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Ron
Tolido
CTO Northern Europe Asia Pacific
Capgemini
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Ron Tolido is Chief Technology Officer of Capgemini for
the Northern Europe and Asia Pacific regions. He actually
studied Dutch Language and Literature at the University of
Leiden before earning a BSc in Information Technology at
The Hague Polytechnic. Trained by AT&T’s Bell Labs,
he was one of the first Unix System V kernel specialists
in the Netherlands. During his career, Mr. Tolido has been
involved in many different engagements pertaining to (commercial)
software product development, technology consulting, architecture
and IT strategy, both in operational and executive roles.
He published several books on software engineering, including
'object-oriented modelling & C++' and 'IAD, evolutionary
development of information systems'. He is or has been a
columnist for IT magazines such as Software Release Magazine,
Corporate .Net Magazine, Datanews [corporate]solutions and
Business Consultant magazine.
Mr. Tolido is a frequently
invited, vivid speaker on innovative IT subjects. He
is a jury member of the annual Benelux 'Development Tools'
RAD Race. Furthermore, he is the external examiner for the
Master of Science Course E-technology of Knowledge Centre
Cibit / University of Middlesex, a member of the Programme
Committee of the Dutch NWO 'Jacquard' IT innovation / stimulation
programme and board member of Gridforum Netherlands. He acted
in the board of commissioners of MarketXS (market data technology)
and is currently a member of the advisory board of Astragy
(strategic intelligence services).
Mr. Tolido's interests
include excesses in philosophy and literature. He loves
Open Source. He loves Microsoft too. His recent bundled columns
("The Black Madonna’s of IT", in Dutch)
were published in August 2004.
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