HAMZA ZEBROUD

Strategic Program Lead - Leading Insurer

• Led cross-functional teams to design and implement key solutions for a new technology platform
• Oversaw governance setup, delivery orchestration, and senior stakeholder engagement
• Directed financial tracking and progress reporting to C-level stakeholders
• Managed a team of project managers across business and technology

External Chief of Staff to the Chief Digital & Information Officer - Swiss Luxury Watchmaker

• Co-led the definition of the Digital & IT Strategy (2024–2028) and orchestrated its execution
• Supported CDIO’s leadership team: alignment, decision-making, and delivery oversight
• Structured and prepared executive-level boards and ExCom meetings
• Oversaw strategic programs, portfolio governance, and roadmap tracking

Cybersecurity Program Manager / PMO Lead - Global Consumer Goods Company

• Managed a multi-million cybersecurity initiative with full program lifecycle ownership
• Led performance monitoring, strategic reporting, and PMO governance

External Chief of Staff to VP IT Products & Operations (n-2 of CEO) - Global Consumer Goods Leader

• Designed the new IT Products & Operations Strategy aligned with tech and business shifts
• Drove annual budget planning, project funding, and strategic KPI monitoring
• Implemented a new target operating model with associated change management initiatives

IT Strategy & Transformation Lead - Global Life Sciences Company

• Conducted end-to-end IT maturity assessment (strategy, Organization, Technology Stack, Ways of Working)
• Delivered strategic recommendations and improvement roadmap to senior leadership

• Strategic advisor to AXA Partners Worldwide Chief Information Officer
• Acceleration of strategic Technology & Digital programs around Cloud, Data & Innovation across IT and overall AXA
• Preparation, coordination, and execution of main governance instances with internal and external senior executive stakeholders
• Change Management and deployment lead of the Agile @scale transformation of the global IT teams
• Technology Innovation acceleration focal point

• End-to-end post M&A integration activities for a leading Japanese pharmaceutical company - Japan & France
• Framing of a 5G-impact innovation study for a leading French public sector investment institution
• Defining the IT Strategy of the compliance entity of a major French banking institution - France and WW
• Defining the IoT Strategy, the IIoT technological requirements and the offerings portfolio of a global Industrial leader

• Design Thinking Coach & Agile certified Scrum Master
• Presenting and showcasing IBM Watson IoT strategy and innovation capabilities through Client Experience sessions
• Leading ideation workshops (with a Design Thinking & Agile approach) to raise IoT & Blockchain awareness, define/refine use cases and implement fast PoCs to showcase technical feasibility and evaluate business case (GBS Blockchain focal point)
• Leading the conception and the implementation of a Supply Chain Blockchain Proof of Concept solution for a major German automotive company
• Supervising a master thesis on combining Blockchain and Digital Twins

• Defining the IT Strategy masterplan (2017-2022 target) of a French leading Energy & Utilities company
• Redefining the requirements engineering process of a French leading Energy & Utilities company
• Leading a project of applications' flows monitoring (architecture enhancement, service level agreements and security stakes) for a major Insurance company
• Defining the applications' roadmaps (three-year target) for a major French Bank