- Strategy & Global expansion- Finance & Investments

As Advisory Board Member at DriveAds I work with the founders of the company to shape investment plans and technology to help DriveAds achieve its goal of being the #1 Out of Home advertising company.

Manage the transformation of the organization to a digital company with firm processes, governance for global teams in 11 countriesGlobal KPI and goal setting, budgeting for large programs, financial and program dashboards for 11 Operating Companies and HeadquartersManaging large RFP’s and vendor management of large IT vendors including the top 5 consulting companiesManaging partner relationships and partner evaluation, ensuring privacy and compliance with legal and compliance teamsHelp the company in realizing Big Data transformation including product selection, vendor selection etc.Manage global transformation of the operating companies in various countries to transform their digital portfolio and transforming them to a data and analytics driven company with uniform operations

As a CTO of Facilitracks, I guide the product development and manage teams across geography. I also hold the responsibility of CFO for Facilitracks. Customer acquisitionEstablish global IT development, support & maintenance processes and delivery modelsProduct planning and strategyManage international clients and projectsIn charge of hiring high performance team and managing themStrategic partnerships and for marketing and productsInvestments and financial oversight

Specialties: IT Strategy & Enterprise Architecture, Business Case DevelopmentStakeholder Engagement specifically managing relationship with CXO'sBusiness Strategy Analysis and PlanningIT related operational / cost efficiency analysisMergers and Acquisitions related adviseIT Transformation and Project & Portfolio planningProgamme and Project Management Team Management & Team BuildingPlanning and executing partnerships with other firms and planning strategic roadmap for the organizationEnd-to-end responsibility bidding and working out legalities of contracts providing consultative insights to clients and charting out delivery plans for projects and programs Consultative sales, process consulting and BPM tools (Intalio and Entellitrak)Information Architecture development for Enterprise, SOA Reference Architecture, Mobility Strategy, Data Centre & Cloud initiativesAdvise and guide customers in Outsourcing and OffshoringEstablish global IT development, support & maintenance processes and delivery modelsAdvise fast growing startups on technology, international setup and finance

• Concept development and creation of PRD, MRD and Use Cases for realizing a new concept• Infrastructure and security planning enabling next generation products with interfaces to social media, CRM and other platforms• Social media and Search engine optimization and exposure of products on different platforms• Managing development teams in different geographies

• School finalist in the Venture Capitalist Investment Competition, valued companies based on financials andbusiness strategy for Internet startups, manufacturing companies etc.• Created valuation for Facebook based on DCF, Investment Multiples and non quantitative parameters likestrategy and competitive advantage• Applied advanced e-marketing concepts including Search Engine Optimization(SEO), Social Media andengaging new age marketing techniques for Internet and traditional firms• Internal strategy project to suggest future directions for Commercial Lightingdepartment and presented to a team from Philips

• Spearheaded the largest customer migration (Florida) involving stakeholders from Wachovia and Wells Fargo bank impacting 600,000 customers delivering synergy benefits of $40 Million to the organization• Led a segment of the post-merger integration and support of Wells Fargo & Wachovia (over 3 million customers) and completed the program leveraging synergies between the operation of the two companies• Created high-level plans, risk and benefits analysis, reported and presented results to stakeholders for each phase of integration spread over a year• Mentored employees, trained existing employees on processes and systems within Wells Fargo interviewed candidates and created orientation material for new employees• Headed organizational transformation of a consulting company with initiatives including offshoring, transformation to cloud computing, creation of web-based billing and payment solutions and strategic joint ventures in other countries

• Prioritized projects using cost benefit analysis, enterprise risk and alignment to IT Roadmap in the organization and helped organization run a lean IT program• Helped to increase consulting firm’s footprint at client location by searching for opportunities and negotiating large sized contracts (resourcing, budget, outsourcing etc.) with stakeholders (Executive Directors and above)• Managed a program with impact of more than 200 Million USD to MSSB and improved IT efficiency by optimizing cost, assignment and reuse of resources, alignment with IT roadmap• Spearheaded the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney merger team for analysis and design of retail banking system which would be used in Morgan Stanley Smith Barney joint venture (MSSB)• Managed compliance initiatives including Sabranes Oxley, Patriot Act, Privacy and security using third party tools and delivered high level strategy for creation of compliance applications• Managed P&L and overall delivery and support of a program involving 15 financial applications for Smith Barney with staff in over 3 countries and multi-site implementation of the developed solution• Managed a 25 member core team and multiple support teams including quality management and business teams and project managers with responsibility of billing and performance appraisal• Managed creation of Functional Requirement Documents(FRD) and Business Requirement Documents(BRD) involving a team of business analysts, quality and support functions in multiple countries for developing web-based and service oriented solutions for the bank• Managed end-to-end design and development of solutions involving full Software Development Life Cycle(SDLC) and supported business for retail banking staff, financial analysts, compliance and trading division

• Managed a cross functional team involving business, project management, quality and technical staff for a large IT Transformation project• Analyzed and re-designed business process to reduce budget spent, focusing on overall profitability of the vendor management division in TransUnion• Identified opportunities in different business units for new contracts and created proposals with marketing team to target new contracts for TransUnion and other clients• Supported learning management team in creating training programs for the organization utilizing concepts of learning for knowledge based firms• Co-Architected the vendor management system working with senior architects, business owners, project managers and programmers and helped develop the prototype for the vendor management system

• Managed sourcing for CapitalOne composed of a large number of outsourcing firms like Wipro and Infosys and managed vendor relationship with UNICA (an IBM company)• Managed a 10 member team in CapitalOne marketing campaign platform and created process flow for end-to- end marketing campaign management process working with business, IT and UNICA(Affinium Campaign) product team• Led a team to create a new SDD process for Nokia called NUP which is derived from IBM’s Rational Unified Process and helped Nokia implement their web-based document management and Intranet search strategy• Managed PwC Global Benchmark program from offshore location used by a large number of Fortune 500 clients to benchmark their business units with competitors businesses based on more than a 1,000 parameters on human resources, Finance, Marketing etc.

• Worked with the marketing team to create proposals and Product Requirement Documents(PRD) and Market Requirement Documents(MRD) for various products and projects and presented to stakeholders at large corporations like Jones lang lasalle, National Highway Authority of India, Autodesk etc.• Led designed and developed a state of the art defense system for Defense Electronics Research Laboratory and won multiple awards and accolades for excellence in performance and client engagement• Participated in bids for projects with multi million dollar contract value and helped the organization identify vendors and partners to help in execution of the contract• Worked with senior directors, marketing managers and presented to various stakeholders in large firms and managed relationships of the firm with C-level executives in client and vendor organizations• Designed and developed knowledge and content management solutions for organizations like SunMicrosystems, Microsoft and Andersen Consulting with contract value of more than 2 million USD