Rakesh Surana Email and Phone Number

Rakesh Surana is a seasoned professional with 27+ years of management consulting experience across 15+ industries, functional domains and geographies (India, ME and Germany)He leads the Cement and building materials, Metals and Mining sector leader for Deloitte South Asia and is responsible leading a highly empowered team to - - craft innovative solutions to drive transformational, sustainable business impact to address industry issues- handle Deloitte relationships in select accounts (leading key client relationships) to address client issues and enable them to outperform peers- manage broader client relationships- generate thought leadership- support other colleagues sell and deliver work across clients He also leads the 'Must Win' team to help other Partners & Directors enhance the win probability for all strategic and high value pursuits. Leveraging innovation, the best capabilities of Deloitte to drive differentiation and value creation. In addition to all of the above Rakesh also delivers transformation engagements across a broader set of clients.His industry expertise cuts across - - Steel- Cement- Downstream Oil (Refining and Marketing)- Lubricants- Textiles- Bulk chemicals- Advanced materials (carbon fibre)- Agri chemicals- FMEG (Electrical Goods)- Tyres- Rayon- Paper- ITES- FMCG- Construction- Liquor- Non-ferrousFunctional expertise covers bulk of the business value chain- Business Transformation- Strategy- Supply Chain Re-engineering- Sales, Distribution and Marketing- Operational Excellence / EBIDTA Improvement- Innovation- Digital transformation, including leveraging start ups, AI, GenAI- Business Process Re-engineering- Shared Services- Capital Project Management- Pricing - ERP ImplementationPrior to April2015, Rakesh was with Accenture India for ~18yrs in the Resources operating group where he worked across industries and overtime gravitated towards O&G and M&M clients. He additionally set up and ran the Capital projects practice for the firm.Beyond work, Rakesh is an extrovert with varied interests - Squash, Scuba, Badminton, Cricket, Chess, Amateur skier to name a fewRakesh is a chemical engineer by qualification and graduated in May1997 from University of Mumbai. He has attended numerous trainings over his career with the latest being the Harvard Accelerate Program (2021-22)