Michel van Buitenen

Michel van Buitenen is Managing Vice President of Gartner Consulting and leads the High Tech, Professional services and Telecom Industry in Europe. With more than 30 years of Consulting and management experience, Mr. van Buitenen is specialized in topics like IT Strategy, Corporate and IT Governance, turnaround of runaway projects and program and change management of large Digital transformation initiatives. Mr. van Buitenen leads of a team of seasoned Managing Partners that build on the unique strengths of Gartner research and tailor this to strategic high-impact Consulting engagements. 
Mr. van Buitenen’s project experience include:
Developing a business blueprint for the fastest growing global telecom operator to expand into platform business
Definition, preparation and implementation of program of compliance and security measures at communications company.
Design IT strategy for Dutch energy company
Design and implementation of business processes adopting TMF frameworks for a major part of a large telecom operator.
Crisis recovery and management of turnaround in an implementation program of new CRM and Billing systems for mobile telco company
Program manager for strategic infrastructure program at market leader in fixed line telecommunications 
Implementation of Application Integration program to simplify the IT architecture of a large telecommunications company.
Program management of reorganization of broadcasting company.
Package selection and implementation of ERP systems of a broadcast production company.

Mr. van Buitenen has a Master in Computer Science from the University of Amsterdam and is a frequent guest lecturer on Corporate Governance at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam.