VictorDigital · AI · Agentic AIEst. 1997
I’m Victor. I turn corporate chaos into something that works.
Digital, data and AI transformation since 1997, across Europe, China, APAC, the Middle East and North America. Now focused on agents that do real work.Nearly thirty years of convincing people to stop making things unnecessarily complicated. Now doing it with agents.
Enter the kingdom
The story so far
A career spent leading digital and AI for multinational groups, and an obsession with what machines can do that has followed every new wave since: from data platforms and machine learning to computer vision, generative AI and now agents.Every few years the industry renames the same promise. I’ve shipped every version of it, and the agentic one is the first that actually does the work.
SAP implementations across EMEA for a global IT consultancy in France. IPO processes and go-to-market strategy for greenfield mobile operators as a Partner at a global strategy consultancy in Saudi Arabia. Then, as Vice President in China, a global beverage brand’s data-unification programme and an automotive joint venture’s Industry 4.0 readiness.
The AI of the dayData first: no model beats the data underneath it
Cloud Platform CIO for APAC at a global telecoms equipment group, then its Global Head of Digital Technology: a US$142M+ portfolio across 45+ markets, 240+ people in eight countries, and China-developed cloud, machine-learning and industrial solutions scaled worldwide.
The AI of the dayMachine learning and predictive maintenance go to market
Digital Transformation Advisor to a premium automotive brand’s digital unit across North America, China and Germany: connected systems, real-time analytics and intelligent automation at plants and dealers, under IATF 16949, TISAX, ASPICE and ISO/SAE 21434. +27% sales attributed to the combined initiatives.
The AI of the dayReal-time analytics and intelligent automation
Head of Digital Transformation for a precision-optics group in Greater China, reporting to the CFO. The Suzhou factory entered the World Economic Forum’s Global Lighthouse Network and became the benchmark for thirteen further sites; China e-commerce became the group’s number-one market worldwide.
The AI of the dayDigital twins and an industrial data fabric
Global Head of AI Enablement and Transformation at a global industrial machinery group, and its Chief Digital Officer for APAC with an interim mandate for North America: one global AI roadmap, the Digit-AI framework, AI governance under the EU AI Act and ISO/IEC 42001, and plant-edge computer vision and GenAI in production.
The AI of the dayComputer vision and GenAI, in production and governed
Now
Helping corporations put agentic AI into daily operation: consulting on where agents pay and in what order, building and connecting them to the systems where work happens, and researching how to make them reliable, governable and worth the money.
The AI nowAgents that do the work, inside the rules
Landing Agentic AIAgents, Minus the TheatreThe record
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The practice
Most corporations have an agent demonstration. Few have an agent in daily operation. I help close that gap, in three ways.Everyone has a demo. Almost nobody has an agent that turns up on Monday. I fix that, three ways.
Consulting
Strategy and decisions for leadership teams that want agentic AI to show up in the P&L.
Services
Hands-on delivery that takes an agent from the first process map to production.
Research
Evidence on what works, for organisations that would rather not learn it the expensive way.
Selected impact
Project Phoenix connected SAP S/4HANA, IIoT, MES, digital twins and real-time analytics across 45+ production lines. The Suzhou factory entered the World Economic Forum’s Global Lighthouse Network.Forty-five production lines, one data fabric, and a factory the World Economic Forum now uses as an example.
+32%OEE
A single platform covering IT security, OT/ICS protection and AI security governance for operations in 60+ countries, with jurisdiction-specific requirements automated.Every regulator wanted something slightly different. Now one platform works out the differences.
170+regulations and certifications on one platform
An integrated CRM, marketing-automation, e-commerce and customer-data stack, localised for China, with 150+ digital products launched on it.A customer stack built for China instead of translated for it, and 150+ digital products shipped on top.
#1e-commerce market in the group, worldwide
Royal decrees
Short, binding and occasionally overdue. Issued one at a time.If anyone let me. Issued one at a time, enforced with mud.
Royal Decree No. I
Standing order
Effective immediately, every AI pilot must identify an actual business problem.Effective immediately, every AI pilot must identify an actual business problem. “Exploring synergies” does not count.
By order of The Mud King
20 decrees on file
Latest dispatches
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Whether an agent pays depends on which process it joins and who owns that process. The model comes later.
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Before an agent touches a live system, write down what it may decide, what it may touch and when it must hand over. Then hire it on probation.
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One of the most useful AI metrics is the number of pilots you ended on purpose.
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