Simon Metz is the Principal at River Road Consulting LLC. He is a leader and strategist with over 20 years of experience combining strategic, product, technology, big data, and operational expertise transforming enterprises, optimizing and leading delivery practices, and designing and directing mission-critical systems.

He has optimized business process, developed many enterprise software products and led agile programs to support the strategic direction of businesses all driven by data and analytics. His projects have ranged from digital transformations, technology integration, application design & development, big data program management, AI Strategy & Transformation, designing software DevOps programs, and workflow design and optimization across most verticals and organizations.

Often Simon works with enterprises on new technologies, helping them research and adopt new systems and technologies, but also guiding his clients on when to merge these systems, and when not to. Read his article Shiny Object Syndrome in Enterprise Technology Ecosystems

Simon has held leadership positions at some of the best known digital agencies in the US as well as at EMC Global Consulting and EY Consulting Groups’s Financial Services Office. He has led digital transformation engagements at some of the largest enterprises such as Astra Zeneca, Anheuser-Busch, Dell EMC Technologies, JPMorgan Chase, GE, Johnson & Johnson, MassMutual, Christie’s, The Hartford Insurance Group, American Express, and Liberty Mutual, and has a wealth of experience across the financial services, CPG, manufacturing, media, and healthcare. See his client list

Simon is based in New York and Connecticut and travels wherever client engagements require. He holds a BS Computer Science from Columbia University where he also worked in the DARPA Labs.