Jozek Gruskovnjak

Managing Partner at Inlumino Consulting

Zürich, Switzerland

Jozek is a multilingual international executive, strategy consultant, and entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience and success in leadership positions within information technology and telecommunications industries. Throughout his career, he successfully built and led diverse high-performance performance teams, developed talent, managed complex multicultural organizations, fostered strong executive relations,

Currently working as an independent strategy consultant and managing partner at Inlumino Consulting, the firm that he founded, Jozek is advising senior executives in telecommunication services providers, medium-sized and large enterprises, and technology companies. Focusing on the overall business, digitalization and go-to-market strategies, IT strategy, and operations optimization, the overarching objective is improving clients’ business performance and profitability.

Jozek honed his consulting practice and experience as director in Cisco Systems’ strategy consulting team – the Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) – where he initially led geography practice for Latin America, Middle East, and Africa. He and his team worked with key service providers, enterprises and governments, on business strategies, new services, service delivery, and business models, ICT enabled economic development and business transformation, and technology-enabled productivity improvement. Additionally, Jozek and his team were instrumental in driving the Cisco Emerging Markets Theater growth by assisting in strategy development and execution of long-term business development activities.

Before joining IBSG, Jozek held various leadership positions in Cisco's sales organization in EMEA. As the general manager for Southeast Europe, he built the regional organization and drove significant business growth in the region. He has been instrumental in developing critical relationships with governments and business leaders, helping them understand and take advantage of new technologies and business models.

Earlier in his career, Jozek was an entrepreneur – he founded and held executive positions with the leading Slovenian networking integrator, NIL.

Born and educated in Slovenia, Jozek holds an MBA from IEDC Bled School of Management and a B.Sc. in computer sciences from the University of Ljubljana. As an accomplished speaker, he is fluent in English, Spanish, German, Serbian, Croatian, and Slovenian. He currently lives in Zürich, Switzerland

Available For: Authoring, Consulting, Speaking
Travels From: Zürich, Switzerland
Speaking Topics: Digital transformation, impact of new technologies on business and society, change management, innovation, sales transformation