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Asst. VP at Digitide | Strategy & Transformation | GTM | Corporate Development | Business Planning | Market & Competitive Intelligence | Sales & Ops Excellence | Thought Leadership

About

There's a moment in every complex organisation - you've seen it, even if you've never named it - where the room goes quiet, the strategy document sits unopened, and everyone waits for someone to say what's already known but hasn't yet found the courage to become a sentence. I've spent fourteen years being that person. I didn't plan a career. I followed the hardest problem in the room. Energy markets. BFSI. IT/ITeS. BPM. Transformation. Each move looked unconventional from the outside. From the inside, each was a deliberate trade - comfort for complexity, familiarity for sharper questions. What each chapter taught me: Energy markets: timing is the strategy. Everything else is commentary. Enterprise IT: scale is a trap if you don't understand what you're scaling - and why. Banking: risk is never where the risk committee thinks it is. BPM: process without purpose is expensive habit dressed in the language of efficiency. All of it together taught me the one thing no programme or certification has found a way to teach: how to hold an organisation's anxiety steady while rebuilding its direction from the inside. Everything else is vocabulary. At Digitide, I sit beside the CXOs. My mandate: find what matters, discard what doesn't, move. Corporate Strategy, GTM, Transformation, AI - the domains. But the actual work is always the same: close the gap between what an organisation says it believes and what its decisions reveal it actually believes. I don't present strategy and leave. I build it, stress-test it against the people who must execute it, and stay until the organisation has internalised not just the direction - but the reason for it. Because a strategy that isn't believed isn't a strategy. It's a document. The best competitive intelligence is never found in reports. It lives in the questions your competitors have stopped asking - and the assumptions success made them stop examining. GenAI is not a technology question. It is a clarity question. Organisations that will genuinely win with it already know what they're trying to do. I helped build Digitide's AI Innovation & Experience Centre in Bangalore from scratch - now it is a sales and growth engine. My work spans Corporate Strategy, Market Intelligence, Competitive Intelligence, M&A, Research, Business Intelligence, Thought Leadership, Knowledge Partnerships, Business Development and Corporate Planning. The breadth is not incidental. It was chosen. Because leaders who move between the boardroom and the engine room without losing the thread are the ones who prove most useful.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

deepseek

gemini

grok

Napkin AI

Work experience

Asst. Vice President - Strategy, Transformation & Growth Leader at Digitide, Nov 2024 - Present · 2 yrs, Lead the group corporate strategy function to enable long-term value creation for each BU under Digitide. Execution of special projects to propel strategic direction, building an execution blueprint that aligns with company's strategic and financial objectives. Assist group companies in managing their business performance, operational excellence and drive strategic investments for growth initiatives. - Strategic Vision & Planning: Craft and implement strategies to drive growth for Digitide’s mission. - Leadership & Influence: Lead and inspire cross-functional teams to execute strategic initiatives. - Market Analysis & Insights: Analyze market trends and competitors to aid strategic decisions. - GTM & AI Innovation: Champion innovation to enhance products, services, and market presence. - Partnership & Collaboration: Build and shape partnerships with Tech vendors, Hyperscalers to support strategic goals. - Performance Metrics: Establish and track KPIs, to reimagine and optimize processes & achieve business objectives.

Manager/AVP - Strategy & Transactions at EY, Jun 2021 - Nov 2024 · 3 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, -Leading and creating value for global C-Suite Clientele of Fortune 1000 companies. Collaborate with Deals/Account/Sales Teams using Strategy & Research, Competitive Intelligence, Market and Industry level Impactful intelligence. Crafting customized storyboarding and synthesizing data to throw deep actionable insights, helping them to navigate in the era of disruptions, business transformation and emerging commercial challenges. Working in with Fortune 500 Companies and new-age corporates globally (US, EMEIA, Middle East, APAC) . Designing and leading Strategic Planning, Value Creation and Deal Advisory projects including Growth Strategy, Go to Market Strategy, Market Intelligence, Digital Transformation, Company Analysis, Financial Analysis, Industry Assessment, Competitor Intelligence, Digital and Technology Research, Though Leadership, PoVs, M&A Target Identification and Assessments

Vice President - Strategic Planning & Research at Wells Fargo, Aug 2020 - Jul 2021 · 1 yr, India, Business & Digital Transformation - Strategy & Research, Corporate Planning, Execution & Governance, Market Intelligence, Research & Analysis, Go To Market Strategy, Competitor Mapping and Intelligence, Market Segmentation, Industry Assessment, Technology Research and Feasibility assessment

Global Lead - Strategy & Market Intelligence at Conduent, May 2019 - Aug 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos, Corporate Strategy, Market Research, Competitive Intelligence, Sales Enablement, Strategic Planning, Strategy Formulation, M&A, Feasibility check, Due diligence, Technology Research, Whitepapers, Thought Leadership, Revenue Analysis, Analyze emerging trends, Corporate Development. - Core Member of Corporate Strategy & Corporate Development Group - Lead Market Intelligence function of the firm and practice development - Strategy Lead and thought partner for the assessment of Strategy & Planning of Business Units - Lead the Market Research and Competitive Intelligence programs for all the Business Units - Handling research vendors and other market research initiatives

Manager - Strategy & Market Intelligence at Conduent, Jul 2018 - May 2019 · 11 mos, - Collaborate with executives for business unit reviews, drives strategic initiatives, and long-range goal planning based on organizational reviews with executive sponsorship approval - Analyze & recommend emerging industry trends, Competitive Analysis and identify opportunities for different business units - Coordinate with Corporate Development team in regards to mergers, acquisitions and divestitures

Consultant - Strategy & Research at Deloitte Consulting, Aug 2016 - Jul 2018 · 2 yrs, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, -Business Strategy Consulting, Process Improvement, Market Research, Business Analysis, Revenue Analysis, Pipeline Reporting, Requirement gathering -Helping global consulting leaders to devise strategy, collaboration, change management, market intelligence -Global Strategic Initiatives: Office of Deloitte’s Global Leader of Consulting Services. Worked through driving the firm’s global portfolio of capability-building initiatives; and implemented processes to govern execution of approved initiatives, Pipeline Reporting

Education

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Oil & Gas Management, UPES

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Applied Petroleum Engineering, UPES