Pune District, Maharashtra, India
Award Winning Technology & Business Leader with over 3 decades of industry experience. Ranked among the Top Global CXOs, a Frequent Industry Speaker, An Author, Motivational Leader and part of several advisory/jury boards. Currently working as Chief Digital Officer (CDO) at Tata AutoComp (TACO) reporting into Group CEO, driving Digital Transformation across the TACO enterprise. Earlier worked as CIO & Chief Ethics Counsellor at Vistara Airlines for almost 4 years. Worked with CXOs over last 21 years driving Digital Transformations, Managed P&L ownership, Business Strategy, Sales, Delivery, Operations with deep understanding of the Industry and Global team dynamics. Worked abroad (outside India) for over 15 years. Specialties: Data & AI led Digital Innovation (with special focus on Gen-AI & Agentic AI), Transformation & Growth – Have delivered many industry first solutions using new-age Digital Technologies across 15 industries. I have doubled the revenue of a key industry vertical within 2 years from $100M to $200M+, with margin improvements of 1000 basis points in a FY. Helped customers to build & realize business cases by delivering business outcomes, improving efficiency & deriving benefits. Have setup Delivery & Digital Experience Centers for Top Fortune 100 customers across the globe. Global Exposure – Held leadership positions in USA, Canada, UK, Europe and APAC geographies for more than 15 years. Very familiar with different cultures and very proficient in driving multi-cultural teams. Have worked in 15+ Industry verticals which includes Automotive, Aviation, Retail, CPG (Food & Beverages, Tobacco, Home & Personal care, Toys and more), Pharma, Healthcare, BFSI, Telecom, IT Consulting and more. Leadership – Driving global teams for Strategy, Solutions, Technology, IT Delivery, Sales, Contract Management, Innovation, Results based on business outcomes, creating a winning culture & pushing strong performance ethics. Have led & won several multi-million dollar deals (typically each deal of size $100M+ TCV) - combined TCV of deals won has exceeded $1B. Relationship Management – internal and external stakeholder management, creating & nurturing relationships at senior management level. Last 21 years, I have worked at CXO level clients & helped them to realize business benefits on their key initiatives. Team Management – Led a global team of 2000+ associates, Building leaders for tomorrow, Mentoring for career growth, Rewards and Recognition. Also, was Delivery Center Head for one of the largest center of Delhi NCR - approx. 6000 associates
As Chief Digital Officer (CDO) at Tata AutoComp (TACO), I am driving digital transformation across the TACO group through new age digital technologies like Artificial Intelligence/ Gen-AI, Agentic AI, IOT, IIOT, Immersive Tech like VR, Plant Automation & Manufacturing excellence (MES), Smart Energy Management, AI based Plant safety, Enterprise Data Platform, AI computer vision based quality inspection and several other use cases. Awards Won / Industry Interactions: ======================= 2025 === CIOPowerList 2025 from CORE Media Digital Icon from Express Computer at Technology Senate Awards 2025 Featured among top “25 of 2025” Technology Leaders by HRLumen Featured in TOP Tech 100 List - Most Influential People (MIT Sloan India) Part of IDC - India CIO Advisory Council 2025 Part of Jury for Next100 CIO league organized by CIO&Leader (9.9 Group) Part of Jury for ETMarTech+ Awards 2025 from ETBrandEquity Part of Jury Board for the 3rd edition of the MarTechAI Awards Part of IDC’s Advisory Council - India Tech Symposium & Awards 2025, Part of Jury for INDUS presents SAP ACE Awards 2025 Part of Jury for Ideas for India: Innovation Challenge Awards by The Times of India
Chief Ethics Counsellor
Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Vistara - Tata SIA Airlines Ltd, which encompasses roles of CISO, CTO, CDO into one. Focusing to elevate Vistara Experience to our customers, staff by leveraging digital technologies and enabling advancements in the IT infrastructure by closely working with business, partners and other stakeholders, while delivering world class operational excellence. Awards Won / Industry Interactions: ======================= 2024: === CF100 India 2024 honouree by CyberFrat CIOPowerList 2024 CSO100 Hall of Fame 2024 CSO100 Resilient Award ReeFit Holistic Fitness Icon Award 2024 Bharat Leadership Award 2024 Economic Times CIO Award 2024 Part of IDC - India CIO Advisory Council 2024 Part of ETCISO Cybersecurity Council 2023: === ABP-INFOCOM Awards 2023 - Lifetime Achievement Award IT Visionary Awards – 2023 Strategink CIOAXIS CIO23 Award Tech Excellence Award 2023 TechCircle | Edge Insights - Business Transformation Award 2023 Foundry/IDG - Hall of Fame 2023 Award, CIO100 Award & CSO100 Award HR Association of India - Top 23 CTO leaders of 2023 CIOPowerList 2023 DataQuest Digital Leadership Award 2023 Economic Times DataCon Award 2023 Analytics India Magazine - AI100 Award Part of Advisory Panel of CORE media for CIO Choice Awards 2023 2022: === TechCircle Business Transformation Awards 2022 Foundry/IDG: CIO100 2022, - Innovative 100, CIO100 2022 - Special Award - Mobility Mavens, CSO100 Most Innovative CIO of the Year (Aviation) 2022 Award from Quantic CIO Power List 2022 Award IT Innovation in Customer Excellence Award 2022 from IHE Technology Senate Awards 2022 CXO Cloud Summit 2022 BIG CIO Show & Awards - 2022 InfoSec Maestros Award 2022 2021: === DataQuest Digital Leader 2021 CIO100 2021 IDC Industry ICONIC Innovation Award 2021 CIO1000 APAC Award 2021 CIO PowerList 2021 BTAwards21 Award CXO Tech Excellence Award 2021
Managing complete P&L for UK and Europe, which includes Unit Strategy, Business Growth, Delivery, Customer Interactions at CXO level, Driving business benefits for our customers, Managing Margins and other operational parameters. Won several customer partner awards for excellent partnership and value creation. In addition, heading the Operations for the largest TCS Delivery Center of Delhi NCR region with 6000 associates. Also regional delivery head for Retail & CPG accounts executed in Delhi NCR region.
Head of Retail & CPG accounts for North India. Managed 15+ accounts with complete ownership of P&L, Growth, Customer engagement and team management. Won several large deals for TCS, which helped to grow Retail vertical for TCS.
Manage deliveries, growth & strategies of Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) accounts Globally and Heading the Operations for large TCS Delivery Center in Delhi NCR region with 6000 associates. Have won several global customers for TCS against stiff competition. Some of these customers are $100+M for TCS.