Jean-Claude Monney is a Digital Workplace and Knowledge Management practitioner, thought leader, and now author, publisher, and speaker exploring how augmented intelligence is reshaping the transmission of living knowledge.

Since 2017, he has provided Digital Workplace and KM advisory services to clients worldwide. 

Until 2017, Jean-Claude served as Chief Knowledge Officer at Microsoft Consulting Services, where he and his team re-imagined the division's Digital Workplace knowledge management system on the Microsoft M365 cloud platform, launched in 2014 and used as a reference model by many customers. He was a faculty member at Columbia University, where he taught Digital Workplace transformation strategies as part of the Master of Science in Information and Knowledge Strategy (IKNS) program. As a practitioner, Jean-Claude led three global Digital Workplace transformations and is considered one of the world's leading experts in applying KM to drive innovation and productivity. He has delivered keynote addresses at major KM industry and customer executive events worldwide, including NASA, the World Bank, KMWorld, the APQC KM Conference, the Internet Librarian Conference, and at more than one hundred Fortune 500 companies.

Jean-Claude is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of The Monney Group, LLC, and founder of Du Terroir Au Nectar, an author and publishing venture dedicated to capturing the tacit knowledge of artisans in books that read like a journey rather than a manual. His current project follows a master cellar's lifetime of judgment through the world of wine — first in French, then in English — using AI as an apprentice at every stage of elicitation, shaping, verification, and translation. The work is the first in a series exploring crafts where mastery is a dialogue with nature, materials, and time.

Jean-Claude served on several high-tech boards and held executive-level positions including 17 years at STMicroelectronics, where he was Group Vice President for 7 years; 9 years at Digital Equipment Corporation; and 4 years at Motorola Semiconductor.

While VP at STMicroelectronics, Jean-Claude served two years as Chairman of the Electronic Components Board of RosettaNet, an organization fueled by leading technology companies to define and implement a common set of standards for e-Business. In 2001, he was named European e-Pioneer by Electronics Business News magazine for his e-Business leadership.

Jean-Claude has an Electronics and Nuclear Physics Engineering degree from the Ecole Technique Supérieure of Geneva, Switzerland. He divides his time between Mill Valley, California, and Vessy, Canton of Geneva, and is a proud father of four children and grandfather of six.