Mauricio Hernandez

🎯 Global Data & AI executive (25+ yrs, 20+ countries) turning analytics into tangible P&L impact. I lead enterprise programs that blend advanced analytics, intelligent automation, robust data governance, and responsible AI to unlock measurable value. 

🚀 Developed and led Data & AI adoption strategies, integrating ethical principles 🧭 into global digital transformation 🌍💻.

✨ Build high-performing teams, 🌍 architect scalable Data Marketplaces, and champion 🔒 compliant, 🤖 AI-powered innovation.

📊 Results: +25% sales efficiency • 95% master-data quality with −62% cycle time • 3,500+ users on a global Data Marketplace • >€1M annual savings via automation • −12% energy costs • 30 % operational cost savings • 8 % operational uplift • ~10% logistics-cost reduction via a supply-chain digital twin.

🤝 Trusted C-suite advisor and builder of multilingual, high-performing teams, scaling ethical, compliant AI in complex, regulated environments. 


📊 What I deliver:
• Strategy to ROI: Board-approved roadmaps, funding cases, and KPI guardrails that tie data, analytics & AI to growth, cost, and risk outcomes.
• AI at scale: From pilots to products—GenAI copilots with RAG over governed data, predictive ML, MLOps, human-in-the-loop, prompt standards & evaluation, and Responsible AI guardrails (security by design).
• Scalable platforms: Azure + Databricks + Power BI / Snowflake architectures with vector DBs, feature store, semantic layer, and orchestration that compress time-to-decision and enable self-service at scale.
• Operational excellence: Enterprise MDM, governance (GDPR/ISO; EU AI Act–ready), and Automation/AIOps that stabilize services and free capacity. 

🧩 How I work:
• Business-backed use cases: prioritized by ROI and speed-to-value. 
• Adoption at scale: Data Literacy & Data Ambassador programs; early-adopter waves for New Tech to embed GenAI safely and productively. 
• Change leadership: Cross-functional governance (C-suite to ops), clear ownership, and guardrails that sustain outcomes beyond go-live. 

🤝 I partner with organizations ready to scale digital capabilities with purpose and precision—lifting revenue, lowering cost, and de-risking operations while advancing responsible AI.

• Global Head of Data, Analytics & AI, Omya (CH, global): Designed & executed the global Data & AI strategy across 50+ countries; delivered the impacts above. 
• Danone (multiple roles, EU/global): Head of Data & Digital Transformation; Global Program Director (Network Design & Digital Twin); IS Governance Manager; BI leadership roles. Delivered −30% indirect costs, cloud BI migration, and benchmark governance. 

B.S., Computer Systems & Management | ITESM, Mexico | Excellence Honors, Best Student Award

Master in Personal Development and Leadership | Barcelona University, Spain | Excellence Honors

Continuous training: Data Mesh, Snowflake Architecture, Collibra Stewardship