Attila Cselotei
AI-Forward Business Transformation Leader | Creating Value Through Technology-Driven Strategy, High-Performance Teams & Modern Operations
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Mobility: Lyon, Toulouse, ...
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Professional with emphasis on creating and leading fully functional teams. Global, multicultural experience in how technology, people and business value interact, what are the change management challenges along the way. Diverse work experience. Early in my career at technology firms and later in mobile telephony, in banking, currently in higher education. Worked on three continents, leading teams of 5 to 350 in size. As a management team member, currently responsible for the operation of INSEAD. Scope includes sustainability, digitization, campus reimagination, campus services and information technology. Ultimately interested in working for a company that makes a significant difference in the life of its employees, customers, and customers' customers. Specialties: creating and leading a motivated team, use technology to create business value, customer value management, customer relationship management, marketing analysis, database marketing, financial analysis, IT architecture, project management, mergers and acquisition.
Work experience
Advisory Board Member
Corvinus University - SEED
Dec 2025 - Present
11 months
Budapest, Hungary
Serving on the Advisory Board of Corvinus SEED, contributing to strategic direction, positioning, and development of executive education initiatives. Providing input on governance, portfolio choices, market positioning, and faculty-practitioner interface, the implications of AI and digital transformation for leadership development and organizational models, drawing on experience in global executive education, institutional transformation, and board-level decision-making.
INSEAD
Sep 2010 - Dec 2025
15 years 4 months
7620 Paris, Denmark
COO
Jul 2018 - Dec 2025
7 years 6 months
7620 Paris, Denmark
- Created INSEAD’s first cohesive, multi-campus facility development master plan, securing alignment from the Board, faculty, staff, and donor community. Ensuring financing principles are met. - Led the Europe Campus Reimagination, integrating sustainability, digital enablement, and long-term capacity planning. - Introduced the school’s greenhouse gas emissions pledge, embedding sustainability into infrastructure, procurement, and operations. - Established the procurement function in INSEAD, generating 40%+ savings on discretionary spending in the first year while improving transparency and vendor governance. - Globalised the Finance function across France, Singapore, Abu Dhabi, and San Francisco, strengthening controls, reporting, and service quality. - Oversaw major operational, digital, and facilities transformations as the school more than doubled in scale. - Led the school's COVID response. Key learnings: - Driving institution-wide change requires clarity of narrative, disciplined execution, and deep stakeholder engagement. - Operational excellence and sustainability reinforce each other when integrated early into strategy. - Global consistency is possible when teams share standards, purpose, and trust.
CIO
Sep 2010 - Jul 2018
7 years 11 months
Singapore
- Introduced a cloud-first strategy, modernising core systems and establishing scalable, resilient infrastructure across three campuses. - Implemented SecDevOps practices, accelerating delivery while improving security and engineering quality. - Expanded INSEAD’s Singapore technology presence, building talent depth and true follow-the-sun support. - Industrialised key IT processes (ITSM, project governance, architecture, vendor management) to support global growth. - Improved IT customer satisfaction by 35% with no increase in budget, through service redesign and stronger delivery disciplines. Key learnings: - Digital transformation succeeds ONLY when technology, people, and governance evolve TOGETHER. - High-performing global teams require transparency, empowerment, and clear operating rhythm. - Security, agility, and user experience can be advanced simultaneously with the right architecture and culture.
Central European International Bank
Sep 2003 - Aug 2010
7 years
CIO
Apr 2007 - Aug 2010
3 years 5 months
Responsible for all aspects of a 300 staff IT organization in a bank with 12B€ in assets.
Managing Director of Development
Sep 2003 - May 2007
3 years 9 months
Responsible for business process management, the project management office and the software development organizations of the Bank.
Principal
DiamondCluster International
Jul 1999 - Jul 2003
4 years 1 month
Co-developed the Customer Value Management practice of the firm. Mostly working for mobile phone operators in North America.
SAP Competence Center Manager
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Jan 1992 - May 1998
6 years 5 months
Education
Columbia Business School Executive Education
Columbia Senior Executive Program, Certificate in Business Excellence
2025 - 2025
2 months
The Columbia Senior Executive Program (CSEP) is designed to equip senior leaders with the leadership skills, strategic acumen, and foresight to drive business success in this fast- evolving global landscape.
Cornell University
MBA, Business
1998 - 1999
1 year 3 months
Árpád Gimnázium
High School, Mathematics
Eötvös Loránd University
Master of Science (MSc), Physics
Activities and societies: International Association of Physics Students
INSEAD
Leadership Excellence through Awareness and Practice (LEAP)
Leadership is a lifelong process of continuous improvement. We can – and should – continue to learn and develop throughout our career. LEAP has been designed to help bridging the knowing-doing gap by identifying and internalising the new behavioural knowledge and responses we need to improve the way we lead.
Licenses & certifications
R Programming
Issued: Jan 2018
Machine Learning
Issued: Apr 2017