Tony Bulcaen

As a BU manager, I work transversally and collaboratively across Sales, Marketing, HR, Finance, Legal... to drive cohesive and effective business execution. • Strategic Leadership & Implementation : setting strategic goals and translating them into actionable plans to drive sustainable growth. Overseeing the day-to-day aspects of the business and directly involving myself in fixing issues • Financial & Operational Management : holding full P&L responsibility, ensuring budget targets and profitability through efficient consultant time allocation and process optimization (digitization, AI, nearshoring), while proactively managing risks • Service Offerings : align R&D financing advisory offerings with sector- and company-specific needs to maximize client impact • People Management : empowering team members through mentorship and autonomy while fostering a culture of collaboration, growth and performance by setting clear objectives and a pace of execution • Client Management : build and maintain strong client relationships, staying attuned to evolving market needs

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• Factoring bank : structured and ran an innovation programme ; articulated and drove the digital transformation strategy in line with the corporate strategy and transformation plan ; designed new services based on user-centered methods • Factoring bank : qualified and prioritized AI use cases across all business and support functions and worked with tech teams to define a 3-year AI roadmap, taking into account the dependencies with the transformation projects and roll-out of AI / Data capabilities • Securities Services : defined a 3-year client services digital transformation roadmap leveraging discovery and ideation processes ; conducted a "proof-of-concept" testing of two client query management softwares in a cross-functional team and based on user stories, delivering a recommendation based on a functional, technological, financial and project planning analysis • Insurance company : defined a coherent and prioritized 3-year strategic plan and mapped out its operationalization roadmap ; conducted interviews and facilitated workshops with board members to build a shared perspective of the key strategic questions • Insurance company : defined a newly merged insurance group's purpose, vision and ambition through a series of workshops with board members ; performed cross-analysis and synthesized the results into a 20-page corporate manifesto #SecuritiesServices #Asset Management #Insurance #TransactionBanking (trade finance, cash management) #Factoring

- Took time out to travel to new places across North America and Asia Pacific with my family (two girls aged 10 and 3) to spark new synapses and revitalize brain activity - Got out of my comfort zone, learned to bootstrap, became more resourceful, increased my adaptability, expanded perspectives, learned to find more than one way to solve a problem, further strengthened my global mindset, learned to focus on making it through a situation vs. worrying about « failure » - Volunteered on organic farms (WOOFF) in the U.S. and New Zealand - Partnered with Circul’R to connect with circular economy startups, incubators and scholars; and more broadly with the innovation, digital and startup ecosystem - Conducted an introductory session on the Business Model Canvas at Hubub (Bali), member of the League of Extraordinary Coworking Spaces - Home schooled my eldest daughter for 7 months