Founding co-chair of the All India CII CSO Forum launched in Feb 2021.

Management consulting in areas including Life Sciences Pharma, Manufacturing, Education, IT Services, BPO. Current and past clients includeBristol Myers and Squibb, NJ, USAIIT, Gandhinagar, IndiaBITS, Pilani, IndiaMetallic Bellows Pvt. Ltd, Chennai, India

Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited (TAFE), a US $1.6 billion tractor and agricultural equipment major incorporated in 1960 at Chennai, India. TAFE is the third largest tractor manufacturer in the world and the second largest in India. http://www.tafe.com/index.html TAFE is part of the Amalgmations Group which is one of India's largest light engineering groups with interests in businesses that are predominantly in automobile components but also extend to diverse areas such as plantations, batteries, printing, book selling, pesticides and plantation products, engineering tools and paints.

Roles held2008 & 2009: Partner and Global Head for Life Sciences Management Consulting2010: Partner/AVP and Global Head for the PeopleCare initiative for Cognizant Business Consulting group. A quasi Chief People Officer role for the global consulting practice2011 (current): AVP, 2015 Strategy Initiative Leading the Cognizant wide strategic transformation initiative for several business units; Led a team that won a venture capital investment from the CEO to build an Education vertical for Cognizant.

Management Consulting for the Life Sciences (predominant) and Consumer Goods industries. Consulted in the areas of Supply Chain and R&D.

Experience in Personal Products and Foods Divisions. Held 7 positions in nearly 10+ years.1990-1996 in Technical - Various positions as Production Manager, Engg Manager, Projects Manager and finally Factory Manager. 1995-1997 in R&D - In addition to Technical position, held responsibility for Packaging1997-2001 in Marketing and Sales - Led the Pepsodent G and Close Up brands

Leading manufacturing plant that produced Bulk Drugs