Nagaraj G N Email & Phone Number

Mumbai, Mh, In

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Partners with CXOs to drive value from enterprise technology, AI, and GenAI through vision blueprint, design and execution.• Ensures successful technology initiatives delivery, resulting in increased value for businesses.• Collaborated with CXOs to build new age technology capabilities within their IT eco-system.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Mumbai

Co-Founder of two start-ups:1) BAMBOO Systems LLC (in stealth mode) , a technology product company that specialises in Business2Employee state of the art context aware, event triggered and behaviour analytics powered personalized digital services.2) Entropy Consultants LLP : Advisory Services to businesses on Digital Architectures that align Digital Strategy with Business Strategy. Consulting Clients Of Entropy Consultants LLP:- Mckinsey & Co : Digital Technology Architecture Solutions for Mckinsey's Clients.- HCL Infosystems : Banking Strategy for HCL Infosystems to take next generation digital offerings (products & services) to NBFCs and Banks; that leverage the core-strengths of HCL Infosystems and create radically new service & products for the financial services vertical.- Sewa Grih Rin,-a newly licensed affordable housing company startup: Crafted credit & risk policies, operations processes and created credit scoring model leveraging SEWA's micro-finance experience.- A healthcare start-up in stealth mode, setting up IT strategy & planning for prototype roll-out using state of the art internet of things and cutting edge audio visual techniques integrated with - 3i Infotech a software product & services company. Helped them them reduce their cost of operations for banking product division, and IT services division and dramatically improve their margins.

Gurgaon, India

Interglobe Enterprises is a leader in aviation and travel related services, setup to emerge as a leader in hospitality and retail, growing at a fast pace in IT & ITES services providing voice and data services as a BPO and SI to the travel and hospitality industry; growing the market thru innovation and service leadership. Established in 1989, Interglobe has a network of 112 offices across 55 cities globally with over 10,000 employees. This group's businesses include:1) Indigo (Interglobe Aviation)2) Interglobe Technologies3) Interglobe Air Transport4) Interglobe Technology Quotient5) Interglobe Hotels (Ibis)6) Interglobe EshtablishedThe group is diversifying into Retail thru JV launching retail stores branded as Hudson News & Cafe. these stores will be seen across airports and Metro Stations and are aimed to serve traveller's needs.

Offering consulting services on technology and business process management to transform the current technology landscape, aligning it to business transformation. I help organisations create new opportunities thru technology solutions on technology infrastructure, business processes, service and sales initiatiatives

New Delhi

As Director & CTO of Religare Group, my responsibilities are to create a technology roadmap for rapid foray of Religare Group into multiple lines of businesses in the financial services space, leverage existing stregths and capacities across all religare groups businesses across financial services, health care, entertainment and IT to drive standardization and exconomies of scale in IT operations and drive operational excellence thru technology across all lines of businesses of Religare Enterprises.

Mumbai

Reliance Money a group company of Reliance Capital; is a diversified financial services company with interests in online broking, distribution of financial products and services, wealth management and investment planning services, portfolio management services, currency exchange and money changing(OTC), Gold Coins (OTC), foriegn remittences and POS operations.As a CIO I am responsible for aligning IT Strategy of Reliance Money to the continuous business transformation that is happening in the various businesses we are in. Responsibilities include being a change agent to bring about newer revenue opportunities leveraging technology, being a part of the Reliance Money Core Strategy Team, create sell and manage IT Budgets, manage project deliveries, manage production support of enterprise systems, deliver on-demand scalability to manage costs, commit and deliver on high availability guarentees and managing risk to the enterprise in the current IT landscape of change, innovation and ever shortening technology self life.Some of the key achievments in Reliance Money are:1) Won the Ministry Of Information, Govt of India's Skoch award for Open Source initiatives in citizen facing technology deployment for Reliance Money's deployment of Internet Trading Kiosks. 2) Stabilised a highly unstable trading platform low on throughput and scalability to scale for a throughput to 250 orders/sec and daily average volume of 1 million orders3) Launched stock, derivative and commodity trading on mobile phones

Reliance Capital Ltd is a Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group company, ranked among the 15 most valuable private companies in India.Reliance Capital has interests in asset management and mutual funds, life and general insurance, private equity and proprietary investments, stock broking, depository services, distribution of financial products, consumer finance and other activities in financial services.As VP Shared Services - IT , my responsibility were strategizing on Retail IT Architecture to deliver flexibility and agility with security to various financial services interests that Reliance Capital has. Responsibilities include creating and selling IT strategy and budgets to CEOs of all Reliance Capital Group companies. Manage expectations of all group company CTOs and support them to deliver their KPIs and achieve their goals for their respective Lines Of Business while driving an agenda for technology stack and process standardization across Reliance Capital Group. Responsibilities also include to manage SAP HR and SAP FICO implementation and the Group Intranet as a single common implementation across Reliance Capital Group.Some of the achievments in this role were :1) Successful sign up of all Line Of Business CEOs and CIOs on common IT Security policy mandate, common IT Governance and IT processes mandate and common project management office.2) Successful sign up for all Line Of Business CEOs and CIOs on standard technology stack for key elements like Content Management, BPMS solution, Mobile Development Platform and Enterprise Service Bus.3) Successful deployment of Retail It Architecture with common technology stack mandates across all Lines Of Business'.

On request from President Novell APAC, I took on the sales mantle for Novell India Limited after Novell Inc acquired 100% stake in Novell India Limited. In this role I was responsible for managing and generating revenue from Novell India's top 50 enterprise accounts that span India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Nepal. Responsibilities were to manage SBU costs, revenue generation and forecast weekly revenues to be reported to Wall Street Analysts.Some of the achievments in this role are :1) Met revenue targets and delivered an upside of 9%2) Successfully piched and closed sales of Network Security Stack of USD 3mn plus to TCS to be implemented at Central Bank Of India as a part the Core Banking Deal. Also secured annual recurring business of 23% of license costs for 5 years on services and support apart from 17% annual manitainance contracts3) Successfully penetrated a redhat stronghold account , LIC and won three consequtive Linux tenders from LIC. 4) Successfully piched Novell security stack to Bank Of Bangladesh and got Novell stack mandated by Bank Of Bangladesh in their USD 23mn World Bank Project for computerization of Bank Of Bangladesh.5) Picked up USD 4mn worth of Novell software stack orders from State Bank Of India in a span of 4 months.6) Rolled out Enterprise account management techniques as a standard process across Novell APAC Enterprise Sales Team

Joined Novell India as VP Professional Services. Responsibilities included setting of India Support Center as a pasrt of Novell's follow the sun policy on customer technical support and grow the business as a SBU, grow the services business of Novell in Indian Sub Continent. A few of my achievments in this role were:1) Successfully sold the India Support Center concept to CEO & top management of Novell Inc and finally to the board of directors of Novell Inc.2) Successfully setup India Support Center 3 months ahead of schedule with 50 fully trained and certified support engineers in 3 shifts as against 30 engineers initially signed up for with CEO of Novell Inc3) Successfully sold the India Support Center concept to CEOs of Novell Inc, Novell EMEA and Novell APAC to get the sales teams to sell support services in their region to be executed from India. Expanded to 120 agents in 8 months.4) Successfully piloted IT Security Stack in ICICI Bank Ltd, HDFC Bank Ltd and State Bank Of India as an integrated IDM across multiple SBUs of each of these banks.Setup of India Support Center 3 months ahead of schedule

As head Of Technology for ICICI Bank Card Center responsible for creating IT Roadmap for Credit, Debit & Smart Cards for ICICI Bank. Responsibilities included, IT budget, project deliveries and production support of card systems to manage 3mn credit card accounts and 20,000 POS terminal network.A few of my achievments1) Setup the merchant acquiring network and It Infratsructure in 3 months as against VISA benchmark of 7 months of average global setup time.2) Rolled out systems for Master Card in 4 months as against global best practise of 9 months as avg setup time.3) Rolled out systems for AMEX launch4) Won the VISA Excellence Award for IT Operations on achieving credit card system to deliver a throughput of 1sec for credit card authorization as compared to India best practise of 4.5 secs and APAC best practise of 1.2 secs for 1mn+ transaction daily average volume.5) Roll out of smartcard pilots at Infosys, Satyam and MAHE.

Mumbai

ICICI Personal Financial Services Limited was setup in August 1999 to kickstart ICICI Bank's foray into retail personal financial services. As IT Head for ICICI PFS Ltd mu responsibilities included identifying appropriate IT systems and implementing them for retail loans (car, two wheelers, loans against shares, and home mortgage), credit cards, loan recovery, integrated accounting and risk management. Apart from evaluation, selection, negotiation and implementation of these systems my team was also entrusted with setting up :1 Internet Shopping Mall for ICICI Bank Credit Card Customers2.Call Center Phase 2 and Phase 33.Enterprise Service Bus implementation across all retail businesses of ICICI Group4, Set up the first wap content portal for mobile phones5.Data warehouse6.Siebel CRMA few achievments in this role were :1) Delivering a full blown credit card system implementation 2 months ahead of schedule 2) Delivering Call Center phase2 and phase 3 one month ahead of schedule3) Awarded CEOs special bonus and a fully sponsored 3 day holiday with family at Rajvilas, Jaipur for delivering all projects either on time or before time for go live of various businesses.

Joined HDFC Ltd as a part of campus placement from VJTI as Officer-IT. Over 7 plus years my growth consisted of moving from Officer grade to Asst Manager to Manager and to Sr Manager in the IT department. This stint at HDFC Ltd also laid the foundation of the robust IT skills I carry. As all software development in HDFC Ltd was done in-house, I started as a programmer writing code on OpenVMS (command scripts) , Oracle Forms 3.0 & Reportwriter 1.1 , FoxPro and C. I graduated to the role of business and system analyst and finally to a full fledged project manager managing large development projects. I was given the role of system admin and DBA to 6 months as a skills enhancement engagement , managing 18 distributed Oracle database on Open VMS installation on DEC Alpha machines.Some of the key projects executed were :1) Coding Loan Origination, Loan Processing and Loan Accounting systems for Countrywide Consumer Finance Ltd a JV between GE Capital Ltd and HDFC Ltd2) Managing Loan Accounting and Loan Recovery systems for home loans 3) Creating and managing datamarts for HDFC Ltd for MIS.4) Building the corporate portal for HDFC Ltd5) designed FoxPro based loan origination, processing and accounting for small mortgage finance firms in South Africa and Dubai as a consulting engagement from HDFC Ltd under World Bank-NHB projects.

Mca, Computer Science

Bsc Electronics, Electronics

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