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Chief Business Technology Officer

SVP Worldwide is the global leader in the design, manufacture, and distribution of consumer and artisan sewing machines and accessories. The group was united in February 2006 when American equity firm Kohlberg & Company| owner of the Singer brand, acquired Swedish VSM Group| the parent company of the Husqvarna Viking and Pfaff brands. Today, management of the SVP Worldwide is divided between the U.S. and Sweden. Singer, founded in 1851, is one of world's leading sellers of household sewing machines, with manufacturing facilities in Brazil and China, 10 overseas marketing operations and a network of third-party distributors selling products in more than 190 different countries. VSM is the leader in the premium segments of its industry, with manufacturing facilities in Sweden, 16 sales companies and distributors in 57 countries with the world's largest dealer network consisting of some 4,100 sales-points. Our goal is to provide our distributors, customers, and consumers with industry leading products, education, and standards of service. As a group, we are better positioned to respond to the needs of consumers worldwide. Read more about Kohlberg at www.kohlberg.com/aboutfs.html.

Results-driven and business-oriented global executive with over 23 years of experience in transforming technology and delivering solutions to grow revenue and improve bottom-line profitability. Demonstrated ability in technology transformations for large, complex organizations that improve customer experience optimizes business operations and delivers innovative products and services. Successful in building stakeholder relationship values, building collaborative IT teams, and handling wide customer demands, while bridging business operational alignment with technology. Able to create positive and productive change with wins on-site or remotely. -Execute modernization and transformation initiatives spanning infrastructure, web/eCommerce, Security/compliance, and enterprise applications to ignite delivery of key business objectives. -Manage many large-scale technology updates, platform migrations, and business application implementations. -Modernize and innovate infrastructure, networks, and IT cyber-security frameworks. -Contribute heavily to due diligence, evaluation, and operations integration for multiple M&As -Accelerate application development with methodology migrations from Waterfall to Agile and Dev Ops