Steve Scemama

Background

About Steve Scemama

Following 30+ years at leading Strategy and Consulting companies, I am the Founder and Managing Partner of TECHNOLOGY ^ STRATEGY CONSULTING. Our objective is to solve clients' problems and accelerate their value creation, enhancing their STRATEGY to be EMPOWERED by TECHNOLOGY. Our way is to be fully integrated with Clients' teams as Consultant or as Interim Leader such as Chief Transformation Officer. My differentiated experiences are mainly for Financial Services firms- working for leading Financial Services clients in all continents, especially: Corporate & Investment Banks, Exchanges and Market Infrastructure, Wealth & Asset Management, Private and Retail Banking. And for Private Equity Firms, Fintechs, Professional Services companies for Due Diligence and M&A to enable inorganic growth- having a wide expertise to define business related technologies strategy - understanding implications to define transformation plans on: IT and Ops operating models, technology architecture, M&A, digital and AI, operations, costs effectiveness, planning to execution, system integration and outsourcing - having a deep expertise on Software for Financial Services, having implemented most leading solutions and settled many Alliances and Offerings- having an international network of C-Levels being their trusted advisor. Through various Leadership roles at global level for Accenture and Oliver Wyman, I have made impact growing businesses by understanding clients' demand, competitive landscape, location footprint and defining which offerings, services, capabilities, alliances, go-to-market strategy to bring differentiated value while being cost effective. Before founding my own company, I have worked for: Oliver Wyman 3 years from 2016 to 2019, Accenture for 18 years from 1998 to 2016, PWC for 5 years from 1995 to 1998, Cap Gemini for 1 year from 1991 to 1992, a Fintech in US during 1 year in 1991. I graduated from a Private Engineer School in Paris in 1991, with a Master's degree Engineering in Digital Technology Sciences. Since 2019, I am a Member of APIA (Administrateurs Professionnelles Indépendants Associés), focusing on Start-Up/Scale-Up advisory and governance, providing my expertise to- tune strategy such as having offerings / services to match clients' demand and accelerate growth through differentiated competitive advantages- identify transformation levers for scaling the company depending on inflexion points: Operating Models, IT, Capabilities, Alliances and Partnerships, Financials needs, … - strengthen governance between Founders and Investors.