Nicola Dourambeis is an accomplished and experienced entrepreneur, innovative strategist, and a noteworthy figure in the field of Agile transformation and organizational change. He has led several organizations in delivering software, infrastructure, and cloud services with high-performing teams. Nicola is a passionate builder of exceptional products using top-of-the-line technologies, and excels at bringing people, processes, and technology together to create a culture of innovation, empowerment, and quality.

Nicola has a strong expertise in Enterprise Cloud Computing, building powerful engineering teams, managing complex programs, developing applications, and infrastructure. With deep organizational knowledge, Nicola has successfully delivered Agile transformations at scale and is adept at motivating first-class engineering teams. He has managed complex projects with geographically distributed teams and turned around many stalled delivery programs.

Nicola has held several leadership positions throughout his career. He is the CEO at Purple Agility and formerly held the position of Vice President, Infrastructure Delivery, Technical Program Management, and Agile at Salesforce. Additionally, he served as Head of Agile Delivery at Salesforce and Senior Agile Coach at Yahoo, among others.

Nicola has an excellent educational background, having studied management at New York University and obtained his Masters of Arts degree from Mcgill University. He also obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queen's University.

Nicola is renowned within the industry as one of the "21 Rising Technical SuperStars" of 2013, an invited keynote speaker, and an Agile expert. His specialties include Employee and Leadership Development, Scale in High Growth Environments, Audit & Compliance, Business Enablement, Turnaround Situations, DevOps, Agile, Extreme programming, Scrum, Kanban, and Lean methodologies.