Ajay Hegde
Advisor – Product Development | Cloud Transformation | M&A - Technology Assessment & Integration | Enterprise Data Services | Data/Digital/Analytics Strategy | Solution Delivery
- Role
- Managing Director at Acumenz Consulting
- Location
- Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Ajay Hegde
Visionary digital leader, technology modernization, and product development expert who leads and directs globally distributed teams providing data-driven cloud and on-premise solutions to enhance customer loyalty, customer relationship & insights, personalization, and platforms, aligning above strategy to company business objectives and team’s targets & KPIs. Strong advisory expertise in Financial Services, Insurance, Healthcare & Pharma, Automotive, Retail, Travel & Leisure, Hospitality, Telco, etc advising over 50+ Fortune 500 firms and heading SaaS firms in Data/Digital/IoT Platform Engineering. Expertise in product engineering from inception, cloud, full stack development, data and enterprise analytics, ML & AI. Recognized for a customer-obsessed approach to product management and solutions.Successfully built teams of up to 250 from scratch in India, China, Europe, and the US for multiple firms. Have worked in over a dozen countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America advising, collaborating, and delivering technology solutions in various industries.
Experience
Managing Director
Dec 2023 — Present
As a CIO Practice Director/Leader, I am responsible for advising CIO/CDO/CTO’s in enabling their business outcomes by providing Data/Digital Strategy, IT & Data Governance, IT Organization Design, Automation & DevOps, IT Vendor Management, Outsourcing, Vendor Management, Technology Evaluation & Selection, Technology Consolidation/Modernization/Optimization, Cloud Assessment & Adoption, and building the CIO Advisory Practice
Education
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
MBA
Kellogg Executive Education
Northwestern University: Leading with Analytics
Karnatak University
BE, Electronica and Communication Engineering
Accenture
Data Architect
Carnegie Mellon University
Cloud Advisor Certification
Skills
- Training
- Project Management
- Strategy
- Saas
- Team Management
- Databases
- Data Warehousing
- Outsourcing
- Sdlc
- Solution Architecture
- Program Management
- Re-Engineering
- Agile Project Management
- Product Management
- Leadership
- Business Intelligence
- Business Process Improvement
- Agile Methodologies
- Management
- Cloud Computing
- Marketing
- IT Strategy
- Salesforce.com
- Data Analysis
- Erp
- Product Lifecycle Management
- Integration
- Global Talent Acquisition
- Telecommunications
- Business Analysis
- Global Delivery
- Data Managment
- Analytics
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Software Project Management
- Change & Risk Management
- Crm
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Enterprise Software
- Enterprise Architecture
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