When Paolo Juvara joined Pure Storage in 2021, he knew he had a vastly different role to fulfill. After being the CIO of one of the largest cloud companies in the world (Google Cloud), Paolo’s role at Pure Storage as the Chief Digital Transformation was to be quite an unusual venture. 

A software developer at heart, his diverse background in both business and technology domains has helped him ace the role.

In this exclusive interview with CIO Dimension, Paolo shares his unique experiences as the chief digital transformation officer who drives Pure’s ambitious digital agenda to meet the company’s innovation and growth goals. 

Watch the full video here: 

People should be at the center of every digital transformation project 

DX is all about leveraging technology. But you really cannot succeed if you are not focusing on people and process, says Paolo. He believes that digital leaders must be empathetic towards the needs of diverse set of users. 

“If you do not involve humans to begin with, by understanding their needs and challenges, then you are not going to find the right bottlenecks – whether your goal is to improve process efficiencies or drive innovation,” he adds. One of the ways he implements this strategy is through the formation of a product management team within the DX organization.

For a company that transformed storage into an innovation technology, all of Pure’s technology and business advances are complemented by digital transformation – to greatly amplify the outcomes. The starting point of a successful transformation project, says Paolo, is often the back office. “I would say back office is the foundation of everything else in digital transformation. If operational complexities are not addressed, they start becoming a huge bottleneck for the scalability and growth of the company. My number one priority has been to focus on the back-office operations so that we can remove all the internal friction.” 

In this interview, Paolo also highlights how the traditional ways of measuring the success of DX projects are changing, the importance of employee and customers experience in such initiatives and why organizations must clearly define the business outcomes at the very outset. 

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Vineet Jaiswal has joined Essar Oil (UK) as Chief Digital and Information Officer. He joins Essar from Vedanta Resources where he most recently served as the Group Chief Digital and Technology officer, heading group wide responsibility for digital, IT and innovation functions. 

Essar Oil UK is a leading UK-focused downstream energy company whose main asset is the Stanlow Manufacturing Complex, one of the most advanced refineries in Europe situated close to the major cities of Liverpool and Manchester. Stanlow is the second largest refinery in UK. 

In his Linkedin post announcing the new position, Jaiswal said that Essar’s focus when it comes to new investments is around three themes, namely decarbonization, decentralisation and digitisation, all of which will drive future investments in the cutting edge of technology. He emphasized that the organization’s focus is to take integrated chains of infrastructure and transition them into green sustainable assets by decarbonising and making them future ready and accessible for next 20-25 years. 

“ESG has been quite close to my heart, and this role gives me tremendous opportunity to apply my learnings and in the process, help accelerate this transformational journey. I am super excited and looking forward to learn from new set of challenges and opportunities.”

“ESG has been quite close to my heart, and this role gives me tremendous opportunity to apply my learnings and in the process, help accelerate this transformational journey. I am super excited and looking forward to learn from new set of challenges and opportunities,” Jaiswal wrote. 

As the CDO & CTO of Vedanta Resources, Jaiswal spearheaded transformation initiatives that led to positive business impact across the value chain resulting in improvement of top-line/bottom-line as well as ESG benefits. 

In his career spanning three decades, he has also worked with organizations such as JSW, GE Digital, GE Energy Connections, GE Power Conversion, and GE Consumer & Industrial. 

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