I'm Ervane Tchoumi. I help CxOs and boards capture value from AI while controlling risks, with 20+ years leading transformation for enterprise and public-sector clients across Europe and Africa. Keynote speaker, university lecturer, and founder of Nyamga Solutions and AI4Africa Ignition.
I work with leadership teams, consulting partners and delivery organizations where AI decisions become consequential: choosing where to invest, defining who owns the decisions, building the capability to execute and putting the controls around adoption as it scales.
I help leadership determine where AI deserves investment, which use cases belong in the portfolio, what risks require control and who remains accountable as adoption scales. The work may include AI strategy, governance, executive alignment, portfolio prioritization and reviews of unmanaged or shadow AI use.
Use me as the expert behind your client development and delivery. I create and deliver co-branded AI webinars and lunch-and-learns for your clients and prospects, train your consultants, support executive conversations and strengthen engagements from qualification through implementation.
When the decision has been made, my team can map the workflow, build the automation and establish the ownership, controls, documentation and adoption support required to operate it beyond the pilot.
I help headquarters and African subsidiaries translate enterprise AI priorities into local execution through leadership workshops, capability building, governance, partner mobilization and implementation support adapted to the operating environment.
A short diagnostic on how AI is being adopted across your organisation and where governance may require greater attention.
Besonders beeindruckt hat mich dein unternehmerisches Denken und wie konsequent du die business-getriebene Herangehensweise verfolgst. Das passt hervorragend zu unserer DNA.
"What impressed me in particular was your entrepreneurial thinking and how consistently you pursue a business-driven approach. That fits our DNA exceptionally well."
Ervane has a rare ability to connect strategic ambition with operational reality. She helped us move beyond general discussions about AI and clarify where it could create value, what needed to be governed, and which decisions required executive ownership.
Business first, technology second.
I am a systems thinker and a transformation specialist. I start from the business: what you are trying to achieve, how the organisation actually works, and where the decisions sit. Technology follows from that, never the other way around. Twenty years of transformation have taught me that the tool is rarely the hard part.
PMP-certified. From business intelligence roots to AI governance leadership, always where business meets technology.
Advisory sprint to scope AI-agent opportunities across back-office processes and prioritise use cases against regulatory and operational constraints. Defined the integration direction across Microsoft 365 and Avaloq, the required governance guardrails and a roadmap for follow-on work.
Led a company-wide AI adoption and data architecture programme. Established governance, prioritised use cases and directed the target architecture integrating ERP, SCADA and GIS, alongside training and change support.
Managed a data-platform modernisation programme from planning through delivery, introduced an agile delivery framework and enabled cross-functional teams to adopt the new technologies and methods.
Led a portfolio of projects digitalising manufacturing processes and production machinery. Established the programme framework and enabled functional teams across business analysis, change, stakeholder management and procurement.
Built a platform connecting 5,000+ vetted African tech professionals with global clients, delivering AI and digital transformation consulting alongside talent services.
Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg, Mannheim. Taught database and information systems to undergraduate students over four academic years, alongside consulting practice.
Advised C-level executives across healthcare, pharmaceutical and industrial organisations on large-scale business and technology transformation, working across programme leadership, operating models, data platforms and organisational change.
Built the business intelligence strategy behind risk management and performance oversight for senior executives and risk committees.
A decade delivering BI solutions across healthcare, financial services and technical sectors, from data architecture and data models through to executive reporting.
Keynotes, conference sessions, executive briefings and workshops, delivered in English, French or German.
What boards need to see, what executives need to decide, and where accountability actually sits once AI is in the workflow.
Interaction risk: how AI quietly reframes the question before anyone checks the answer, and how to keep control of your own thinking.
Why AI gets cheaper while budgets grow, and why cost per usable result belongs in the governance conversation.
Building local capability, governing data, and what enterprises with African operations should be planning for now.
"The Next Governance Crisis Will Not Come from a Visible Failure. It Will Come from a Decision Nobody Saw Being Made."
What happens when AI starts making decisions instead of simply supporting them? Who owns decisions shaped by AI, how do organisations govern delegated authority, and what happens when accountability no longer matches execution?
Critical and analytical thinking in the age of AI. Delivered in German, introducing interaction risk, the eight signals that a model is leading your thinking, and the three-level test. Read the article version →
AI For Developing Countries Forum: AI ethics, data sovereignty, and governance enforcement mechanisms for emerging markets.
Inaugural pan-African AI ecosystem conference: 300+ participants from 5 countries, 12 thematic panels, 6 practical workshops, and 40+ speakers. Secured institutional and technical partners and laid the groundwork for the AI4Africa Ignition NGO.
Pan-African platform connecting AI experts across Africa and the diaspora. Five priority areas: sovereignty & governance, public sector, sectoral adoption, technology, and skills.
Douala 2025: 300+ participants from 5 countries · 12 panels · 6 workshops
Women in AI Governance™, representing Global South perspectives in international AI governance dialogue.
Women of the Global South in AI Governance
AI For Developing Countries Forum. Interviewed and quoted on AI ethics, data sovereignty, and governance enforcement mechanisms for emerging markets.
AI ethics · data sovereignty · enforcementI write about what happens when AI moves beyond the tool and begins to shape organisational decisions, professional judgment and human agency.
Model prices fall, yet budgets keep climbing: failed generations, frontier-model defaults, and routing nobody understands. Why tracking the real cost of a usable result belongs in your AI governance.
Read article → AI & HiringStanford's algorithmic monoculture research shows candidates can be rejected by the hiring ecosystem, not by one company. What employers and recruitment consultancies should automate, support, and never outsource.
Read article → AI LiteracyWe inspect AI answers for errors, but rarely ask who pointed the flashlight. On interaction risk, the five signals that a model is leading your thinking, and a three-level test to take back control.
Read article →I work across Europe and Africa with leadership teams, consulting partners, institutions and organisations navigating AI strategy, governance and transformation.
Fractional, contract, or project-based. Working across European, African and US time zones.