Sandy Hardikar Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, Gb

Mumbai, London

At Network Science, we work with CEOs and Boards of companies in "Changing the World with Deep Tech Innovation", often working alongside management to ensure execution of Innovation programs leading to big and fast change.Network Science is a leading Deep Tech Innovation Accelerator. Through its unique and pioneering co-create.AI model, more than 40 global enterprises have invested >$10Mn in Innovation programmes to significantly Reduce Cost, Achieve Growth, Quantify Risks, Contribute towards NetZero, Monetize Data & Create Competitive Advantage.We collaborate with businesses on their journey toward meaningful change, championing and driving innovation. This is achieved by harnessing the power of various Deep Technologies, including AI, ML, Blockchain, AR, IOT & Robotics in domains like FinTech, Industry 4.0, SalesTech, Cyber Security & Cloud, allowing us to help enterprises become more efficient, effective, and reliable.Leveraging our Deep Tech Portfolio, clients have been able to:1. Predict the likelihood of EMI payment by borrowers for Vehicle Finance Company2. Cloud-based derivatives pricer for treasury sales team for bank in Asia3. Convert existing factory into smart factory using IoT for automotive ancillary firm4. Provide real-time visibility across Supple Chain for one of the top 3 Contract Logistics service providers5. Provide Remote Assistance using AR for EU’s Defense Manufacturer6. Identify Digital Assets exposed on Dark Web in real-time for social media firms7. Reduce Cloud Spend for a Cement Manufacturing company8. Rapid Mobile App Development using Zero-Code platform for a steel manufacturer9. Zero-Trust Architecture for user & device access for aircraft manufacturer10. Increase B2B Sales effectiveness using Digital Account Planning PlatformTake DeepTech to the world-stage, and provide effective solutions to drive real societal, environmental & industrial change.

London Area, United Kingdom

Passionate about Responsible AI by Design, I am a member of the Responsible AI Institute, committed to fostering trustworthy, safe, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence. I believe that understanding and integrating compliance aspects of AI, such as those outlined in the EU AI Act, is essential for everyone. This ensures that AI technologies align with societal standards and contribute positively to our world.

London, England, United Kingdom

As a Forbes Technology Council member, I look forward to collaborating with esteemed leaders in our private forum, where we'll exchange insights & shape the future of technologyI'm excited to contribute to Forbes.com as well, sharing insights and participating in expert panels alongside fellow experts

London, England, United Kingdom

Our mission is to educate, train and elevate start-up entrepreneurs to the highest standards, by providing avenues to accelerate their market expansion globallyOne Internet • One Blockchain • One World

India

This programme is designed to nurture and promote the evolution of world-class Indian DeepTech Startups on global diasporas. The NASSCOM DeepTech Club (DTC) programme is dedicated to leverage Indian deep technology companies to solve global challenges.DTC tries to find world changing startups that are enabled by AI, ML, AR, VR, IoT, Robotics, Blockchain, NLP and similar technologies. The central focus of the DTC programme is to act as a catalyst in empowering pioneers, in India based deep technology startups and connect them with industry leaders, investors, academia, researchers and government regulators to establish a global deep tech ecosystem impacting physical and digital transformation.DTC offers mentoring, nurturing and thriving opportunities to its member companies and trains them to be more innovative, robust and agile. The startup companies at DTC have experienced strategic transformation through industry led confluences, conferences and networking events with the presence of global partners and leaders.Launched in 2017, the pursuit of DTC is to reach a mile deep in solving global challenges. Since 2017 the programme has received 900+ applications from pan India. Over the years DTC has helped companies raise $70 million and has brought the deep tech startup companies from the lab to market-ready global ground.

India

Wadhwani Venture Fastrack (VFT) is an initiative of the Wadhwani Foundation to empower incubators and startup entrepreneurs with knowledge and skills to create high-potential startup businesses that lead to job creation.VFT offers structured incubator manager training, an online startup upskilling curriculum as well as on-demand content and connects to entrepreneurs through its technology platform. Our aim is to support entrepreneurs to achieve superior outcomes, including better traction, higher survival rates, and funding opportunities.My role is to be the Business Growth Mentor - how should B2B Startups go global in a Customer empowered World. I share my experiences, ideas, initiatives that have work for me, and the ones that haven't. These include1. How to chose a particular Geography / Country to expand2. Focus on creating a unique sales experience3. What should be the GTM strategy? Direct or Channel? Target Market selection.4. How should the startup build the 'Spirit of Insurgency'5. What should the team structure? Investments required? sales tools?

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for Microland’s business in the United Kingdom and Continental Europe. Focus is to "Scale-up" the UK business and "Start-up" the Continental Europe presence. Microland accelerates the Digital Transformation journey for global enterprises enabling them to deliver high-value business outcomes to their customers. Headquartered in Bangalore, India, Microland has more than 3,700 professionals across its offices in Europe, North America, Middle East, Australia and India. Microland enables global enterprises to become more agile and innovative by integration of emerging technologies and the application of automation, analytics and predictive intelligence to their business processes. Through "As A Service" engagement model, our focus is on:1. Industrial IOT2. Cloud Adoption and Management3. Next Gen Automation4. Service Integration and Management Services (Application + IT Infrastructure)5. Integrated Life Cycle Security Services6. Software Defined Networks

Mumbai Area, India

As an Operating Private Equity Fund, the Firm leverages best in class operational and people management skills and best practices to manage businesses in the sub $250MN range, where domain is seeded and revenue model is established, and now the objective is to accelerate scale & margins.First Assignment (16 months) - Chief Commercial Officer for Talentedge, a growth stage Ed Tech Startup. Set up in 2012, it is "Changing the way India learns" as it was first to bring ‘Live & Interactive’ anywhere learning in digital format. Its ability to recreate classroom type interactions in the virtual world has struck a chord with over 3, 00,000 individuals and corporate learners. My primary responsibility was to scaleup "Talentedge for business" which offers solutions to increase sales effectiveness, increase revenue per full time employee, on-boarding cost reduction, employee engagement, compliance enforcement and workplace learning. Second Assignment (6 months) - Chief of Solutions (RPO) for PeopleStrong - A leading Indian HR Solutions company, out to bring HR at scale to Indian and international businesses. It is the largest and fastest growing HR solutions company servicing more than 175 Clients with around 1000 employees spread across multiple locations in India. It currently serves 550,000+ users on its HR Technology platform; its helpdesk efficiently solves 1 query every 5 minutes, process 2.5 lakh+ paychecks every month and recruit 50000+ candidates per annum at 250+ locations PAN India. My primary responsibility was to support the sales team with techno - commercial solutions for generating and winning multi-year, complex, business case driven outsourcing engagements.

Mumbai Area, India

• Primarily responsible to grow business in the emerging markets (India and Middle East)• Part of the Leadership Council to steer the company towards sustained and profitable growth• Lead strategy and transformation initiatives for India and Middle East businesses• Be a CIO partner in driving key initiatives in Microland – Client engagement• Be part of Quarterly Business Reviews with all existing clients to help steer growth and increase acceptance of Microland in multiple other areas• Focus on globalization of existing client relationships• Work towards converting input – based engagements to outcome – focused engagements• Build a high – performance, result – oriented team that focuses on building Trust through transparency, flexibility and innovation with their clientsKey Achievements:• India business has grown 80% over last Financial Year• Middle East business has grown 100% over last Financial Year• Led a team to win a multi – year, multi – million dollar deal with a large financial institution

Mumbai Area, India

Formerly known as TPI• To establish TPI in the consulting, benchmarking and Governance Services space in India• Collaborate with Indian clients across verticals to identify key pain areas and create a sustainable business model • Customer acquisition through disruptive innovation and questioning conventional wisdom• Work with Service Providers to identify their core strengths so as to help clients select the right partners• Provide oversight to all projects and act as an escalation point. • Increase brand acceptance through marketing initiatives – participation in industry events, TPI branded events and specific initiatives around customer communication.• Create a 3 year business plan for India geo

Mumbai Area, India

• Responsible to establish HCL in the Strategic Outsourcing and Managed Services market in India• Portfolio to be established – Business – aligned IT, Total Outsourcing, Asset – Light Outsourcing, Operations Outsourcing, Infrastructure and Application Operations Managed Services• Create a high performance team to do Business Development across India goaled on providing value – based, multi-services, Proactive IT approach to clients.• Work closely with various partners to create a service delivery framework specific to the Indian market.• Work closely with the Marketing and Communications team to create HCL’s brand in India for Strategic Outsourcing and Managed Services

• P&L responsibility for HCL Technologies for setting up of operations bringing in the right combination of business development, growth and profitability to the company. Break-even in the first year of operations itself and highly successful venture there-after• Set-up operations in the Middle East with complete responsibility for Sales, Marketing, Projects and overall operations. Build the team from scratch spread across Business Development, Sales, Marketing, Program Management. • Established direct operations in UAE, SPV (Special Purpose Vehicle) in Saudi Arabia and partnerships in other GCC countries. • Signed contracts across the complete portfolio for HCL Technologies including Application Development, Enterprise Application Services (Oracle, SAP, Microsoft), Enterprise Content Management Solutions (Documentum, FileNet, IBM), Enterprise Transformation Services (IT Consulting Services), Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM) Services & BPO services • Executive Sponsor for key customer engagements including the largest services contract signed by HCL in Middle East (a $25mn Operations Outsourcing engagement)• Worked very closely with Marketing team to create HCL brand in the region – brand building through exhibitions, press event, speaking at various industry forums, customer newsletters• Key Achievements: Setup HCL Operations in Saudi Arabia & UAE Awarded as the “Best Initiative” in 2008 Established HCL’s first “common front-ending” business development team addressing the entire portfolio Sponsor for “Glocal” Ecosystem Engagement Partnership with the largest ISP in Saudi Arabia

• Responsible for Infrastructure Services Sales in Enterprise segment in Western region• Team Lead of 8 experienced sales account managers• Sales and Marketing responsibility offering key business Infrastructure solutions which includes Network Connectivity (Terrestrial Links, VPNs, VSATs), Network Security (Firewalls, IDS, Two Factor Authentication and Security Life Cycle Management), Network Management (Remote Management through Network Operations Center) and Network Intelligence.• Responsibilities include understanding the client's business, need generation, cost-benefit analysis, preparation of techno-commercial proposals, presentations and ensuring win for HCL Comnet - Key Account and Relationship Management including Project Management.• Key segments handled by team: IT / ITeS, Private BFSI and Manufacturing & Distribution

Mumbai Area, India

Worked in the Power Systems Group handling various projects ranging from Relay Co-ordination to Electrical System revamp to Islanding studies for many clients. Job profile included understanding the client's system completely, feasibility studies, vendor appraisal and approval, inspection, commissioning activities and cost-benefit analysis.

Global Ceo Program, Business Administration And Management, General

The Global CEO Program is led by three world-renowned business schools: IESE Business School, the Wharton School and China Europe.

Global Ceo Program, International Business/Trade/Commerce

The Global CEO Program is led by three world-renowned business schools: IESE Business School, the Wharton School and China Europe.

Global Ceo Program, International Business

The Global CEO Program is led by three world-renowned business schools: IESE Business School, the Wharton School and China Europe.

Emerging Leaders Program (Online), Management

Activities and Societies: Emerging Leaders is a 20-week program covering five topic modules: Strategy, Customer Focus, Innovation.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Marketing

B.E., Electrical

Diploma In Engineering, Electrical

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