Nelson Kulandairaj
Chief Digital Officer
- Role
- Member - Chennai Chapter at Cio Association
- Location
- Chennai, TN, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Nelson Kulandairaj
Nelson Kulandairaj is a seasoned IT Delivery Leader with 28 years of experience, committed to creating exceptional client values. Nelson has completed the COO (Chief Operations Officer) certification, an MDP course, from IIM Lucknow. In his current role as Chief Digital Officer he is driving the platform-isation initiatives across the organization and driving the synergies between the HR tech solutions. In the past Nelson worked with Satyam, Mahindra Satyam, Tech Mahindra, Capgemini & Adrenalin eSystems in leadership roles. His global perspective, garnered through client-facing leadership roles in the USA, UK, Denmark, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, and India, enabled him to spearhead large-scale transformation initiatives. These initiatives encompass consulting, product implementation, application development, and managed services to impact their business outcomes profoundly, all with distinct emphasis on his signature themes #Data2Decide and #Design2Lead and often in close collaboration with the CxOs.As a business leader responsible for P&L, Nelson\'s visionary approach has consistently improved operational efficiency, delivery standards, and economic utilization. Nelson’s interventions helped in cost transformation, process refinement, intelligent automation adoption, and digitization efforts. His strategies have successfully met the organization\'s Delivery Excellence, CSAT, Cost of Delivery, Delivery Led Growth, and EBITDA goals. Nelson enabled winning multiple large multimillion annuity deals for meeting the TCV goals.Global Delivery Head - Emerging Technologies, Digital and Automation head, Cloud – Global Delivery Head, BU Delivery Head, HCM product implementation head, Program Director/Customer Success director are the leadership and strategic roles played by Nelson in the past with P&L responsibilities.Nelson designed & delivered branded re-skilling & up-skilling initiatives to address the demand & supply challenges to unleash the potential of human capital for organizational success.Nelson is committed to continuous learning & a CSPO, CSM, PMP, 6 sigma GB, ITIL (F), MS Power Platform fundamentals & Azure Data fundamentals, Digital 401 (Digital Transformation Consultant) certified professional. Contribution towards learning and development is Nelson’s passion. He had spent more than hours for industry-academia connect initiatives, 18 years consistently & enjoys volunteering, spending time for students/faculty enablement programs. Nelson spends good amount of time on social impact programs and serves as a volunteer for various NGOs.
Experience
Member - Chennai Chapter
Jun 2025 — Present · Chennai, IN
Education
School of Inspired Leadership
Self Leadership to Serve the Well being of all, Organizational Leadership
2020 — 2020
Harvard Business School
Certificate in Global Business Leadership (CGBL), Business Administration
2007 — 2007
Yale University
The Science of Well-Being . (Certification Program), Wellbeing
Bharathidasan University (BDU), Tiruchirappalli
Master's degree, Computer Science
Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow
Management Development Program, Chief Operations Officer Programme (COO)
Bharathidasan University (BDU), Tiruchirappalli
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
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