PMO & governance
Need to simplify fragmented governance?
Turn reporting overhead into clear ownership, decision routes and a governance system people can actually use.
London · Paris · International
Christophe
Lys-Septier
Programme Manager | Technical & Technology Programmes | M&A Integration | PMO & Governance | Data, AI & Enterprise Transformation | Turning Strategy into Operational Reality
Programme and transformation leader with more than 12 years of experience leading complex strategic change across acquisitions and post-merger integration, international expansion, business establishment, technology platforms, data centres, cloud and AI.
12+Years leading change
£100m+Acquisition programme scale
15+Concurrent workstreams led
500+Activities governed in one programme
Transformation in practice
Complexity should become easier to run.
Workstream coordination
Need to align parallel workstreams?
Connect teams, milestones and dependencies so separate delivery streams move as one programme.
Budget & risk
Need earlier visibility of budget and risk?
Bring forecast, actuals and exposure together so intervention happens before overspend or delivery risk becomes material.
Selected programmes
Complex change.
Clear execution.
AI · Data · Infrastructure
01Enterprise AI Platform
Led the programme to establish enterprise capability for LLM training and serving, bringing together Data, Platform Engineering, ML Engineering, Infrastructure and Customer Operations.
Targeting ~9,000 hours/month of manual work reduction
- Enterprise model serving and training capability
- Model-agnostic API abstraction
M&A · Infrastructure · International Expansion
02Cross-Border Acquisition & Data Centre
Directed a ~£25m acquisition and operational establishment programme in Colombia spanning property, data centre infrastructure, office fit-out, legal entity creation, recruitment and transition to operations.
100+ seat operational hub established
- Property acquisition and due diligence
- Data centre power, cooling, network and server infrastructure
M&A · Technology · Integration
03Gaming Platform Acquisition & Integration
Built programme governance for a nine-figure acquisition involving a core online gaming platform and multiple brands, coordinating integration readiness across business and technology workstreams.
15+ coordinated workstreams
- Integration governance and readiness gates
- Cross-functional dependency management
Cloud · Data · Platform
04Cloud & Data Transformation
Delivered cloud and data initiatives including migration of a data platform to GCP and later platform, SRE, database, security and observability programmes.
Multi-team technology transformation
- GCP migration
- Platform and SRE delivery
The Journey
Built through delivery.
2013 — 2017Digital programmes
Digital platforms and audience growth
Built the foundations in digital product delivery, platform launches, audience growth and vendor-led execution.
1.5m+ audience reachedPlatform strategy and launchHigh-volume digital communicationsTeam and vendor coordination
2017 — 2019Pickup Services · DPDgroup
Last-mile digital services
Delivered high-volume customer notification, tracking and delivery propositions across a multi-country parcel network.
600k emails + 300k SMS/day40,000 pickup points across 26 countriesAward-winning rapid-delivery conceptTracking, locker and notification programmes
2019 — 2022FDJ UNITED
Global cloud and data programmes
Managed concurrent technology programmes across cloud migration, data platforms, enterprise services and customer delivery.
~£5m combined programme budgetsFDJ Gaming Solutions and Sporting SolutionsGCP data-platform migrationEnterprise customers across seven countries
2022 — 2025The Workshop Ltd
Colombia acquisition and operational hub
Led a cross-border acquisition and business-establishment programme spanning property, construction, technology, recruitment and operational readiness.
£25m programme · 263-rack data centre100+ employee operational hubComplex infrastructure deliveryOperational transition
2023 — 2025The Workshop Ltd
Programme governance at scale
Designed a programme-control system built around distributed ownership, automation, exception reporting and executive decision support.
500+ activities · 95% adoption15+ concurrent workstreams85 milestones and 23 critical decisionsTwo-person central team controlling programme scale
2025 — 2026Quartz Enterprises
Enterprise AI platform
Led delivery of reusable enterprise LLM capability across operations, data, ML engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure and security.
~9,000 agent hours/month opportunityModel-agnostic APICentralised model servingHuman approval retained for record updates
2025 — 2026Quartz Enterprises
Major acquisition and platform integration
Led governance and cross-functional coordination for a major acquisition, aligning Day 1, continuity and post-completion integration across business and technology.
£100m+ acquisition · 15+ workstreamsExecutive readiness viewTechnology and operational integrationSupplier transition and decision governance
Expertise
What I bring to complex change.
Enterprise Programmes & Portfolios
Structuring complex portfolios around outcomes, ownership, sequencing, capacity and executive decisions rather than status reporting.
Post-Merger Integration & Day 1
Turning acquisition strategy into Day 1 readiness, business continuity and practical post-completion integration across business and technology.
International Expansion
Coordinating legal, regulatory, workplace, technology, infrastructure, recruitment and operating-model readiness for new entities and hubs.
Executive Governance
Giving sponsors a concise view of readiness, financial exposure, material risk and the decisions where leadership intervention is required.
AI, Data, Cloud & Platforms
Leading technical programmes while keeping integration, support, adoption and operational outcomes connected to delivery.
Integrated Planning & Control
Connecting milestones, critical path, RAID, dependencies and decision routes into one executable view of programme reality.
PMO & Delivery Systems
Building reusable governance and workflow systems that distribute accountability, automate control and scale without adding bureaucracy.
Vendor & Financial Leadership
Managing suppliers, forecasts, purchase commitments, actuals and cross-functional trade-offs so commercial exposure stays visible.
Insights
Ideas worth carrying into delivery.
Programme Governance
When Green Isn't Really Green
A programme can stay green long after delivery confidence has started to deteriorate. The issue is often not the status itself, but what the status is allowed to hide.
Risk & Decision-Making
The Risk Wasn't in the Plan
The most consequential programme risks are not always visible in the RAID log. Sometimes the real challenge is discovering that an assumption was never true in the first place.
PMO & Delivery Systems
Governance Should Reduce Work
Good governance is not more reporting. It is a system that distributes ownership, surfaces exceptions and gives leadership the information needed to decide.
Contact
Turn complexity into momentum.
If you have a programme that needs clearer control, stronger alignment or faster decisions, let’s talk.
Start a conversation on LinkedIn