A highly regarded Mentor, Coach and Thought Leader, Ragu comes with over 30 years of achieving exceptional results in highly competitive and complex IT and Business environments. He has extensive experience and considerable expertise in Delivery Leadership, International Business Development, Strategic Alliances & Planning, Organizational Development, Talent Management and Change Management. Along with diverse industry and functional expertise, Ragu has a successful track record of managing large business verticals, driving sales, profit and building significant offshore and overseas Development Centers for leading Indian IT players.
Career Highlights:
- Coaching and Mentoring for 3 years for leaders on facing work place performance and personal challenges.
- Consulting support on Organizational initiatives, Business Transformation, Business idea / Product / market evaluations, Work Transition, Leadership competency assessment and improvement, Leadership Coaching, Delivery Excellence, and Operational Efficiency.
- 16 years of Leadership experience that includes
- Managing profitably large business verticals, outsourcing deals & RFPs for global clients in multiple domain segments, deal solutions development, transition and steady state delivery and building domain practice. Highlight was the successful bid management and delivery of a $ 384 M outsourcing deal of Australian Telecom Giant.
- 6 years of focused responsibility in People Management, Business Management / operations delivering on key operational improvement programs & metrics, Innovative delivery models, Cost and Quality of delivery, Resource management, Workforce alignment and Building Alliances.
- Enabled two major Business Transformations (large programs with significant Change Management) – EDS – MphasiS and HP – EDS.
- 4 years in building ODC for US and UK clients and managing offshore delivery.
- 11 years in Product Development and Mainframe environments in Developer / PM / GM roles.
Areas of Expertise:
- Global Delivery Leadership
- Business Development
- Strategic Planning
- Turnaround Strategies
- Transition & Transformation
- IT Outsourcing
- Mega Deal Solutioning
- Change Management
- People Care Management
- Workforce Management
- Talent Management
- Coaching / Mentoring