Hello, I'm Sam Rédelé.
Senior technology strategist with strong programme management and 20+ years of experience leading data-driven business transformations, AI adoption, and enterprise portfolio governance across European institutions, utility operators, and private industry. Proven track record in aligning complex technology programmes with strategic business outcomes through leadership in programme recovery, enterprise data strategy, and AI enablement. As Head of the Advanced Analytics Lab at Deloitte Belgium, I delivered 25%+ profit growth in the first year by shifting the business from IT delivery to scalable, AI-enabled transformation initiatives. Advising executive boards on enterprise cloud, data, and AI investments, implementing semantic architectures and federated data strategies to enable secure, interoperable platforms and accelerate insight-driven decision-making. One of my assignments at the European Commission, was to stabilise a critical component of a large-scale data and cloud programme, designing and executing the recovery plan that enabled continuity of the strategic portfolio. I have delivered advisory roles across sectors where business transformation relies on trusted data, modular systems, and scalable digital capabilities. Experienced speaker on - Evolution from service-oriented to business-embedded IT operating models - Technology & Data Strategy in modern organisations - Cutting through the data product hype to outcome-driven implementation - How Enterprise AI delivers accuracy beyond tools like ChatGPT I’m the cofounder of the Belgian Data Science Community since 2014, a non-profit organization that has grown to over 5000 data professionals. This community serves as a hub for education, networking, and collaboration, hosting regular events to share knowledge and foster professional growth.
Details
- LocationBelgium
- Years of Relevant Experience20+ years
- Seniority LevelExecutive
- Highest Level of EducationMasters
Current / Most Recent Job Title
Fractional Chief Information/Technology Officer
Current / Most Recent Employment
Strategic advisor on Data & Technology Strategy | From strategy to execution
Industry
- Professional Services
- Technology, Information and Media
- Utilities
Language(s)
- Dutch, Belgium
- English, United States
Professional Membership / Certification
Degree: - Ghent University | Faculty of Engineering | Master after Master in Applied Informatics - Ghent University & Humboldt-Universit ̈at zu Berlin | Faculty of Arts & Philosophy | Master in Musicology: Specialisation in psychoacoustics & systematic musicology Executive Education: - Massachusetts Institute of Technology | MITx Online | MITxT 24.09x: Minds and Machines (Professor A. Byrne & D. Balcarras) - Harvard Business School | HBS Online | Alternative Investments (Professor Victoria Ivashina) - Harvard Business School | HBS Online | Negotiation Mastery (Professor Michael Wheeler) - Harvard Business School | HBS Online | Disruptive Innovation Strategy (Professor Clayton M. Christensen) Certifications: ◦ Project Management: Prince2 (2010) ◦ Enterprise Architecture: TOGAF (2020) ◦ Data Modelling: Sparx Enterprise Architecture (2021) ◦ Data analysis & Cloud engineering: R (2012), RapidMiner (2012), SAP BI/BO (2007), SAP Hana (2014), Google Cloud Platform Architecture (2016)
Skills
I treat business and technology as a system, not as silos. Strategy, data, platforms and people move together, so the roadmap you can expect will be aligned to your organisational needs and business & technology maturity. My core strengths: - Strategic clarity: translate growth, cost and risk objectives into data & technology driven roadmaps that boards can fund and teams can execute. - Programme & portfolio leadership: steer multi-million € initiatives under tight regulatory and time constraints with stage-gate governance. - AI & data expertise" co-founder of AI Community Belgium (5 000+ professionals); hands-on with knowledge architectures, analytics platforms and enterprise AI readiness. - Cyber & compliance mindset: design ISO-aligned, NIS2-ready controls that protect the business while encouraging innovation. - Cross-functional influence: build consensus around system-wide value, not silo metrics. - People multiplier: grow multi-disciplinary teams and embed processes that keep delivering long after the engagement ends. Result: technology that behaves like a business partner; accountable for revenue, resilience and customer trust.
Areas of Professional Interest
- Business driven digital transformation - Fractional CIO/CTO - Knowledge foundation as basis for data coherency across the organisation