Gautam Kulkarni

About Gautam Kulkarni

25 + years of experience in IT services and Product organizations delivering enterprise digital transformation projects, services, and solutions. Managed Delivery, Tech consulting, Pre-sales, Alliance/account mgmt, Solutioning projects, large deals & digital initiatives. Focuse on Retail, CPG, Hospitality, Logistics and Technology/Hi-tech sector (Software ISV/SaaS providers) on a variety of digital transformation initiatives. Consulting Delivery & Program Mgmnt, Product Dev, SaaS Implementation, Presales & solutions. Excellent understanding of SCM/logistics, Purchase/Procure2Pay/CLM, Digital commerce, Marketing, CX, Commerce, Analytics/Big data, and Workflow mgmnt. & NexGen tech - AI/ML, big data, IoT. Career Highlights:+ Excellent blend of business & technology intervention for Manufacturing, Retail, CPG, Travel & Hospitality, Transportation, Logistics, SCM, contract management (CLM) and Payments with a deeper understanding of market trends, technology ecosystem and digital disruption.+ Business analysis, Consulting & Program delivery for large projects, geo-distributed cross-functional teams, both offshore/nearshore and P&L responsibility + Adviser for new market access & growth, customer stakeholder management, and GTM strategy.+ Grounds up career progression (BA>Consultant>Business Architect) helped to build a strong analytical and consultative mindset.+ Geo focus: UK, Ireland, Europe, USA, UAE, and South Africa.+ Technology: Major ERP\'s like Oracle, SAP/S4 Hana. Niche products Manhattan, JDA, IBM - PIM. BI/Datawarehousing, Sterling Commerce OMS, WMS, PoS, FSM, E-commerce platform, Omni-channel commerce NTS Retail, P2P solutions, CLM solutions Icertis, Opensource technologies (not hands-on)+ Digital: Analytics, Mobility, Cloud (MS Azure, AWS), AI and IoT+ Delivery: Waterfall, Agile, DevOps, SRE and implementation of Design Thinking approach+ Fortunate to be part of 1st few SaaS implementations (early days in 2009) at UK fashion retailer+ Implemented AI/cognitive/deep learning platform solutions for document ingestion, metadata discovery+ Manage & Won large multi-tower deals (USD 50+ Mn), setup pre-sales function/solutioning teams (including ownership of the Business Value Articulation, own solution & Pursuit Lead to develop the winning proposition)+ Setup and led the offshore delivery center

Experience

1. Director

   Wipro

   Jan 2026 — Present

   HARMAN Digital Transformation Solutions (DTS) is now part of Wipro as the Connected Services Unit.

Education

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  Master of Business Administration - MBA

• Shivaji University

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE

Skills

• Project Management
• Consulting
• Vendor Management
• Pre-Sales
• Erp
• Business Process
• Management Consulting
• Business Development
• Requirements Gathering
• IT Strategy
• Program Management
• Strategy
• Requirements Analysis
• Retail
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Software Project Management
• Crm
• Business Analysis
• Enterprise Architecture
• Team Management
• Business Intelligence
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Software Development