Prashant Joshi

About Prashant Joshi

Proven transformation leader with 22+ years of experience driving enterprise-scale digital initiatives across BFSI, Telecom, Consulting, and global organizations. Currently serving as a Practice Lead for Digital Transformation, delivering measurable business outcomes through strategy, simplification, automation, and innovation. Leverage deep expertise in Digital Transformation, AI adoption, and Business Consulting to enable productivity improvement and sustainable value creation. Lead business-facing transformation programs with a strong focus on customer experience improvement. Apply proven capabilities in strategy formulation, product launches, and process optimization to solve complex client and organizational challenges.Professional SummaryDigital Transformation Leadership: Senior Digital and Business Transformation leader driving enterprise-wide programs across banking, consulting, telecom and industrial domains with a strong focus on outcomes.Automation, Simplification & Productivity: Delivered measurable productivity improvement and cost reduction through simplification, automation, and AI adoption initiatives.Market Activation & Product Launch Excellence: Led large-scale digital product launches, ensuring business readiness, customer adoption, and commercialization across global markets and value streams.Strategy & Advisory: Proven expertise in business strategy, portfolio planning, and digital advisory, translating market insights and competitive analysis into executable roadmaps.Consulting & Account Growth: Extensive experience in business consulting and account management, enabling revenue growth, client satisfaction, and delivery assurance for global clients.People & Practice Leadership: Built and led Centers of Excellence, managing 15–20 member business teams, driving capability building, engagement, and high-performance culture.Stakeholder & Client Engagement: Trusted client-facing leader with strong CXO stakeholder management, aligning business and technology teams to deliver transformation at scale.

Experience

1. Vice President Global Transformation - Strategic Initiatives Automation and Simplification

   HSBC

   Mar 2025 — Present

   Delivered productivity uplift through Simplification and Agentic AI adoption, saving USD 9Mn over 2 years for global transformation function. • Spearheaded 100% rollout in 8 months of the Transformation AI Assist platform with suite of AI agents to automate high-effort, repetitive tasks and improve throughput across 1,300+ workforce• Drove adoption of Automation and Simplification solutions for BA, PM and PMO roles significantly enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness. • Scaled the AI Assist platform, accelerating cross-LoB adoption through train-the-trainer programs and best practice sharing.• Institutionalized Simplification at scale by launching and mentoring 20 PODs to standardize and optimise core business processes via a structured ideation platform.• Led strategic initiatives to enhance productivity of Transformation teams through Process Simplification, Standardization, Automation, and Waste Reduction, including definition and tracking of metrics.• Conducted detailed As-Is process assessments, facilitated ideation workshops, identified and prioritized improvement opportunities, developed prototypes, and created comprehensive implementation roadmaps to scale new ways of working and drive enterprise-wide adoption.• Identified and defined new AI use cases through detailed time and effort analysis, enabling targeted AI agent development aligned to business productivity goals.

Education

• Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

  Post Graduate Advanced Program in Strategic Management, Strategy

  2014 — 2014

• Department of Management Sciences, Pune University, PUMBA

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Logistics, Materials, and Supply Chain Management

  2002 — 2004

• Jnana Prabodhini

  CBSE, Science, Maths, Social Sciences, Sanskrit, English

  1991 — 1996

• Fergusson College

  HSC, Physics, Chemistry, Maths

  1996 — 1998

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  Bachelor's Degree, Production Engineering

  1998 — 2002

Skills

• Market Research
• Business Transformation
• Engineering
• Business Strategy
• Process Improvement
• Management
• Product Development
• Analysis
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Marketing Strategy
• Project Management
• Customer Focus
• Business Process Improvement
• Digital Strategy
• Strategy
• Project Planning
• Supply Chain
• Strategic Thinking
• Design Thinking
• Management Consulting
• Six Sigma
• Leadership
• Digital Transformation
• Project Portfolio Management
• Introducing New Products
• Team Management
• Business Development
• Program Management
• Supply Chain Management