
Patrick Attallah
Chief Data Officer | Digital & AI Transformation
Salary / Daily rate
Eindhoven, Netherlands
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Chief Data Officer & DataIQ100 leader with 15+ years driving digital transformation at Fortune 500 companies like NXP and DSM. Proven expertise in AI governance, data monetization strategies, and scaling analytics teams (70+ FTEs). Specialized in semiconductor & manufacturing sectors, delivering measurable ROI through data-driven innovation and strategic AI implementation.
Work experience
Chief Data Officer
NXP Semiconductors
May 2023 - Oct 2025
2 years 6 months
Horn, Netherlands
DSM
Feb 2016 - May 2023
7 years 4 months
Horn, Netherlands
Global VP Digital Innovation & Data Analytics
Jan 2022 - May 2023
1 year 5 months
Horn, Netherlands
Building value with Digital Innovation by re-imagining our digital growth, customer engagement, business models and product innovation, co-creating with the business a true data and insights value-driven organization by augmenting our workforce and unleashing the full benefits of Analytics and Automation @ Scale to deliver business optimization and transformation. The 25 members team are organized around 2 chapters: Digital Business Transformation and Digital Business Optimization. Leading Data Analytics strategy and execution so our people are armed with the right and timely insights by bringing data engineering, visualization, reporting, quality, governance and data science to the whole organization, via 4 chapters with more than 70 FTEs.
Global VP Digital Innovation
Mar 2021 - Jan 2022
11 months
Horn, Netherlands
With a global team, continuing DSM's digital transformation journey, fortifying data analytics with digital twins unlocking new and vital opportunities, extending ecosystem-scale thinking, activating grassroots transformation, transforming partnerships with multiparty systems reinventing digital growth with new perspective on business models and value.
Digital New Business Models Domain Lead
Jan 2020 - Mar 2021
1 year 3 months
Horn, Netherlands
Within the Group Digital Transformation team, in addition to my current VP Data & Analytics role, I help our businesses in their digital transformation journey, creating truly digital business models, based on a structured approach that relentlessly answers the why, what and how, with the aim to generate significant customer value and competitive advantage.
Global VP Data & Analytics
Jul 2018 - Mar 2021
2 years 9 months
Horn, Netherlands
Heading the Data Analytics Center of Excellence (CoE), accelerating and integrating data analytics globally within DSM, deriving meaningful insights from data, converting knowledge into action, creating ultimately substantial and additional impact and value to the businesses and functions. Making the transformation towards an Insight Driven Organisation, leveraging AI/Machine Learning and Data Science
Global Commercial Digital Transformation Director
Feb 2016 - Jul 2018
2 years 6 months
Horn, Netherlands
Founder & CEO
social4ce
Jan 2011 - Jul 2016
5 years 7 months
Beirut, Paris
social4ce is a digital agency and consultancy helping brands, businesses and organizations to leverage the social media power by embedding social (media) channels into all its processes (being marketing, communication, CRM, new product development, HR) connecting people to people, people to processes and data to insights. social4ce helps you becoming a better business, guiding you safely and efficiently into your 'social business' journey, i.e. engaged, open and nimble. Our team, agents of change, are here to advise you on how best to adapt your business to the digital era, on how best to leverage all the social/digital (media) tools and techniques to better engage with your customers, citizens, stakeholders and employees in a 2-way dialog, for a better customer experience, increasing profits and processes efficiency.
Founder & CEO
MEDIABIZ
Jan 2009 - Dec 2015
7 years
Paris Area, France
Providing for the Media, Telecom and Health sector industries, the following consulting services: Corporate & Business Strategy - Business Modeling/Planning - Strategic partnerships evaluation - Competence based strategies - Change Management - Value-chain improvements - Executive Training & Management workshops/seminars Growth Strategy - Sales & Marketing strategies - International Development / market entry strategy - Strategic market reviews & Benchmarking Management - Interim CEO and/or board position - Business Development - Building and management of local teams
Managing Partner & Director 90:10 FRANCE
90:10 Group
Jan 2009 - May 2012
3 years 5 months
Paris, France
90:10 France was part of 90:10 Group, a social media business consultancy, committed to innovation, efficiency and transformation through social technologies, using its data, tools and techniques to deliver Engagement, Insight and Innovation. At the heart of everything, there was the ratio 90:10. 90:10 believes that every organisation can be a 90:10 one. 90% of the energy behind your output coming from outside your organisation with the 10% coming from your internal resources as a platform of delivery. 90:10 Group had offices in the UK, France, Germany, Netherlands and Spain. Clients were from different industry sector: B2B & B2C, retail, beauty & luxury brands, banking & insurance, automotive, media, technology, professional services and others.
Managing Director
ISAN International Agency
Aug 2004 - May 2009
4 years 10 months
Geneva Area, Switzerland
ISAN International Agency (ISAN-IA) is a Geneva (Switzerland) based organization, founded by AGICOA, CISAC and FIAPF. ISAN is a media content identification, metadata and tracking online system, available via web services. - Built a worldwide network of 20 local ISAN agencies in key markets - Extensive working relationship with major producers, broadcasters and retailers for service delivery - Specification and implementation of the ISAN web registry and central database (Oracle based) - Strategic partnerships with Microsoft, Thomson, Philips, Verisign, Syniverse and others - Integration of ISAN in Blu-ray specs, most digital watermarking and fingerprinting technologies
Founder
5TEL CO
Jan 2001 - Dec 2003
3 years
Paris Area, France
Built and exploited a VoIP network between Paris and 5 countries of the MENA region selling wholesale voice services to carriers based in Paris, London and NY. Developed a PC2Phone client SW for the expatriate consumer market.
MD
IPWAY
Jan 2000 - Dec 2001
2 years
Deputy CEO & Group General Manager
Axxon Telecom Ltd (UK)
Jan 1998 - Dec 2000
3 years
London, UK
Launched European telco operations (FR, DE, NL, BE with +100 colleagues). Fixed telephony & DSL licence negotiation and acquisition. Commercial development of voice and xDSL services to enterprises. Equipment leasing negotiation (30Mio€). Management and financial reporting to the board based in the US.
EVP Sales & Marketing - Director
Econophone Inc. (Europe)
Jan 1996 - Dec 1998
3 years
Education
American University of Beirut
BsC
1986 - 1989
4 years
Icam - Institut Catholique d'Arts et Métiers
1983 - 1986
4 years