Patrick Attallah

Chief Data Officer | Digital & AI Transformation

Salary / Daily rate

Eindhoven, Netherlands

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

Data AnalysisAIStrategy & ConsultingData EngineeringLLMs / Large language modelsData ScienceConsulting IT

Languages

EnglishFrenchItalian

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.

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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

Champville

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