Eberhard Ruess is a former corporate Vice President at Nestle, the world’s largest Food & Beverage company with 30+ years professional experience across Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Information Technology and Mergers & Acquisitions. This includes 20+ years of operational and project experience, managing and driving business transformations on global scale through Information Technology.

For the past 8 years, he has been part of the global IT leadership team. First, he led IT for supply chain and procurement, and then in the role of head of the CIO office, he oversaw the transformation of the company's IT from a project-based operating model to a product-based operating model, impacting several thousand employees.

In his third stage of life, Eberhard is particularly interested in how to get many people excited about the planet. How to activate them without restricting freedoms. He hopes to bring this and his views on how to transform IT from ‘useful to easy’ into the Expert Network of OpenESG.