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It's Value Branch: NL

How long have you been with It's Value? January 1 2021

What is your background? International Sales & Marketing management

What is your specialty area within the IT/Finance/TVM domain? Not yet, am learning (-:

What's one thing you've done / built so far in your time at It's Value that you're most proud of? Supported the change from an fairly unknown hidden juwel 3.5 years ago into an internationally visible and active player in the domain of TVM/TBM.

Are there any hobbies that you enjoy? Travelling, golf, biking, skiing, family life, history of ancient advanced civilizations, architecture

Do you have a favourite musician, author or artist? Or maybe you have a favourite podcast? If you can, tell us your favourite piece by them or an episode you particularly enjoyed! Many, hard to chose

Where is your next holiday destination? Or, tell us about your favourite place away from home to visit... Mediterranean countries, many places in India, Egypt

Do you have a favourite quote from someone you admire, that inspires you in some way? Many, hard to chose

It's Value Branch: NL

How long have you been with It's Value? From 01 October 2023

What is your background? I am a Business Controller. Work for 25 years in the banking/ict industry. From 2016 onwards involved in the TBM Framework and Apptio tooling

What is your specialty area within the IT/Finance/TVM domain? Helicopterview.. I know a lot of how to control ICT costs in an enterprise organisation and how TBM-Framework and the Apptio tooling can support and improve the control of these ICT costs

What's one thing you've done / built so far in your time at It's Value that you're most proud of? Implementation of the Plannings Module in Damen Naval in only 6 weeks team with a small team.

Are there any hobbies that you enjoy? I love to travel, running, cycling on the road and walking in the mountains/woods. To relax I like to read books, and enjoy delicious food and wine.

Do you have a favourite musician, author or artist? Or maybe you have a favourite podcast? If you can, tell us your favourite piece by them or an episode you particularly enjoyed! My favorite musician at the moment is Haevn and Joe Bonamassa. I like the authenticity of both musicians. Their concerts are magnificient.

Where is your next holiday destination? Or, tell us about your favourite place away from home to visit... My next holiday destination will be Peru in spring and Italy for skiing.

Do you have a favourite quote from someone you admire, that inspires you in some way? treat others as you would like to be treated

It's Value Branch: NL

How long have you been with It's Value? 6 weeks

What is your background? Finance and IT

What is your specialty area within the IT/Finance/TVM domain? Finance

What's one thing you've done / built so far in your time at It's Value that you're most proud of? Demo Guide for Apptio Planning

Are there any hobbies that you enjoy? I enjoy long-distance runs and lift weights. I love going to different museums around the world to look at artifacts or paintings that I have read about or watched in documentaries. For example, my last trip was to Belgium, where I came across the famous painting ‘The Death of Marat’ in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts.

Do you have a favourite musician, author or artist? Or maybe you have a favourite podcast? If you can, tell us your favourite piece by them or an episode you particularly enjoyed! My passion for history and cultures began eight years ago with Japanese manga. Hajime Isayama, author of “Attack on Titan,” is my favorite. My favorite episode is “Hero,” with its epic battles and sacrifices.“Attack on Titan” shows the human fight for survival, freedom, and never giving up, inspiring us to keep going no matter what.

Where is your next holiday destination? Or, tell us about your favourite place away from home to visit... Poland

Do you have a favourite quote from someone you admire, that inspires you in some way? “You can’t build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.” These words are from one of history’s most underrated heroes, Norman Borlaug, a man who saved millions from hunger.

It's Value Branch: NL

How long have you been with It's Value? 8 years

What is your background? IT studies (Bachelor of Technical Computer Engineering), IT (security, backup (IBM TSM) and Apptio) work

What is your specialty area within the IT/Finance/TVM domain? IT / Finance

What's one thing you've done / built so far in your time at It's Value that you're most proud of? Build Cost Transparency in Power BI, build dozens of Cost Transparency environments (part or complete) for customers

Are there any hobbies that you enjoy? Cycling, traveling, photography, sailing, 3D modelling/printing.

Do you have a favourite musician, author or artist? Or maybe you have a favourite podcast? If you can, tell us your favourite piece by them or an episode you particularly enjoyed! Dire straits, ZZ Top, Phil Collins

Where is your next holiday destination? Or, tell us about your favourite place away from home to visit... St. Petersburg (RU), Italy

Do you have a favourite quote from someone you admire, that inspires you in some way? Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

It's Value Branch: NL

How long have you been with It's Value? 1,5 year

What is your background? IT in an Finance team, later IT Finance

What is your specialty area within the IT/Finance/TVM domain? Apptio Planning

What's one thing you've done / built so far in your time at It's Value that you're most proud of? Full implementation at Heineken and Damen Naval

Are there any hobbies that you enjoy? Spend time with my Financee, Dog, Cats, Gaming

Do you have a favourite musician, author or artist? Or maybe you have a favourite podcast? If you can, tell us your favourite piece by them or an episode you particularly enjoyed! Not really, listening to a broad mix of music

Where is your next holiday destination? Or, tell us about your favourite place away from home to visit... Spain / US

Do you have a favourite quote from someone you admire, that inspires you in some way? Not really

Please use this space for anything else you'd like to share with us! Looking forward to bring It's Value to a new high!

It's Value Branch: UK

How long have you been with It's Value? 6 years (!)

What is your background? I have a background in Supplier Management and Project Management. I fell into project management and project assurance in early 2000's and progressed through a number of roles to Zurich Financial Services where Dan Wilson and I worked on implementing Apptio within their Life Insurance business. We worked together after we both left Zurich at the end of 2016 for Dan's consultancy which in time merged with its Value. The rest is history!

What is your specialty area within the IT/Finance/TVM domain? TVM was a term we coined at one of our management team workshops, and I think it encapsulates my own breadth of experience. I am a certified TBM Council executive, and also have certifications from the FinOps foundation, Apptio and IBM, so my working experience is very much across the TVM spectrum. From a tooling perspective my strongest skillset is with ApptioOne but I also have used CLDY and Planning.

What's one thing you've done / built so far in your time at It's Value that you're most proud of? The ADAM dashboard at national grid. this was a tough assignment, with a challenging set of evolving requirements, but I think the end result was effective and actionable and presented the insights in an easily consumable way.

Are there any hobbies that you enjoy? I am a keen gym enthusiast, and am lucky to have a gym at home which I use regularly. I enjoy (watching) rugby, NFL and Formula. I particularly enjoy eating out and drinking wine. I am also considering taking some dutch language lessons!

Do you have a favourite musician, author or artist? Or maybe you have a favourite podcast? If you can, tell us your favourite piece by them or an episode you particularly enjoyed! My favourite band is Oasis, but I also listen to a lot of dance/D&B/electronic music. I've been to many festivals in my time and seen lots of live acts, but particular mention has to go to Muse and Metallica who I saw at Glastonbury.

Where is your next holiday destination? Or, tell us about your favourite place away from home to visit... Planning a 6-week road trip to the USA (with my wife and 4-year old) in an RV in 2025. Cannot wait!

Do you have a favourite quote from someone you admire, that inspires you in some way? If you're going through hell, keep going - Winston Churchill

Please use this space for anything else you'd like to share with us! I have very cut enjoyed my time with It's Value, there are great people and a great work ethic and I am enthused about how the company and team grows from here. Lots of exciting challenges ahead!

It's Value Branch: UK

How long have you been with It's Value? 2017

What is your background? Techie by heart starting off as a software developer and hardware systems integration for advanced flight control systems then taking a salary orientated route into project & program management in financial services before quitting that to start up my own TBM business and linking up with Peter

What is your specialty area within the IT/Finance/TVM domain? ApptioOne technical and architecture

What's one thing you've done / built so far in your time at It's Value that you're most proud of? Attracted so many lovely people to work with us

Are there any hobbies that you enjoy? Keen cyclist and have some very long (multi-day) distance journeys in the past

Do you have a favourite musician, author or artist? Or maybe you have a favourite podcast? If you can, tell us your favourite piece by them or an episode you particularly enjoyed! Eclectic mix always keen on blues and also dance and most other things besides - Stevie Ray Vaughn for the former Teisto the latter!

Where is your next holiday destination? Or, tell us about your favourite place away from home to visit... Ibiza (baby!)

Do you have a favourite quote from someone you admire, that inspires you in some way? I have one of my own - things are never so bad they can't get worse - can be received in an uplifting way, sometimes ;-)

Please use this space for anything else you'd like to share with us! I have an anatomical anomaly that should make me quicker in the swimming pool

It's Value Branch: NL

How long have you been with It's Value? 1 year

What is your background? Interim CFO

What is your specialty area within the IT/Finance/TVM domain? TBM

What's one thing you've done / built so far in your time at It's Value that you're most proud of? Work on the Heineken project

Are there any hobbies that you enjoy? I am driving on a bus one day a week. Wining and dining.

Do you have a favourite musician, author or artist? Or maybe you have a favourite podcast? If you can, tell us your favourite piece by them or an episode you particularly enjoyed! The Cure

Where is your next holiday destination? Or, tell us about your favourite place away from home to visit... Germany

Do you have a favourite quote from someone you admire, that inspires you in some way? Leef je mooiste leven

It's Value Branch: NL

How long have you been with It's Value? Started in August 2024

What is your background? I've a master in Economics and in Information Management. After working for two consulting firms I work as self-employed consultant for more than 15 years. In this time I've done a lot of Cost Management / Activity Based Costing assignments for organizations in different industries. Further I've done assignments in the field of BPM and Data Management. My professional passion is solving "unsolvable" issues for my customers.

What is your specialty area within the IT/Finance/TVM domain? My specialty area is translating business requirements in (technical) solutions and implementing these solutions. I like to work with data, the whole process of gathering, structuring, validating and processing data to streamline the data gathering process for a TBM-model

What's one thing you've done / built so far in your time at It's Value that you're most proud of? I'm working on restructuring the configuration workbook to go from a master table centric view to a source system centric view. I think that makes understanding the data requirements for Apptio more intuitive for our customers

Are there any hobbies that you enjoy? My sport passion is endurance sport, I love taking very long rides on my bike, I participate in ultra runs and I swim in open water all year round. Further I love to be with my family.

Do you have a favourite musician, author or artist? Or maybe you have a favourite podcast? If you can, tell us your favourite piece by them or an episode you particularly enjoyed! I don't have a favorite artist, I have a favorite genre, rock music. I've a playlist on Spotify with my 50 favorite songs of all times, when I add one I also have to take off a number. My favorite at this moment is The Sound of Silence of the Disturbed

Where is your next holiday destination? Or, tell us about your favourite place away from home to visit... My next cycling race will be in Norway, a 1000 km non stop race in the desolate countryside of Norway

Do you have a favourite quote from someone you admire, that inspires you in some way? Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of what you make out of that

Please use this space for anything else you'd like to share with us! Nice to see that we all share the joy in "making our hands dirty" on assignments. Nice to see that we are all passioned about TVM :-)

It's Value Branch: NL

How long have you been with It's Value? 1 year

What is your background? Started in Consulting, moved in to Finance (controller) and then into Cloud migrations

What is your specialty area within the IT/Finance/TVM domain? FinOps, but I also have experience with planning, billing and TVM in general

What's one thing you've done / built so far in your time at It's Value that you're most proud of? Philips being a happy customer for FinOps

Are there any hobbies that you enjoy? If i am not spending time with my family, I love to cook a home with/for friends beside doing various sports (mountainbiking, tennis, squash, running) or work on my hobby car.

Do you have a favourite musician, author or artist? Or maybe you have a favourite podcast? If you can, tell us your favourite piece by them or an episode you particularly enjoyed! Simon Sinek is great, I like to listen to his podcast 'A bit of Optimism'

Where is your next holiday destination? Or, tell us about your favourite place away from home to visit... I love to visit Italy, but my wife convinced met of going to Portugal next summer. Apart from the summer holiday we like to stay closer to home as can bring the dog along.

Do you have a favourite quote from someone you admire, that inspires you in some way? Do not know

Please use this space for anything else you'd like to share with us! Nothing in particular

It's Value Branch: NL

How long have you been with It's Value? 7 years

What is your background? Controller

What is your specialty area within the IT/Finance/TVM domain? IT Planning, Cost Transparency

What's one thing you've done / built so far in your time at It's Value that you're most proud of? Charging Models

Are there any hobbies that you enjoy? Basketball, Windsurfing

Do you have a favourite musician, author or artist? Or maybe you have a favourite podcast? If you can, tell us your favourite piece by them or an episode you particularly enjoyed! A lot of music, classic & pop

Where is your next holiday destination? Or, tell us about your favourite place away from home to visit... City trips with the family.

Do you have a favourite quote from someone you admire, that inspires you in some way? Found one from one of my favorite actors Clint Eastwood (he also has quotes which I don't agree with by the way): Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.

It's Value Branch: UK

How long have you been with It's Value? 1 year plus

What is your background? Chartered Management Accountant from Financial services and FinOps

What is your specialty area within the IT/Finance/TVM domain? FinOps

What's one thing you've done / built so far in your time at It's Value that you're most proud of? Proud of moving from my comfort zone to work on the Sales deck

Are there any hobbies that you enjoy? I love cooking and baking, and love travelling to new destinations

Do you have a favourite musician, author or artist? Or maybe you have a favourite podcast? If you can, tell us your favourite piece by them or an episode you particularly enjoyed! Favourite Musician Maxwell

Where is your next holiday destination? Or, tell us about your favourite place away from home to visit... Qatar in December with my kids

It's Value Branch: NL

How long have you been with It's Value? 3 months

What is your background? I've been in consulting since 2012. Initial work focused on corporate & private equity performance improvement initiatives. Transitioned to ITFM / TBM / FinOps in 2016, with a couple detours to do digital transformations.

What is your specialty area within the IT/Finance/TVM domain? Agile Methodologies, Business Case Development, Budgeting, Business Requirements, Cloud FinOps, Financial Statement Analysis, Forecasting, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Technology Business Management (TBM), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Valuation

What's one thing you've done / built so far in your time at It's Value that you're most proud of? I've only just started, so I guess to date I've built relationships with some outstanding individuals :)

Are there any hobbies that you enjoy? Avid snowboarder and birdwatching has somehow snuck up to me in my old age... I also always have an audiobook on hand--currently relistening to book 3 of the 3 Body Problem.

Do you have a favourite musician, author or artist? Or maybe you have a favourite podcast? If you can, tell us your favourite piece by them or an episode you particularly enjoyed! Big fan of the podcasts Radiolab and Moth Radio Hour.

Where is your next holiday destination? Or, tell us about your favourite place away from home to visit... This year is just a staycation, unfortunately. Best trip so far though has been Svalbard without a doubt.

Do you have a favourite quote from someone you admire, that inspires you in some way? Love is not a victory march - Leonard Cohen

It's Value Branch: UK

How long have you been with It's Value? 3 years

What is your background? Engineering Management. TBM and FinOps certified

What is your specialty area within the IT/Finance/TVM domain? I specialise in FinOps

What's one thing you've done / built so far in your time at It's Value that you're most proud of? My work with M&G was satisfying

Are there any hobbies that you enjoy? I love traveling, swimming with my daughter, board games, and my dog

Do you have a favourite musician, author or artist? Or maybe you have a favourite podcast? If you can, tell us your favourite piece by them or an episode you particularly enjoyed! Favourite authors include Jim Butcher and Anne McCaffrey

Where is your next holiday destination? Or, tell us about your favourite place away from home to visit... I just came back from Barbados. It was a lovely beach escape

It's Value Branch: UK

How long have you been with It's Value? Since May 2023

What is your background? Software development / engineering / architecture. Also a lot of work specialising in Asset and Configuration Management and IT Service Management. Designed, developed and sold (as "two blokes in a shed") some enterprise software to manage IT dev/test environments and configuration to Virgin Mobile, Nationwide bank, Sainsbury's. Never had a significant, major or severe incident. Apptio's product quality makes me wince; it's embarrassing. If two blokes in a shed can design and develop well designed, documented, reliable and robust enterprise software then Apptio has no excuse. I've lost count of the number of programming languages I've used over the years, from IBM mainframes to single chip micro-controllers.I can generally make things work.

What is your specialty area within the IT/Finance/TVM domain? I don't have one (yet)

What's one thing you've done / built so far in your time at It's Value that you're most proud of? Nothing significant yet but I have plans! I actually want to improve and standardise the Apptio implementations (including documentation) so people can transfer between clients / projects and easily understand the landscape and add value without needing extensive archaeology I did also write some software that can call the Apptio servers and extract the meta-data (so for example get all the config for all of the tables) into a spreadsheet. This little personal project required a lot of research (web call tracing, and working out what minimised and obfuscated javascript was doing) and developing software to call Apptio pretending to be the browser to allow automating hundreds of individual calls to get the information. Apptio should provide an API to do this anyway, but don't. It requires a bit more work so that it will work automatically with each new release of Apptio.

Are there any hobbies that you enjoy? Playing music (I play guitar and bass reasonably well, keyboards/piano to some degree and used to play drums but hand/arm issue stops me now). Flying microlights (this is my current steed: https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/registration/G-UMMS and this was my previous one https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/registration/G-CDWO). I competed for the British team in international flying competitions in 2002/2003 (GB took Gold, came 9th in the world in the 2-seat flexwing class)

Do you have a favourite musician, author or artist? Or maybe you have a favourite podcast? If you can, tell us your favourite piece by them or an episode you particularly enjoyed! Favourite band is probably Queen. Favourite musician Brian May (who I've been keen to meet but it's never happened. Daughter #2's boyfriend has met him several times through family friends, annoyingly) At the moment I'm pretty obsessed with The Last Dinner Party. They are the most exciting band since Queen and the front woman Abigail is an incredible performer, the likes of which I've not seen since Freddie. My favourite podcast is probably The Rest Is Politics. I abhor most politicians but Rory Stewart is a clever, decent and thoughtful person who could do great things for society given the opportunity.

Where is your next holiday destination? Or, tell us about your favourite place away from home to visit... Indonesia and the Maldives. I love Indonesia (especially Gili Air off the northwest coast of Lombok) and been there many time. Next January my girlfriend wants to go to the Maldives as it's a "big birthday". It really doesn't appeal to me but managed to find some friends to tag along and combine it with a trip to Indonesia first. An acceptable compromise!

Do you have a favourite quote from someone you admire, that inspires you in some way? Whenever I find myself prone to gossiping I remind myself of this Eleanor Roosevelt quote "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people"

Please use this space for anything else you'd like to share with us! I have two daughters (22 and 25) who are both working in Audit for large accountancies to gain ACA qualification. Girlfriend's brother is a partner with PwC in Denver. It may be his remuneration that inspired their career choice! I'm curious. Sometimes this comes across as being nosey! I'm interested in many, many different things and find myself reasonably competent at most things technical. I loathe apathy. The reason you get bad service is because the previous person put up with it. And if you put up with it then the next person will get bad service. I call this the circle of apathy. Which is one of the reasons I've raised over 70 bug reports with Apptio in the last year :o) I find myself "destination focused". I fixate on the destination and don't enjoy the journey. I'm trying to change this. It's a problem because life's ultimate destination is...

It's Value Branch: UK

How long have you been with It's Value? 3 years, since September 2021

What is your background? Spend most of my working life as a qualified ACMA Accountant working in Technology Finance and as an IT Business Manager. I've been fortunate to have had roles at some major Investment banks and UK Insurers where I've been able to act as a bridge between Finance and IT Management teams. Roles I've enjoyed the most are where I've been able to use data analytics which, when coupled with ability to use organisational insight, has driven cost tracking process improvements, real implementation of cost efficiencies and commercial best practice.

What is your specialty area within the IT/Finance/TVM domain? IT Cost control and management, Data driven reporting and presentations, C suite influence and ability to use 20+ years of experience to help organisations manage their IT spend, improve their planning and budgeting and using Apptio to bring insight to Technology business management and processes.

What's one thing you've done / built so far in your time at It's Value that you're most proud of? Starting the inaugural TBMOaaS offering at Legal and General, Building out the Apptio model at Enstar and massively benefiting from a great Teacher (Steve T)

Are there any hobbies that you enjoy? I spend much of my downtime trying to make things out of wood and avoiding the notion that it's all the gear but not much of an idea.! :-)