BackgroundWho Crowned This Guy?

Victor has led digital, data and AI transformation for multinational groups since 1997, across Europe, China, APAC, the Middle East and North America. Today he is 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. He owns the group’s AI layer end to end: the global AI roadmap, AI governance and model risk under the EU AI Act and ISO/IEC 42001, the Digit-AI industrialisation framework, AI economics and compute, the AI/ML platform, and the global AI Centre of Excellence.

Before that he led 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 under that programme and became the benchmark for thirteen further sites.

Earlier, he advised the digital unit of a premium automotive brand across North America, China and Germany; ran a global telecoms equipment group’s US$142M+ digital portfolio across 45+ markets; led a global beverage brand’s data-unification programme as a Vice President at an IT consultancy in China; was a Partner at a global strategy consultancy in Saudi Arabia; and implemented SAP across EMEA.

He has shipped every wave of AI since the machine-learning products of his telecoms years: predictive maintenance, digital twins, plant-edge computer vision, generative AI. The through-line is the same each time: take AI out of the demonstration and into operations, with governance that ships alongside it. His focus now is the next wave. He helps corporations land agentic AI through consulting, hands-on services and research.