Axel Winter

Building Digital and AI Business across Asia

The Future of Retail is Colorful: Insights from Huawei APAC 2022

At Huawei APAC Digital Innovation Congress 2022 in Singapore, I had the great opportunity to share my thoughts on the future of the Retail industry. Retail’s future is colorful because it drives, above all other industries, the new consumer vertical and allows for innovation, experimenting, and constant engagement. Similar to banks competing with FinTech, the…
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23.05.2022 0
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The “CTO Mafia”: Reflections on Building Thailand’s Most Effective Tech Engine

Looking back at our Central Tech Alumni gatherings, it strikes me that this wasn’t just a “team”—it was an era. Our journey began in Feb 2017, when I was given the mandate to build the Central Technology Organization from scratch. Fast forward to today, and that original team has evolved into what we now jokingly…
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08.05.2022 0

Corporate Consultants Are In Disruption

The unfortunate truth about corporate consulting — why a few major players are responsible for the lack of digitization in corporations, and which firms are actually reinventing themselves.


13.08.2021 0

Digital Talent Chooses Culture over Corporate, drives transformation

A story about creating a culture and the best example is my last job, creating a startup in a corporation: In 2017, I got appointed as Group Chief Technology Officer for one of Asia’s and Europe’s largest retailers, to open the Digital Department! The key objective was building one of the strongest teams covering Product…
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05.08.2021 0

Central Technology Retail Lab & AWS – Startup Partnership

AWS and Central Retail Technology opened an Innovation Lab jointly, to allow Startups to propose real life ideas and work with us in short pilot initiatives to pilot them in real business scenarios. The initiative an ways for application can be seen here.


27.08.2020 0

Transforming Business Beyond the COVID Crisis

Exciting event at True Digital Park, where I had the opportunity to share some thoughts on what has transpired during Covid and how business and technology has changed


09.08.2020 0

Interview: Retail & Banking fuse

A longer term friend of mine, who also owns an runs The Asian Banker, has visited me a couple of weeks ago and out of a great beakfast conversation an impromptu interview evolved. See the following Video and Transcript


09.04.2020 0

Central Retail has IPOed

Central Retail “IPOed”, as no one could have missed from my and other posts. The 2nd largest retail IPO globally and largest IPO in Thailand ever. History has been made. Digital Platforms and OMNI Channel, positioning versus new entrants and teaming with partners, played a key role in the journey to the IPO. This journey…
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23.02.2020 0

Starting a CTO Career

End of the eighties I studied in Germany, focusing on a business and economics degree, and started a bit working in the company of my family. I was so excited about this degree, that I started writing the software my family business was to use, even sold it to 2 more firms. Since school days…
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22.12.2019 0

AWS Asia Summit Keynote

In April this year, I had the great opportunity to have a keynote at the AWS Asia Summit, outlining Central Groups, dramatic change journey, creating a mostly in-house technology and data driven capability.


26.05.2018 0