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# Nishanth Rao on Tal

## Headline

Associate Vice President, Enterprise Tech Office

## About

As the head of Indegene’s Enterprise Technology Office \(ETO\), I oversee an extensive and evolving portfolio that includes Enterprise Products, Transformative Software Solutions, Enterprise Testing Services, and Enterprise Automation\. My role centers on driving technology innovation to empower the Medical, Commercial, and Data & Analytics business units with next‑generation, AI‑enabled healthcare solutions\. A key strategic priority is building healthcare‑ready products leveraging Agentic AI on the AWS Bedrock platform, enabling clients to unlock deeper insights, accelerate decision‑making, and realize tangible ROI\. With 26 years of experience across IT transformation, global delivery, and large‑scale enterprise solution design, I bring a proven ability to implement technology‑led change that enhances revenue, improves profitability, mitigates risk, and strengthens operational efficiency\. I have managed diverse, multimillion‑dollar portfolios using Scrum, Kanban, XP, and traditional Waterfall methodologies to meet complex delivery demands\. Currently, I lead a workforce of nearly 500 professionals within the Enterprise Technology Office, partnering closely with business units to enhance productivity and drive year‑over‑year margin improvement\. My responsibilities also extend to shaping and reviewing RFPs, advancing PMO standards, and championing continuous improvement within Managed Services environments to deliver long‑term value for clients\. My leadership is further strengthened by over six years of international experience across the USA and The Netherlands, contributing to a global and well‑rounded perspective\. Specialties • IT Transformation • GenAI / Agentic AI • Global IT Delivery • Pharma & Healthcare • Channel Partner Sales • Mentoring next leaders • Program Management with EBITDA and P&L • Leadership • Strategy & Planning

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## Work experience

Associate Vice President, Enterprise Tech Office at Indegene, Oct 2025 \- Present · 11 mos, As the leader of Indegene’s Enterprise Technology Office, I guide a comprehensive portfolio spanning enterprise products, transformative software, testing services, and automation\. My focus is on accelerating innovation across Medical, Commercial, and Data & Analytics functions through next‑generation, AI‑driven healthcare solutions\. By leveraging Agentic AI on AWS Bedrock, I drive the development of healthcare‑ready products that enhance insight generation, speed decision‑making, and deliver measurable ROI for clients\. Advancing the next horizon of healthcare innovation with Agentic AI and visionary technology leadership\.

Director Technology Solutions at IQVIA, Jan 2020 \- Sep 2025 · 5 yrs 9 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, \- Implement Gen AI and AIML solutions on Healthcare data deliveries to derive valuable insights and derive forecasting and next best solutions for pharma clients to improve their prescriptions and sales\. \- Partner with regional business to increase the revenue\. Help to win more leads with high probability of win \- Lead program management and architectural review board to migrate and transform pharma data to NextGen data lake platform using Spark, Scala, HIVE, IntelliJ and Airflow technologies\. \- Provide insights on various cost optimization measures and take actions to implement the same\. \- Provide Human Data Science Cloud solution \(Next Best Action\) regarding sales, opportunity, trends\. \- Build IT transformation by bringing in predictive analytics modeling, AI/ML, RPAs and process automation\. \- P&L, RfP, Financial planning, Cost optimization

IT Delivery Manager at DXC Technology, Apr 2017 \- Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \- Accountable & Responsible from IT perspective towards Finance, Data Lake, WFM, Facilities and Marketing functions of DXC – which includes IT ownership of 19 applications\. \- Managing a global team of \~225 resources from India, Poland, Mexico, Malaysia and China \- Leading the integration and transformation of ES and CSC applications into go forward platforms and architecture \- Led the team to build a cluster of 16 node Enterprise Data Lake solution using Big Data technologies on VPC\. \- RPA enablement for Workforce management function\. \- pan DXC executive dashboard built on PowerBI and Azure Analytics to cater all VPs and CxO\. \- Budget management, financial planning and operations for the account \- Leading the implementation of CI/CD for 9 applications\. \- Vendor Management

IT Engineering Manager at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Nov 2015 \- Mar 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \- Accountable and Responsible from IT perspective towards Enterprise Data Warehouse \(Vertica\) and Workforce Management \(Micro Focus PPM\) functions, where team is spread across Bangalore, Shanghai and Kuala\-Lumpur\. \- As part of KPI program for workforce management, led a team to build an end to end solution which prevented annual revenue leakages of around $2\.4M \- Part of executive core team for the divestiture of Enterprise Services from HPE and merger with CSC\. \- Built enterprise search solution which helped the efficiency of pre\-sales team by 45% \- Delivery of various mission critical solutions \- Budget management, financial planning and operations for respective functions\. \- Vendor Management

IT Engineering Manager at HP, Sep 2010 \- Oct 2015 · 5 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \- Led a major transformation and in\-sourcing of ADAS \(Enterprise Service Management\) work from Mphasis to HP Internal IT – workforce size of around 100, working on various technologies like Informatica, Business Objects, Qlikview, HP Executive Dashboard, HP Operation Orchestration \(HPOO\), HP Service Manager \(HPSM\) and HP Asset Manager \(HPAM\)\. \- Building the team responsible and accountable for developing the tools and applications which are used in ADAS \(Enterprise Service Management\) for a client base of around 200 customers\. \- Strategic support structure for Enterprise Services Business Intelligence of HP IT, ensuring an annual savings of around $1\.8M \- Envisioned and implemented real time workforce management dashboard to know resource availability and utilization\. \- Setting up consolidated Partner compensation team in Bangalore and supporting Partner compensation business unit of Hewlett Packard\. \- Setting up follow the sun model support structure for Channel Partner Sales business function \(Bangalore, Guadalajara and Shanghai\) with an annual savings of around $3M \- Budget management, financial planning and operations for respective functions\. \- Vendor Management

Project Manager at HP, Aug 2009 \- Aug 2010 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \- Led the global team to build a front\-end reporting solution for AMS\-PODS\. \(Americas Partner Operational Data Store, using SAP BO Webi called Trident\. \- Designed and developed the regression test automation tool which reduces the regression test effort in Business objects by 85%\. Presented paper in various HP forums on the same\. \- Led the global team to consolidate regional sales and inventory data collection systems to one application called Flash DC\.

Technical Project Lead at HP, Jun 2006 \- Jul 2009 · 3 yrs 2 mos, Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Area, \- Architected address matching solution for Channel partner business group, which using the fuzzy and machine learning algorithms, matches the addresses and reseller/dealer names\. This solution was called as Customer Address Matching \(CAM\) and replaced the solution provided by Duns and Bradstreet \(D&B\), with an annual savings of $1\.2M

## Education

Executive MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Swiss School of Business and Management

Advanced Data Analytics for Managers, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

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