Michael Vincent

Executive owner of IT strategy across seven European countries, spanning enterprise architecture, platforms, data, cybersecurity, and digital enablement. Operated in a multi-entity, investor- and regulator-facing environment with executive and board-level accountability for IT operations, sourcing strategy, and service performance supporting real estate development and asset management. Key achievements - Defined and executed a CEO-endorsed Microsoft-first enterprise strategy, aligning platform, security, and delivery priorities to business outcomes and operating efficiency. Standardised Dynamics 365, SharePoint, Power Platform, and Azure as the digital backbone for development and asset operations, contributing to ~10% operating cost reduction through consolidation and automation. - Implemented an enterprise cost-tracking and reporting framework, improving financial transparency and control across 40+ live development projects (€500M+ WIP), strengthening executive oversight and investment decisions. - Established enterprise data foundations (governance, quality standards, reporting models) enabling analytics and automation with clear guardrails for security, privacy, and operational risk. - Designed and embedded a standardised enterprise architecture and IT governance operating model (PRINCE2-based), clarifying decision rights, introducing stage gates, and enabling portfolio oversight and predictable delivery. - Owned ICT regulatory alignment and IT risk management under DORA and NIS2 across seven European jurisdictions, acting as executive point of contact for regulators, investors, and customers, and translating obligations into enforceable security-by-design controls. - Built and led a multifunction IT organisation (10 FTE and strategic vendors) with accountability for operating budgets, vendor contracts, and commercial performance, regularly engaging executives on investment trade-offs, delivery risk, and prioritisation.

- Mapped and rationalized a 35+ application landscape, including dataflows and integrations, exposing duplication, controls gaps, and modernization opportunities. - Defined and executed a phased decommissioning and consolidation roadmap, balancing long-term architectural integrity with business risk. - Led architectural evaluation and selection of 10+ enterprise platforms and acted as architecture gatekeeper, enforcing consistency, scalability, and lifecycle governance across implementations. - Established enterprise application lifecycle standards later absorbed into Director level accountability.

- Product owner for a custom internal platform consolidating early-stage commercial inputs across 50+ live development projects, supporting investment decision-making and portfolio oversight. - Replaced fragmented, Excel-based tracking with a centralized and auditable solution, materially improving transparency, consistency, and control across development and leasing teams.

- Enterprise analyst for the company’s core property management platform, supporting real-estate operations across 7 European countries and acting as a functional bridge between business and IT. - Contributed to a major Yardi platform upgrade and authored the system “golden configuration” reference, ensuring auditability, configuration integrity, and continuity across upgrades and regulatory reviews.