What does Digital disruption mean for the business model, current business processes and workforce? How can we use technology to stay relevant and ahead of competition? How's the blurring of industry boundaries going to impact my business? These are some of the question we help customers address as part of our customer engagement approach. I am currently helping Telco's to drive digital transformation in their businesses using the technology platforms (mobile, cloud, big data, social and new innovations like IOT, 3D printing etc) by bringing to bear all the SAP and wider ecosystem capabilities. My role is to be the bridge between IT and the business by deeper discovery, industry insights, focus on business outcomes and bringing to life the 'art of the possible' in the typical engagements with customers. We use design thinking to drive innovative use cases, rethinking of business models and business processes to deliver a value based outcome for our customers. Value engineering/selling & Innovation based Selling is a key pillar of our engagement with customers.

Industry & Value Advisory (IVA) Heading a team of Digital Transformation and innovation Advisors across Financial Services, Public Sector and Retail in UK&I - helping SAP customers in their digital transformation journey. The team's focus is on shaping our customer’s transformation journey to become an Intelligent Enterprise by co-creating a compelling ‘Vision to Value’ case. Our team takes the lead in evangelizing SAP's strategic customer offerings to our top customers with the context of emerging industry and technology trends. We are now leading the customer's shift to the experience economy by helping them listen, understand and act across product, employee, customer and brand experiences with SAP's XM Offerings. We help customers understand the power of linking X (Experience Data) with O (operational data) to improve the key organisational metrics that matter.

The Digital Ambassador Program is a global community of digital leaders at SAP. It is a knowledge sharing community where employees exchange best practices and digital innovation success stories. They interact with SAP executives to learn, but also to share feedback and help shape and scale innovation projects

Our purpose is to build a community of non-executive directors and equip them to lead crucial UK boardroom discussions on the impacts of climate change. Our members are helping ensure their companies are fit for the future and that global net zero ambitions are transformed into robust plans and measurable action.

As an Advisor, I provide insight to shape the content HBR develop and enrich HBR’s understanding of my perspective on ideas from HBR and the wider world of management and leadership.

Virgin StartUp is the not-for-profit Virgin company for entrepreneurs. It provides government-backed Start Up Loans and one-to-one business advice to entrepreneurs launching or growing a business in England or Scotland. Every entrepreneur that receives a Start Up Loan is enrolled in a mentoring programme, entitling them to a year’s worth of mentoring support free of charge.

Bridge for Billions is the digital ecosystem that connects entrepreneurs to growth opportunities. I am mentor to entrepreneurs in this ecosystem

Sharing knowledge and experience with wework Labs' community of early-stage entrepreneurs

FasterCapital is a virtual incubator based in Dubai Internet City. They help startups through their programs acceleration and incubation. FasterCapital was established in 2010 and the model was publicly available since 2016. Fastercapital has currently 22 incubated startups that graduated and are fully functional now, more than 190 startups in the acceleration program, more than 120 regional partners with 80 offices worldwide.

Mentor to Entrepreneurs looking to begin their startup journey post the Escape the City Startup Accelerator course.

Member of the Advisory Committee for SYD (IamYiam)iamYiam's vision is to be the world’s premier personalised preventive health platform that empowers people to take charge of their health, every day and lifelong. The mission is to leverage the best scientific knowledge ( first principles ) and proprietary designed machine leaning algorithm (sYd) to make authentic sense of an individual’s personal and collective information in order to achieve their personal and/or collective health and lifestyle goals. Syd is there for each person to estimate the current state: recreate the current state of a person’s mind + body and work together with the person to determine the goal to achieve their full health and lifestyle potential.

Salesforce.com has been ranked as the World’s Most Innovative Company for the Fourth Year in a Row in 2014 by Forbes. Ignite is a key initiative to drive growth within Salesforce.com by catalysing transformation within strategic customers by identifying and delivering innovation.I was responsible for driving the innovation agenda with Salesforce's top30 global customers (with specific focus on EMEA) across CPG, Telecom and Financial Services. Some of the engagements I led include-Worked with one of the largest global FMCG companies in rethinking their innovation process and collaboration across geographies functional units to drive growth of best selling large brands while improving efficiency and effectiveness of the innovation process. Final idea included using mobile, cloud platform and agile development using the latest in UX innovations to delight the end users and other stakeholders. - Worked with a leading Telecom provider in reimagining their SMB (Small & medium sized businesses) and single owner businesses and facilitating growth and deeper customer engagements. Led to initiatives for driving customer loyalty- Facilitated numerous innovation workshops including discovery, ideation, story building and executive presentations with a number of cross-industry customers as Innovation Lead, Persona Lead and Main facilitator.

One of the non-Executive founders of this niche company which brought together the best of design and technology providing full service branding, UX design and technology across devices. Texnovate helped its customers in all aspects of their branding, design and business enablement needs. I was Involved in an advisory, non-executive capacity since 2008 and initial planning/rollout of the business model and key functions. The business had to be wound down because of the unfortunate demise of one of the co-founders.

Business development role delivering demand generation, account planning/strategy, business transformation roadmaps, strategy, innovation & business cases for SAP FSI customers* Supporting Global banks with their technology led transformation initiatives in customer centricity, risk & compliance and cost and complexity reduction related areas by assessing strategy, innovation scenarios, key transformation opportunities and other sources of incremental economic value* Partner with field sales teams to identify revenue opportunities, create account strategies, and execute sales plays – supported revenues in excess of €14 Million in 2012 and part of the team which won the first major deal in SAP HANA and mobile in Banking* Worked with a leading UK bank to assess current state, build their future core banking roadmap and identify benefits achieved – led the benefits track and transformation story on the first UK go-live of a core banking platform* Lead innovation advisor for SAP financial services customers in identifying scenarios for usage of SAP’s technology innovations in in-memory, cloud and mobile computing* Develop business & technology roadmaps mapping Business Strategy, current & future information needs and IT landscapes working closely with CxO level stakeholders of customers* Selected from a global group in a team set up to drive SAP revenues from new initiatives including cloud based financial services network* Coordinate overall UKI business plan & strategic account planning sessions, facilitate customer visioning workshops, and lead delivery of value focused engagements – over 20 accounts in 2012* Represented SAP externally and internally in industry sector trends, innovation and value management related topic including SAPPHIRE, SAP Forum* Contribute to Financial service business development thought leadership content, business benchmarking and best practice assessments, and customer success studies

Principal Business Transformation Consultant, Business Transformation Services (BTS) , SAP (UK) LtdCross-Industry focus on Business Transformation, IT Strategy & Roadmap, Service & Support Strategy (SAP CCoE), Program/Project Management and Value Management* Global programme lead for SAP in service innovation with customer and back-office process re-engineering related to consulting delivery models, delivering margin improvements of 20-30%* Developed Strategy and process roadmap & plan for a £700 million consumer products group, identifying annual savings of over £12 million on the basis of benchmarking across functional areas* Led programmes tasked with building roadmaps for upgrading existing SAP landscapes for fortune 500 companies with cross functional teams of SAP and customer participants* Developed & Supported IT Strategy initiatives to deliver high performance service management and top quartile SAP operations for a global consumer products company* Led teams of consultants to help customers get more value from their technology investments, fine tune their existing application landscape and deliver operational improvements* Led business process improvement and optimization advisory roles with financial services, Government, professional services and Media companies on their transformation programmes* Advised and developed a framework for a Pharmaceuticals major on identifying their resourcing needs (500+ IT resources),skills and training needs for employee development related to new programmes

Senior Business Transformation Consultant focusing on IT Strategy, Value management and Service & support management topics* Trusted advisor responsible for developing value propositions and results of SAP’s business process benchmarking and roadmap studies to CXO level audiences across a number of industries* Undertook and led initiatives to develop value propositions and business cases for software-led business reengineering initiatives for customers in the Consumer Products, Media, Financial services, Manufacturing and Life Sciences – contributed to software revenue worth £30+ Million* Led the initiative to improve sales opportunities by aligning the sales teams of the two organizations for a multi-billion M&A undertaken by SAP

Consulting across industry sector in business process improvements & business intelligence initiatives* Assisted the CIO and the IT directors of a leading water utilities company in evaluating the proposals, including business cases and ROI, for a multi-million strategic management information system implementation built around SAP BW data warehouse and ERP applications* Analysed project plans, business cases, ROI and resource requirements as an expert witness for a global ERP rollout project under legal dispute for a leading information technology major* Delivered a worldwide business process re-engineering initiative involving process analysis, Configuration and implementation of an HR system based on Microsoft dynamics AX for a security services company* Reviewed and defined the management information needs for a government initiative for unifying Child related across multiple organisations in the country* Evaluated the devolved financial reporting regime at the social services department of a local council in London, recommended the key IT support requirements and identified resource gaps in information delivery for delivering reliable and timely financial reporting

•Defined value proposition for the services portfolio by defining differentiators, offerings and ROI to market services of the ERP & business intelligence practices of the company.•Formulated a go-to-market strategy for campaigns, reference programs and opportunity generation plans for the existing customers. •Undertook market research on prospective customers and defined target strategy for tele-marketing, thereby improving success rate by 50%. •Generated over six qualified leads by following a lead generation process of qualification, understanding requirements and making presentations to prospects.•Piloted market intelligence studies, prepared reports on marketing spend and lead generation methodologies of competitors.•Created well-received collaterals including sales brochures, case studies & sales kits for SAP, Oracle and business intelligence practices. •Conducted pre-sales activities with existing customers for the business intelligence practice.

•Presented business proposals along with the Business development teams for the business intelligence support and implementation projects.•Led second level support of SAP’s own business intelligence installation by providing support to end-users, support with upgrades, newer releases etc. All targeted SLAs were met with regards to issue resolutions.•Facilitated the quarter end closing of SAP's financials in the business warehouse (BW) and the strategic enterprise management (SEM) product installations of SAP.•Trained in Strategic Enterprise Management and the Project Management Methodology of SAP.•Conducted info-sessions and customer presentations on the SAP Business Intelligence Warehouse and Netweaver for SAP consultants.

•Designed and developed Communication & Collaboration applications for SAP’s ‘Enterprise Portal 5.0’ product offering adhering to tight timeframes.•Conceptualized and developed utility applications that enhanced the appeal of the ‘Enterprise Portal 5.0’ and ‘Workplace 3.0’ products of SAP.

•Built and deployed a web-based application for tracking prospects and customer leads for the Strategic Marketing team at Wipro. This reduced the MIS report generation time by 93%.•Collaborated with the central marketing team in developing applications to make their processes and responses more efficient. Systems developed, single-handedly, was a precursor to the Siebel CRM.•Managed IT setup for the company wide employee satisfaction and internal application related surveys, Intranet and Employee Leave Application Systems.