Nov 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Advising startups in technology and business strategy during their journey from idea to product launch to building for scale.
• Focus areas - FinTech, E-commerce, Health Care, Supply Chain and technology platforms based on Blockchain/Web 3.0/Metaverse/NFT

Nov 2021 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Building a people intelligence platform that enables everyone at a company to leverage all the knowledge, expertise, and relationships that they currently can’t see or access.

Apr 2019 – Jun 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Key Responsibilities:
• ■ New Market Opportunities: Leveraged technology and data to build large scale products for healthcare and capitalize on market opportunities.
• ■ Technology Innovation and Business Transformation: Led the organization’s technology strategy by evaluating emerging technologies and identify the best fit for the business. Implemented enterprise standard hosting and security best practices.
• ■ Leadership and Management: Influencing growth strategy as businesses extend their teams. Focus on talent management, diversity and employee wellness to remain competitive in a changing landscape while conforming with local laws and regulations.
• ■ Post-Merger Integration: Collaborating with leadership to integrate company culture, technology strategy, policies, business procedures and organization structures.
• ■ Operations: Control finance plans through prudent management of the organization’s resources within budget guidelines and effective corporate finance and risk management practices. Oversight of procure-to-pay. Familiar with accounting standards and effectively run organizations with cost-plus pricing model.
• ■ Community and Public Relations: Built a strong brand in the industry and universities by being a keynote or guest speaker at several conferences and webinars.
• Key Achievements:
• ■ Defined the business plan and strategy to expand Cardinal Health’s presence in India
• ■ Integrated mscripts, both culture and engineering practices, with the strategic initiatives of Cardinal Health - Connected Care through cross-platform synergies.

Mar 2018 – Jun 2021 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• ■ Experience with Financial, Commercial and Legal due diligence and post-acquisition integration plans.
• ■ Manage overall India operations, talent acquisition and create annual business operating plans including planning/managing budgets.
• ■ Drive short-term and long-term strategic goals for the organization.
• ■ Develop optimal industry operating model for the enterprise to expand its presence in the region while maintaining a positive company culture where the team thrives.

Feb 2015 – Jun 2021 · 6 yrs 4 mos

• Key Responsibilities:
• ■ Acquisition: Core member of mscripts executive committee during its acquisition by Cardinal Health. Focused on Financial, Commercial and Legal due diligence.
• ■ Solution Architecture: Responsible for adoption of modern development practices (Lean Agile and DevOps), latest cloud-based technologies and modern application architecture.
• ■ Organization Transformation: Leading adoption of lean agile development principles to ensure the engineering organization is extremely efficient and focused, and to ensure that the product is ready for the market. Built an organization culture that is highly motivated and driven by a sense of group accomplishment.
• ■ Customer Focus: Balancing current customer/prospect needs with long term product roadmap needs – weighing, balancing, & communicating the tradeoffs as necessary.
• ■ Project Management: Developing project and resource plans / schedules by coordinating with internal and external stakeholders and senior leadership; performing day-to-day project management to ensure successful, on-time releases; demonstrating ownership and accountability for the entire product delivery process.
• ■ People Development/Corporate Culture: Fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration, innovation, excellence and a fun work environment while continuously elevating the quality and caliber of the product development organization.
• Key Achievements:
• ■ Successfully transformed the organization to a highly profitable venture through a robust technology strategy and steadily improving customer confidence. Built a high-performing organization with a culture that thrives on teamwork and agility.

Apr 2011 – Feb 2015 · 3 yrs 10 mos

• ■ Strategic Initiatives: Led priority cross-operations strategic initiatives, including analysis, business requirements, senior stakeholder management communications and project execution for EMEA and APAC. Formulated BCP plans to eliminate concentration risk.
• ■ Risk Management and Analytics: Built predictive models with Machine Learning to analyze data in real-time to determine business exposure and potential impact thereby mitigating risk, improving profitability and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
• ■ Digital Transformation (Industrialization): Re-engineered processes and led Digital Transformation with Robotic Process Automation (RPAs) and Business Process Modelling (BPM) techniques to be more commercially effective and client focused without compromising on operational risk.
• ■ Organization Development: Built a diverse and inclusive resource pool for the division, managing performance, mentoring and providing direction to team members. Developed an industrialization mindset within teams.

Sep 2002 – Mar 2010 · 7 yrs 6 mos

• ■ Customer Focus: Building a collaborative partnership with the end customer through on-time delivery, high quality and continuous innovation. Demonstrated strong capabilities in communicating and presenting technical concepts in all aspects of the product.
• ■ Solution Architecture: Integral member of SunGard’s Global Architecture team that aligns teams across the globe by propagating common technology and processes to rapidly deliver the right solutions to customers. Specialized in developing solutions with Microsoft technologies.
• ■ Product Management: Used Agile Software Development and PRINCE2 Project Management methods to deliver solutions. Partner with the business to detail user requirements. Planning schedules and release cycles for the product. Managing and coordinating the day-to-day operations of the team. Analyzing risks and issues and providing risk-mitigation plans.
• ■ Release Management: Managing release of products and upgrades, software defects and software change requests.
• ■ Business Development:
• Identifying high-potential market segments through value chain analysis and contributing towards the Indian go-to-market strategy for Public Sector products.
• Formulated project proposals for IT development services for various market opportunities in UK and India.
• ■ Organization Development: Building SunGard’s resource pool by contributing towards talent acquisition at all levels.