Guruprasad Rao

About Guruprasad Rao

Business and Technology leader with proven excellence in Delivery Unit management, Account Management, Program Management, Planning & Delivery encompassing Account Strategy, Account P&L, Delivery Quality Compliance and Customer Satisfaction.• Responsible to manage the P&L of the entire delivery unit, and all the accounts within the unit, mining the account, improve the key parameters for the account to improve the margins, COD• Ownership of end to end delivery of the projects, SLAs/KPIs, Collaboration with other service lines/delivery units.• Responsible to deliver double digit quarter on quarter growth.• Practice development: Planning and executing strategic initiatives to develop the capability to support the growth.• Responsible for people processes in the account, employee attrition rate, people and competency development and engagement• Lead the contract negotiations including the MSA terms, financials, SLA for complex contracts • Responsible for relationship building with customer CXOs and key stakeholders within the account and responsible for customer satisfaction• New opportunities: Leading multiple new leads across multiple areas from solution designing, financials to delivery.

Experience

1. Vice President - Engineering

   Persistent Systems

   Jan 2026 — Present

Education

• Walchand Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Mechanical Engineering

  1998 — 2002

Skills

• Data Warehousing
• Business Transformation
• Testing
• Project Management
• Software Project Management
• Requirements Gathering
• Team Management
• Project Delivery
• Business Analysis
• Global Delivery
• Project Planning
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Vendor Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Pre-Sales
• Data Migration
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• IT Strategy
• Oracle
• Legacy Modernization
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Process
• Sql
• Business Intelligence
• Program Management
• Service Integration