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EsThe team of Kimind’s consultants is built arount strategic consultants, project managers and advanced developers in web 2.0 technologies. Kimind’s consultant can work on advanced web 2.0 projects like examgeneral.com or on Google Apps implementations, or any other projects like this.
Kimind revolves also around a network of internationally recognized experts in their respective fields. All practitioners and / or founders of new concepts of Enterprise 2.0, they know how to deliver both a vision and strategic support to daily changes in usages, practices and processes necessary for the adoption of this new paradigm.
The Kimind ‘s approach is essentially oriented towards productivity gains and collective effiency that allows the adoption of an organization 2.0 style, it is therefore essential for us to be also true practitioners of these uses.
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Miguel Membrado
Miguel Membrado (Kimind), PhD, is a consultant and entrepreneur working in new technologies since 1987. He has been involved in the Internet revolution since its origins through various startups he co-founded (whose Mayetic in France).
Miguel Membrado created Kimind Consulting in 2007 (London – Paris – San Francisco) to help large accounts to appropriate the new dimension of Enterprise 2.0. He conducts strategic consultancy to help these companies adopt this paradigm and reach new levels of productivity and competitiveness.
Miguel Membrado also co-founded in 2006 Netcipia (Palo Alto, USA), a Web 2.0 startup that offers participatory community building and allows experts and amateur-experts to monetize their expertise online.
Miguel Membrado teaches in several specialized MBA in topics such as “Enterprise 2.0 and emerging organizations”, “Digital Identity”, “Management of virtual teams” and leads many international conferences on these subjects.
Jacques Gilbert
Before collaborating with Kimind, Jacques Gilbert (Kimind) founded DataMinding, Inc., a company that provides services to businesses to help them meet their data privacy and security requirements and manage their security and compliance risks.
Jacques has extensive experience developing and deploying large-scale systems and ensuring that they remain compliant with global data collection, security and other regulations. Before founding DataMinding, he held senior executive positions at Fortune 500 companies, medium size enterprises, and startups.
Most recently, he was Senior Vice President and Chief Architect at First Data Corporation and Western Union. First Data is the world’s largest independent, third party transaction processor and merchant acquiring processor; Western Union, the world’s largest money transfer provider.
At FDC, Jacques designed and initiated the company’s long-term systems strategy, identifying, creating, and implementing technologies that drive customer solutions. In his role with First Data’s Mergers and Acquisition group, he led the technology teams of several companies acquired by First Data during their integration and critical transition to the standards and methods of a large public corporation.
At Western Union, the world’s largest money transfer provider, Jacques initiated a major project to re-engineer the company’s technology infrastructure, and led the development of the company’s mobile money transfer offering.
Before joining First Data, Mr. Gilbert co-founded Internet Systems Corp., which became the leading provider of transaction processing software for commercial and international financial institutions. As Chief Technology Officer, he conceived the design and architecture of the company’s products, and oversaw the development of the company’s integrated, on-line, global banking system, a system that is still in use at major global banks around the world.
Mr. Gilbert is a graduate of Ecole Centrale de Paris (France), from which he received Masters in Engineering and Business Administration. He is also a Certified Information Privacy Profession
Catherine Shinners
Catherine (Kimind) has been helping clients with their marketing and collaboration needs since 2005. She has advised large and small corporations in advancing their marketing and corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts with online community and social media efforts, and internal collaboration practice to build effective, virtual teams.
She has blogged on collaboration and Enterprise 2.0 for the past several years at collaboration-incontext.com and been an active blogger and participant in industry conferences, including Enterprise 2.0 and Office 2.0.
She has worked with clients developing Web 2.0 software solutions for the SMB market, startup companies focusing on cross-engine search bid optimization, local search technology, PBX on-demand products and well as automated foreign currency exchange trading solutions.
Catherine has had a variety of roles in companies in Silicon Valley from product management, business development and marketing. She drove marketing for Integral, delivering global SaaS-based foreign currency trading solutions to the world’s leading banks, investment and hedge funds. At WebEx, she managed integrations and partner strategies . As a senior director of corporate business development at Compaq Computers, she was a member of a Palo Alto-based team building strategic relationships with venture-backed Silicon Valley firms. Earlier Catherine built $450 million Internet infrastructure solutions line-of-business for Tandem Computers, servicing global financial services institutions and telecommunications firms.
Andy Mpanda
Andy Mpanda (Kimind), joined kimind in 2009. He has been consulting as architect and software qualification manager for 2 years in a range of domains going from telecommunication to bio-medical field. In each of this fields, proper tools and methods of collaboration has been the common denominator to the success of the projects he has been involved in.
Knowing what Web 2.0. can bring in terms of communication, collaboration and productivity, he is now leading Kimind technical teams and clients through the use of these methods.
Network of experts
Luis Alberola
Luis Alberola (Talent Club), started his career in Tokyo in the world of Art of Living, and continued at AXA in New York and Paris in the department of strategic planning and management audit.
In 1999, he joined McKinsey & Company in Paris where he developed expertise in the practice of War for Talent (Talent War).
In 2001, he joined Singer & Hamilton, Executive Search to develop a range of services parallel to the headhunting (“Talent Pipeline”).
By building on experience that brought him into contact with the motivations and the performance of corporate key men, he founded in February 2004 Talent Club, to support business transformation to a form of organization which gives all its space for talents.
Luis also helps his customers in developing new management practiced to adapt to the social media phenomenon and the development of online social networks. He is particularly interested in the place taken by HRD in the revolution of social networks.
Luis has been one of the leaders of a working group within the AFPLANE about the emergence of new human capital metrics and working on the link between the human capital and other intangible assets of the company. He has published in collaboration with Philippe Masson, “Building Human Capital Metrics and Collective Intelligence” in the magazine RH & M. He is therefore consulted by the HRD on the promotion of investment in staff development.
Luis is also a teacher on talent management at HEC and other training organizations and director of an architecture firm.
Jon Husband
Jon Husband (Wirearchy.com) is a systems thinker, researcher / analyst and facilitator engaged in bringing leading-edge concepts into practical application. Most of his life has been spent as a consultant, and worked for a long time with one of the leading global HR and Organizational Effectiveness consulting companies, advising multinational client organizations first in North America and then in the UK and western Europe.
Jon helps clarify how the new set of conditions the Web has created is changing our lives and how we think and work. His main focus is on how interactivity and collaboration is informing and changing work and organizational design and group processes, and notably how today’s digital interconnected environment is having impact on leadership, management and the process of making decisions.
During the past two decades, Jon has helped people and organizations equip themselves for emerging futures using tools and techniques like competency analysis, strategic planning, scenario planning, Open Space, Appreciative Enquiry, coaching, and anthropological observation.
Jon has worked with managers and leaders in North America, Europe and Central Asia using these tools and approaches to addresses strategic issues, leadership development and organizational change.
Jon has authored various white papers on knowledge management, new organizational models and ways of organizing peoples’ activities, and most recently co-authored the book “Making Knowledge Work – the arrival of Web 2.0″. Jon speaks on a regular basis about the interactivity, new media and the emerging future of work.
Jon believes that the traditional dynamics of hierarchy are changing in important ways, and continues to explore the emerging characteristics of wirearchy: a dynamic two-way flow of power and authority, based on knowledge, trust and credibility, enabled by interconnected people and technology.
Nicole Turbé-Suetens
Nicole Turbé-Suetens (Distance Expert) is an expert at the European Commission and a consultant specializing in introducing and supporting new forms of work using ICT in organizations.
After an international career of 16 years at IBM (France and Europe) and several years of management consulting , she has created DISTANCE EXPERT ™ in 1996.
Nicole Turbé-Suetens has participated in preparing the government report on Telework (BRETON’s report in 1993/1994) and the recent report by the Mission eWork (Rights Forum on the Internet in 2003-2004) and is an expert for the Information Society and Media General Department of the European Commission and has been involved in several European projects since 1996.
She was instrumental in the organization and success of the 9th European Telework Assembly in Paris in September 2002 as part of her association activity. Among her main references, she has major companies such as IBM France, France Telecom, British Telecom, France, EDF Gaz de France, Danel, AFPA, etc..
She is also coauthor of “Practical Guide to Telework” published by Editions de l’organisation, of the Book “Teamwork and Groupware” published by Editions Wiley and of the book “Work and Activities in Distance” by Editions de l’organisation.
Her words and ideas have been widely relayed by the press for many years and is regularly sought as a speaker on both the French plan and internationally.
Nicole has also taught postgraduate degree in Marketing at IAE de Paris (Pantheon-Sorbonne) and for the Graduate Diploma in Management Technology and Innovation at the Technical University of Compiegne.
Bruno Urquiza
Bruno Urquiza (Soliluna) is a Senior Consultant and Project Manager in Enterprise 2.0. For the past 11 years, he has developed strong competences in the field of organization, collaboration and new technologies through many experiences in managing web projects for large companies.
He began his career at Cap Gemini in 1998 as an engineer and project manager, integrating the Lotus Notes/Domino Groupware pole. He participated in the set up of the first commercial networks working offline (Heineken Breweries, Groupe André) on collaborative solutions integrating validation processes (workflow).
He then joined the company Mayetic in 2001 as a project manager and consultant for major accounts in France and abroad in collaborative and intranet projects (mayeticVillage). Among his references, Bruno has companied companies such as PPR, France Telecom, Aegis Media, Cegetel, ClubMed, France 3, Astrium (EADS), SES Astra.
Bruno, also an entrepreneur, has founded in 2005 and developed an online retailer in the field of cosmetics. By making this company a market leader, he is developing skills in the business development of commercial sites, webmarketing and the organizational, human and financial management of a company.
In 2009, Bruno decides to create Soliluna Consulting to assist companies in their research of performance, innovation and agility required by the adoption of new practices and usages of participatory solutions. As part of his mission, Bruno acts as a consultant and trainer on the needs, practices and solutions 2.0 (social networks, desktop collaborative Web 2.0 applications). He also acts as a consultant in project management and support to change management related to the adoption of new practices and organizational transformation. Bruno is also BlueKiwi Software Certified Partner.
