HFS Research announces OneCouncil to help enterprise leaders simplify complex business operations

Comprised of business leaders across the globe, OneCouncil provides research and insight to help tackle a myriad of major challenges

NEW YORK, December 21, 2022: HFS Research, a leading technology and business services analyst advisory firm, today announced the launch of the HFS OneCouncil, which aims to help business leaders make sense of the key challenges they face. The HFS OneCouncil comprises recognized enterprise leaders across multiple industries, hailing from 16 time zones around the globe.

“The HFS OneCouncil includes high-level executives from companies such as Mars, Travelers, Adidas, Walgreens, AstraZeneca, and more,” said Phil Fersht, HFS CEO and Chief Analyst. “The group reviews upcoming research from HFS to pull out practical insights regarding the benefits of emerging technologies while keeping in mind the human factor at the heart of every organization. Our enterprise leaders have never faced such a global assault on everything they once knew as stable, and bringing them together in OneCouncil, as well as our summits and roundtables is incredibly valuable as the future unravels around us.”

The HFS OneCouncil will be led by recognized sourcing industry leader Ian Maher. “Our goal with the HFS OneCouncil is to bring together enterprise leaders from diverse backgrounds to serve as a living, breathing knowledge base,” said Maher. “Through their shared experiences, the group can offer helpful, realistic insight to leaders trying to solve real-world business problems while making sense of an increasingly chaotic and fast-moving business world.”

With members representing industries such as IT, finance, retail, and manufacturing, as well as academia, the group benefits from sharing their collective experiences in integrating change and navigating organizational barriers to deliver progress.

“HFS has long been a source of inspiration, grounded in deep research, data, and forward-looking trends,” said One Council member Max Cheprasov, Chief Transformation Officer at Tinuiti. “I am excited about OneCouncil as it allows me to explore today’s challenges and future possibilities through practical insights from highly regarded leaders across diverse industries.”

“Decision-making for leaders is becoming increasingly real-time,” said One Council member Jen Cohen, CEO at Jen L. Cohen Consulting, Inc. “Being in the company of trusted, experienced peers only helps all of us make better decisions. HFS OneCouncil is a refreshingly practical group of leaders that gives context and expertise in equal measures.”

HFS OneCouncil members include:

• Bobby Abraham, Vice President, Finance Architecture, Change & Transformation at AstraZeneca Plc
• Max Cheprasov, Chief Transformation Officer at Tinuiti
• Jen Cohen, CEO at Jen L. Cohen Consulting, Inc.
• Tamar Cohen, VP, Employee Experience at Travelers
• Jay Desai, VP, Head of Global Business Services at JTI
• Tony Filippone, CPO at AXIS Capital
• Adeel Fudda, VP, Intelligence, Automation & Emerging Technologies at Mars
• Vanessa Gleason, VP, Strategy, Process Excellence and Innovation at Takeda
• Mariana Gomez de la Villa, Center of Expertise Lead, Distributed Ledger Technologies at ING
• Mary Lacity, Distinguished Prof. and Director of the Blockchain Center of Excellence at the University of Arkansas
• Jesse Lewis, Independent Executive Design Director
• Bets Lillo, Executive in Residence at Texas Christian University
• Gareth Morgan, VP, Finance Transformation at Walgreens Boots Alliance
• Ben Rayner, Head of Analytics & Process Optimisation, Enterprise Operation & Technology at Citi
• Rohan Ranadive, SVP, Head of Third Party Risk Management at Truist Financial Corporation
• Allison Sagraves, Global Data and Analytics Innovator
• Sandeep Sacheti, EVP, Customer Insights & Operational Excellence at Wolters Kluwer
• Greg Tranter, Director at Point32Health
• Rickard Wieselfors, Vice President and Head of Automation and AI at Ericsson
• Phoebe Xu, VP, Functional Service Finance at Adidas

A number of OneCouncil members participated at the recent HFS Super Summit in New York City and plan to attend next year’s HFS Horizons Summits in London on March 22 and 23 and New York City on May 16 and 17.

If you’d like to learn more about HFS OneCouncil, please email Ian Maher.

About HFS Research

HFS is a unique analyst organization that combines deep visionary expertise with rapid demand-side analysis of the Global 2000. Its outlook for the future is admired across the global technology and business operations industries. Its analysts are respected for their no-nonsense insights based on demand-side data and engagements with industry practitioners.

HFS Research introduced the world to terms such as “RPA” (Robotic Process Automation) in 2012 and more recently, Digital OneOffice™ and OneEcosystem™. The HFS mission is to provide visionary insight into the major innovations impacting business operations such as Automation and Process Intelligence, Blockchain, the Metaverse, and Web3. HFS has deep business practices across all key industries, IT and business services, sustainability, and engineering.

For more information about HFS offerings and analyst services, visit our website or contact us today!

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