Claus Torp Jensen

Claus Torp Jensen

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C-Suite leader with 2 decades of transformation and technology experience. Proven track…

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Experience

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    Austin, Texas, United States

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    Purchase, New York, United States

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    New York City

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    Greater New York City Area

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    Worldwide

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    Copenhagen, Denmark

Education

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    Aarhus University

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    Masters in Computer Science followed by PhD in Computer Science.

    Additionally Bachelor in Mathematics.

    Various Teaching Assistant positions between 1987 and 1994.

    Various part time programming jobs between 1986 and 1994, for the University as well as for private companies.

Licenses & Certifications

Publications

  • Whole-Person Care Transformation for dummies

    Wiley

    "Shift your model and mindset from healthcare as a sickness destination to healthcare as a wrap-around, whole-person care experience. From discovering the next normal care model through driving your platform journey, discover the ingredients needed to deliver better care to more people in more ways. True whole-person care creates a village doctor effect with everyone engaged in the same personalized, holistic health and care plan - a plan that follows people through life with exactly the care…

    "Shift your model and mindset from healthcare as a sickness destination to healthcare as a wrap-around, whole-person care experience. From discovering the next normal care model through driving your platform journey, discover the ingredients needed to deliver better care to more people in more ways. True whole-person care creates a village doctor effect with everyone engaged in the same personalized, holistic health and care plan - a plan that follows people through life with exactly the care that matters."

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  • Digital Transformation for dummies

    Wiley

    "Modern business ecosystems need to rethink their approaches to digital transformation. This book helps you shift your model to be holistic rather than project centric. From discovering the nature of digital competition through driving your digital journey, Digital Transformation For Dummies, Special Edition, contains a blueprint of the steps needed to create your digital transformation strategy."

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  • The Hybrid Cloud Journey for dummies

    Wiley

    "Experiencing the power of Hybrid Cloud involves much more than compute resource management. Whether you’re a Hybrid Cloud provider or a Hybrid Cloud consumer, you need to make smart business and IT decisions. This book defines the basic nature of modern Hybrid Cloud environments and then leads you through several necessary decisions, such as how to connect existing applications and data to your Hybrid Cloud and how to build an effective Hybrid Cloud Control Plane that enables cohesive Cloud…

    "Experiencing the power of Hybrid Cloud involves much more than compute resource management. Whether you’re a Hybrid Cloud provider or a Hybrid Cloud consumer, you need to make smart business and IT decisions. This book defines the basic nature of modern Hybrid Cloud environments and then leads you through several necessary decisions, such as how to connect existing applications and data to your Hybrid Cloud and how to build an effective Hybrid Cloud Control Plane that enables cohesive Cloud management without losing freedom of choice."

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  • APIs for dummies

    Wiley

    "Modern business ecosystems need to rethink their approach to innovation and integration. This book is your guide to applying the power of APIs to business challenges ranging from changing
    business models to embracing a world of devices and sensors. Experiencing the power of APIs involves much more than simply data monetization. Whether you’re an API provider or an API
    consumer, you need to make smart business and IT decisions. This book first defines the basic nature of modern APIs and…

    "Modern business ecosystems need to rethink their approach to innovation and integration. This book is your guide to applying the power of APIs to business challenges ranging from changing
    business models to embracing a world of devices and sensors. Experiencing the power of APIs involves much more than simply data monetization. Whether you’re an API provider or an API
    consumer, you need to make smart business and IT decisions. This book first defines the basic nature of modern APIs and then leads you through several necessary decisions, ranging from
    which APIs to provide or consume to how you can build an effective API technology platform."

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  • Integration Throughout and Beyond the Enterprise

    IBM Redbook

    "Throughout the history of the IT industry, integration has been an important part of most projects. Whether it is integration of transactions, data, or processes, each has challenges and associated patterns and antipatterns. In an age of mobile devices, social networks, and cloud services, and big data analytics, integration is more important than ever, but the scope of the challenge for IT projects has changed.

    Partner APIs, social networks, physical sensors and devices, all of these…

    "Throughout the history of the IT industry, integration has been an important part of most projects. Whether it is integration of transactions, data, or processes, each has challenges and associated patterns and antipatterns. In an age of mobile devices, social networks, and cloud services, and big data analytics, integration is more important than ever, but the scope of the challenge for IT projects has changed.

    Partner APIs, social networks, physical sensors and devices, all of these and more are important sources of capability or insight. It is no longer sufficient to integrate resources under control of the enterprise, because many important resources are in the ecosystem beyond enterprise boundaries."

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  • SOA Design Principles for dummies

    Wiley

    "I believe in the power of the good design principles of SOA and the need to enable new solutions on a stable, well-tried design base. This book is my guide to applying the design principles of SOA to the business problems of today, not just the IT problems of yesterday. It tells you how to use serviceoriented thinking and standards-based integration for process integrity and business insight at Internet scale."

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  • Combining Business Process Management and Enterprise Architecture for Better Business Outcomes

    IBM Redbook

    "This IBM® Redbooks® publication explains how to combine business process management (BPM) and Enterprise Architecture (EA) for better business outcomes. This book provides a unique synergistic approach to BPM and EA, based on a firm understanding of the life cycles of the enterprise and the establishment of appropriate collaboration and governance processes. When carried out together, BPM provides the business context, understanding, and metrics, and EA provides the discipline to translate…

    "This IBM® Redbooks® publication explains how to combine business process management (BPM) and Enterprise Architecture (EA) for better business outcomes. This book provides a unique synergistic approach to BPM and EA, based on a firm understanding of the life cycles of the enterprise and the establishment of appropriate collaboration and governance processes. When carried out together, BPM provides the business context, understanding, and metrics, and EA provides the discipline to translate business vision and strategy into architectural change. Both are needed for sustainable continuous improvement."

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  • Service Oriented Architecture Ontology 2.0 (industry standard)

    The Open Group

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  • Various Journal Papers

    IBM and others

    Technical publications on a range of topics from Architecture disciplines to Hybrid Integration.

Patents

Honors & Awards

  • CIO Leadership Lifetime Achievement Award

    Inspire CIO

    Inspire CIO recognizes technology executives for business impact and leadership. The Leadership Award is awarded for lifetime leadership achievements and is the premier lifetime award for technology executives.

  • Orbie Award - CIO of the Year 2022

    New York CIO

    For over 20 years, the CIO ORBIE Awards have recognized technology executives for leadership, innovation and excellence in this rapidly growing, CIO-led national professional association.

    The New York CIO of the Year® ORBIE® Awards will honor chief information officers who have demonstrated excellence in technology leadership.

  • 2022 & 2023 Zero Distance Award

    Business Ecosystem Alliance

    Won the Zero Distance Award twice.

    ABOUT THE AWARDS (https://business-ecosystem-alliance.org/2022/09/19/the-zero-distance-awards-2022/)

    In 2020 the Business Ecosystem Alliance (BEA) launched the Zero Distance Awards. The first winners included Jaipur Rugs, GE Appliances, Happy, Severstal, Ner Group, Fujitsu Europe and Centigo. In 2021, the work of Blue Cross Shield of Massachusetts, Cipla, MAQE, Robert Bosch Power Tools, Viisi, Mammut Sports, Resurgia Health Solutions and…

    Won the Zero Distance Award twice.

    ABOUT THE AWARDS (https://business-ecosystem-alliance.org/2022/09/19/the-zero-distance-awards-2022/)

    In 2020 the Business Ecosystem Alliance (BEA) launched the Zero Distance Awards. The first winners included Jaipur Rugs, GE Appliances, Happy, Severstal, Ner Group, Fujitsu Europe and Centigo. In 2021, the work of Blue Cross Shield of Massachusetts, Cipla, MAQE, Robert Bosch Power Tools, Viisi, Mammut Sports, Resurgia Health Solutions and Security Scorecard was celebrated.

    The awards identify and celebrate the work of organizations throughout the world in eliminating the distance between their employees, their operations and their customers. The BEA believes that ecosystems are a dynamic means of bridging the gap between organizations and their customers. Each year, BEA acknowledges the groundbreaking work of organizations in seeking to achieve Zero Distance.

    “As easily understood as it is difficult to implement on a day-to-day basis, Zero Distance is one of the cornerstone concepts of the digital age,” says Stuart Crainer, BEA director and cofounder of Thinkers50. “The Zero Distance Awards celebrate organizations from throughout the world of very different shapes and sizes, drawn from a variety of industries, who are managing to turn the concept into a practical reality.”

  • Modern Healthcare Top 25 Innovator

    Modern Healthcare

    The Top 25 Innovators awards & recognition program recognizes leaders who are instituting innovation and leading transformative programs that improve care by achieving measurable results and contributing to the clinical and financial goals of their organization.

  • 2019, 2022 and 2023 CIO 100 Award

    Foundry (formerly IDG Communications)

    Won the CIO 100 Award three times, in 2019 at CVS Health and in 2022 and 2023 at Teladoc Health.

    For more than 30 years, the CIO 100 Awards have recognized innovative organizations around the world that exemplify the highest level of strategic and operational excellence in driving IT innovation and business value.

  • InfoWorld & Forrester 2016 Enterprise Architecture Award

    InfoWorld

    Aetna's Enterprise Architecture function was selected by InfoWorld as a winner of the 2016 Enterprise Architecture Award. The 2016 award program focused on architecture organizations attuned to increasing business speed and improving business responsiveness.

  • IBM Lab Advocacy Hall of Fame

    IBM

    Awarded the Notable Lab Advocate designation (Hall of Fame entry) for repeated recognition as an exceptional IBM Lab Advocate.

    IBM Lab Advocates work with IBM's largest clients to transform business and IT environments.

  • Outstanding Technical Achievement Award

    IBM

    Given IBMs Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for leading the work on integrating SOA, BPM and Enterprise Architecture.

    The Outstanding Technical Achievement Award is the highest award within IBM, given only to elite technical leaders by the President and CEO of the company.

Languages

  • Danish

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

Organizations

  • Hydrocephalus Association

    Board Advisor

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    Founded in 1983 by the parents of children with hydrocephalus, the Hydrocephalus Association (HA) is the nation’s largest and most widely respected organization dedicated to hydrocephalus. Since 2009, HA has invested over $13 million in cutting-edge research, making us the largest non-profit, non-governmental funder of hydrocephalus research in the United States.

  • University of Washington Information School

    Mentor

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    The iSchool mentorship program pairs graduate students with industry professionals, with a focus on entrepreneurship and career selection.

  • SSO Network - Autonomous Enterprise

    Advisory Board Member

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    SSON’s North American Autonomous Enterprise Advisory Board is an invitation-only group of industry thought leaders with proven track records of driving, advocating, and inspiring digital transformation and autonomous integration both strategically and tactically. The board reflects the diversity of the digital, data, and IT community, with a range of expertise from different global industries. About SSON: The Shared Services and Outsourcing Network (SSON) is the largest and most established…

    SSON’s North American Autonomous Enterprise Advisory Board is an invitation-only group of industry thought leaders with proven track records of driving, advocating, and inspiring digital transformation and autonomous integration both strategically and tactically. The board reflects the diversity of the digital, data, and IT community, with a range of expertise from different global industries. About SSON: The Shared Services and Outsourcing Network (SSON) is the largest and most established community of shared services, global business services and outsourcing professionals in the world. Established in 1999, SSON recognized the revolution in business support services as it was happening, and realized that a forum was needed through which practitioners could connect with each other on a regional and global basis. SSON operates under four distinct brands - SSON Digital, SSON Research & Analytics, SSON Events and Global Business Services Training & Certification.

  • Women Leaders in Data and AI

    Allies Mastermind Circle

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    Invite-only WLDA Ally Network, exclusively for C-Level men in Fortune 1000 Companies with a demonstrated personal brand as an industry leader invested in innovation, diversity, inclusion, and lifelong collaboration.

  • NewYorkCIO & SeattleCIO

    Board Programs Chair & Board Member

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    NewYorkCIO and SeattleCIO are two of 21 chapters in the Inspire CIO Leadership Network. Each chapter is led by a Board of CIOs from prominent organizations in their geographical area. The Board sets the direction for events, membership, and annual Awards program.

  • Evanta NYC CIO & Seattle CIO

    Advisory Board Member

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    Evanta is a Gartner company organizing chapters of leading CIOs from specific geographical areas. The Advisory Board of each chapter provides guidance and governance for chapter activities and membership.

  • BCAMP

    Mentor

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    BCAMP combines elements of a developer internship and a hackathon in order to create a real world development experience for professionals embarking on AI and data engineering career paths.

  • Information Security Media Group

    Advisory Committee

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  • Outthinker Strategy Network

    Advisory Board Member

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    The Outthinker Strategy Network is an invitation-only global peer group of Senior Executives who lead strategy at $1+ billion in revenue businesses. Members of the network are future-oriented, innovative thinkers, and life-long learners.

  • SalesForce CIO Advisory Board

    Member

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    Providing strategic advice to the SalesForce executive team.

  • IQPC Advisory Board

    Advisory Board Member

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    Providing guidance on how to better prepare for the Next Normal and what it practically means for business and IT executives.

  • Cloudrek

    Board Member

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    Early startup focused on a novel approach to recruiting.

  • Forrester Board of Clients

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    Part of Forrester's Board of Clients, a select group of people providing strategic input and guidance to Forrester.

  • IBM Integration Client Advisory Board

    Member

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    This customer advisory board is a select set of our enterprise customers who provide their collective input in order to help shape IBM integration product investments. The CAB includes the various components of the IBM Cloud Pak for Integration - API Connect, MQ, App Connect, Event Streams, DataPower and Aspera.

  • Tech Mahindra Advisory Board

    Member

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    This board consists of top leaders from Tech Mahindra, including the CEO, and drives strategic decisions around disruptive business initiatives. The partner organization members bring thought leadership and can selectively co-lead transformation initiatives.

  • Watson Health Payer Advisory Board

    Member

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    Advisory council to Watson Health, providing business direction and strategic leadership.

  • IBM Z General Manager Advisory Council

    Member

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    Advisory council to the General Manager for IBM Z, composed of select CTO's and CIO's from large IBM Clients.

  • Gartner Research Board

    Member

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  • Health Utility Network

    Co-founder

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    The Health Utility Network consortium has as its mission to create an "information highway" for the Health sector, based on Blockchain middleware. The consortium has representation from a large number of the major provider, payor and financial players across the industry.

  • IBM Academy of Technology

    Academy Leadership Team

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    Part of the leadership team for the IBM Academy of Technology, the body of technical executives which provides thought leadership, direction and guidance for IBM's technical professional population. The Academy leadership team also provides strategic guidance for the IBM executive leadership team and takes on project of special strategic significance.

  • The Open Group

    Contributor to and author of SOA standards

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    Lead author of The Open Group SOA Ontology. Contributor to several other Open Group and ISO SOA standards.

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