Prashant Atgur

About Prashant Atgur

Current Role: Head of Strategic Initiatives CDO office. This is strategic role, working directly with Chief Delivery Officer of Persistent Service Lines. Driving strategic cross functional initiatives across organization, AI first approach, building structure, roadmap and execution plans, building cross functional teams. Ensuring the initiatives directly support organizations mid term and long term strategic goals. Senior stakeholder management and metrics and executive reporting. Contribute to Agentic/GenAI and AI propagation across various functions and offerings. Earlier Role:Delivery Head for Data and Analytics Practice focusing on BFSI Vertical. Heading the business unit that is focused on delivery of large programs for fortune 500 clients in Data and Analytics space including GenAI. Lead the global PnL for large business unit. Driving growth, customer success and delivery excellence. Within 2 years unit grew 3X in size. Customer NPS improved from 9.1 to 9.3/10. Innovation index moved up few notches. Earlier role - Head of Delivery Business Unit in Digital Product engineering. Business unit leader for rapidly growing Digital Product Engineering and Emerging Verticals Business. Ownership of PnL of Delivery unit, Digital product engineering delivery for large product companies. People management, CSAT, Delivery excellence and ESATExperience in leading, driving and executing large business. Strategizing, execution and delivering business outcomes. Working with CxOs and business leaders of Customers in defining road maps, formulating strategies and driving long term execution of those road maps. Driving cultural shift to inspire innovation in teams, by means of hackathons, innovation squads and \"digitally savvy\" workforce. Jointly, driving technology innovation agenda of partners and customers in areas of Modernization, Digital Product engineering and modern architecturesAchieved double digit growth for last 3 consecutive years with highest CSAT scores, improved bottom line, and best employee engagement ratingsStrategic, result oriented and driven. Likes to build organization and develop leaders.Earlier experience in1. Strategizing, planning and setting up, and transition captive Innovation Center for fortune 500 customer in record time of 6 months from zero to steady state

Experience

1. Head of Strategic Initiatives, CDO Office

   Persistent Systems

   Apr 2025 — Present · Pune, IN

   This role works directly with Chief Delivery Officer(CDO) within Persistent Service Lines. Persistent Service lines is technology power house with 9+ service lines in areas of Data, AI/ML, Cloud, BPM, Intelligence Automation and Digital Experiences. Heading cross functional org wide initiatives that directly support Persistent\'s strategic mid term and long term goals. Wearing multiple hats, this involves charting of key initiatives, developing roadmap with senior stakeholders, building structure/framework to drive and track initiatives. Sharing regular updates with steer co. and working with cross functional teams to deliver on business outcomes. Nature of initiatives is dynamic but impact is org wide and speed is of essence. At times it involves focusing on growth in key customer accounts by creating integrated solutions and offerings for large customer programs in Data, AI/ML/GenAI, legacy modernization and transformation. Engaging with Delivery excellence team and working on Delivery frameworks for integrated delivery management. Synergies and best practices - Cross pollination of best practices and ideas across various service line groups. Working with Vertical leadership for joint collaborations with BFSI/CMT/HiTech units. Contributing towards AI First enterprise vision - to bring in AI by brainstorming with various focus groups and injecting AI based solutions within process and tools that are used across Service lines

Education

• Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI)

  Diploma, Electronics

  1990 — 1994

• Walchand College of Engineering

  B.E, Computer Science

  1995 — 1998

• XLRI Delhi-NCR

  PGD Digital X, Digital transformation in HR

• Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM Bangalore)

  Management Development Program, Strategy, finance, marketing

• Carnegie Mellon University

  CEA, Certified Enterprise Architect

  2009 — 2010

• ITIL Training

  ITIL V3, IT infrastructure library v3

  2009 — 2009

• Dowling College

  MBA, General Management

  2006 — 2009

Skills

• Business Analysis
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Agile Methodologies
• Soa
• Pre-Sales
• Pmp
• Enterprise Architecture
• Software Project Management
• Software Development
• Program Management
• Business Intelligence
• Project Management
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing