Kevin Samuelson enter the living room hotel Barcelona that’s exactly where he stayed after finishing a meeting where there was talk of even greater expansion in the city. For InformationThe American technology company he is the CEO of, this is a core market: it has the second largest office in Europe, the industries it targets are an economic engine (automotive Y feed), and here, the director concludes, people from all over Europe. In fact, 80% of the 300 people working in this office (There are 25 more in Madrid) are from abroad. “People from all over Europe are dying to come and live in Barcelona, where we have such a wide variety of roles and capacities,” says Samuelson. “The only bad thing is that the employee doesn’t want to leave when he’s ready to take the next step in the company,” he jokes.
Therein lies the intention to strengthen its presence in the city to a large extent. And while Samuelson doesn’t specify his plans, he admits he’s thinking about it. open new positionsadd more senior profiles and finding ways to mature employees’ careers here as well.
information a software company with headquartered in new york With 20 years of experience and operating in the same segment HANDLE Y prophecy. It is owned by the business holding since February 2020. Koç Industries, “A giant billing $120,000 million” (about €118,000 million) and helped them enter $3,200 million in the last fiscal year. The key, according to Samuelson, is his cloud-hosted programs Managing the operations of companies in very specific industries.
“In this industry a ERP [sistema de planificación de recursos de la empresa] for all industries, and we’ve seen that this can be part of the problem because it takes a lot of customization to fit the same product into so many different areas,” explains the CEO of Infor. So they designed their systems with only certain sectors in mind: On the one hand, automotive, aviation Y defense; for the other, fashion Y feed; and finally, distribution. “This combination of our uniqueness and talent in each industry has given us a great growth curve,” says the executive.
Especially in Spain, his brand is not in the public domain as much as its competitors, but that doesn’t worry Samuelson, who thinks it’s well-known among companies in Infor’s target industries. In fact, he just came back from dinner last night, as he admitted. finance manager of a company devoted to the automotive world. “The advantage is that we don’t have to invest time and money in g.major advertising campaigns: we can focus on what we are good at and be recognized there”, she thinks. Among the customers that can be counted Carolina Herrera anyone zaniniFor example.
In this way, the main challenge here is pretty much the same as for all of Europe: tapping into the power that SAP has and working to make companies feel even more comfortable with the cloud. “I don’t think Spain lags behind other countries. Europebut Europe is far behind United States of AmericaAcknowledging that the moment is the key to progress, Samuelson concludes. “We’re at a very interesting moment where there’s going to be a lot of disruption, so the market leaders five years from now will be very different from those now,” says the executive who works with the exact company. intention to be one of them.