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About me.

My goals, both personally and professionally, revolve around creating a positive impact for long term value. My aspiration is to be in a position of commercial influence to bring about positive change. I commit to educating myself academically on contemporary topics, hiring diverse teams, challenging as-is, and being a vocal advocate for equity.

 

Drawing on my extensive international experience and global network, I think broadly and work persistently towards goals, even if it takes time. At a profound level, I am driven by the desire to create a world where organizations and individuals, can succeed authentically and joyfully in their own style, without compromising integrity.

Career Highlights

2013 - to present

EY

Partner
Switzerland, Singapore

Leading large-scale global business transformations and Top Team coaching to clients at C-suite/Board/Steering Committee level. Rated as Differentiating Talent for several consecutive years.

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  • Priority clients in Advanced Manufacturing in role as Consulting Account Lead. Direct responsibility to build the EY business, maintain service excellence, and ensure Customer Success.

  • Led EMEIA network of EY wavespaces, collaboration-innovation-sales "labs." 23 locations and 250 people collectively driving Topline Sales and Pipeline, and Customer Success.

  • As Swiss Consulting Markets Leader, led deals/pursuits/sales and have led delivery of large-scale global transformations (including SAP implementations, Global Business Services, etc.) for some of the world’s prestigious companies.

  • EY Leader for the United Nations ‘Equals Program’ – invited by the UN to design their programs to enable equality in technology. With a global impact the program is impacting in areas including Indonesia, Pakistan, and Rwanda.

  • Host the EY Disruptive Tech client series in Palo Alto.

2011 - 2014

Accenture

US, Singapore, South Africa, Australia

Director level role for large-scale global business transformation and systems implementation programs, involving senior level stakeholder engagement, program and change management. Rated as Top 1%.

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  • Fortune 500 Mining company: A 3-year Australian and South African project - leading the global org and change management for an SAP implementation to consolidate multiple systems into one.  Managing remote teams on Asset sites across continents, this involved culture change and adoption and development and delivery of training content. Directed Talent and Org effort for Alu and Nickel. Managed 40% of the project team, the solution of 12,000 effort days involved early adoption, communication and culture change. Double-hat as Global Training Build Lead - developing 1600 deliverables using 5300 effort days for an implementation affecting ~10,000 users.

  • World´s largest non-profit Foundation: A technology project for the largest private foundation in the world, enabling the foundation to have the tools and resources needed to make positive change and expand possibilities.

2000 - 2004

Tech Mahindra

India, US

Change strategy and implementation for this global IT solutions provider. Trained more than 6000 associates in Project Management and managed the training lifecycle for ~17,000 users for an online billing system at the largest Insurer in the US.

What I studied

PhD

Education, Leadership, and Innovation

2009
University of Colorado at Denver

Bachelors

Masters

Marketing and Finance 

1999

University of Pune, India

Business Management

1997

University of Bangalore, India

Certifications

Negotiations Mastery

Harvard Business School Online

2024

Executive Coach

Marshall Goldsmith

2020

Scrum Master

scrum.org

2018

Proj Mgt (PMP)

Project Management Institute

2004

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