Rucha Nanavati — CEO

Rucha’s journey through the tech industry spans across various roles and geographies, underlined by her commitment to leveraging technology to empower business strategies. With a career marked by global leadership across high-tech, retail, and manufacturing sectors, Rucha is known for successfully spearheading digital transformations. Her approach is centred around creating exceptional customer experience through innovation and cultivating of an engineering culture that values creativity and problem-solving. Rucha's expertise also lies in building and guiding large global, cross-functional tech teams. These teams, under her leadership, have been pivotal in rolling out high-impact projects that resonate well with the strategic objectives of the organizations. As the CIO of Mahindra Group, she plays a crucial role in shaping the company's digital future and ensuring future readiness in the fast-evolving digital landscape. She has been successfully driving large scale end-to-end digital transformations at group level, the most recent one being Aarohan – Mahindra group’s flagship cloud transformation and modernization project. She is spearheading industry-leading AI and Gen AI initiatives at Mahindra Group to constantly drive innovation and enhance customer experience. Rucha also serves as a director on the board of Mahindra Lifespaces. Her accomplishments have garnered global recognition and have been honoured with numerous prestigious awards in diverse sectors including technology and business. A strong advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion, Rucha is equally passionate about mentoring and empowering women in technology and fostering inclusive work environments.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in digital transformation within the SaaS and technology sectors.

Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Experience: 26 yrs 4 mos

Career Highlights

Led large-scale digital transformations across multiple industries.
Spearheaded Mahindra Group's flagship cloud modernization project.
Advocate for diversity and inclusion in technology.

Work Experience

Mahindra and Mahindra Limited [Automotive and Farm Equipment Business]

Chief Digital Transformation Officer (2 yrs 11 mos)

Mahindra Lifespaces

Director Board Member (3 yrs 8 mos)

Mahindra Group

Chief Information Officer (3 yrs 8 mos)

THE ALBERTSONS COMPANIES FOUNDATION

Director Board Of Directors (1 yr 4 mos)

Albertsons Companies

Group VP Information Technology (2 yrs 10 mos)

VP Information Technology (1 yr 8 mos)

Senior Director Information Technology (1 yr)

Safeway Inc.

IT Director (2 yrs)

Motorola Solutions

Senior IT Manager (2 yrs 4 mos)

Motorola Inc

Sr. IT Manager - Solution Delivery Lead (2 yrs)

Center of Excellence Lead (2 yrs)

Team Lead – Collaboration Systems, GnPS IT (2 yrs)

Application Design/Development (2 yrs)

PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt Ltd

Lead Technical Consultant (0 mo)

Zensar Technologies (Formerly ICIM)

Software Engineer (3 yrs 3 mos)

Education

M.S. at Illinois Institute of Technology

B.E. at National Institute of Technology Surat

Rucha Nanavati

CEO

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India26 yrs 4 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led large-scale digital transformations across multiple industries.
Spearheaded Mahindra Group's flagship cloud modernization project.
Advocate for diversity and inclusion in technology.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in digital transformation within the SaaS and technology sectors.

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Other Skills

Software Project ManagementOracle ApplicationsIntegrationSDLCOracle E-Business SuiteIT StrategyRequirements AnalysisSolution ArchitectureERPBusiness AnalysisOracle Value Chain PlanningAdvance Supply Chain PlanningOracleDemand PlanningBusiness Intelligence

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Experience

Mahindra and mahindra limited [automotive and farm equipment business]

Chief Digital Transformation Officer

May 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

Mahindra lifespaces

Director Board Member

Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

Mahindra group

Chief Information Officer

Dec 2020 – Aug 2024 · 3 yrs 8 mos

The albertsons companies foundation

Director Board Of Directors

Aug 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

Albertsons companies

3 roles

Group VP Information Technology

Promoted

Feb 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Leads IT organization responsible for Retail stores, Merchandising and marketing, Supply chain, Manufacturing, Data management. Responsible for development, QA, delivery and technical support.

VP Information Technology

Promoted

May 2016 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos

Led IT application development and support for Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Data management functions. Responsible for the IT merger/integration of Albertsons and Safeway systems in the core areas of enterprise data conversion and Supply chain.

Senior Director Information Technology

Jun 2015 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr

Responsible for leading the Information Technology integration to migrate Albertsons' Supply Chain off of the Supervalu TSA and onto the Safeway technology platforms. This includes the rationalization and integration of procurement, warehouse management, transportation and order management functions across 27 distribution centers within 14 divisions across 34 states. Also led IT team supporting 19 manufacturing plants for Safeway Inc.

Safeway inc.

IT Director

May 2013 – May 2015 · 2 yrs

Lead global second and third level IT support teams for Merchandising, Marketing and Supply Chain systems. Also led local field services team responsible for serving Northern California region for installation/repair of all approved standard technology in the company.

Motorola solutions

Senior IT Manager

Jan 2011 – May 2013 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Lead for Global Supply Chain Planning transformation at MSI using Oracle R12 Value Chain planning and E-business suite. Accountable for process transformation and simplification in Demand planning, Supply Planning areas. Leading a cross-functional team through implementation of Advance Supply Chain Planning(ASCP), Rapid Planning(RP), Advance Planning Command Center(APCC), Demantra Demand Management, Sales & Operations Planning modules as well as integration with legacy systems of SAP, trading partner collaboration and extensions development for needed functionality.

Motorola inc

4 roles

Sr. IT Manager - Solution Delivery Lead

Promoted

Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 · 2 yrs

Led a SaaS implementation of E2open collaboration tool to take Motorola's supplier collaboration systems and processes to next generation, delivered several medium to large projects by replicating, modifying or eliminating IT applications, infrastructure, and support services to enable Motorola Inc’s separation in to Motorola Solutions Inc and Motorola Mobility Inc.

Center of Excellence Lead

Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 · 2 yrs

Led a series of high ROI projects for the Motorola Integrated Supply Chain organization while leading CoE for Planning and Purchasing. Improved on-time delivery performance for a key distribution center, implemented global demand and supply systems for Mobile Devices BU, established a global/dedicated team to handle all small supply Chain System enhancements with IT outsourcing partner achieving significant cost reduction.

Team Lead – Collaboration Systems, GnPS IT

Promoted

Jan 2002 – Jan 2004 · 2 yrs

Team leader position with overall responsibility of application development, deployment and maintenance for a collection of systems supporting collaboration with suppliers for forecast sharing and internet contract negotiation.

Application Design/Development

Jan 1999 – Jan 2001 · 2 yrs

Individual contributor to team leader position to develop and maintain web based systems enabling Motorola and its suppliers to improve operational performance.