Alessandro is the founding director of Lightblue Cognitive Solutions. Lightblue Cognitive Solutions is an artificial intelligence consulting and software development house, delivering intelligent automation, augmentation & advanced analytics solutions.

He has over twenty five years experience within the information technology industry, with twenty years consulting experience within tier one organisations.

His key skills are sales, solutioning, contract management and delivery management of cognitive (artificial intelligence), large complex digital transformations, enterprise information strategies, data warehousing and information management engagements leveraging design thinking (agile) practices.

He has extensive experience of the Financial Services (Insurance & Banking industry) and Retail sectors.

He has strong credibility, delivery and management skills, based on an ability to develop and maintain relationships with customers at all levels combined with a deep and broad knowledge of the underlying technologies and how they can be applied to achieve business benefit.

He was the sales and delivery lead for IBM Global Business Services Consulting in the Western Cape based in Cape Town and has previously held the positions of IBM Global Business Services Cognitive (Artificial Intelligence) lead for Middle East & Africa and Service Line Lead for the IBM Business Analytics and Optimisation (Analytics, Data Warehousing & Information Management) practice for South Africa based out of Johannesburg.

Alessandro is passionate about new technologies such as intelligent business automation and the internet of things and its real-world application to achieve economic and social benefit.