AboutPaul has over 27 years of IT industry experience spanning various roles and industry domains, predominantly in the area of Digital. At present freelancing in Value-Creation opportunities, leveraging Business, Strategy, Design and Digital technologies.Till recently he was Director, Health Digital Practice - a role focused at driving the Digital Transformation in Wipro’s Health business unit. His charter focuses on value creation activities using Design Thinking led approaches and implemented using Digital technologies. After his initial years in programming and project management, Paul spent his recent two decades in variety of specialist and leadership roles of Chief Technologist/ Solution Architecting/ Consulting. He has excellent exposure to all the functions of an enterprise and has a track record of instituting practices incubating new-age technologies, and helping customers actualize their potential in Digital journey. He has led co-innovation programs with Customers', leveraging the Business-Academia-Startups ecosystems.He has extensive experience across Innovation-R&D Management / Technology Practice management. Includes, trends spotting, opportunity validation & evaluation, incubation-to-prototyping. Innovation themes spanning across emerging technologies/ new process models / new business segments. He has handled Product Architecting / CoE Practice management / IT-Business interfacing.His industry exposure spans across Clients in Manufacturing, Lifesciences-Healthcare, Logistics, Retail and Energy-UtilitiesHis inclination to value-creation and problem-solving endeavor is by mixing blue-sky thinking, cross-functional knowledge, new-age technologies and co-creation.He has a bachelor’s degree from National Institute of Technology (erstwhile KREC, Surathkal)Beyond his profession, Paul has keen interest in academics, mentoring, and green-thumb initiatives. Specialties: Business Technologist; Design-Thinking led innovations; Idea-to-concept solution building; Incubating first-of-its-kind programs; Creativity, lateral thinking and depth-and-differentiation in solutions.