CX 100 2023 EMEA
100 Leaders transforming customer experience
2023 has already seen both tremendous innovation coupled with challenging circumstances.
We’ve seen immense technological advances in AI find their way into the enterprise. We’ve also seen more economic uncertainty and hiring and resource challenges, both compounded by the ever-rising customer expectations for experience.
In all times of transition, there are leaders that rise up high enough above the “now” to see opportunity. PolyAI is recognizing those leaders and the unique ways in which they approached this liminal time. What’s particularly impressive to us is that the leaders driving change in customer experience are often the most under-appreciated.
These individuals lead teams that interface between brand and customer, hold the voice (often literally, through the call center) of the brand, and lead the way for customer value and loyalty.
100 transforming CX in 2023
We’ve assembled a superstar list from several industries and angles of supporting their customers and each person earned their spot by being bold and innovative in a time that requires both.
Lewis Day
Currys
Head of Customer Strategy & Experience
Harriet Hunter
British Airways
Director of Customer Care
Jon Ainsworth
Atos
CEO
Matt Arnull
Whitbread
Head of Architecture and Strategy
Pooja Bagga
Royal Mail
Divisional CIO/Technology Director
Pål Bjelkengren
DHL
VP Customer Service
David Blackhurst
Mitchells and Butlers
Central Operations Director
Kirk Bradley
Bupa
Director of Customer Service
James Brown
BrewDog
CEO
Claire Calmejane
Societe Generale
Chief Innovation Officer
Romuald Cetkovic
Maisons du Monde
Group Customer Services Director
Stéphanie Charlaix Meyer
Air France
SVP Customer Service
Sean Charlton
Barclays
MD : CIO of Contact Centres
Ankit Chhajer
Barclays
Managing Director – CIO, Head of Voice, Chat and Conversational AI
Ed Colley
Belron UK
Head Of Marketing and Digital
Anna Cook
Sky
Managing Director – Customer Service
Dave Copping
FedEx
Manager Customer Experience – UK, Nordics, Benelux, France
Richard Coulthard
Domestic & General
Director of Customer Care
Dan Craddock
Plan.com
CEO & Co-Founder
Adam Dangerfield
WeWork
Head of International SMB Sales
Andrea Davidson
John Lewis & Partners
Operations Manager
Uriah De Pauw
Miele
Head of Contact Center
Rajat Dhawan
Soho House
Global Chief Technology Officer
Franck Drecourt
Adeo
Head of Customer & Commerce Digital Platform
George Eckton
Citizens Advice Scotland
Director of Advice Services
Dan Eddie
Simplyhealth
Director of Customer Service
Christophe Famechon
Fnac-Darty
Directeur de la Relation Client
Saqr Fassi Fehri
Accor
Senior Vice-President, Global Guest Engagement, Care and Reservation Centres
Jan Henrik Flasch
TUI
Head of Technology Customer Contact Platforms
Simon Giraudy
Bouygues Telecom
Director of Strategy and Innovation, Customer Care
Vicente Gonzalez Ferrer
ING España & Portugal
VP Customer Services, Contact Centers and A.I./Virtual Assistants
Niina Hauhio
Elisa
Director of Customer Service and CX, Customer Service (B2C & B2B) Process Owner
Stuart Haycox
BT
Head of Service Technology & Change
Olivier Heitz
Swisscom
Product Owner, Service Assurance Automation, Conversational AI
Samantha Hornsby
M&S
Head of Customer Operations
Gordana Horvat
Hrvatski Telekom
Digital Transformation Project Manager
Steve Hubbard
Direct Line Group
Head of Multi-channel Strategy
Willemijn Jansen
Direct Line Group
Head of Multi-channel Strategy
Harj Johal
The AA
Managing Director, Customer Operations
Adel Kadric
Deloitte Digital
Senior Manager, Digital Customer
Romain Kara
SNCF
Directeur Relation Client
Taner Karacan
FedEx
Vice President Customer Experience Operations Europe
Gregor Kastner
Allianz
Global Head of Service Delivery & Operations for Contact Center Solutions
Tracy Kennedy
Ryanair
Director Of Customer Service
Anne-Sophie Lagorsse
ChronoPost
Innovation, projects and customer experience director
Michelle Lancaster
Sainsburys
Head of Change Sainsbury’s Contact Centre
Anna Lane
Morrisons
Customer Director
Willie Law
TTEC
Customer Director
Marie-Laure Léger
Canal+
Directrice Relation Client Canal+
John Leighton
EasyJet
Customer Service Director
Gary Matthews
Nationwide Building Society
Member Contact & Services Director
Kirsti McKernan
Just Eat
Director of Customer Service, UK and Ireland
Alistair McMillan
RAC
Director of Contact Centers
Mark Millet
Greene King
Business Unit Director
Andrew Moorhouse
Gartner
Senior Director Analyst
Anna Mossberg
SAS – Scandinavian Airlines
Head of Global Customer Service
Vedran Mrvica
UniCredit (Zagrebačka banka)
Head of Contact Center
José Antonio Navarro
Barceló Hotel Group
Global Head of Contact Center
Gonzalo Carpintero Navarro
Radisson Hotel Group
SVP Business Transformation & Operations
Ian Naylor
Booking.com
Head of Customer Strategy & Planning
Alison Nicol
FedEx
Project Operations Lead
Jose Antonio Nieto López
Santander Digital Services
Head of Global CoE – Contact Centers and Virtual Assistants
Jessica Niewierra
ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
Managing Director Contact Center | Digital Transformation | Combining Human and Digital
Hannah Northern Thakur
Bupa
Group Head of Customer Experience
Alan O’Loughlin
Blueface (A Comcast Business Company)
CTO
Jeroen Panken
Deloitte Digital
Director, Next-Generation Customer Service
Sebastien Passedouet
PMU
Directeur des Services et de la Relation Client
Nathan Pearson
HSBC
Global Head of Conversational Banking
Jérome Pechinot
Orange Bank
Directeur Expérience clients
Åsa Peterson
Danske Bank
Head of Customer Service/p>
Chris Petryna
Cote Brasserie
IT Manager
Sarah Pope
The Big Table
CIO/IT Director
Diane Priso
BforBank (Groupe Crédit agricole)
Head of Customer Service (Responsable Relation clients)
Lee Protheroe
Metro Bank
Head of Contact Centres
Paul Pugal
FedEx
MD Customer Experience UK & Ireland
Nicolas Rüsch
UBS
Executive Director, Head Contact Center Switzerland – Hub Zürich (CCS) bei UBS Switzerland AG
Catherine Rutter
Lloyd’s
Director Group Customer Inclusion
Danilo Sala
Intesa Sanpaolo
Head of Contact Center Project and Support Team in the Telecommunication Office
Jorge Sanchez Valverde
Telefonica
Customer Experience Director
Simon Separghan
NatWest
Managing Director, Customer Experience & Contact
Pooja Bagga
Royal Mail
Divisional CIO/Technology Director
Simon Shaw
Virgin Media O2
Managing Director, Customer Experience & Contact
Razvan Sighinas
ING Group
Global head of Infrastructure and Engineering
Stacey Smith
B&Q
Head of Customer Service
Felix Steinhauser
Sixt
Director of Global Business Services
Lindsay Stephen
Tesco
Product Owner
Roger Tabbal
Accor
Vice President Global Guest Technology & Innovation
Jeff Tamblingson
The Very Group
Head of Customer Care Operations
Vinay Tewarie
Aegon NL
Product Owner OCC
Neil Tolley
FourteenIP
Managing Director
Valentina Topi
MSC Cruises
Head of Contact Center Management/p>
Valentina Topi
MSC Cruises
Head of Contact Center Management
Nick Viles
TTEC
Head of Customer Experience & Analytics Consulting for TTEC EMEA
Bertrand Vuillemin
Orange Bank
Directeur Service Client Orange Bank
Lovro Vuksa
UniCredit (Zagrebačka banka)
Head of ZABA 24
Adam Waite
Centrica
Head of Digital Conversations & AI
David Walker
EE, part of BT
Head of Customer Technology & Innovation
Jon Wells
Carnival UK
Director, Customer Contact
Haydn Williams
NatWest
Head of Financial Health & Support
Charity Wood
Starling Bank
Head of Customer Experience
Tim Yates
Vodafone
Head of Strategy & Portfolio Management for Customer Service, Operations & Digital
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