Shrikant Sarda

Co-Founder

Pune, Maharashtra, India31 yrs 6 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over three decades of strategic advisory experience.
  • Five patents in Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics.
  • Proven track record in mentoring technology leaders.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic technology advisor with expertise in Edtech and consulting sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Digital StrategyBusiness Strategy

Other Skills

Academic advisoryAgile Project ManagementBusiness AlliancesBusiness AnalysisBusiness DevelopmentBusiness IntelligenceBusiness ProcessBusiness Process Re-engineeringBusiness TransformationCRMCapability DevelopmentCloud ComputingCoaching & MentoringConsultingCreativity and Innovation

About

Shrikant is a highly accomplished business and technology strategic advisor with more than three decades of experience. Throughout his career, he has supported businesses in achieving long-term value by successfully guiding them through complex technology and business transitions. His strategic advice has enabled organisations to maintain competitiveness within an ever-evolving disruptive technology landscape. Shrikant helped a diverse portfolio of clients across North America, Europe, APAC, and India, in aligning IT strategies with overarching business objectives, ensuring that technology investments yield tangible results and foster innovation. Shrikant’s focus on making businesses more secure, resilient and future ready using the disruptive technologies while delivering operational efficiencies and business growth has helped him establish as a trusted strategic advisor to both C-suite executives and boards His contributions to the field are underscored by five patents in Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics, all focused on leveraging these technologies to achieve measurable business outcomes. Shrikant is a staunch advocate of continuous learning and knowledge-sharing, Shrikant has mentored and developed numerous technology leaders over the years. His leadership style is distinguished by a blend of analytical thinking and empathy, which propels both individuals and businesses towards success. Beyond his professional endeavours, Shrikant is recognised as a sought-after technology leader for mentoring and coaching board members, as well as aspiring board members, on the opportunities and risks associated with disruptive technologies. He is actively collaborating with academic institutions and businesses across various industry sectors. His collaboration is helping students from academic institutions to become ready for the professional and corporate career.

Experience

Target peak by revoeducation pvt ltd

Co-Founder (Tech)

Nov 2025Present · 4 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Target PEAK is Edtech company focused on providing quality education content to students from remote parts of India. Over last few years Target PEAK served thousands of students to benefit from its high quality education contents and test papers. Target PEAK is at the cusp of exponential growth and as Co-founder (Tech) I will be bringing my experience of driving large scale business and technology transformation for Fortune 500 companies to Target PEAK. I will be providing the strategy and advisory to Target PEAK to leverage Technology as the catalyst and enabler for the sustained business growth.

Growth sense

Chief Strategy Officer

Nov 2025Present · 4 mos

  • Growth Sense is a pioneer in providing quality mentoring to the startups and also work with investors to provide funding to the startups at various stages. Over last many years Growth Sense has mentored many startups to grow their business and also delivered multi-fold returns to their investors.
  • As a Chief Strategy Officer I will be focused on creating dedicated Strategy, Advisory vertical for Growth Sense so that more number of Startups, SME's get benefit to re-define their business strategy for growth.

Accenture

2 roles

Managing Director

Promoted

Dec 2014Nov 2025 · 10 yrs 11 mos

  • Shrikant strategic technology advisor is responsible for helping clients across North America, Europe covering multiple industry sectors. Shrikant helped his clients develop strategies to leverage the power of disruptive technologies and become more resilient, secure and become growth driver.
  • Shrikant worked with many Accenture clients to define business strategies, integrated technology and change management implementation approaches to achieve on all key business parameters viz operational, revenue and increasing customer centricity.
  • Shrikant collaborated with different internal teams from Accenture – sales, solution and capability to win multi-million-dollar deals, open new client accounts and increase wallet share from existing clients.
  • Shrikant as part of his focus on developing internal talent, mentored and coached many technology leaders to take on new challenging roles and grow in their career.
  • Shrikant also was instrumental in setting up Accenture Nagpur location as Location Lead. In the two year, Shrikant grew the Accenture Nagpur location 3.5 times in two years.
Digital StrategyBusiness StrategyOperational ExcellenceTechnology Enabled Business TransformationCreativity and Innovation

Lead - Client Engagement

Dec 2010Nov 2014 · 3 yrs 11 mos

  • Accountable for transformation of End to End Quality Assurance function involving 900+ resources and 400+ applications. Delivered $50M+ TCO reduction by implementing best in class automation, quality engineering initiatives and overall process transformation.
  • Accountable for delivering $100M+ business benefit by implementing Data Quality platform based on AI/ML and Big data. Achieved 40%+ improvement in the quality of the data stored in more than 100+ applications.

Wipro

Practice Head

May 1999Nov 2010 · 11 yrs 6 mos

  • Practice Development
  • 1. Practice Head – Salesforce.com (SFDC)
  • Responsible for developing CxO level relationship to develop new business & grow business from existing accounts
  • Responsible for Sales Support, Business Development & Delivery for SFDC engagements
  • Received Top Partner Award for India & SAARC region for FY 2008-09 for SFDC
  • Helped Wipro to become Global Tier 1 Strategic Partner of SFDC & only reseller partner for India geo.
  • 2. CRM Practice Vertical Lead – Communication Service Provider (CSP)
  • Responsible for building relationship with business & IT Sr. Management executives & internal Sales & vertical organization
  • Responsible for product evaluation, solution workshop & defining business processes for key large engagements
  • Successfully developed CRM business for telecom vertical by 16 times in four years
  • Responsible for Sales Support, Business Development & Delivery for Siebel, Clarify engagements for the vertical
  • Played pivotal role in winning large total outsourcing deals, large implementation deals/accounts
  • Large Program Management
  • 1. CRM Lead for Greenfield GSM Services Launch in India
  • Responsible for coordinating with CXO Organization (IT & Business) for the launch of mobile services
  • Responsible for the successful launch of CRM application covering 7 circles in India & approximately 600 million in population.
  • Coordination with product vendor’s (Oracle) product & services team
  • 2. Customer Interface Manager for Implementation of OSS/BSS for Telecom Operator in UK
  • Responsible for customer interactions to define & capture customer business process covering CRM, Billing & Self Service functions
  • Responsible for capturing detailed business requirements & transferring the same to technical team for delivery
  • Responsible for delivering CRM functional solutions covering all modules of Amdocs CRM & integrated with other OSS/BSS applications
  • Coordination with Amdocs product & services team

Tata infotech limited (now tata consultancy services)

Project Lead

Feb 1997Apr 1999 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Key Responsibilities – Program Manager for Management Information System
  • Program Management of internal Management Information System
  • Coordination with Senior Management to provide business critical reports and carry out enhancements as required by business divisions
  • Tracking the delivery and quality parameters
  • Team Management to ensure that the career objectives are set and tracked, keep team motivated to work on internal projects
  • Key Responsibilities – Project Lead for GE Appliances Project
  • Responsible for project plan creation and tracking delivery progress
  • Coordination with customer and onsite team to capture project requirements and provide progress update
  • Track delivery and quality parameters
  • Key Responsibilities – Analyst for Year 2000 Program
  • Analysis of programs to identify the code impacted by Y2K
  • Fixing and testing of the impacted code
  • Coordination with Onsite team and project team to track the progress of the delivery schedule

Kpit cummins infosystems limited

Engineer

Jan 1994Jan 1997 · 3 yrs

  • Key Responsibilities – Customer Support Executive
  • Software development for the in-house product on Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition product
  • Provide pre sales & post sales customer support for Electronic Circuit Board (ECB) design software
  • Responsible for top line revenue number for ECB software and customer satisfaction ratings

Education

COEP Technological University

Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) — Electronics & Telecommunications

Jan 1995Jan 1997

Amravati University

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Electronics & Telecommunications

Jan 1990Jan 1994

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