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Colin Wardlaw

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Senior Vice President of Public Sector at Celonis
📍 San Jose, California, United States

Colin is the Senior Vice President of Public Sector at Celonis, leveraging extensive experience from leadership roles at Adobe and Oracle. He focuses on digital transformation for government and education, holding executive certificates from Harvard and UC Berkeley. Colleagues describe him as honest, smart, and customer-first.

His professional drive is rooted in a passion for public service and helping others, a value instilled since childhood. This is inspired by a quote he often shares: "You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. "

At the age of six, Colin successfully negotiated his first deal to get a neighbors car fixed after an accident, demonstrating an early talent for arbitration and helping others.

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Experience
25 Years
Current Role
Senior Vice President of Public Sector
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Jose, California, United States
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Public Sector Transformation
His career is dedicated to helping government and education agencies digitally transform to improve outcomes and efficiencies for the public.
Process Intelligence
As a leader at Celonis, he advocates for using AI and process intelligence to create transparency and savings in government procurement and operations.
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Career

Work history

11-2023
Senior Vice President of Public Sector
Celonis
6-2022 - 2-2024
Vice President of Public Sector
Celonis
2-2017 - 6-2022
National Sales Director
Adobe
8-2015 - 2-2017
Area Vice President
Adobe
8-2013 - 8-2015
Regional Vice President
Oracle
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Education
2021 - 2021
Executive Certificate
Harvard University
2018 - 2018
Executive Certificate
University of California, Berkeley
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