for EMC's content division and was responsible for the Documentum and LEAP family of products. Savinay holds a Bachelors and Masters degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and an MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

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Amy Perry is the Director of Product Marketing for fax and secure messaging solutions with OpenText Business Network. Her 20 year career has crossed between Product Management and Product Marketing in the CPG and software industries.

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Chirag Patel is a Senior Solutions Consultant at OpenText, where he is EMEA Technical Lead for the Magellan product, which offers machine learning and AI-enabled insights for business users. In addition to his 15 years of business experience, Chirag has a background in mathematics and statistics. His industry specializations include the Energy, Technology and Financial sectors. Chirag's passion is using technology to diagnose issues, drive efficiencies, and digitally transform organisations.

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Based in Washington, DC, Jaleel is an Industry Strategist at OpenText. He brings many years of experience working with and for a diverse set of global organizations, including pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, universities and hospitals, non-profit organizations, and governmental research agencies. As a cancer researcher at Bayer, Jaleel worked on the discovery team for Nexavar, an FDA-approved therapy for renal cell carcinoma. He also defined and marketed technology solutions to the life sciences sector while at Cellomics, GE Healthcare, PBL Assay Science, and ATCC. Jaleel is a Six Sigma Green Belt, and a member of the Drug Information Association, Parenteral Drug Association, International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers, and the Editorial Board of the American Pharmaceutical Review. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Biology from Tufts University and his MBA in Marketing from the University of New Haven School Of Business.

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Based in the Midlands, Ken Hunter is a Senior Solutions Consultant at OpenText covering both the world of OpenText and Microsoft with expertise in Office 365 and SharePoint. He has been with OpenText for 15 years with many of those years spent in Professional Services. He is passionate about getting the best value out of an organisation's systems through integration.

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As Senior Director, Product Marketing, Marco is responsible for global product marketing, messaging and setting strategic direction at OpenText Business Network, the market leader in secure B2B information exchange. Marco has over 25 years of experience in supply chain automation and e-commerce spanning multiple industries. Prior to joining OpenText, Marco led all marketing activity at 7thonline, a leader in supply chain planning. Prior to 7thonline, Marco headed up strategic marketing at Global Healthcare Exchange, where he drove market development and commercialization of new industry solutions for supply chain automation, driving billions in savings for the healthcare industry. Prior to GHX, Marco held several leadership positions with GXS (now OpenText), Serena Software and AT&T (both Lucent Technologies and NCR divisions). Marco received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan, and his Master's degree from the American University in Washington, DC. He has also pursued continuing education with Wharton's Aresty Institute of Executive Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Marco lives in the Washington, DC metro area.

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