Aithal Sachidananda

Aithal has 20 years of experience working with global organizations in the Financial and Procurement domains, managing multiple processes, diverse geographies and people of varying background with multiple skill sets. He is Green Belt Certified and Black Belt Trained. 

For the last two years, Aithal has been Senior Director, Finance Operations and head of the Honeywell Global Finance Center, consisting of 850+ finance professionals providing support across all finance processes for Honeywell businesses globally. He was instrumental in setting up the Center and setting up the Co-Located Model of Service Delivery with Cap Gemini who manage the Transactional Processing Support for Accounts Payable, General Accounting and Travel & Expense Management for Honeywell globally. He is also responsible for the Captive Operations consisting of FPA, Controllership, Accounts Receivable, Project Management , Finance Operations, Audit and Internal Controls. He is the single Point of Contact for all service delivery from the Global Finance Center and is also responsible for integrating the Global Finance Center with Regional Finance Centers.

Rajnish Khare

Rajnish is a Senior Banking Professional, having 20 years of experience in BFSI Industry.

He is currently, Head Digital Transformation, Social Business & New Media and Mobility Banking and is responsible for Digital, Social & Mobility Strategy for HDFC bank and inculcating Innovation as a culture & using innovation as a strategic differentiator to gain leadership position in chosen markets.

Earlier, he was Chief Innovation Officer for Citibank and prior to that Head - Remote Banking. Digital Payments & Business Innovations, at Standard Chartered Bank, Head New Initiatives in ICICI Bank with a brief stint at Reliance too .

He specializes in Digital, Mobile, Social Strategy Formulations and Execution and has a versatile domain knowledge in BFSI sector encompassing almost all areas and is an emerging technologies expert and enthusiast.

He has extensive depth in Digital, Social, Mobile, Self Service Industry, Digital Payments, Business Innovations, Technology Space, Outsourcing Models, IT Networks set up & management and Purchase/Partner Management. 

Sujatha Doreswamy

As Vice President of ShS operations management and Business services Leader, Sujatha has lead shared services teams across F&A, Supply Chain, HR & Digital Content Management.

Over the last few years, she has established a successful shift in Bosch’s business model through - Platform Design & Development, Analytics & Automation integration and Service enhancements (Transition towards Knowledge Services).

In her previous role as Business Domain Owner for RBEI Mass Transportation Solutions, she has defined the Market & Product strategy, and its alignment to Government of India’s Smart Cities initiative.  In the past, Sujatha has been an integral part of the Corporate IT team for almost 20 years, and has managed implementations for customers across Asia, Americas & Europe.

The Robotic Process Automation initiative has come a full circle and leading it has been a matter of privilege for Sujatha. Since 2016, Bosch has successfully deployed Robotic farm engagements for the Indirect procurement at Bosch, spanning across many countries and multitude of SAP systems. She also strategically positioned Robert Bosch GmbH in winning the SSON Excellence award 2016 for Robotics in November 2016.

Taking a cue from the Gen Y, Sujatha is actively engaged on social channels, listening to innovation-centric conversations and engaging with people through blogs and articles. She has also spoken and presented on Robotic Process Automation and its journey at Bosch at NASSCOM.

Rajesh Anganakurussi

Rajesh Anganakurussi is a senior manager in Digital Transformation (DT) group under Enterprise Architecture with Boeing. DT is a complete business transformation designed to change the way we build and deliver software at Boeing to help us sharpen and accelerate to meet enterprise-wide goals. Rajesh currently is leading the roll out of the DT program in India.  Previously he led the Enterprise Cloud Services offering at Boeing India.

Rajesh has been with the IT industry for over 20 years and has diverse global experience with a proven track record of leading and growing large delivery units. He has demonstrated cross-cultural leadership in IT consulting, having worked with organizations like Sabre, Sun Microsystems, IBM, CSC in areas such as Digital Transformation, Cloud Solutions, Engineering and Services.  Rajesh has been involved in agile transformation in his previous organizations and is very passionate about agile and digital transformation. In his previous organization, he owned the strategy and roadmap for a key cloud offering and managed the solution and offering development throughout its lifecycle, including product strategy development, customer insights/needs, and requirements definition. He has also been involved in strategic offshoring for various customers across the globe helping them unlock value and bring in significant cost savings.

Rajesh has a Bachelors in Technology in Electrical and Electronics engineering and has done his executive management program from IIM Bangalore.  He is a keen follower of technology trends and is also PMP certified, IBM certified Cloud Solution advisor, certified Product Owner and Scrum Master. He is an avid squash player and also likes running and biking in his free time.

Sandeep Kulkarni

As the Head of Global Delivery Center, Sandeep heads the initiative to setup and manage a global center delivering all the back office (business) services across 20+ companies in the Tata Motor Group including Tata Motors, Jaguar Land Rover as well as the worldwide subsidiaries of Tata Motors & JLR.

 The Tata Motors Group Global Delivery Centre is a hub and spoke GBS with the centralized operations in Pune. Started in Oct 2013, currently GDC supports business services for Purchase, HR, Finance and Sales Operations with a team size of about 2000.

 Sandeep has led multiple outsourcing and off-shoring functions over the last 23 years in US and India, both from demand as well as supply side. He has extensive experience in strategy, set-up and management of Captives, Shared Services and Outsourced centers for Product Development, Support and Business Processes.

 Prior to the current role, he managed the Rightsourcing initiative at Yahoo where he created and implemented a worldwide rightsourcing and rightshoring strategy. He also led Yahoo’s Shared Services center in Bangalore, India and Global Outsourcing function for product development and business services.

Over his career, he has successfully led offshoring/outsourcing/shared services functions at BEA, VeriSign, Symantec and Yahoo! He has also been in various roles with service providers including Practice Management, Delivery Management, Client Partner and Business Development.

Sandeep frequently speaks at several international forums and is featured in national and international media as a thought leader in the area of Shared Services and Outsourcing

 Sandeep did his Engineering and MBA from India and is a Certified Outsourcing Professional.

Piyush Gupta

25+ Years in Finance & Accounting roles with Genpact, GE, Amersham, Nestle, E&Y

Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Anand Venkateswaran

Anand Venkateswaran is Vice President, Finance and Member, Board of Directors for Target India, a fully-owned subsidiary of Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT). Target is a Minneapolis based discount retailer with more than $69 billion in annual revenue, which serves guests (customers) at over 1,800 retail stores across the U.S.

Anand joined Target India in 2010 and has been leading the Finance team, managing overall responsibilities for strategy and operations. In this role, he is responsible for leading the Finance Operations team that supports global Finance and the Indirect Sourcing & Procurement CoE team that drives sourcing strategy in Minneapolis and Bangalore. Additionally, Anand heads the CFO/Controllership function for Target India.

Anand comes with over 20 years of diverse experience in corporate banking, business strategy, finance controllership, business transformation & re-engineering, risk management and the setting-up of Finance Global In-house Centers (GIC). He has worked with companies such as Citibank, Bank of America and American Express, and has experience leading global teams.

Anand is a management accountant (CMA) from the Institute of Cost Accountants of India, Certified Information Systems Auditor [CISA – non-practicing] from ISACA, and has passed the Certified Public Accountancy (CPA) examination from the Maine State Board of Accountancy. He also holds a B.Com. (Hons) from the University of Delhi.

Vignesh Mohan

Vignesh Mohan is the Senior Manager, Digital Transformation at Dell EMC, with responsibility for RPA, Analytics and Business Intelligence programs. Vignesh has been working with Dell EMC for 7 years and heads the RPA, Analytics and BI operations teams in India. He is responsible for setting up the Robotic Automation Center at Bangalore. 

Prior to joining Dell Technologies, Vignesh worked at Infosys BPO for 9 years, during his tenure at Infosys BPO he worked in multiple roles which include, BPO Consulting, PMO, Solution Design, Presales and Operations Management.

 Vignesh holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce with specialization in Accountancy and Services Marketing from St Joseph’s College of Commerce, Bangalore University

Tilak Banerjee

Tilak is a Director with DellEMC, he is responsible for Service Delivery, Customer Relationship and other strategic initiatives of the Global Business Services (GBS) team based out of Bangalore. 

Tilak has more than 18 years of experience in Shared Service supporting industries like Pharma, Telecom, Media, Leasing and High-tech, in a number of senior leadership roles. He is one of the leading and most sought-after speakers in the Shared Service industry and his thought leadership in the areas of Robotic Process Automation, Analytics, Process Excellence and digital disruption have been recognized and appreciated by international Shared Service forums and practitioners across the globe. 

Tilak is a Grad CWA (ICWAI) and a certified Green Belt in Six Sigma from GE(Fairfield). He is also an internationally published author, illustrator and photographer.

Saravanan Kumar

Saravanan Kumar (SK) is a technology leader specializing in incubating and inducting new capabilities into enterprise and platform services.  SK has conceptualized and successfully serviced APM, workload Automation, Agile Platforms, EaaS, Service Orchestration, DevOps and RPA/AI capabilities.

SK has Bachelor degree in Electrical and Electronics, Masters in Human Resource Management.  Certification covers MCPs, CSQA, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), ITIL, etc.,

 In his current role he is the Global Head of Automation for Aon.   Specializing in Intelligent Monitoring, DevOps, XaaS and RPA/AI Platform Services.