Ajesh Chandra

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States28 yrs 1 mo experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 20+ years of experience in management consulting
  • Expertise in Hi-Tech and BFSI domains
  • Authored multiple white papers on emerging technologies
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned management consultant specializing in Hi-Tech and BFSI sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Customer SatisfactionRelationship Building

Other Skills

Business AnalysisBusiness DevelopmentKey Account ManagementManagementOutsourcingP&L ManagementProgram ManagementStrategyTeam ManagementVendor Management

About

Ajesh Chandra has 20+ years’ experience as a senior management consultant and has deep industry knowledge in Hi-Tech and BFSI domain. He has worked with many C-level executives by analyzing and resolving strategic and operating problems and thereby improving organization goals, objectives, policies, strategies, administration, organization, and operation related to modernizing their businesses. He has worked with large multi-national consulting companies like Accenture, Capgemini across North America, APAC and LATAM region. Ajesh has authored multiple white papers on various topics like GenAI in Finance & Supply chain for Tech, GCC transformation and is an active figure in the consulting leadership ecosystem. Ajesh holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics from NIT Surathkal and is a member of TiE Bay area, Cambridge Innovation Center, Toronto Board of Trade and NASSCOM GCC forum.

Experience

Persistent systems

AVP CMT

Mar 2025Present · 1 yr · Santa Clara, California, United States · On-site

Capgemini

Senior Director Hi-Tech

Nov 2017Mar 2025 · 7 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

  •  Consult closely with Hi-Tech Management & Technology team to help them analyze shift in business due to servitization of their business and develop technological solutions including changes in their enterprise application, product engineering, platforms and infrastructure.
  •  Provide Subject matter expertise for Capgemini Global Capability center of excellence in building and scaling new technology captive centers.
Customer SatisfactionRelationship BuildingP&L Management

Atos syntel

Management Consultant (Senior Director BFSI)

Jun 2009May 2017 · 7 yrs 11 mos · Boston MA, Toronto Canada

  •  Manage senior management relationships and program management of business with GICs and Captive centers for global clients.
  •  Effectively liaison with organizations to drive strategic projects in a hybrid model. Work includes but not limited to identification of opportunity, understanding business drivers, socializing solution roadmap, identifying gaps, presenting statement of work, identifying risk areas, managing resourcing, tracking project progress, invoicing and contracts.
  •  Orchestrate an ecosystem of relevant horizontal and vertical capabilities to help the client achieve their project/ program goals.
  •  Partner with clients to identify alternate source methodology and socialize solution approaches with the aim of delivering robust (risk mitigation), better, cheaper and faster results.
  •  Manage operations for the Canadian geography with focus on Banking and Financial services.
  •  Pursue and manage relationships with senior executives with a view to socializing relevant solutions using the global sourcing deployment.
  •  Effectively communicate with various internal teams about client business problems, build focus groups to address the problem and orchestrate end-to-end business from proposal to contract negotiations.
  •  Work with clients to mature the engagement model by incorporating elements of managed services and outcome-based model.
  •  Manage a multivendor work environment and ensure that Syntel plays a strategic role in delivering to the business stakeholders.
Customer SatisfactionRelationship BuildingP&L Management

Accenture

Director Global Sourcing BFSI

Feb 2006May 2009 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

  •  Part of the consulting team infuse cultural change in doing pure play like outsourcing business. Counsel with the client teams to look beyond the high margin consulting business to annuity ADM deals. Tie the client organization with the Global Sourcing organization and lead the change. Liaison with leadership and client teams to provide intelligence on pure-play strategy and demonstrate knowledge of offshoring marketplace, trends and processes.
  •  Provide advice to Clients and internal Client Team on strategic use of IT Outsourcing and present business cases. Recommend solution based on current IT environment and opportunities of infusing elements of better, cheaper and faster. Manage end to end execution of Outsourcing process and communicating effectively with Executive leadership for funding, capability and capacity planning, delivery operating model and governance structure.
Customer SatisfactionRelationship BuildingP&L Management

Satyam

Senior Relationship Manager

Aug 2003Feb 2006 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

  •  As part of the Regional BU leadership liaison effectively with the vertical business unit and horizontal competency unit in bringing the right capability for growing business and achieving annual revenue target.
Customer SatisfactionRelationship BuildingP&L Management

Hcl technologies

Account Manager

Apr 2000Jul 2003 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Orange County, California Area

  •  Create new business opportunities in Product, Engineering and Application outsourcing space.
  •  Clients managed: Broadcom, Microsoft, AMD, Intel, PeopleSoft, KLA, Microchip, Juniper
  •  Partnered with Packet video & Real Networks to build dedicated Offshore Development center to provide Engineering services of 100+ FTE and meet Time to Market and Innovation agenda for the client.
  •  Spearheaded 500 FTE Joint Venture with a large Enterprise Solution company – Peoplesoft
  •  Manage and grow relationship with a large Financial Services company on the West coast
  •  Manage relationship with CIOs and CTOs organization and increase global-sourcing mindshare
  •  Seed ODC concept to partner with client to create IT & Technology team at low-cost geography.
Customer SatisfactionRelationship Building

Tata infotech

Business Manager

Jul 1997Apr 2000 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  •  Develop new business for Enterprise Resource planning and other consulting services in the areas of Warehouse Management, Customer Relationship Management and Factory automation. Orchestrate with internal technology/domain champions to suggest turnkey solutions. Manage relationship with partners (SAP, Baan, Sun and Microsoft).
Customer SatisfactionRelationship Building

Education

National Institute of Technology Karnataka

BE — Electronics

Jan 1991Jan 1995

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Startup Accelerator Program

Jan 2016Present

Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune

Executive Management

Jan 1995Jan 1997

D A V Jawahar Vidya Mandir, Ranchi

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