Digital Transformation Officer
CurrentAs a global leader for Retail & CPG industries in AWS' professional services division, Tilak is leading the Industry Specialists organization worldwide. From building the practice's vision and strategy, to hiring talent, to developing the partner strategy, to building and enabling go-to-market motions, Tilak is responsible for setting up the Retail & CPG practice organization - it's business, operating, and engagement model. Prior to this role Tilak was the global leader of digital transformation for the manufacturing & industrial verticals. He led the development of business transformation offerings that are business-driven while technology enabled. Tilak reimagined Professional Services' go to market approach by addressing customer's challenges as true business transformations instead of just IT transformations. He not only led the development and packaging of the digital transformation offerings but also ensured that AWS is established as our customer's trusted digital transformation partners who are experts in executing in all facets of a digital transformation i.e. business (functions, change management, operating model, investment strategy) and technology (industry offerings, platform architecture, industry use cases). Tilak's charter is to structure and deliver strategic pursuits that are framed to be built at scale to not only drive cost efficiencies in core business operations but also foster business agility, growth, and get to a position of differentiated market advantage. Managing the mix between strategic imperatives and practical adoption considerations is a subtle act; which is what Tilak focuses on through strategic high-value consulting and deep technical expertise. In summary, Tilak is championing AWS' position in the high-value business-driven strategic industry consulting space.Tilak is an author of 3 published books, owner of 3 patents, author of more than 25 journal publications, and is a frequent speaker at technical conferences.