Enterprises today are experiencing unprecedented stress-tests to their business continuity plans and as a result are looking to accelerate their automation journeys to ensure their business models are scalable and resilient.
In this playbook, Everest Group provides a 360-degree view that will enable you to reimagine your business through automation while improving the experiences of key stakeholder groups.
N. Kashi Vishwanath brings over 34 years of experience out of which, he has spent 23 years leading Projects, Systems, Operations, Organizational and talent management. He has worked across industries such as manufacturing, tool room, furniture, and academic services.
He has experience implementing, Lean Manufacture, Total Productive Maintenance, ERP systems and Quality management systems using ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001. In his last tenure, he was associated with TUV Rheinland India Private limited as AVP – Academy & Life care, additionally audited more than 50 organizations as a Qualified Auditor for ISO 9001.
Kashi is a certified lead auditor ISO 9001 from B.V.Q.I – Bangalore. He is also certified PMP from PM soft, Pune.
Business Leader and RPA/AI (Digital Transformation) Evangelist with 30+ years of experience in the IT industry. As a business leader, Venkatesh strongly believes in compassionate leadership, integrity, and nurturing talent.
His experience in IT Infrastructure, Application Service, and now Digital Transformation brings the strongest insights to the company. He takes pride in creating meaningful relationships with his customers putting their needs and requirements at the forefront of the business.
He is an avid music and cricket lover and an ardent fan of Ilaiyaraja. He has been in lionism serving society for the last 20+ years.
Balaji has 25+ years of experience in IT industry Consulting, Sales, Training, Teaching B2B Sales and Digital Marketing. As Vice President Sales for over a decade he built and run a large inside sales and specialized in global software sales predominantly focusing on US and UAE regions.
A regular speaker across the e-cells / e-summits of IITs and IIMs, he works closely with young talents. He is also the Founder & CEO of ScoVelo a company into digital marketing, content creation, and Inside Sales training.
N.Seetharaman (Strategic Advisor-Digital Transformation) has an experience of 30+ years in the IT industry, he started his IT career with HCL and in 1992 he set up Key Strokes a company that handled IT Applications development and IT Infrastructure. He has built many standalone applications for various industries and uses his experience to digitally transform, manual business processes.
He consults for retail industries, manufacturing, financial, healthcare, and has been instrumental in strategizing their digital transformation journey.
P. Rajkumar (Raj) is a senior consulting leader with two decades of experience in consulting and management in the area of business and business technology transformation.
He was a Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) for the enterprise consulting service line of Wipro, a $800 million division that served clients in North America & Europe. Prior to that he was part of the leadership team of Satyam’s enterprise division where he managed practices, regions and PMO. He is presently giving shape to an advisory firm.
Raj has engaged both large Fortune 500 and regional companies helping them transform their supply chain, customer experience, finance, manufacturing and capital project processes. Has a track record of high success in transformation engagements across North America, Europe, Middle East & Asia.
He served clients in a range of sectors covering both Products and Services: Life Sciences, Industrial Engineering, Hi-Tech, Construction Products, Metals & Minerals, Chemicals, Retail, Telecom, Transportation & Logistics, Healthcare, and Public Sector.
Holds a mechanical engineering degree and an MBA (gold medalist) with finance specialisation.
Raj is a strategic advisor for Collective Minds providing direction for customer success and new initiatives. He is the Managing Partner of Indusbloom, a consulting firm with focus on data science & high impact business transformation.
Sivakumar Ganesan (Siva) is a Delivery Head – RPA/AI. He is a BE(EEE) graduate from PSG Tech, Coimbatore, having 24+ years’ of experience in IT-Software industries across India, US, UK. He started his career as Software Programmer in 1995 and moved up in the Software Application development and maintenance delivery stream. He has played multiple lead roles which includes Delivery Lead, Portfolio Lead/Program manager, Business operation performance management lead, Project manager, solution architect/Consultant. He serviced 14+ years at Cognizant Technology Solutions, 4.5 years at Covansys and 3+ experience in overseas (USA and UK)
Excellence in delivery, end-to-end SDLC management of project delivery, he is good at managing people (group of 200+ member at peak), people skill development, strategies for continuous Process improvement, managing customer stakeholders/ product owners. Practiced traditional water fall and Agile methodologies for execution; Handled projects among various industry segments including Insurance, Technology, Communication, Manufacturing/Automobile, Federal/state, Financial institutes and Credit Cards.
As a Business Operation lead, driven business performance for 180+ customer accounts, which includes Finance – revenue management, P&L [budget , forecast and actual], People-Resourcing & Utilization tracking, Contract management for Fixed bid and T&M projects- availability of MSA, SOW, PO and Reserve reduction. Developed internal ERP solution for managing day-by-day operations efficiently
Recently as a RPA Delivery lead – proess asement carried out for 300+ outsourced process, Delivered 130 + BOTs, covering 60+ processes across Group Benefits, MiddleMarket, SmallCommercial, Premium Audit, WorkerCompensation, Legal & Contracting , Finance Accounting & Operation, CTO, HR and IT Process. BOTs were designed to scatter as Single, Multi and Distributed architecture to support processes executed on same day to multiple days to complete one process.. He also worked on COVID-19 use cases – Claim adjudication , FNOL , Claim process – FMLA/State/Employer {school closure, Quarantine with and without symptoms, RTW (Return To Work), Certificate of HealthCare Provider }
He posess various technology expertise which includes IPA/RPA (UiPath), Data Extraction (using OCR), Java J2EE, MVC, Web Technologies, Spring, Struts, Hibernate VB/ASP, .net, C#, PowerBuilder, Oracle/SQL Server.
