Ashish Kar
VP, Head of Bss & Ai Solutions @Telefónica Germany
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WORK HISTORY
VP, Head of Bss & Ai Solutions @Telefónica Germany
Munich, DE
Responsible for leading the delivery of Telefonica Germany’s large, complex and industry-first Cloud-native Digital BSS Transformation program (aka RAITT) servicing Pre-paid, Post-paid and Fixed Net product portfolios across multiple brands, for 50m+ subscribers* Managing a team size of 3k+ working on RAITT* Advising Business & Technology teams, and the Vorstand on successful Digital & AI Transformation models, and battle-tested approaches to improve demand management, blueprinting and delivery throughput - while taking bottom-line accountability for ensuring efficient and timely results* Leading the AI CoE Practice for Mass Market across BizDevOps for Applied AI, SDLC and AppOps* Managing a diverse group of System Integrators and COTS product partners working on RAITT * Accountable for overall planning, execution, budgeting, value management and risk management of RAITT
EDUCATION
Delhi University
Graduate in Chemistry (Hons), Organic, Inorganic, Physical & Environment Chemistry
NIIT Pune
Graduate in Systems Engineering, Management Information Systems, General
AGSM @ UNSW Business School
Master of Business & Technology, Business Administration, Management and Operations
SKILLS
ABOUT ASHISH KAR
Accomplished technology leader with 29 years of global ICT experience. Ashish has held senior managerial positions in Ericsson, Infosys, Telstra, IBM, Start-ups and now in Telefónica Germany. A digital transformation expert with a strong innovative and architecture mind-set. A people person who has built teams from the scratch. And a Silicon Valley tech start-up entrepreneur, who has designed and implemented AI-driven BSS Platforms, Digital Subscription Monetisation products, Campaign Management and Service-desk Agent Management products, and several IoT applications for Asian, North American and European telecom markets. Known for technology advisory consulting and delivery excellence in Telefónica DE, StarHub, Verizon, Vodafone, DT UK, BT, Sony PlayStation, Proximus, Telefónica Global and Telstra. Managed large business and technical teams, alliance partners and directly worked with CTIOs across Germany, Singapore, US, UK, Belgium, Spain, and Australia.Ashish is a naturalised Australian citizen.
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