Dr. Patrick Sheridan

Lead global efforts to develop and commercialize digital solutions for sustainable agriculture - reporting into Syngenta’s CIO and CSO.

Co-create IT component of business strategy with Crop Protection & Seeds leaders. Shape digital transformation, deliver productivity improvements, and enable new digitalized business opportunities. Define and implement IT roadmap for a USD4b business. Simplify EAME IT function to reduce cost by XX% while improving user experience measured through NPS. Collaborate with 50+ reports across entire region; external staff, and large outsourcing partners.

Define and implement IT roadmap in support of business strategy. Deliver productivity improvements, e.g. fully automated reporting. Shape digital transformation of seeds business operations e. g. digitalized in-field trial data capture and analysis. Enable new digitalized business opportunities e. g. enhance seeds offering with digital agronomy services.

Consult commercial functions on business strategy, co-create and deliver IT portfolio required to implement and meet financial commitments (digital marketing & selling, pricing, reporting, analytics, AI). Set strategic direction of regional commercial IT function and empower team of ten IT business partners. Collaborate with international teams and vendors.

Lead strategic projects: marketing strategy, digital marketing, field force effectiveness, Salesforce.com implementation. Implemented new grower demand generation process for seeds. Manage team of seven direct reports managing operations and continuous improvement of Salesforce.com, loyalty program, market research, and customer insights. Increased campaign efficiency by XX%.

Startup: eLEAF provides satellite-based applications and data to optimize crop production and water management. Lead development and execution of marketing strategy for international markets including segmentation, value propositions, and touchpoints. Develop business by selling products and consulting services to growers and diverse international client base. Represent company at trade shows in 15+ countries.

Consulting firm serving food & agriculture industry. Develop customer specific Business Process Management/ CRM Systems. Manage team of five consultants plus external suppliers. Set up subsidiary for European crop insurance company including processes, products, marketing strategy, sales channel. Orchestrate successful product launch, sell solutions to growers and partners and promote offer at trade shows. Exceeded market penetration targets. Appointed interim General Manager.

Project lead "Sustainable land use systems", three direct reports, consulted German Ministry of Agriculture and Agency for Renewable Resources on policy and land use change. Taught courses on modelling and GIS.

Projektleitung "Nachhaltige Landnutzung und Bioenergie", drei Mitarbeiter, Studien für Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe, Lehrveranstaltungen zu Modellierung und GIS.

BWL, internationale Entwicklung, Informatik

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