Marko Korhonen
Helsinki,18
Summary
Professional specialized in strategy and operational development in context of enabled business and digital transformation. Broad combination of leadership and digital business development skills with proven track record of producing results in both medium-size and large organizations. Experience in working in an international business environment with customer and teamwork oriented mindset. Inspired and ability to be a forerunner in a digital business environment.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY ADVISOR (CTA)
SAP SE
05.2020 - Current
- Acting as a top presales position in the SAP organization by providing direct support to the sales in the development and execution of product strategies for SAP's solutions in complex and strategic sales opportunities
- CTA executes at the highest levels both inside SAP and in interactions with customers (C-level) and has equivalent experience and knowledge as a CTO (chief technology officer) in our industry
- As CTA is able to define and articulate SAP's executive architectural vision and strategy
- CTA oversees and provide executive consultation to customers and prospects to build complete architectures to achieve business goals and create value through a holistic model.
DIRECTOR, PLATFORMS & ARCHITECTURE
KESKO OYJ
Helsinki
01.2019 - 04.2020
- Managing Retail corporation enterprise architecture function and responsible for business platforms
- Enterprise architecture function drives IT strategy, technology innovation, manages changes in business environment by translating customer needs into IT designs and solutions
- Business platform responsibility covers design and execution of cloud computing strategy as well as providing services of traditional on-premise and hybrid capacity and integration services for consumers.
CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER (CIO), CHIEF DIGITAL OFFICER (CDO)
ST1 NORDIC OY
Helsinki
10.2014 - 12.2018
- Leading Business Technology unit of 70+ professionals in Oil & Gas companies in Finland, Sweden and Norway
- Responsibilities consist of digitalization (mobile & web), business applications (ERP, CRM), business infrastructure services & operation, reporting & analytics solutions, company debit/credit card solutions for value of 6 billion EUR, and enterprise architectures & projects
- Business lead for Major global Oil company's downstream business carve-in to merge Norway retail with business value of 2 billion EUR to be operated on own platform
- Technology lead for creating new Digital Retail bank in Nordics.
PRINCIPAL ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT, BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION
SAP Finland Oy
Helsinki
03.2007 - 12.2012
- Leading consultant for introducing and implementing enterprise architecture processes (EA) and practices for all the corporate business functions and units
- Definition of requirement management process and aligning software engineering practices with EA processes
- Coaching and training for EA processes and EA way of working
- Various lead architect assignment on major global key accounts in Europe and Middle East.
MANAGING CONSULTANT, BUSINESS TEHCNOLOGIES
SAP Finland Oy
Helsinki
04.2005 - 02.2007
- Consultant for introducing and delivering business service oriented processes and application solutions for major global customer companies in Sourcing & Procurement, High Tech, Insurance, Manufacturing industries
- Planning, development and execution, master data management, and application integration.
MANAGER, GLOBAL SOLUTIONS DELIVERY
BEARINGPOINT OY
Helsinki
04.2004 - 03.2005
- Working as Solution Architect and Managing Consultant to deliver architectural design for master data management solution to fit into Customer's architecture domain, designing integrations from existing legacy master data management solutions towards ERP applications
- Project end results and the customer experiences presented in SAP EMEA Sapphire exhibition, Paris, 2006.
DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, BUSINESS INFRASTRUCTURE
NOKIA OYJ
Helsinki
06.2000 - 03.2004
- Responsible for Company's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) integration architecture, and new SAP technology development projects by working closely with business stakeholders in Finance, Supply Chain Management, Sourcing, and R&D, and with global architecture teams.
INTEGRATION SPECIALIST, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
NOKIA MOBILE PHONES
Helsinki
06.1999 - 05.2000
- Various SAP technology based system-to-system integration projects for Company's Financial Services and HR platforms
- Technical role consisted of integrating financial master data and transactional data replication between global and local SAP systems
- Defining SAP integration framework including integration design patterns and support models.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
Lappeenranta University of Technology
Lappeenranta02-2024
Skills
- Leadership
- Strategy Creation & Operational Development
- Customer Experience
- Digital Business Development
- Team Management & Building
- Project Management
- Networking
- Listening
- Strategy development into business objectives and tactics through technologies
- Business vision and strategy translation into effective enterprise change towards future state and evolution
- Digital transformation and services life-cycle management in various industry domains
- Business architecture and capabilities development promoting efficiency and innovation with technologies
- 20 years' experience of international business environments and of colleagues and team with different nationalities
- Strategic Planning
- Presentations and public speaking
Extra Info
06/12/71, native, fluent, satisfactory, Sergeant, Paratroopers
Languages
Finnish
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Timeline
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY ADVISOR (CTA)
SAP SE
05.2020 - Current
DIRECTOR, PLATFORMS & ARCHITECTURE
KESKO OYJ
01.2019 - 04.2020
CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER (CIO), CHIEF DIGITAL OFFICER (CDO)
ST1 NORDIC OY
10.2014 - 12.2018
PRINCIPAL ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT, BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION
SAP Finland Oy
03.2007 - 12.2012
MANAGING CONSULTANT, BUSINESS TEHCNOLOGIES
SAP Finland Oy
04.2005 - 02.2007
MANAGER, GLOBAL SOLUTIONS DELIVERY
BEARINGPOINT OY
04.2004 - 03.2005
DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, BUSINESS INFRASTRUCTURE
NOKIA OYJ
06.2000 - 03.2004
INTEGRATION SPECIALIST, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
NOKIA MOBILE PHONES
06.1999 - 05.2000
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
Lappeenranta University of Technology
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