I lead a dynamic practice specializing in advisory, consulting and solutioning for data, AI/ML, and cloud transformation, primarily focused on large-scale initiatives within the telecom and media sectors. I oversee the P&L of our practice, to achieve challenging revenue targets through strategic management and fiscal discipline. I spend a part of my time guiding the CDOs/architecture teams of several leading Telco operators, helping design their data and AI strategy and develop their roadmap to boost operational efficiency and data capabilities.• Responsible for setting up strategic partnership with players in the areas of Data, AI, and Cloud. Responsible for leading partnership with Snowflake, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform, etc.● Drove market penetration and regional growth across the UK, Europe, LATAM, and US by leading practice and pre-sales efforts.● Enhanced business and technological opportunities by forging strategic partnerships with leading industry players in the Data, AI, and Cloud sectors, including Snowflake, AWS, and several other leading providers.● Secured a multi-year deal accounting for 30% of our practice's revenue, showcasing my strong sales acumen and negotiation skills.● Doubled our sales pipeline through strategic enhancements and rigorous deal qualification, significantly boosting potential revenue.● Strengthened our industry presence and established my expertise through multiple customer webinars and the publication of thought leadership articles.

During this tenure, I managed practice with $60M USD revenue, focusing on business development, sales, and solutioning in AI, analytics, process automation, data management, and cloud transformation. This role supported significant transformation and CxO initiatives across sectors like telecom, media, education, entertainment, and technology. I was also a pivotal member of Cognizant's global data and AI leadership team, contributing to strategic decisions and global operations.● Directed sales and pre-sales across the UK and Europe, driving market expansion and enhancing regional performance metrics.● Formed strategic partnerships with key technology players in analytics, AI, RPA, data governance, and cloud, boosting our technological capabilities and competitive edge.● Successfully negotiated and secured several data management engagements with large global organisations, especially in the Communications, Media, Financial services segment, setting precedent for future contracts and solidifying our foundation in data management solutions.● Exceeded targets by 15% through strategic initiatives and focused business development efforts.

Responsible for helping our client to successfully adapt AI, analytics & data driven techniques and successfully implement them; at scale. With special focus towards Insurance, Communications, Media, Retail and Banking industries; me and my team are responsible for challenging the status quo and bring forth a whole new set of value driven selling techniques, transformation methodologies powered by rapid acquisition of new AI skills. This new order of the day is propelled by strategic partnership with industry leading as well as niche technology providers.

In this role, I managed a practice with a $15M USD revenue, leading business development, delivery, and the establishment of Centers of Excellence in Analytics and BI, Data Governance, RPA, Cloud, and AI. My focus was on driving comprehensive digital transformation and data management solutions across various sectors including banking and financial services, telecom, healthcare, and retail. As a key member of Protiviti’s global digital leadership team, I played a pivotal role in shaping global strategies and fostering innovation.● Led digital transformation initiatives across India and the Middle East, enhancing operational efficiency and spearheading sector-specific digital projects.● Established strategic partnerships with both niche and leading product players in areas like Analytics & BI, RPA, Cloud, Data Governance, AI, and NLP, expanding our technological capabilities and market presence.● Successfully delivered large-scale digital transformation projects, from business case creation and strategic development to implementation, markedly benefiting large conglomerates in the Middle East and India.● Launched global digital and data practice, establishing the firm as a leader in innovative digital solutions.● Achieved year-over-year practice revenue increase of approximately 20%, demonstrating robust growth and financial performance.

Responsible for leading digital transformation and information management centre of excellence across India and ME region. Focus areas being RPA, AI, NLP, Analytics and Data. Liaising with top executives across various functions in helping them solving their business problems using disruptive digital mechanisms. Data being the fuel in such transformations, I help customer understand the value of data, help them in its up keeping, secure its quality and help in forming a governance mechanism

Responsible for Consulting, Business Analyses, Pre-Sales and Marketing for Enterprise Data Management practice. As a consulting head my responsibility is to manage, groom a disparate set of domain SMEs, analysts, pre-sales and marketing professionals across all geographies who does solution innovations, creates consulting frameworks and offerings, delivers proposals, responds to RFxs, manages industry events and creates marketing collateral.

Head of IT and Network Audits, Risk Advisory for Telecom, Banking and Utilities providers. Responsible for defining innovative solutions that cuts across Risk and IT advisory for the above mentioned domains. Assist in forming strategic technology partnerships with product/solution vendors

Business Assurance, Data Analytics, IT Consulting and Internal Audit for Telecommunications and UtilitiesResponsible for business development and end to end execution of assurance, analysis and review assignements for business and IT functions within Telcos and Utilities.Specializes in Revenue Assurance for Telcos and Utilities, Analytics driven insight of Customers, operational health, busin ess health, metrics driven performance measurement & dashboards and Enterprise Architecture, IT Transformation & IT Planning.

Enterprise Architecture, IT Transformation, Products and Solution Review and technology roadmap definitionResponsible for architecture review for different technology solutions across Bharti lines of business e.g. Order Management, enterprise integration framework, development methodology, large scale IT transformation projects. The responsibilities also included revamping the architecture planning and governance model

Strategic Consulting, including sales strategy development. Defining new business plans for other verticals.

Business Requirement gathering, scoping, business analyses and sales consulting. Project Management, management of implementation projects and managed services

EAI Team Lead.

Development lead for product modules. J2EE and BPML

Software developer and implementation engineer