Aidan de Gruchy

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ABOUT AIDAN DE GRUCHY

18+ years of experience across partnerships, commercial, and leadership roles. Proven track record leading teams, acting as a trusted advisor, and building lasting relationships at the most senior levels, including C-suite and board. Strategic, analytical thinker, passionate about using technology for meaningful change and coaching the next generation of talent. Deep experience working in growth companies on their journeys from start up to scale up.Developed business critical partnerships at scale and built successful go to market campaigns with sales and marketing leaders to generate net new business, drive influenced revenue, while leveraging commercial incentivisation programmes and implementing cost savings. Negotiated strategic agreements and managed complex transformation programmes for top tier clients, including core banking, migration, and data driven innovation. Expertise in applied AI, technology ecosystems and systems thinking, cloud native and SaaS product models. Recognised through multiple client and company awards for achieving high impact outcomes, and for effective leadership, collaboration, and influencing skills. Confident and resilient - equally comfortable managing globally distributed, multi-supplier teams, and communicating with business and technical stakeholders at all organisational levels.Experienced brand ambassador, with a deep understanding of industry trends and media training. Broad experience of coaching and mentoring at all levels, both in and outside of a workplace setting. Advocate for the importance of talking about mental health. Professional qualifications include strategy, AWS Cloud Practitioner, Google Cloud Digital Leader, PMI PMP & ACP, Agile & Scrum, design thinking, and DCAM.