London / Paris · Immediately available

Christophe
Lys-Septier

Programme & Transformation Leader | M&A Integration | AI & Technology Transformation | International Expansion

Turning complex strategic change into operational capability.

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.

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12+Years leading change

£100m+Acquisition programme scale

15+Concurrent workstreams led

500+Activities governed in one programme

Selected programmes

Complex change,
made executable.

A selection of programmes where strategy, technology, governance and operational readiness had to move together.

AI · Data · Infrastructure

Enterprise 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
Security, observability and 24/7 operational readiness

M&A · Infrastructure · International Expansion

Cross-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
Regulatory, legal and commercial coordination

M&A · Technology · Integration

Gaming 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
Executive reporting and decision control

Cloud · Data · Platform

Cloud & 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
Data, observability and security coordination

Career

Experience across transformation, technology and operations.

More than twelve years across programme leadership, technology delivery, digital transformation and international environments.

01June 2025 — March 2026London · International

Programme Manager (TUPE transfer from The Workshop)

Quartz Enterprises

Post-merger integration, acquired gaming-platform transition, enterprise AI delivery and leadership of the project-management team.

£100m+ acquisition governance across 15+ workstreamsAcquired platform integration and transitionReusable enterprise LLM platformManaged one Senior PM and two PMs

02March 2022 — May 2025London · International

Programme Manager · previously Senior Project Manager

The Workshop Ltd

International expansion, acquisition and post-merger integration, data-centre delivery, company establishment, engineering portfolio governance and PMO capability.

£25m Colombia acquisition and operational hub263-rack data-centre programme500+ activity governance modelDublin company establishmentGlobal domain-registrar integration

03May 2019 — February 2022London · Global

Project Manager

FDJ United · FDJ Gaming Solutions / Sporting Solutions

Global cloud, sports-data, betting-platform, customer migration and enterprise-service programmes in a regulated environment.

£5m combined programme budgetsSporting Solutions data platform migration to GCPRingCentral and ServiceNow rolloutEnterprise customers across seven countries

04September 2017 — May 2019Paris · Europe

Digital & IT Project Manager

Pickup Services, DPDgroup / Human Job

Customer notifications, parcel tracking, collection journeys and digital propositions across a multi-country last-mile network.

600k emails and 300k SMS per day40,000 pickup points across 26 countries2018 FEVAD award-winning delivery conceptParcel tracking and locker programmes

05September 2015 — August 2017Paris

Digital Strategy Adviser

Office of Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet

Digital strategy and delivery across national and local political campaigns, fundraising, mobilisation and community operations.

Four national and local campaign websites545 email campaignsContact base scaled from 102k to 1.5m+Managed digital and community teams

06October 2013 — September 2015Paris

Digital Project Manager

Institut Louis Bachelier

Digital publishing and platform development for a research institute connecting academic and financial-sector communities.

LouisBachelier.org platform strategy and deliveryVendor selection and launch15,000-contact databaseSEO and digital publishing

Expertise

Where I operate best.

Senior programme leadership at the point where strategy meets complex cross-functional execution.

01Enterprise Programmes & Portfolios↗

02Post-Merger Integration & Day 1 Readiness↗

03International Expansion & Business Establishment↗

04Executive Governance & Critical Decisions↗

05AI, Data, Cloud & Platform Programmes↗

06Integrated Planning, RAID & Dependencies↗

07PMO Capability & Delivery Frameworks↗

08Vendor, Financial & Cross-Functional Leadership↗

Insights

Ideas from complex programme delivery.

Short essays on governance, delivery confidence, transformation and the realities of making complex programmes work.

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.

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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.

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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.

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Insights are structured as editable content so new articles can be published without changing the page design.

Contact

Working on something complex?

I’m open to senior programme management, transformation, M&A integration and PMO leadership opportunities.

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