Isabel van Mele

Chief Data Officer ING Unite

Isabel is a “Thought Leader” where her vision and thoroughness have been key for success. She has both the business and technical knowledge that are required for driving IT transformations. Isabel takes advantage of excellent communication skills in partnering with the different stakeholders (Business, IT, Operations, Procurement) at C-level. Since 2011, Isabel is working at ICT director level. For 17 years, Isabel worked as Chief Architect leading digital transformations, designing and implementing smart Service Oriented Architectures for several companies in Europe. She defined technical solutions for the most complex projects, resolving impossible or troubled projects to a successful end and created new assets with business impact. Isabel has the unique capabilities to quickly master very complex environments, analyze the pain points, work out the vision and communicate up to C-level executives. She is specialized in designing the 'big data lake' vision, leading complex system integrations and business application modernization into production. In August 2012, Isabel was elected as member of the prestigious international IBM Academy of Technology, consisting of IBM top technical talents. She received multiple outstanding technical achievement awards.