Raj Rangaswamy

About Raj Rangaswamy

Raj is known for his acute customer obsession, creating digital awareness, accelerating market penetration, fast learning and brand loyalty. He\'s led strategic growth across diverse organizations, blending innovative technologies like Ai, Smart analytics and Cloud, nurturing worldwide professional services teams and enduring partnerships.In his +20yr tenure, Raj has led customer experience, business development, sales, management consulting, M&A and technology transformation (+10 yrs as Executive Partner/Managing Director/Principal/CIO/CISO/VP) serving multiple industry verticals like high tech, private equity, healthcare, manufacturing, supply chain & retail. With +18 yrs of multi-channel experience, Raj enjoys integrating ideas, strategy, talent, technology, analytics and execution. As MD, CIO and executive partner, Raj has built global teams ground up, driving IP development, successful M & As and exits. He holds a Masters in Business-IT (Dean\'s award) from Temple University, Philadephia. Raj is advisor to multiple technology leadership and non-profit boards, part of customer advocacy initiatives, and speaker at Google cloud summits, CIO and industry conferences. SPECIALITIES:1. Strategy, business value creation and accelerating profitable growth, serving startups to F200 businesses: • Business development, GTM, Sales Enablement and P&L management • Customer journey mapping - Ideation, ROI Analysis, Change Management, Deal Negotiation • Global professional services & practice development 2. Emerging technology analysis, adoption & optimization (Cloud, Smart analytics, ML/Ai, RPA, IoT): • Business architecture, Technology assessment and modernization • Led transitions to 100% Cloud (Google Cloud/GSuite, O365, SaaS, AWS, Rackspace, Salesforce, ADP)3. Practice & solutions design and deployment: • Self service analytics, Ecommerce, Digital platform & Product management - Web/Mobile/Analytics • Next-gen applications and platform integration • Information security governance, MDM, compliance (SSAE16, HIPAA, PII, SOX, ISO) 4. M&A Integration/Separation (Buy and Sell side) of Acquiring and Portfolio companies: • Part of C-Suite that successfully transformed company and sold to Private Equity •. Due Diligence, Close, Zero & 100 Day Planning • Organization and Talent restructuring, Services & Technology consolidation 5. Talent development: • Hiring, mentoring, retention and Internships.6. Advisory Board member: •. Serve multiple CIO, IT leadership and academic forums

Experience

1. VP - Gen Ai Solutions and Services

   Virtusa

   Jun 2024 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US

   Helping organizations across Hi-tech, Saas, Media & Entertainment, Healthcare, CPG & Retail, and Financial services verticals accelerate AI adoption, agility and revenue by leveraging industry specific Gen AI solutions and services- Lead development of Google Cloud and AWS NorthAm business and GTM strategies across Tech, M&E, and other strategic verticals (FSI, Retail, HIL) and growth markets (EMEA, APC)

Education

• School of Technology & Engineering, MS University, Baroda, India

  Masters, Applied Mathematics

• Fox School of Business at Temple University

  Masters, Business & Technology Management

Skills

• IT Enabled Business Transformation
• Product Management
• Business Transformation
• Professional Services
• IT Service Management
• Change Management
• Strategic Planning
• IT Project & Program Management
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Customer Experience
• Sdlc
• Global IT Operations
• Solution Architecture
• Erp
• Lean Operations
• Crm
• Itil
• IT Executive Management
• IT Strategy
• Incident Management
• IT Leadership
• Project Management
• Program Management
• Risk Management
• Disaster Recovery
• IT Contract Negotiation
• Integration
• Project Portfolio Management
• Process Improvement
• Cloud Computing
• Outsourcing
• Cost Management
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Business Analysis
• Business Intelligence
• Business Development
• Vendor Management
• Pmo