Thierry Larenas

Senior enterprise strategy, commercial growth, and transformation executive with more than 30 years of leadership experience across international technology and service organisations. Track record in developing and executing multi-country strategies, building scalable operating models, strengthening governance, and translating business priorities into measurable commercial and operational outcomes. At CHG-MERIDIAN, led the development and execution of a global service strategy across more than 20 countries and built an international project and service management organisation across 17 countries.

At Computacenter, led governance, risk, and executive decision support for approximately 350 complex technology and service contracts annually within a €1.5 billion business. Strong commercial background covering growth planning, profitability, budgets, performance management, organisational design, strategic contracts, and cross-functional transformation. Experienced in advising senior leaders and aligning commercial, finance, technology, service, and country teams around common priorities, clear ownership, and sustainable growth.

Executive Development & Career Transition (2025-04 – Present)

• Completed advanced training in AI Management and Business Transformation.

Global Service Strategy Leader | Driving Scalable Growth Across 20+ Countries at CHG-MERIDIAN AG (2017-01 – 2025-03)

Global technology financing and lifecycle services provider with a €10 billion technology portfolio and operations in 30 countries.

• Led the development and execution of a global service and operations strategy across more than 20 countries, supporting service-related revenue representing 30% of projected 2025 revenue.
• Built an international project and service management organisation of more than 30 people across 17 countries and led a global community of more than 60 members.
• Established scalable operating structures, governance routines and common ownership across country organisations.
• Translated business and service strategy into execution priorities, performance measures, capacity decisions and corrective actions.
• Established an executive operating cadence covering performance, profitability, delivery risk and capacity across the ten largest international service engagements.
• Aligned commercial, service, finance and country leadership around common priorities, supporting stronger execution and service-related growth.

Strategic Deal & Risk Leader | Driving High-Value Contracts & Global Bid Management at Computacenter, GE Capital IT Solutions, GE CompuNet, Control Data (2003-02 – 2016-12)

Global technology and services provider supporting large corporate and public-sector organisations.

• Established and expanded the Bid Desk into a 15-person governance and operational support function with an annual budget of €1.3 million.
• Managed risk, approval and performance governance for approximately 350 complex technology and service contracts annually within a €1.5 billion business.
• Advised the Management Board on commercial exposure and deal risk relating to strategic customer commitments.
• Established a single management view of revenue, margin, delivery risk and resource requirements, enabling clearer executive decisions, trade-offs and corrective actions.
• Designed decision processes and escalation mechanisms and aligned commercial, technology, service, finance, legal and supplier teams around priorities, risks and ownership.
• Protected profitability and managed commercial risk for contracts of up to €50 million.
• Continuously improved the function's operating model and contributed to portfolio decisions and the development of new service solutions.

Complex Bid Manager at Computacenter (2001-06 – 2003-01)

• Managed risk and contracts during the pre-sales phase for data centre and networking contracts of up to €30 million and supported customer and supplier negotiations.

Senior Project Manager at Computacenter (2000-02 – 2001-05)

• Held end-to-end responsibility for a €15 million IT integration project, delivering a project margin above 20% and leading a 30-person team.

Business Manager at Computacenter (1998-05 – 2000-01)

• Set up a branch office in The Netherlands; conducted market research, sales activities and strategic planning.

International Business Manager at Computacenter (1997-07 – 1998-04)

• Designed a Global Account Management model, defined consistent global service offerings and coordinated global bids.

Project Manager Systems Integration at Computacenter (1995-07 – 1997-06)

• Led the implementation of a €20 million nationwide network across 75 retail locations for the Mexican government, managing a ten-person team.

Subdirector of Production at Tecvideo (1994-08 – 1995-06)

• Owned the video duplication process, managed production operations and led a team of 15 employees.

MSc in Electrical Engineering in Avionics – Delft University of Technology (1987-09 – 1993-08)