Ritesh Arora — CEO
Ritesh leads BPM and AI CoE at at CapGemini, focusing on practice expansion, healthy P&L growth, pre-sales, and center of excellence. He specializes in CXOs interaction, Industry Solutions, Pega & LCNC, Center of Excellence fostering (Mendix & Out systems), Gen AI, and delivering global multi-country consulting engagements. With knowledge of latest Industry digital automation trends (1:1 Customer service, OMNI Channel CX and Intelligent automation), he has proficiency in designing biz & technology centric Geo-specific strategies from People, Process & Tech. With twenty years of client-facing experience, he is an SME in BFSI, Retail, & Telecom Domains. Known as a people leader, he is widely recognized for people connections and building large teams. He has been a Keynote speaker at various prestigious digital forums and business schools with latest being ‘The Indus Entrepreneur (TIE) ’ summit at Chandigarh, where he shared the stage with CEOs of big four consulting firms (KPMG, Oracle) , India’s prominent business leaders & a member of parliament, to deliver business lecture on enterprise applications strategy. Ritesh was given the top Consulting award from the CEO of Cognizant.Three of his research papers have been published at Forbes Research site He holds distinguished Executive management education from Indian institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C), a Top tier B-school in the world. He has a Bachelors of Technology as well (Rank 1, scholarship holder) from Punjab Technical university. Ritesh is also an author of a best selling transformation fiction novel, ‘When the Heavens Smiled’, which was an amazon 8th Ranked best seller at its peak at Amazon.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic leader in digital transformation and automation within the BFSI and Telecom sectors.
Location: Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Experience: 25 yrs 7 mos
Career Highlights
- Leader in BPM and AI with 20 years of experience.
- Keynote speaker at prestigious digital forums.
- Awarded top Consulting award from Cognizant's CEO.
Work Experience
Capgemini
FS DCX- Low code No code and AI leader (1 yr 1 mo)
Coforge
Vice President & Global Pega Practice head at Coforge DPA (3 yrs 2 mos)
Cognizant
Senior Director and Global Head of Pega Consulting (11 mos)
Director & Global Head of Pega Consulting (1 yr 3 mos)
Director - Integrated Digital Process Automation (3 yrs 4 mos)
Cognizant technologies solutions ltd
Associate Director (13 yrs 9 mos)
Wipro Technologies
Technical Consultant (6 yrs)
Cognizant technologies (CTS)
Technical analyst (1 yr 6 mos)
Pentafour communications limited
Developer (9 mos)
Education
One year Executive Education at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
B.Tech at Panjab University
at Kendriya Vidyalaya
Deep Learning Certificate Program at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
PG Program in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at The University of Texas at Austin
Chief Digital Officer at Indian School of Business