
Lyes MAHAMMED
IT & AI Program Director
Zurich area, Switzerland
Immediately available19 years of programme leadership in transformation consulting — insurance, aerospace, public sector. IT & AI Program Director with a production-grade AI practice built from scratch.
Track Record
What I Bring
Programme-Scale Delivery
End-to-end programme direction — from scoping to go-live. Budgets up to €1.7M, teams up to 42 people, multi-country rollouts across 6 countries. Post-merger convergence, platform transformations, integrator coordination (Sopra Steria, Cegedim, EPAM).
13 Years in Insurance
Deep insurance and social protection expertise — life, health, mutual funds, delegated management, third-party payment. Programme direction for four major insurers. Regulatory merger delivery with hard deadlines met. Comfortable navigating regulated environments, legacy ecosystems, and CxO governance.
Operational AI Capability
Built an AI practice from scratch in a 100-person IT services company. 20 staff trained across technical and non-technical teams, 30% confirmed adoption. Production systems deployed: on-prem RAG (10-16h/week saved), automated QA, AI agents. AI governance: charter, Responsible AI framework, AWS platform audit.
Sectors of Intervention
Intensity proportional to the number of completed projects
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