Meet Our Panel of Experts
Get the inside scoop from our experts, who have been working with tech-driven businesses and software development firms for 20+ years.
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Panelist
Olivier Poulard
Managing Director of Global Software Engineering Strategies, Accelerance
Olivier is a change agent with over 20 years of global international leadership experience, combining all aspects of digital product development, technology management, software engineering, program management, and offshore outsourcing at scale. His passion for delivering better software has led him to reimagine how large, distributed offshore programs should be envisioned, organized, planned, contracted, and executed.
In the last 16 years, Olivier has led the development and release to production of a wide array of complex, mission-critical, distributed IT systems with more than 2,100 talented software engineers and technologists from Brazil, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ukraine, Russia, and India.
Panelist
Tom Cooper
Senior Delivery Consultant
As a leader in our delivery division, Tom is responsible for guiding customers as they utilize global teams to implement exceptional software delivery. Before joining Accelerance, Tom managed high-performing software and technology projects and teams since the 1990s for Fortune 500 companies, tech firms, and startups.
Tom holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and has earned various technical, project management, and product management certifications throughout his career, which inform his approach to advising clients.