Umbrex is pleased to welcome Justin Cohan-Shapiro with Always Through. Justin is an experienced strategist, operator, and consultant with over 15 years of experience across venture-funded companies, McKinsey & Company, public service, and non-profits. He recently set up his own consulting firm after spending three years driving transformational change at Guild, a skilling and education […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Zina Ajlouny with Hummingbird Ventures. A summary of Zina’s experience follows. “• Globally-minded entrepreneurial self-starter with solid experience driving revenue and innovation Headline title summary of previous roles: • Founding CEO of Palma (launched in three countries) • Strategy & Public Policy at Careem (managed 14 MENATP countries), acquired by […]
Francois Dorléans shares a post on a missing element from a recent talk at Le Collège des Bernardins on the future of an integrated Europe. Attending Christine Lagarde’s recent talk at Le Collège des Bernardins , where she emphasized the Draghi Report’s vision for a more innovative, integrated Europe but sidestepped a key innovation: Bitcoin […]
Justin Cohan-Shapiro shares a personal post on how running, a once-dreaded exercise routine, became a tool for transformation. Over a year ago, I took on a half marathon for the first time in a decade. Despite having run on and off throughout my life, it was never something I truly enjoyed—more of a means to […]
Peter Burggraaff shares useful insights drawn from the elite sports world where communication is used as a strategic asset. During my work advising and leading companies, I observe that companies can learn valuable lessons from elite sports. In this article I explore how their communication patterns can benefit business transformation programs. In the fast-paced world […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Matthew Miller with Grey Duck Solutions. Matt is a strategy and operations leader with experience in strategic planning, market analysis, AI, and cross-functional project delivery in consulting, startups and the military. He launched his own consulting practice Grey Duck Solutions in 2025 to tackle problems at the intersection of data […]
Gary Preysner shares three design principles for building a robust and strategic ERM process. Previously, we talked about the sort of role your ERM organization might choose to assume, based on three specific prototypes we have seen in the past. We next reviewed Risk Appetite Statements and KRIs. These are powerful tools to identify which […]
Vicario Reinaldo shares his experience of working in a hypergrowth company and how it inspired a love of reading books. I have been working in GOJEK for around two years. In case you have not heard about GOJEK, this video provides you a quick introduction about what we do. During this period, I discovered a […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Peter Burggraaff with Kapai Consulting. A summary of Peter’s experience follows. “Consumer brands around the world need to respond to changing customer expectations (offline/online experience and sustainability) and challenging market conditions. During my career I worked with retailers and consumer brands on their transformations, digital and data/AI driven innovations (with […]
Jean-Dominique Rey highlights areas of acceleration in the application of AI. We all see Artificial Intelligence (AI) around the corner, now taking off at a measurable pace in many companies. AI is not only steered by the IT Departments and their Data Scientists, but also by the Corporate functions themselves, willing to solve some […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Pedro Girardi with Pedro Girardi Consulting. A summary of Pedro’s experience follows. “Hi, I’m Pedro, an ex-BCG US consultant currently working as a freelancer. I have worked in portfolio optimization projects for clients that range anywhere 15-person family businesses to Fortune 500 companies. My strengths lie in my data skills […]
Bryan Rutberg shares a personal experience of stellar customer outreach and the value for both customers and company. I 💖good customer outreach and it’s not hard to deliver. Check out the great experience I had yesterday— Because I’m a regular motivational speaker for corporate and nonprofit audiences, I am a member of the National Speakers […]