Jiri Donat, Ph.D.

Current

• Associated Director at A.T. Kearney
• Executive Teacher, MBA programs at University of Northern Virginia

Past

• Managing Consultant at Capgemini
• Head of Corporate Strategy at Siemens
• Senior Manager at Deloitte

• Country General Manager at Nortel
• Country General Manager, Czech Republic at Lotus Development
• Senior Manager, Information Services at Unisys

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Education

• Czech Technical University
• Univerzita Karlova v Praze

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Websites

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Jiri Donat, Ph.D. ’s Summary

ICT Senior Level Executive. 15+ years’ experience.
Opinion former - columns and analyses in business and IT journals; regular column in Czech weekly magazine Ekonom.
Frequent Chairman and speaker on conferences; teacher of MBA courses.
Author of three books (“E-business For Managers” - Grada 2000, a sci-fi novel "Stab in the back on the information superhighway" - Grada 2000 and "The ABCs of Entrepreneurship In The Web 2.0 Era" - Alfa 2007).

Jiri's life-time passion is creating visions and business scenarios, namely in those commercial sectors that are impacted by new information and communication technologies.

Can be contacted on: +420 724 830 997 or on Skype: jiridonat.
Blog: http://jdonat.blogspot.com/

Jiri Donat, Ph.D. ’s Specialties:

Functional:
• Business strategy
• Strategic BPO
• Organizational design and change management

Industry:
• Telecommunications & Media
• High Tech & Electronics
• Financial institutions
• Utilities

Specialization:
Developments in information and communication technologies and their consequences to human society and business, including transformation of various business sectors into new converging industries ("e-business").

Jiri Donat, Ph.D. ’s Experience

• Associated Director

  A.T. Kearney

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  February 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)

  Associated Director with the North Eastern Europe unit. Focus on strategy consulting in Telecommunications and on IT Transformation projects.

• Executive Teacher, MBA programs

  University of Northern Virginia

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2005 — Present (3 years)

  Lecturing eBusiness, IT management and Corporate Strategy courses in Prague and Beijing.

• Managing Consultant

  Capgemini

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CAPMF.PK; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2006 — January 2007 (10 months)

  Managing international projects and developing the company offerings along IT/Telco Strategy. Lecturing at Capgemini Transformation Consulting Winter University.

• Head of Corporate Strategy

  Siemens

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SI; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  January 2003 — July 2005 (2 years 7 months)

  Mapping and optimizing corporate HR processes; designing and implementing the Management Information System.

• Senior Manager

  Deloitte

  (Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Management Consulting industry)

  January 1999 — November 2001 (2 years 11 months)

  Manager, since September 2000 Senior Manager, Management Consulting.
  Leader of the E-Business Group.
  
  Built an expert image for Deloitte & Touche Central Europe in the area of e-Business. Consulted a variety of internet-related and banking projects. Regularly chaired business conferences on ebusiness, banking, and finance.

• Country General Manager

  Nortel

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NT; Telecommunications industry)

  1997 — 1998 (1 year)

  Directed all P&L and financial functions in Czech Republic, staff of 6.

• Country General Manager, Czech Republic

  Lotus Development

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1996 — 1997 (1 year)

  Built the subsidiary from ground up and grew the business by 64% in one year.

• Senior Manager, Information Services

  Unisys

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; UIS; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1994 — 1995 (1 year)

  Successful Bid Management of one of the biggest project in the Czech market

Jiri Donat, Ph.D. ’s Education

• Czech Technical University

  Ph.D., Computer Science, September 1998 — April 2005

  Dissertation subject: Method of Continual Monitoring of EEG Spectral Bands. Published in Journal "Neurologie pro praxi", 2005.

  Activities and Societies:

  The Gaudium Praha Mixed Choir

• Univerzita Karlova v Praze

  MSc., Mathematics (MFF UK), 1982 — 1987

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• My Blog
• My Company

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