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Joel Perera

Services Director, Insight EMEA

Joel leads the Optimisation & Governance services practice in EMEA & NA, responsible for all licensing & cloud related service delivery on client topics such as Procurement Advisory, SAM, License Optimisation & Cloud FinOps. He leads a team of over 90 highly skilled consultants who use their knowledge and expertise to help customers make effective procurement decisions, reduce costs, tackle in-efficiency and plan strategically for their use of cloud and software applications aligned to their business goals. Joel has over 20 years of experience working in the fields of software licensing, cloud and software-as-a-service.

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Ian Noble

Chief Technology Officer, JATO Dynamics

An experienced senior leader with over 35 years of experience in leading multi-disciplined technical teams. Ian has worked in businesses ranging from 20 employees through to 10,000+, from Local to Global roles, and is currently a member of the Technology Leadership team within JATO Dynamics Ltd, a global supplier of automotive business intelligence.

About JATO Dynamics

Customers rely on the seamless integration of JATO Dynamics’s solutions, as well as it’s insights, analysis, data and specifications, to drive sales, reduce errors and support business effort and investment.

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Chris Coe

Technology Lead, Optimisation and Governance, Insight

Chris has extensive Cost Optimisation and Commercial experience across a variety of sectors and global organisations including Financial Services, Insurance, Healthcare, Technology and Manufacturing. Chris has delivered significant cost savings and transformational change during his senior roles as Global Head of Cost Management, Supply Chain Optimisation and Commercial Optimisation for large multinational companies.​

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Marc Brasser

Practice Manager - Microsoft License Consulting Services EMEA

Marc is responsible for the Microsoft licensing services practice in EMEA including: Knowledge center, service methodology and development, project management and task management. He owns the delivery of license & contract optimisation projects for international and global organisations.

He has over 20 years' experience in IT, software licensing and commercial contracts, primarily around Microsoft technologies for global and enterprise customers. His background includes: sales, management and specific focus on Enterprise licensing sales for Microsoft.

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Fortunato Mallamace

Practice Manager, Oracle licensing services EMEA

Fortunato is responsible for the Oracle licensing services practice in EMEA. He has 20 years of previous experience, gained working for Oracle in a number of roles including technology sales, service support sales and as an auditor.

His team have deep understanding and expertise enabling them to deliver exceptional value to their clients. Fortunato and his team have a track record of delivering multi-million dollar savings for their clients by helping them avoid risks, gain better cost-effective management of their infrastructure and derive maximum value from their Oracle investments.

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Nele Matthys

EMEA Executive Licensing Consultant Oracle, Insight

Nele is an Executive Consultant for Oracle software, supporting clients with extensive licensing expertise, providing licensing and infrastructure optimisation advice, audit support, data verification. She has been a member of the Global Team since November 2014, and is responsible for Oracle project delivery.

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Marjon Schellekens

Practice Manager SAP License Consulting Services

At Insight Marjon is responsible for the SAP licence consulting practice. With her team, she helps customers get the most out of their SAP Software investments through optimizing their SAP software license environment and building future requirements, whilst creating improved negotiation positions. Resulting in cost efficiencies and savings with a better return on investment for the client.

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Suheb Ahmed

Senior Consultant – IBM License Consulting Services, EMEA

Suheb is responsible for developing the IBM licensing and consulting practice in EMEA. Having come from a Top Four firm (KPMG) leading IBM audits for many years as a Risk Consultant, he brings a depth of technical experience in leading complex IBM license reviews and understanding the commercial requirements within IBM Passport Advantage software contracts. He has over 6 years’ experience in Software Assets Management, Software Licensing, and Contract Compliance with a focus around IBM software solutions.

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René Sans

Software Lifecycle Services, Delivery Manager

René leads the Software Asset Management managed services team at Insight, supporting our clients with their SAM strategy, process definition, SAM tool selection and implementation, and the provision of services that support the software acquisition, lifecycle management and compliance processes. He joined Insight in 2014 as a licensing consultant and for the last five years he has led our Software Asset Management services. He started his career as a software compliance auditor working for KPMG focused mainly on Microsoft and IBM.

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Josh Baker

Software Lifecycle Services, Manager

Josh manages a team consisting of analysts, consultants and technical consultants that support the Optimisation and Governance team to deliver projects and managed services. In addition, he manages the relationship between Insight and their strategic SAM tool partners.

Josh has been at Insight for over 6 years and prior to his current position, he has been in a variety of roles at Insight; including Analyst, Consultant and Team Leader where he led the delivery of Optimisation and Governance projects and helped to analyse data from a variety of SAM tools to create valuable reports for our clients.

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Marcus Benson

National Principal Architect, FinOps, Insight

As part of Insight's Cloud & DevOps National Architecture team, Marcus drives the strategy and go to market vision for our FinOps service offerings and leads strategic delivery to help our clients successfully adopt the FinOps methodology and drive better accountability of their cloud expenses.

Prior to Marcus' role at Insight, he worked for Cloudyn, a Cloud Cost Management Platform that was acquired by Microsoft, and then for Microsoft as the Global Black Belt for Azure Cost Management

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Jurgen van Schajik

Executive Software License Consultant, Insight

Jurgen is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of complex client engagements across a portfolio of large global enterprise clients supported by Insight’s Procurement Services and SAM-as-a-Service solutions.

Over the past 10+ years, Jurgen has helped clients manage and optimise their software lifecycle, resulting in delivery of real-value, direct cost savings and improved efficiency. He supports the continuous evolution of solutions and delivery methods to ensure customer success.

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