Karel Pleva Joins IDC Financial Insights as Program Director to Guide Banks and Insurance Companies on Their Digital Transformation Journey

LONDON, England, March 15 -- International Data Corp., a provider of market intelligence and advisory services, issued the following news release:

IDC Financial Insights announces the appointment of Karel Pleva as program director, driving IDC's consulting business with financial institutions across the European region. This will help banks, insurance companies, and other technology end users to take their digital transformation forward and conceptualize digital road maps based on IDC thought-leadership research and industry best practices. He will also support IDC's vendor consulting business.

Pleva has 15 years' strategic management consulting experience, working first at McKinsey & Co. and later as vice president/partner at A.T. Kearney. Before joining IDC, he was a board-level executive in a credit insurance company, where one of his areas of focus was implementation of the Solvency II requirements. Having seen how large corporations sometimes struggle with the adoption of new technologies alongside old processes and legacy systems, Pleva is a firm believer in progressive legacy transformation while exploring new opportunities and partnerships with fintechs, platforms, and shared industry collaboration. He wants to help clients develop innovative, technology-assisted business strategies and processes, and as a universalist he covers all domains of digital transformation in the banking and insurance industries.

"We're very proud to have Karel join the team and take our consulting business to new heights," said Thomas Zink, research director, IDC Financial Insights. "As a seasoned consultant, Karel brings a rich set of capabilities and expertise to the team to help our financial and tech supplier customers optimize their IT strategy and make better and more informed business and technology decisions."

In his management consulting career, focused on financial institutions and utility industries, Pleva advised C-level clients in multiple geographies, from Central and Eastern Europe to the Middle East and the United States. In helping his clients increase their competitiveness, he has acquired deep expertise in a broad range of strategic and operational issues. He created corporate and business line strategies, managed mergers and post-merger situations, streamlined retail and customer service processes, created shared service centers, and optimized back-office processes, as well as capital budgeting and risk management processes.

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