My role at Aspire has been to help incubate and scale an innovative growth consulting and implementation firm into one of the most respected and recognized players in the Owner Managed Business space across its chosen markets. Apart from contributing to the company strategy, my focus remains on sales growth and profitability. This includes managing client engagements, building long term relationships, mentoring associates and partner managementAnother key role as part of the parent company's structure, is to drive market acquisition and partner development initiatives across all group company's solution portfolios.

Driving sustained top and bottom line growth through a focused approach on building long term, profitable, strategic customer relationships is what my role focuses on. Along with my team, we deliver an outsourced COO model for our SME clients, ensuring that their strategic goals translate into results across the entire operational hierarchy within their organisations. These encompass all functions from sales, factory operations, services, supply chain to project deliveries and R&D. Client businesses include Pharmaceuticals, Capital Equipment Manufacturing and Infrastructure Projects amongst others.Some notable highlights include * Achieving 2X jump in growth every year over a 3 year period while establishing the Industry benchmark for on-time performance for a Process equipment manufacturer * 3x revenue growth in 5 years for a large Pharma SME through a improved product mix and productivity strategy without any significant capacity addition. * Helping select clients steer towards their stated strategic goals, be it investments through public or private models, international acquisitions, foreign collaborations, etc.* Most of the above client engagements involve implementing a digitization roadmap as suitable to their scale and anticipated challenges. These included Demand and Production Planning algorithms, supply chain and projects optimization tools, etc.

LOB head with top-line and P&L responsibility reporting into the $250M flagship Consulting Practice of the company. * Built a Business Process Management practice from scratch into a niche, high value one with visionary product alliances, who over time became the industry leaders. * Led global teams and customers across US, Europe, Far East and India geographies. Post acquisition of Satyam by Tech Mahindra, these alliances helped rebuild market value and revenues significantly

Responsible for incubating the BPM Practice and leading the sales effort with clients

Responsible for managing customer implementations in the ERP and CRM space across Middle East and Africa geographies. Was brought in to manage transition of operations from a fresh acquisition into the 3i Infotech fold. Post this, was part of developing a new business offering for ICICI Bank (largest customer) in the middleware technologies space. Helped build initial traction and success which was later scaled up to a larger practice within the company

Handled product management, pre sales and implementation responsibilities across ERP and E-Business divisions. Responsible for marquee BFSI and Retail project executions. Built strong brand value and references in Banking segment which led to rapid growth in the vertical. Was part of the core development team of Marshal 3.0 global release in the Sales Management modules. Hand picked for establishing a new "E Biz" vertical for the company. Part of presales and implementations and helped establish initial successes and references for the company to go global with the new vertical offerings.

Part of the Corporate Sales Function involved in supporting regional teams for presales and delivery support