May 2023 – May 2025 · 2 yrs · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• As the Chief Innovation Officer
• Managing an high impact organization, led the Corporate Innovation, International Programs, State & Central Government & Partnerships partnerships responsible for Innovation led revenue growth by winning & executing deals across Domestic, Global Corporates and GCCs [revenue growth INR 20 Cr – US$ 2.2M in FY’25] in sectors like DeepTech, Mobility, MedTech & Digital Health, Clean Energy Transition, FinTech, Manufacturing & Supply chain.
• The Corporate Innovation programs enable Startups to engage in solving Customer challenges, problem statements and working on strategic partnerships. Over last 1+ year ave. deal sizes moved from 5 Lac to 25 – 30 Lacs and from top corporates like Hero MotoCorp, Mercedes Benz, Medtronic, Denso Corp, AWS, XDC Singapore, Haleon etc.
• He has set up 2 experience centres (for startups) that are additional assets to T-Hub.
• The International Programs expanded the footprint across many countries – Sweden, Japan, Australia, Israel, United Kingdom and France. Through the flagship program T-Bridge an International Market Access Program, the collaborations extended to international hubs, Startups, Global Governments & the corporates.
• As Interim CEO
• As Interim Chief Executive Officer [from Oct’24-Mar'25] the goal was to drive the ‘Open Innovation’ charter by fostering collaboration across key entities of the ecosystem - corporates, startups, technology hubs, government bodies, PSUs and academia both at national and international levels.
• Topline Revenues delivered INR 56 Cr [US$ 6.5M] for FY’25 vis-à-vis INR 37 Cr in FY’24.
• Operations – Manage day-to-day operations in an efficient and stable manner covering 50+ Startup & Corporate engagements, 100+ Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists, 200+ Mentors, 100+ Value Partners as per key stakeholder expectations including the Board.
• Financials – Ensuring Opex is managed profitably both at organization level & the program level by driving automation & optimization.

Feb 2018 – May 2023 · 5 yrs 3 mos

• As a Consulting Partner for Consumer Goods, Retail and Manufacturing companies, I am working with marquee clients in Consumer Product Goods – FMCD [managed GT & Institutional Sales], HPC [Home & Personal Care], F&B [Food & Beverages], Fashion & Apparel [F&A], Prem. Alcohol & Beverages & Manufacturing.
•  Gained significant knowledge and expertise in the areas of Supply Chain, Inventory management, Sales & Distribution, Ecommerce and Digital Transformations working closely with Business stakeholders including CDOs, CIOs.
•  Experience in addressing business critical challenges in the CPG Industry.
•  Partnering with o9 Solutions Inc globally on AI/ML & Analytics based SCM Transformation opportunities, planning joint GTM strategies across geos, scaling up the practice by trainings and capabilities building.
•  Led multiple solution discussions with [a] a global FMCD home appliances major addressing fulfilment challenges [b] a French / global personal care major on addressing returns / SLOB [c] a global tyre manufacturer on addressing supply chain challenges and [d] Order Management & Inventory reports / visualization challenges for a Fashion Retail major.
•  Recent successes include leading strategic Ecommerce Automation Transformation Program for a Large Consumer Goods Company. Also, Program managed consultative assignment for a large Cement Manufacturer in Industry 4.0 transformation assessment.
•  Led 20+ member Governance Risk and Compliance consulting practice team, delivering Cyber Security Technical Assessments for clients
•  Hiring, nurturing, training and growing the consulting team / business
•  Defining and developing templates, methodologies, processes, frameworks that can be used for consulting assignments

Dec 2015 – Jan 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Practice Head, Travel and Expense [T&E] Division of Business Outcome Services Business Unit –
• o As part of Wipro’s strategic ‘Change the business’ initiative in developing and rolling out cloud based BPaaS platform addressing the need of Corporate Travel and Expense management.
• Core responsibilities included configuring & rolling out in agile / DevOps mode, defining Client Engagement Frameworks, Deployment capabilities, POCs & Pilots, Ux Experience, and supporting Product Management.
• Currently deploying this cloud based platform at Wipro for 5000 travelers
• This required working closely with POC clients, T&E Business Owners, GTM, Engineering and Service Desk teams, with final responsibility of managing customer deployments. POCs and Pilot development and rollouts were part of the new product deployment responsibilities.
• o Go-To-Market responsibilities: Building opportunity pipeline, developing digital marketing collateral both for print and social media.
• We had built wireframes and demos, conducted multiple webinars with both internal leadership teams as well as clients to create strong awareness and opportunity pipeline.
• One significant achievement is creation of the brand name ‘Way2Go’ for the digital product.
• o I had represented my group at Microsoft’s Ignite Event in Atlanta during Sept 2016, showcasing T&E product/platform capabilities
• o Winner of Innovation Award at Wipro – Hackerearth Digirupt 2016 https://www.hackerearth.com/sprints/digirupt-2016/

Nov 2014 – Nov 2015 · 1 yr

• As a Change Coach in BOS BU, deployed NextGen IT delivery models across multiple ASM and ADM programs in Energy and Utilities BU. This, again, was a strategic organization-wide delivery transformation initiative, that brought significant reduction in cost of delivery [COD]. I was working with Energy, Natural Resources and Utilities SBU deploying NextGen IT delivery models and the team achieved savings to the tune of 7 - 10+ Mn USD [annualized] in ENU SBU.
• This was achieved thru’ a very structured deployment of NextGen levers over multiple sprints / phases. Quantum improvement in team productivity, especially in Support & Development programs, was achieved by creating leaner processes, executed by self-managed teams. Opportunities to deploy tools & automation were identified. Last but not the least, bringing the stakeholders onto the same page was given top priority. NextGen was executed at Wipro in collaboration with McKinsey Consulting teams.

Mar 2007 – Nov 2014 · 7 yrs 8 mos

• Vertical Delivery Manager, Travel, Transportation & Hospitality Vertical: Managed USD 10+ Mil worth of global development & support engagements for Wipro Tech in ADM, ASM and Testing with 120+ Global Teams.
• Managed multiple global programs across GEOs – US, Europe, Middle East and APAC regions
• Managed Program / delivery management activities including scoping, estimations, planning, risk management, resource administration and quality management of the product / software application.
• Practice Delivery Manager, with Packaged Applications Testing Group: Managed large testing programs covering Siebel CRM, Oracle Applications and SAP applications.
• Led large project executions, guiding team members & enabling knowledge sharing across team.

Dec 2003 – Mar 2007 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Led QA activities for Oracle CRM products in Oracle India Development Center – Applications Operations division
• Headed Integration CRM QA Team
• Executed projects on multiple product versions and tech stacks covering functional, end-to-end and automation QA

Jan 2001 – Nov 2003 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Chennai

• Successfully implemented 3 Full Life-cycle Global CRM Project Implementations
• Managed CRM implementation for prestigious Clients in United Kingdom and Middle East as Key Business Analyst.
• Siebel Certified Business Analyst (for both Versions 7.5 and 6)

Jun 1996 – Dec 2000 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Mumbai

• Implemented BaaN ERP as part of Core ERP Implementation group
• Managed Retail and Institutional Sales for Locks division, managing dealers, distributors and network of sales team