2021 Global CEO Excellence Awards

40 CEO MONTHLY / GLOBAL CEO EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2021 CEO MONTHLY / GLOBAL CEO EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2021 41 , , May21032 Property Technology CEO of the Year (UK): Ryan Dempsey Providing compliance document checks and free Compliance Health Checks for all types of businesses, TCWuses Golden Thread Transparency to connect your goals to your outcome. CEO Ryan Dempsey talks to us about TCWand his success. CEO of TCW, Ryan Dempsey, introduces his company as “an innovative Data and Analytics technology package, which provides clients with unrivalled access to information Insights direct from the many different digital documents they receive from multiple locations”. By providing all businesses, across many sectors, with a service that enriches their knowledge and information of legal compliance, TCW enables them to grow and reach their desired outcomes. Its software turns previously unsearchable documents into a mass of searchable data, providing clients with entirely factual information so that they may achieve true assurance for future developments. Essentially, when looking at PDF figures, they can be encrypted and unstructured. TCW creates the facility to structure data to create a User Interface so that you may interact with the data. Through TCW, you can calculate the accuracy and legal compliance of an assessment with this data, and this can be done across millions of documents in the time that it would usually take to do one. Enabling data driven planning and strategic decision making, TCW takes the whole asset lifecycle into consideration to look for trends in the data from all documents, truly informing decision making and adherence to efficient budget spending. It decreases risk and increases productivity. Ryan says, “TCW technology is widely used in social housing in the UK, National Rail Concessions, and the Facilities Management sector. Our PropTech solution is under the radar of many international brands and it is only a matter of time before benefits will be seen by clients worldwide”. It is of utmost importance that a team can work together under great pressure when it comes to legal compliance and Data Analytics Technology. “Team TCW has brought together some of the most innovative and out-of-the-box thinkers, to create something unique which is transforming the way organisations understand Corporate Risk Profiling,” says Ryan. “The team at TCW prides itself on being forward-thinking, passionate, and purposeful. We look to create solutions that enable clients to be proactive, and completely remove public risk by being a dependable and reliable provider.” With a clear vision, Ryan tells us, “Our core values focus on innovation, trust, respect and honesty, alongside being an agile company that can react quickly to industry changes in direction and customer requests”. When it comes to Ryan’s leadership style, he believes that external verification is one of the top ways to demonstrate that your vision is shared by your potential client base. “My main priority is the development and growth of TCW, but I do develop specifications for clients, and partake in many industry forums, podcasts, and board meetings. If you share your knowledge and experience with others, you’ll find the respect and admiration for what you create increases. I give so much of my time to the sector because I genuinely want to see it improve”. Ryan promotes the message that he is one of the team as much as he is the CEO of the business. Without a team the business would be nothing, so he takes a more relaxed approach to leadership whilst still enforcing his managerial title and skills. “The whole TCW team know that my title is just a corporate thing that means something outside of TCW. We all have a part to play, and we’ll achieve so much more if we all grab an oar and help”. Ryan has faced and overcome many challenges to build TCW. “Trust is hard to come by these days and growing a business really does create a thicker skin.” By facing challenging times, he has been able to expand and experience lots of amazing opportunities for himself and the business, which is what it’s all about when it comes to success; learning when to reap and when to sow. Ryan concludes by telling us about the company’s ongoing strategy: “Team TCW will continue to build technology that truly helps and is not dependant on people fuelling it. Real technology takes away the pain points in the process and we’ve done an amazing job so far. We recently launched a new User Interface with the back end of TCW being completely rebuilt. The purpose was to make everything more accessible whilst also catering for developments down the line. Our solution has recently taken a giant leap forward, placing a much larger gap between us and anyone who wants to compete”. By turning Information into Insight, the future of TCW is looking like its only going to get bigger and better as it works with more clients. With Ryan as CEO, it is able to achieve great things as it continues to evolve. Contact: Ryan Dempsey Company: TCW Web Address: www.TCWin.co.uk Best Social Product Compliance Software Solutions CEO (Europe): Joerg Walden A company providing software that allows for the assurance of compliant, sustainable, ethical products, iPoint-systems is dedicated to supporting the social responsibility of the corporate world. Wishing to continue to expand its already exemplary portfolio, iPoint works hard to realize its vision of building an integrated digital platform for the Circular Economy, and explore how digitalization can contribute to securing a sustainable future. The mind behind iPoint, Joerg Walden, has worked hard to lead the exemplary company to becoming a frontrunner for expert software and services in product compliance and sustainability. First and foremost, iPoint’s software supports its clients in the assessment of the environmental, social, and economic impacts of their products and processes on their entire value creation network, thus helping them to produce compliant, sustainable products fit for the Circular Economy. Fundamentally, iPoint began as a provider to the automotive industry’s International Material Data System (IMDS) for product development and analysis of bill of material (BOM) structures. But since its beginnings in 2001, iPoint has expanded significantly, now overseeing an operation of over 70,000 customers from more than 140 countries and a wide range of industries, managed from 14 locations around the globe. iPoint’s customer renewal rate of 97% does an exemplary job of showing how outstanding and customer-focused its work is, with core competencies in software and services for chemical and component compliance, such as for conflict minerals reporting. May21039 In this manner, iPoint aids companies in moving ‘up the sustainability maturity curve’, allowing them to become leaders in their respective industries and making itself the integrated platform of choice, with additions such as the ifu Institute for Environmental IT in Hamburg, an industry leader in Life Cycle Assessment and Material Flow Cost Accounting. This has all followed on from the founder’s own penchant for curiosity. Joerg Walden spent his childhood looking for ways to understand, repair, and improve everything, and this is something he has ensured is a cornerstone for iPoint, even from the very beginning. Moreover, it is empowered by his 30 years of technological knowledge, industry leadership, software development expertise, and executive management acumen; this, over time, built iPoint’s intrinsic drive to always be one step ahead and envision the future of its industry to always push for better, more sustainable solutions. iPoint chases a holistic approach above all else, not just selling its clients software, but supporting them in their digitalization strategy and accompanying them on their journey from compliance to sustainability – keeping toxic, hazardous substances and labour exploitation out of the supply chain. It helps it clients to track unethical practice in the supply chain, ensuring that socially responsible practice benefits them more. Therefore, iPoint’s business model prizes transparent, open, innovative, and customer-focused work, lending its expert workings to the current pushes towards increased digitalization occurring across the board. Joerg Walden, when leading his company, uses the ASOP approach – agile, sustainable, open innovation –, for which iPoint has earned awards, as well as the dedication of its staff, allowing for the diligent respect of each individual employee and partner that it works with. By doing so, Joerg strives to create a mindset and workforce that is open and receptive to change, innovation, and sustainability. This has also led to iPoint’s development of SustainBlock, funded by the European Partnership for Responsible Minerals (EPRM), a Blockchain-powered solution enabling all parties involved to trace the provenance and history of a product, making it tougher for unethical sources to enter the supply chain. iPoint is also working on its CarbonBlock platform, allowing the exchange of reliable and complex ecological data, that will further establish iPoint’s place as a thought leader and global player, something that shows no signs of slowing as it moves towards the future. Company: iPoint-systems gmbh Contact: Katie Boehme Website: ipoint-systems.de

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