Harish Dwarkanhalli

About Harish Dwarkanhalli

Experienced and Proven Leader with strong focus on strategic growth coupled with deep execution capabilities and innate ability to incubate and scale teams in emerging Digital areasCurrently President at Wipro and Member of Wipro Executive Committee. Responsible for Wipro\'s Applications and Data Business with an Overall P&L of $2.5+ Billion, leading a combined team of about people across offshore and onsite. End to end P&L responsibility covering Sales, Delivery, Capabilities and Partnerships. Additionally responsible for 8 acquired entities and for the oversight of the $4 Bil AMS Ecosystem for Wipro. Incrementally added $800+ Mil in last 3 years at Wipro constituting a 50%+ Growth with a significant margin uplift of the portfolio from 7% to 22% Operating Margins by streamlining the continuum of Sales, Delivery, Operations and Capabilities. Drove Market share thru Account Expansion and increased Wallet share in Top 100 Accounts by cross sell/upsell of transformational offerings. Significant Operational and Delivery rigor deploying multiple efficiency levers to drive margins in organic business. Optimized SGA of acquired entities by successful integration of functions and GTM synergies.Improved Mindshare to establish Top 10 positioning with all Strategic partners (SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Service Now, Microsoft) and with Analysts like Forrester, Gartner, ISG, IDC, HfS to be ranked as Leaders in 16 of 19 Analyst reports in this spaceThe Apps and Data remit constitutes of- Enterprise Platforms (SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, Service Now, Infor & SaaS Products)- Data, Analytics, AI Services - Digital Experience Platforms (Commerce, Marketing, Ux, Mobility, BPM)- Process Transformation Group (HR Systems, Finance Systems, Experience Systems)- Application Maintenance Services Ecosystem across Wipro ($4Bil Ecosystem)Drove the acquisition of Rizing (SAP), 4C (Salesforce) & Leanswift (Infor) and integrated entities like cellent (SAP services), Enabler (Oracle Retail), Appirio (Salesforce), IHS and Gallagher. Provide oversight on Wipro\'s Ventures investments like Drivestream, Incorta and Immuta.Until 2019, was member of Cognizant Senior Leadership Team and one of the youngest Senior Vice Presidents in the company progressively handling larger responsibilities thru his tenure of 23 years at Cognizant. In prior role was responsible for providing leadership and driving growth for a set of Horizontal Practices constituting a P&L of $1.5+Billion with incremental addition of $500+ Mill of Digital revenues over 3 years.

Experience

1. President and Member of Exec Committee, Global Head Applications and Data Business

   Wipro

   Dec 2019 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Currently President at Wipro and Member of Wipro Executive Committee. Responsible for Wipro\'s Applications and Data Business with an Overall P&L of $2.5+ Billion, leading a combined team of about people across offshore and onsite. End to end P&L responsibility covering Sales, Delivery, Capabilities and Partnerships. Additionally responsible for 8 acquired entities and for the oversight of the $4 Bil AMS Ecosystem for Wipro. Incrementally added $800+ Mil in last 3 years constituting a 50%+ Growth with a significant margin uplift of the portfolio from 7% to 22% OM. Significant Operational and Delivery rigor deploying multiple efficiency levers to drive margins in organic business. Optimized SGA of acquired entities by successful integration of functions and GTM synergies.Improved Mindshare with partners to establish Top 10 positioning with all Strategic partners (SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Service Now, Microsoft). Improved positioning with Analysts ( Gartner, ISG, IDC, HfS) to be ranked as Leaders in 16 of 19 Analyst reports in this spaceThe Apps and Data remit constitutes of end to end responsibility of- Enterprise Platforms (SAP Practice, Oracle Practice, Salesforce Practice, Microsoft Dynamics, Service Now, Infor & Growth/SaaS Products)- Data, Analytics, AI Services - Digital Experience Platforms (Commerce, Marketing, Ux, Mobility, BPM)- Process Transformation Group (HR Systems, Finance Systems, Experience Systems)- Application Maintenance Services Ecosystem across Wipro ($4Bil Ecosystem)Drove the acquisition of Rizing (Premier SAP Consulting partner in NA, Europe, APAC), 4C (largest Salesforce boutique in Europe) & Leanswift (leading Infor specialist in US). Responsible for integrated entities like cellent (SAP services), Enabler (Oracle Retail), Appirio (largest NA Salesforce boutique), IHS and Gallagher (Loan Origination Platform). Provide oversight on Wipro\'s Ventures investments like Drivestream (Oracle HCM boutique), Incorta and Immuta.

Education

• University of Chicago Booth School of Business Executive Education

  Executive Management Program

• Indian School of Business

  Executive Management Program

• PES Institute of Technology

  B.E, Mechanical Engineering

  1992 — 1996

• Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

  M.S, Computer Science

Skills

• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Program Management
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Intelligence
• Pre-Sales
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Business Development
• Business Analysis
• Project Management
• Business Process Improvement
• Outsourcing
• IT Strategy
• Java
• Sql
• Software Project Management
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
• Soa
• Crm
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture