Jan 2021 – Apr 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Manas leads the Global Large Deal Business Unit and Day ZERO Delivery organization of Tech Mahindra for large deal delivery execution
• WORK EXPERIENCE
• Developed the deal advisory ecosystem of third party advisors, PE firms for deal incubation and origination
• Created a team of Deal Directors, Multi service line Enterprise Architects and Design studio team for pursuit
• Strategized and rolled out differentiated integrated offerings in the areas of Cloud, Digital Workplace transformation and Platform led delivery across IT value chain
• Created the day ZERO delivery organization for large deal delivery execution (Delivery Partners, Transformation Leaders, Transition CoE and PMO to onboard, transition and deliver new age transformation solutions
• Developed an ecosystem of influencers (in the space of private equity, M&A, hyper scaler and deal advisory)
• ACHIEVEMENTS
• YoY 3x growth in large deal TCV 3.5Bil USD in last 18 months (~2.00Bil USD for FY21-22) with 7X growth in win rate (50%+); received commendation from Tech Mahindra board
• Turnaround multiple code red large deal delivery
• Led M&A for boutique firms and JV’s in niche digital areas like Cloud, CX and Salesforce

Jan 2020 – Dec 2020 · 11 mos

• Manas led the Cloud First (Integrated Apps and Infra); Enterprise IT Services comprising SAP, Salesforce, Quality Engineering & DevOps; and Large deal unit (Platforms, Integrated Services)
• WORK EXPERIENCE
• Led the creation of the Cloud First Service line (Apps+Infra). These service lines generated nearly 70% of Mindtree’s revenue.
• Drove the automation and efficiency initiative within Mindtree delivery organization
• He led Mindtree to leadership quadrant placement in Cloud, Agile, DevOps, PaaS/SaaS and Intelligent Automation with ISG, Gartner, Forrester and Avasant.
• He has designed and launched Mindtree’s end to end IT Cloud native IT platform CAPE – Composable automation platform for enterprise
• ACHIEVEMENTS
• Conceptualized and created end to end Cloud first services business to a nonlinear growth of 2.5X in 12 months
• 107% of revenue and 103% of profitability achievement with 23% growth YoY for Cloud First and Enterprise IT Services (70% of organization’s revenue) & multiple large deals win (each deal value >$50Mil)

Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr

• Manas heads the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance group at Mindtree.
• WORK EXPERIENCE
• He was responsible for its vision, strategy, execution and growth of BFSI. He was brought in by Mindtree board to turn around the unit.
• Led the unit to highest profitable within Mindtree (3X growth in EBITDA) with highest customer experience rating and double-digit revenue growth in a period of 12 months (best performance in last 17 Qtrs.).
• ACHIEVEMENTS
• Turned around BFSI Business unit from the lowest profitable unit to highest (3X growth in EBITDA) with highest customer experience rating in a period of 12 months (best performance in last 17 Qtrs.); received commendation from Mindtree board

Feb 2016 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Manas led the horizontal Service lines – Cloud & Infrastructure Services, Quality Engineering, Package Services, EAI, DevOps and Agile CoE
• WORK EXPERIENCE
• He led and grew the SL’s 23% YoY with highest profitability and customer satisfaction)
• Led the service lines to leadership quadrant and rising star positions in IDC, ISG, Gartner and Forrester analyst reports
• Created platforms and drove the efficiency and automation initiatives within the service lines
• ACHIEVEMENTS
• Conceptualized and created CAPE platform, a unique cloud native patented platform integrating Infra as a code, business automation and cloud-based services in a composable manner

Sep 2015 – Jan 2016 · 4 mos · Bangalore

• Led the 3 service lines comprising 40% of Birlasoft revenue. Conceptualized Integrated Cloud Services and led the creation of Cloud First and Customer success services.

Mar 2014 – Aug 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bangalore

• Scaled and grew the service line by 30% y-o-y with large deal led business booking of USD 130 Mil
• Created an end to end Delivery Platform – “Dynamic Engineering platform” (this is a joint solution with our
• partners like TOSCA, Conformiq, Perfecto, pCloudy and open source tools)
• Launched “Mindtree anytime anywhere service the (MaaS)” – SaaS based delivery platform
• Created focused partnerships for new business in US and Europe geo to map the VMO of large customers
• Created an Advisor and Analyst network and managed the joint Go To Market strategy with our partners
• Defined and developed Mindtree’ s large deal solution – 3 layered platform driven Target Operating Model

Nov 2008 – Feb 2014 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore

• Led the IV&V Services - $150+ Mil Business growth and $ 130+ Mil revenue (25% y-o-y growth)
• Created Solutions led offering with reduction of COQ as a key theme and create the Test Strategy and Testing
• solutions for large IT Organizations
• Created HCL’s Next Gen Testing Framework (integrated with DevOps principles) jointly with HP
• Led Strategic Partnerships & Alliances with HP/IBM/CA and Microsoft, Events &Forums Participation – Leverage
• Online, Speaker opportunities in seminars and conferences.
• Work with HCL Infrastructure Business unit and launched Cloud Services “TaaS”.
• Created Cost of Quality led micro site (http://www.hcltech.com/testing-cost-of-quality/) for the vendors to carry
• out on-line assessments leading to creation of business case for creation of Independent Test Center.

May 2004 – Nov 2008 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore and UK

• Led multiple strategic consulting assignments in the area of IT Delivery effectiveness - Large Automobile company
• in France, Large Banking and Financial service providers in Continental Europe and US, Large Automotive
• component manufacturer in Germany, GIS service provider in Germany.
• Had setup the ways of working of a captive center for the one of the largest Retailer based in UK with more than
• 2000+ IT professionals from grounds up. Enabled the organization to transition 2000 FTE work from UK and
• managed the change management initiative.
• Led the transformation of a large Europe based financial organizer to partner with vendors / large system integrators
• working in a managed services model (a Billion $ outsourcing program).

May 2002 – May 2004 · 2 yrs · Amsterdam

• Enabled one of the largest global financial services providers to work in a managed services mode and improve its in house processes to work effectively with large System Integrators.
• Part of the core team in creating the first Billion $ outsourcing deal construct

Nov 2000 – May 2002 · 1 yr 6 mos · Hyderabad

• Led the Intranet development for a Telecom service provider in Asia Pacific.
• Gap Analysis, Process Definition for a Telecom Service Provider in US for their ODC in Satyam.

Jul 2000 – Nov 2000 · 4 mos · Hyderabad

• Implemented case tools like Rational Rose, Testing tools like Rational Robo and Software configuration tools like VSS.

Jan 1994 – Jul 2000 · 6 yrs 6 mos

• Implemented ERP solution - Configured and implemented MM in Raymond Cement and worked in SD module integrating
• the Sales Dump and Distribution process.
• Led the development and implementation of Despatch Monitoring System Marketing, Sales Accounting System and
• Integrated Financial Accounting System (Sybase and Powerbuilder)