Jalpesh Thakkar

Jalpesh Thakkar, also known as "Jay," is a dynamic visionary leader with over 20 years of experience in transforming enterprise technologies and services. Thakkar has a proven track record of delivering exceptional results, driving growth, and accelerating business success through his strategic approach. Thakkar's expertise lies in building frameworks for business/IT strategies, digitizing enterprises, and developing cutting-edge technologies that promote agility, scalability, acceleration, and user experience.

Thakkar has held various leadership roles in prominent organizations such as L'Oreal, Google, and the Federal Aviation Administration. In his most recent role at L'Oreal, Thakkar served as the Assistant Vice President and Head of Enterprise Architecture Office; Strategy & Governance. He was responsible for leading the enterprise architecture and governance strategy, driving innovation, and digitizing L'Oreal's multi-billion-dollar global enterprise execution.

Thakkar is known for his ability to empower leadership to promote collaboration, engagement, and connectivity across functional, regional, and cultural boundaries. He is skilled in driving architecture best practices via blueprinting and framework to deliver on strategic drivers that achieve real business outcomes. Thakkar is also an expert in composing business capabilities, building a solid business architecture, and embracing IT strategic planning.

Thakkar is a trusted partner by stakeholders for leadership and agile execution, an entrepreneur, and innovator with experience in intellectual property development & governance. He is committed to solving complex business challenges with thoughtful and clearly defined processes that improve the customer experience, digitize agile processes, deliver scalable solutions, and achieve operational excellence.