Prakash Bodla

CEO

Hyderabad, Telangana, India32 yrs experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led global innovation hubs and collaborations with startups.
  • Recognized as Inspiring Leader 2022 by Economic Times.
  • Expert in digital and engineering transformation strategies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Engineering and Technology Transformation with a focus on Innovation and Strategic Partnerships.

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Skills

Core Skills

Strategic PartnershipsTechnological InnovationProject ManagementGlobal Cross-functional Team Leadership

Other Skills

Asia Pacific MarketsBuilding Strong TeamsChange LeadershipCross-functional Team LeadershipDigital TransformationEmerging MarketsEmerging TechnologiesEngineeringEngineering ManagementEnterprise SoftwareExecutive LeadershipGo-to-market StrategyIndiaInnovationInnovation Development

About

Results-oriented Managing Director / Vice President / General Manager with vast international experience in Strategy, Technology & Innovation. Championed digital and engineering transformation through product integrations & cloud enabled IoT. Ability to transform ideas to reality and bring long term sustainable growth for business. Industry leader & an executive member in various industry associations. US Citizenship. Executive Leadership: A strong combination of Leadership, Technology, Operations & Ethics. Rare mix of software and engineering expertise Organizational & Engineering Transformation: Actively involved in organizational mergers and footprint consolidation. Lead software & embedded platformization for productivity savings and faster time to market. Acquired the best talent at scale. Advocate of diversity Innovation DNA: Lead the global innovation hubs along with strong collaboration with start-ups and university partnerships to bring in disruptive technologies and agility inside the organization Cultural Richness: Extensive working experience in US and Asia. Directly managed large teams across US, Poland, UK, India, China, Taiwan, Australia & Singapore Industry Leadership: Chair for American Chamber of Commerce Global Competency Centers – representing over 800,000 employees from 900+ American companies working out of India Recognition: Inspiring Leader 2022, from Economic Times, 2nd largest worldwide business newspaper

Experience

Aarohan consulting

Founder & CEO

Nov 2024Present · 1 yr 4 mos · India

Carrier

Global Software & Controls Leader

Mar 2024Aug 2024 · 5 mos

Carrier

Global Electronics Platform Leader

Oct 2023Mar 2024 · 5 mos

Strategic PartnershipsPortfolio ManagementTechnological InnovationStrategy

Carrier

MD, Carrier Technologies India Ltd., Vice President - Engineering

Mar 2010Oct 2023 · 13 yrs 7 mos · India

  • Carrier Global Corporation is a diversified ~ $21 Billion Fortune 200 company. Carrier Corporation was part of engineering conglomerate, United Technologies Corporation, till Apr 2020 and spun-off as a publicly traded company. Worked in various executive leadership roles.
  • Managing Director for Carrier India legal entity, with minority public shareholding, and reporting into Board of Directors.
  • Senior digital engineering executive reporting to the global Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
  • Directly managing two of the largest engineering & digital centers located in India & Poland
  • Championing and strategizing global transformation of businesses for newer service revenue models
  • Drive productivity & operational efficiencies and achieve high single digit savings y-o-y
  • Inculcated & emphasized the spirit of micro-innovations, including the culture of intrapreneurship
  • Chaired India Technology Council with thousands of engineers from all business of United Technologies
  • Steering some of the key companywide initiatives and created high impacting Centers of Excellence (CoE) in the areas of enterprise software, embedded systems, Building-Integration, Automation & test factory, IoT and connectivity platforms
  • Keynote Speaker in multiple leading industry events
  • Industry veteran and well recognized at national level. Well recognized as a coach and an influencer for senior executives
Strategic PartnershipsPortfolio ManagementTechnological InnovationGlobal Cross-Functional Team LeadershipStrategyProject Management+1

Ge

Chief Technology Officer – Asia Pacific

Jan 2005Mar 2010 · 5 yrs 2 mos · India

  • Reported to Global CTO & President of GE Security - Asia Pacific
  • Directly managed engineering teams across Asia Pacific region. Brought in synergies among the engineering teams and created ‘Centers of Excellence’ to leverage the teams’ strength
  • Worked with President of Asia to strategize goals & roadmap for business growth across Asia
  • Also worked as Asia Product Manager and successfully introduced new products into Asia market
  • Developed “In Asia For Asia” solutions and go to market strategies
Strategic PartnershipsTechnological InnovationGlobal Cross-Functional Team LeadershipStrategyProject ManagementInternational Business Development

Sun microsystems

Senior Manager

Jan 1996Jan 2005 · 9 yrs · California (USA) & India

  • Built and managed three engineering groups for Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) in India:
  • Sustaining Engineering - responsible for the update & revision releases of Java platform. Generated multi-million dollar revenues from binary & source licensee customers
  • Developer Support - responsible for helping and resolving the bugs reported
  • Consumer Java Support - addressing consumer related issues with Java applications or applets. Owned few major sections of http://java.com website
  • Various other roles in the areas of IT, Program Management, Professional Services, etc.

Cmc ltd.

R&D Associate Systems Engineer

Aug 1991Aug 1993 · 2 yrs · India

Education

Purdue University

Post Graduate Program in AI & ML

Jul 2021Present

Santa Clara University

MBA — International Business Management & Marketing

Sep 2001Present

Iowa State University

MS — Computer Science

Dec 1995Present

Osmania University

BS — Computer Science

Jun 1991Present

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