• Establishing Procurement practice at Swiss-US dual headquartered SaaS provider to deliver “Value Beyond Cost”.• Conducted SWOT analysis and focus groups to understand current procurement capabilities and desired future state. Building sourcing roadmap in consultation with CFO, CIO & CEO in alignment with company’s strategic goals. • Defining 18 month P2P maturity plan for tools, people, processes and policy including Coupa StP implementation. • Onboarded two team members. Gathering existing contracts to establish interim contract repository & metadata.• Defined and communicated policies for procurement process, travel and expense, three-way invoice match & POs.• Negotiating with most impactful vendors like AWS, NewRelic, and real estate partners to quickly bring savings, create positive impact and enhance team credibility. Conducting RFI for travel platform & corporate card programs.• Renegotiated entire real estate lease portfolio to reduce lease costs by $2.5 million annually.• Part of (sales) deal desk. Advise on all major new sale and resale transactions worldwide and RFP responses. • Advising CEO and CRO on new pricing models to increase ARR and product stickiness.

Board member and advisor to high growth and impact EdTech startup enhancing parent communication and enabling early care industry efficiently manage their program

• Manage ~350 million in annual spend. Lead globally deployed category managers and analysts. Responsible for all Technology (hardware, SAAS, Software, services) sourcing globally. • Serve as trusted advisor to Bose C-Suite. Routinely work with Bose’s COO, CFO and CIO. • Reduced technology sprawl and vendor overlap with pro-active portfolio and demand management. • Key member of cross-functional team tasked with recovery work from catastrophic “Cyber Incident”• Proactively identified inefficiencies. Led six-sigma project to streamline A/P. Reduced deal execution time by 40% and errors by 15% by modifying approval process.• Strengthened Infosec monitoring capabilities and reduced chances of ransomware attack by negotiating Security Operations Center SOW with Accenture.• Transformed reactive, order-taker mentality team to a “Sourcing Center of Excellence”. • Created Value Beyond Cost by transitioning US based procurement support tasks to Bose’s BPO in Lisbon.• Partnered with CIO and CFO to minimize layoffs by delivering budget savings of $39 Million. Pro-actively identified op-ex reduction opportunities. Renegotiated global fee structures with providers like TCS and Capgemini.• Recognized by Bose’s CEO for negotiating $9.8 Million budget save with a “best in class” multi-cloud enterprise agreement with Salesforce.• Achieved $11Million in budget save with a new AWS Enterprise Discount Program.• Leveraged Microsoft’s goal to expand O365 E5 adoption to lock-in 28% discount on a 5-year Enterprise Agreement that provided superior cyber-security technology while delivering over $8 Million save.• Led RFP for global IT command center outsourcing. Negotiated transition SOW and Managed Service Provider SOWs with TCS, while achieving $11 million budgetary save.• Helping deliver on the “Cloud First” strategy. Significantly reduced Bose’s TCO for SAP by bundling licensing, support, maintenance and infra-hosting.

Taught "Current Trends In Technology" course to MBA Candidates.

• As part of the CVS IT Sourcing leadership team, helped manage ALL IT transactions and relationships spanning $1.4B in annualized (addressable) spend. Managed team of five contract administrators. • Delivered $55MM in budget savings by negotiating large complex multi-year ELA/ULA agreements with the large IT vendors like Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, EMC Corp, Cisco and Hughes Network. • Achieved $18 million in budgetary expense reduction by rightsizing hardware and software maintenance. • Negotiated with IBM (Kenexa) and other HR vendors on applicant tracking system & background check processes.• Negotiated extremely complex transformative deal to transition HRO from IBM to Aon Hewitt. Established strict timelines and deliverables during 18 months implementation and SLAs for 5 year HRO and SaaS initial commitment.• Negotiated over 100 master agreements (including Hosting, Consulting, Software, SAAS and confidentiality agreements) to ensure compliance with current laws and policies and adherence with contract standards. • Reduced CVS’ ITO spend by about $23 Million and enabled CVS to hire targeted vendor resources by collaborating with business/finance leaders, and with McKinsey’s assistance. Level set and re-calibrated off/onshore rate cards.• Led Sourcing and contracting activities needed for the launch of a joint venture between CVS and Cardinal Health. • Collaborated with CVS legal to update contract templates to reflect industry best-practices. • Increase vendor engagement by regularly hosting Key Vendor operations reviews and QBRs. Identify improvements opportunities in KPIs and SLAs for cost, quality, performance, availability and/or service level.

• Led cross-functional teams through complex global sourcing RFP to select enterprise financial and portfolio risk management system. Prepared sourcing strategy and briefing documents for executive leadership team’s review.

• Achieved multi-million dollar budget saves through negotiations with major well-known enterprise vendors including EMC, Oracle, IBM, AWS, Microsoft, SAP, TCS, Wipro, Capgemini and Accenture.• Key member of Hartford’s core team that implemented Ariba Sourcing and Contract Management modules. Coordinated vendor master cleanup to ensure consistency with Peoplesoft. Helped transition existing contracts from legacy system. • Generated $3.2 million budget save by partnering with Mutual Fund manager to run a four vendor RFI for derivative securities pricing tool. Manufactured leverage by creating the illusion of competition by conducting a one vendor RFP.• Strategically identified the key vendors and helped establish more collaborative rather than transactional relationship. Achieved $15 million budget run-rate save by negotiated lower fee for bestowing the “power vendor” status. This resulted in over. Nominated for Chairman’s award for exemplary work.

Managed Vital’s $3.5million SAP implementation comprising of financial and billing modules. Articulated path forward in a way that provided meaning and inspiration for various stakeholders. Provided status reports to CIO and CFO. Prepared key project documents including project charter, CBAs, resource plans, project plan and updates.