Boris Lokschin

Within the global CGI organization i am managing our OpenSource E-commerce portfolio for the largest European B2C,B2B,D2C online retailers, manufacturers &brands. With an own P&L and >60 people (2 locations in Germany & 1 international operations) reporting to me, i am responsible for business management & development, project and product (SaaS, IaaS, SDK) roadmaps, strategy & delivery operations. As part of the Executive Management team i am also accountable for customer consulting & people development.

CGI Inc. is one of the largest IT consulting & integration companies worldwide with over 70.000 employees & 10bil. revenue. Within my own P&L, >60 people in 3 locations (2 in Germany, 1 abroad) i am managing the business operations for our Open Source (Magento) offering incl. Cloud-Computing. I am responsible for all (agile) delivery processes, overall project & product (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, Mobile) management, R&D, strategy & operations. All PMs, BAs, TechPMs, Architects, the CTO & Consultants report to me.

Executive Consultant, Delivery Management, Business Management, Agile Coach, Overall product & project management, financial management, operations management, recruiting, coaching, staffing, marketing and BD support, processes and tools setup, Lead Domain Lead.

symmetrics was the leading E-commerce (Magento) platform provider in Europe for the largest online companies (Zalando,Planet-Sports,HEAD,Celexon,Tengelmann etc.). Beside enterprise projects,we built the first enterprise SaaS offering,an e-commerce cloud computing platform & a PaaS for developers. I was managing the business,the product R&D & development,strategy,marketing,project management, finance & scaled the company into 2 countries & multi-mio € revenue.In 09/11 CGI Inc.(Canada) acquired all shares.

Co-founded with the ministry of economics & the Russian Academy of Science. Experts from the IT network of the ministry have been asked to help build, scale & operate the portfolio companies. The company focussed on document management, algorithms for text & speech recognition & cloud technologies. As Interim-CTO i was building up the operations in Germany. Responsibilities: Business, management, Head of R&D & local product development, channel marketing, business development, Head of Consulting Services.

Co-founded DRZT e.V. with the Ministry of Economics in Niedersachsen & the Russian Academy of Science. Innovative & fast scalable High-Tech companies from Germany/Russia should have get funding & market entry support. Experts from the IT network of the ministry have been asked to help build, scale & operate the portfolio companies. As Co-Founder & member of the board i was responsible for company identification, screening, BD, marketing, strategy, product localization & interim C-Level management.

Together with experts & partners companies from my network i co-founded amira as a project development company focusing on funding & operations of focus products & services from our existing companies to better position & push them in the market. I was responsible for general business management & overall go-to-market strategy, partnermanagement, the entire IT operations including leading the IT teams across all companies. I was also responsible for scaling the operations & ensure marketing & BD alignment.

I co-founded CMS during my studies at the University of Hannover as an online marketing and SEO consultancy. We scaled the company quickly, attracted many customers and soon started to expand in broader IT consulting focusing on conversion optimization. I was responsible for customer acquisition & consulting, marketing strategy and for our first E-commerce oriented offerings and R&D based products later (such as a SaaS E-commerce platform for SMBs). In 2006 the company exited to Symmetrics from Hannover.