Nov 2023 – Apr 2024 · 5 mos

Jan 2023 – Oct 2023 · 9 mos

Apr 2018 – Jan 2023 · 4 yrs 9 mos

• Senior Vice President, Global Head Digital Experience & Microsoft business.
• Board Member Infosys Subsidiaries - Wongdoody & Blue Acorn ICI
• As the Global Head of Digital Experience I am directly responsible for growth of the business (P&L) and delivering customer success.
• Globally every industry is re-looking at their customer engagement strategy, working hard to ensure that they are delivering best in class experience which is as good or better than that being delivered by the digital native companies. Organizations are measuring success across number of parameters, most important probably being customer advocacy. The job of the team is to ensure we deliver the outcomes our customers are looking to achieve.
• In my role as the Head of Microsoft business, I help evangelize growth of Microsoft business internally and across our client base. I am directly responsible for building capability and managing relationships partner connect with Microsoft and P&L of the business.
• I also serve on the Board of Infosys subsidiaries – Wongdoody and Blue Acorn ICI.

Nov 2015 – Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Birla Sun Life Insurance is a joint venture between the Aditya Birla Group (45B USD company) , a well known Indian conglomerate and Sun Life Financial Inc, one of the leading international financial services organizations from Canada. BSLI has contributed to the growth and development of the Indian life insurance industry and currently is one of the leading life insurance companies in the country. BSLI is a company which believes in the power of technology.
• My role is to transform IT landscape, build and execute on IT and Digital strategies for the company. I am responsible for IT end to end or the company.
• As the Chief Digital and Information Officer, I am involved in all the business strategy formulations, where my role is to come up with ideas which can enable business to perform better and then translate business strategy in to IT/Digital strategies for the company. I am then responsible to execute IT strategy and deliver stated benefits to the business. This involves everything from choosing the right solution , technology stack, partner & implementation. As a team we are responsible to drive cloud adoption, mobility solutions and analytics. All the tracks are in play as part of the strategy.

Aug 2013 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• BlueStar Infotech bought Activecubes in July 2013. I joined Blue Star's Executive management team and took Direct P&L responsibility for the BI /Analytics. The Executive Management team is responsible for the overall direction/ strategy and execution. For the BI practice I focused energies on building the markets. Besides direct sales/ up selling into existing customers, built partnerships with leading software brands like Qlikview and SAS. We built solutions and competency to address growing business needs.

Jan 2007 – Jul 2015 · 8 yrs 6 mos

• Founded Activecubes with the goal of providing exciting value add to business using data, which has direct impact on top/ bottom line. As a company we wanted to work in a niche space. Look at opportunities to directly work with business and identify opportunities that can bring significant value add. This is exactly what we did. We work with Financial services companies, Retail and Pharma companies looked at areas of Sales and Marketing to help improve on the business parameters. We also experimented with emerging technologies and worked in the Ecommerce space.
• My responsibility as the CEO and MD was broad based. As a founder CEO I had the incredible opportunity to build the organization and see it grow one employee and one customer at a time.
• I was responsible for monitoring and managing operations, handling cashflow and finance.Fund raising, investor communication and managing the Board.
• The company was featured in the Red Herring top 100 companies to watch out for
• http://www.redherring.com/events/red-herring-global/2010-red-herring-top-100-global/
• It was voted to be among the best startups in Tata Nen hottest Startup competition in India
• http://www.tata.com/article/inside/5z!$$$$!w0wy3LlE=/TLYVr3YPkMU=

Jun 2003 – Feb 2006 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Practice building is one of the essential components of service's business. PeopleSoft Practice and HCM practice were part of Enterprise Solutions(ES) business of Infosys. ES was one of the fastest growing business in Infosys. It focused on providing solutions to customers in the ERP space. We worked across leading Industry platforms like SAP/Oracle/ PeopleSoft etc.
• I was member of the Executive Management team which was responsible for growing Enterprise solutions and directly responsible for P&L of PeopleSoft and HCM practices.
• Evolving over all strategy, putting strategy to execution, building solutions, competency development, recruitment, driving sales and managing bottom line all were components of the job description.

Jul 2000 – Jun 2003 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• The decade starting in 2000 has been one of the most exciting for the Indian IT industry. Infosys as an organization was growing at a rapid pace. This meant flexibility to play different roles and rise to the occasion in each. This period saw me playing the role of Program Manager for a large Oracle Program at a fortune 100 company in Japan, help drive sales in Europe with direct responsibility for another fortune 500 organization etc.Involved in strategic roles with clients as advisor/consultant to CIO/CXOs by helping implement IT initiatives, outsourcing initiatives etc.

Jan 1992 – Jun 2000 · 8 yrs 5 mos

• Over the initial 8 years of my career I worked with some of the leading names in the Industry. Worked with Datamatics on understanding concepts of networking and selling networking solutions to customers. Worked extensively with Patni on SAP. I started on SAP R2 and was fortunate enough to work on some challenging SAP R/3 implementations at General Electric. During 1996-2000 the US market was buzzing with some large scale enterprise software implementations. I worked at HP (then Compaq) managing several initiatives when the client was implementing SAP globally and across business. Had the opportunity to work extensively with leading brands like NIKE.