About Christiane |

Corporate Culture, Cyber Security, Business and Technology Transformation

Christiane Wuillamie has over 25 years of business experience. She has run software companies and led technology groups within financial institutions.

Christiane is an expert in shaping technology, security, business systems and cultural change to help companies across the globe solve complex business challenges.

In 1994, she set up CWB, an international consulting, software and managed services company. She grew her business by 100%, year-on-year, without any external investment, and exited through a trade sale after seven years.

Christiane credits her company’s success to its thriving culture, which was based on accountability, feedback and personal development.

She has won many awards, notably an OBE for her services to business and tireless support of SMEs.

Christiane is co-founder and CEO of Pyxis Culture Technologies, which specialises in predictive culture analytics for business growth and improvement.

www.pyxisculture.com

When Christiane is not following her amazing daughter Stephanie‘s musical career, she enjoys watching sports notably Rugby, Athletics and Tennis, she has a motor racing licence and loves her cat Sibelius.

Board Director Experience:

March 2022 – Present

Non-Executive Board Director and Shareholder’s Representative

March 2019 – August 2021

Board director at Electrosonic

Applied Experiential Technology Company
Business Transformation & Board Governance

2011 – 2017

NED trustee of global INGO of WaterAid

Member of Risk & Remuneration Committees.
Two terms limit (6 years)
Contribution in Technology, Cyber Security, HR, Board enhancements

Awards:

2000 Virgin/Sunday Times Profit Track 100
1999 Virgin/Sunday Times Fast Track 100
1999 Finalist Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year
1998 Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year Finalist
2017 Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for Services to Business

Interests:

Member Pinnacle – The Pan-Asian Corporate Board Initiative
Member of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers
Fellow of the United Nations – Institute for Responsible Leadership
Visiting Senior Fellow in Entrepreneurship & Business Turnaround at Suffolk Business School
Ambassador for The Commonwealth Women’s Entrepreneurship Accelerator Programme (CWEA)

Born in Vietnam and educated in France during the Vietnam War, Christiane Wuillamie came to the UK at the age of 17 as she felt England offered more opportunities for young talent. Her organisational skills were recognised by the UNHCR and she helped set up and organise a camp for arriving Vietnamese boat-people. Always a self-starter, in 1979, she took a computer course to learn programming. It was the beginning of a rapid and successful career in IT and business. On the way, she became Head of Software Development for a company providing Software for the Medical industry, her corporate exposure began at Savory Milln, where she quickly became Head of IT, then moved on to Credit Suisse and other senior IT jobs.

In 1994 she started her own IT services company, CWB Systems Ltd. with the goal of rescueing troubled IT projects & organisations in the Financial Services sector with a pioneering Fixed Price model. Her unique ability to inspire trust and solve big problems landed assignments with all the major banks in the UK, US, Russia and Asia. CWB Systems experienced rapid growth of 100% year on year over 7 years and receiving numerous accolades and awards, the company was totally self-funded.

The accelerated 100% year on year growth of CWB was achieved through Christiane’s strong belief in equality and diversity in the workplace, strong people processes and Corporate Culture.

In 2001, Christiane sold CWB Systems to the French technology firm, Thales.

Christiane lives full time in London and has a boutique advisory firm, ELEGIUS, which specialises in exceptional business advisory services for large global organisations in need of Business Transformation through Digital, IT Restructuring and Management Reorganisation. As a Senior Business Advisor and Trouble-Shooter she instills management discipline and business expertise to align the entire organisation (People-Process-Technology) for successful growth.

Christiane is a Visiting Senior Fellow in Entrepreneurship and Turnaround at the University of Suffolk.

“Christiane came into our firm as an advisor and quickly helped establish the management discipline, focus, alignment and controls necessary to ensure our continued growth and success. A day with Christiane is like a super-condensed MBA, only in the real world!”

Christiane Wuillamie OBE

If you are serious about restructuring and business transformation, Christiane is available for advisory support or hands-on assignments.

About Christiane