With over 4 decades of leadership experience across core business functions, Ravindra has demonstrated a strategic approach to developing people, managing change, unpicking problems & building professional relationships. His ability to combine vision, creativity & strong business acumen has always yielded appreciable business results.Following his passion to help executives & organizations grow, Ravindra founded Acumentor, a management consulting firm focusing on building better leaders, enhancing operational efficiency for organizations, and helping organizations effectively deal with VUCA challenges. Key areas of focus:" Helping executives and entrepreneurs develop management and leadership skills through Executive Coaching, Management Training, & Personal Development" Coaching executives in effectively transitioning into senior leadership roles while integrating insights into Industry, Technology & Human Capital & tapping into diverse professional & industry networks" Providing solutions across Strategy, Operational Excellence, Organization Development, Competency Building & Leadership Advancement

Ravindra designed and led business centric & customer focussed global IT delivery growth strategies for Tech Mahindra across multiple regions. His role included:" Identifying & developing future technologies & building capabilities to ensure market leadership." Managing location resources, processes & systems to ensure customer deliverables meet or exceed promised delivery schedules & Service Level Agreements." Strengthening domain competency in the organization through capability development, trainings & processes." Ensuring effective internal controls & MIS are in place." Supporting vendor evaluation & decisions on technology investments.Key achievements:" Ensured operational excellence by creating a seamless, standardized operational processes that helped maximize performance and drive cost effectiveness." Led several productivity improvement initiatives by building cross-functional and cross location teams, as well as a robust process backbone." Worked closely with several global clients to develop their IT strategies and scalable solutions around those. Managed 150 customers and 350 projects globally, worth $300 million." Achieved 100% business growth and increase in profitability from 10 % to 14 % in 5 years in the regions headed by him." Enabled the establishment of best-in-class Global Solution Centers in China and Malaysia.

Built the Resource Management function from ground-up and successfully led the function, integrating the workforce planning, resource deployment, optimal utilization and talent management through re-skilling. Worked closely with top management, business leaders, competency leaders, HR, L&D and Operations to implement a resource management strategy for the business that became an industry best practice. Key achievements:" Established a world-class, scalable, technology enabled, supply-chain management based resource management model to meet the growing demands of a 45,000-associates strong organization. " Led multiple initiatives to effectively forecast resource demands, manage deployment of right resources at the right time at the right cost, re-skill resources to meet future business demands, match right skills and career levels with the right roles, and effectively capture efforts for invoicing." Institutionalized resource management as a productivity and profitability enhancement function, supporting business growth." Helped minimize business opportunity loss for want of resources to 2%.He drove many initiatives like mobilizing employees and/or technologies to maximize results in a cost efficient manner, having the right resources at the right time, re-skilling to meet future business demands etc. which served as solutions to the short, medium and long term resource challenges faced by the business then. His key achievement highlights include:- Managing information of 45000 associates globally that had all the relevant data for effective decision making- Establishing robust & efficient systems that were scalable to any size- Minimizing the business opportunity loss for want of resources to 2%.

Lead Client Service Delivery for few Fortune 100 companies

Managed service delivery for 3 Fortune 100 customers.

Established the Quality function for the organization and led as its first head. Spearheaded the efforts to achieve ISO 9001 certification. In a first of its kind initiative in the industry automated the entire Quality management processes.

Developed and implemented the automation roadmap for the organization that set the standard for the industry. Recognized for developing unique chairman's and director's Information Systems and efficiently managing the complete enterprise IT operations.