Radha R

About Radha R

Entrepreneurial business leader with over three decades in Executive leadership roles in the Technology industry. Successfully incubated, passionately led and hyper-scaled several Digital and Technology businesses during the 16year stint at Mindtree. Worked with global technology giants IBM and Microsoft, both in their respective hyper transformative years.Currently donning a spectrum of deeply engaging roles: Independent Director on Public Boards, Executive Coach and as a growth hacker for early-stage start-ups.Independent Director (ID): Serving as ID on the boards of Zensar Technologies, Bata and Kfintech in today\'s context of rapidly evolving role and expectations from the boards and IDs. Bringing a “growth mindset”, strengthening board Governance, exploring the appropriateness of current trends in technology and mentoring professionals for steering individual and organizational growth.Growth Hacker: Deeply and passionately involved in early-stage Tech startups, helping them navigate the constantly changing paradigms of business and bringing execution rhythm for sustained success. Currently at Vunet Systems, giving hands-on-guidance to create a new business category of Business Journey observability in the AI ops domain. As the Executive chairperson of the Industrial AI startup Flutura, catalyzed a prestigious and deeply valued exit to Accenture.Executive Coach: Building people and teams and grooming high performance talent has been the essence of my journey. Currently, as an Executive Coach, preparing and mentoring people to realize and sharpen their innate potential. Helping them deal with rapid market changes and succeed as professionals and as leaders, to drive their firms and teams to market leadership.Advisor: Earlier, served as an External Advisor to Bain & Company, consulting with firms in the PE and Technology space working on Strategy, Market acceleration, Value creation and in navigating the nuances of Digital transformation.Executive Business Leadership Past: Till 2019, was leading Digital Services in Microsoft India Leadership team, driving the transformation and adoption for customers to the Cloud and Digital world.Served 16 years in the Executive Leadership team at Mindtree. Led the Global Digital Business as the Executive Vice President and established Mindtree as a significant partner for Global clients to “Make Digital Real” for their businesses. Prior to Mindtree, served in IBM India in various capacities and in diverse roles encompassing Sales, Marketing and being responsible for various business lines.

Experience

1. Independent Director & Board Member

   Zensar Technologies

   Sep 2019 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

Education

• Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

  PGDM, Marketing, Finance

  1991 — 1993

• Madurai Kamaraj University

  BE, Electronics & Communication

  1984 — 1988

Skills

• Data Warehousing
• IT Strategy
• Offshoring
• Vendor Management
• Business Alliances
• Business Intelligence
• Pre-Sales
• Sales
• Marketing
• Business Analytics
• Outsourcing
• Global Delivery
• Consulting