Senior global digital, data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) executive, Advisory Board Member to Airbus, Capgemini, Mindfuel – Ex Vodafone Global Group Director of Big Data and AI

Cornelia Schaurecker

Senior global digital, data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) executive with over 23 years’ experience in Automotive/Mobility and Telco sectors in leadership roles in digitization, AI and Big Data, IT, Marketing, including strategic advisory board membership with a successful track record of delivering business impact for customers, company and society. As Thought applied AI leader (>10 years) in her global roles in Automotive OEMs and Telco she has implemented a step change towards industrializing Big Data and ML at scale&pace with clear line of sight to business outcomes and competitive advantage: • Delivered hundreds of use cases AI-enabling €26Bio annual revenues (Telco), new products and services and efficiencies in the €hundreds of millions (Automotive/Telco) • Led and created Big Data&AI Strategy including delivery along with strategic tech group capabilities, e.g. Vodafone´s Global AI/ML Ops Platform with Google, Cloud migration incl. capabilities/upskilling team and business on AI. • As global AI Policy champion created Global AI Policy, advanced Ethical AI&Data for Social Good • Global Data Governance Steerco&led Global Group Commercial’s strategic data agenda • Co-founded from scratch and led Volkswagen Group’s Data:Lab (AI think tank incl. Ecosystem with leading partners) delivering cutting edge AI/Data/IOT use cases with ~10 global brands, delivering innovation and business value in the hundreds of millions. • > 13 years IT Mgt/Transformation: At BMW Group led the agile transformation&change of the entire EMEA IT-teams across >20 markets in regulated financial services environment leading to agile delivery of strategic global programmes, increased performance&cost reduction and state-of-the-art cybersecurity, whilst delivering the GDPR programme for EMEA and building up an innovative data & AI team leading to performance optimization in sales, marketing and product quality. • Enabled global brands (Audi/SEAT/Lamborghini/VW/BMW) to become indispensable through IT-strategy, high performance IT-teams delivering integrated digital, customer-centric IT and process solutions, for sales/wholesale/retail/AfterSales/and more incl. connected customer&car • Intercultural, empathetic and adaptable communicator with a growth mindset&diversity advocate having worked/studied in multiple countries incl. UK, Finland, France, Germany/DACH and US&Asia projects