Successfully rallying technology advocates across lines of business to create strategic, agile business and IT organizations that drive bottom and top-line results in global marketplaces is Christian Anschuetz’s expertise. Throughout an 18-year career that progressed rapidly to executive level technology and business management, Christian has enjoyed success initiating and delivering integrated, scalable technology solutions that inform business strategy and create new economies of scale, record revenue and profit levels, dramatic cost reductions, and substantial improvements in productivity, service delivery, operational efficiencies, and customer satisfaction.
Christian's most recent role as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer for the Americas region of Publicis Groupe exemplifies his value as a senior executive in many ways. His success proves his ability to handle high levels of executive accountability with management scope including $120 million annual budget, 400 staff, and technology support for 58% of the company’s $6.3 billion annual revenues, ~17,000 associates, and 100+ distinct business entities. His stand-out achievement is representative of his career-long impact as well. Christian successfully transformed the entire IT organization from an under-performing, under-valued part of the business into a credible, trusted provider of business-enabling technology solutions. A key part of this was a challenging change initiative to gain enterprise-scale buy-in, build, and on-board numerous disparate brands into a shared services center that operates as an independent business unit with P&L responsibility.
These successes are a mere glimpse of the value Christian has delivered throughout his tenure with Publicis Groupe. His impact was just as significant in previous roles as Executive Vice President/Chief Information Officer for Groupe’s largest division (composed of scores of highly diverse business units/brands) and Senior Vice President/Chief Operations Officer in charge of integrating the newly acquired B|Com3 business and other major acquisitions into the Publicis infrastructure. Representative business and technology achievements during this time include reengineering division infrastructure, teams, processes, and best-practice frameworks to capture reductions in annual IT spend as high as $4.5 million, simplify complex infrastructure, stabilize technology systems, eliminate operating inefficiencies and redundancies, and dramatically improve service delivery.
It was as Vice President and Director of Operations for B|Com3 that Christian first demonstrated his trademark ability to take IT operations from a failing, unappreciated asset to a central part of the corporation and consistent provider of quality core services aligned with business needs. His scope of impact spanned integration of IT operations and teams from more than 20 distinct business units into an emerging shared services center that was so successful it ultimately became the IT foundation for all of Publicis following acquisition of B|Com3.
He began his achievement-rich career in a broad range of progressive management roles. These included Senior Consultant and Information Security thought leader for Sprint Paranet, and Senior Partner/Founder of UpTyme Consulting (management consulting firm with $1+ million revenues). He additionally brings to the table 7 years of executive discipline and leadership success as a decorated officer in the United States Marine Corps.
Christian Anschuetz’s entire career is underscored by prestigious industry recognition. He is a featured thought leader and quoted authority in multiple top industry publications on such topics as governance, shared services, and IT operations, and participates in numerous industry-leading CIO summits and conferences. He has a B.S. in Computer Information Systems, B.A. in Economics, and is a graduate of the Gartner CIO Academy.
