Rajib Gupta

Senior Director - Research and Advisory - Sourcing Procurement & Vendor Management @Gartner

Synthesizing more than 35 years of hands-on experience in IT and Business Process and now backed with Gartner research, supporting CxOs with immediate and near term engineering and sourcing challenges. Guiding them with their long term engineering challenges, process optimisation and spend strategy and ROI generation.* Within my 2nd year in Gartner, my prediction that legacy modernisation will be the Black Swan for #GenAI becoming ubiquitous, has been selected amongst the top-5 Gartner Top Predict for 2024 * Leading a crucial and one of its kind research committee in Gartner, where buyer and seller analysts and advisors meet to debate and discuss current market trends and future predicts * Within 1st year was transitioned from an Analyst to be an Advisor. Assisted and guided 600+ CIOs, CFOs, CPOs, GBS heads with their multi-million IT and BPO spend programmes.* Delivered my first research note on Russia-Ukraine crisis and impact on IT services in record 5 days - start to finish * Was interviewed by German media for impact on nearshoring and offshoring due to Russia-Ukraine crisis. Interview published in two magazines/outlets