Suraj Bithal
Member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council @Harvard Business Review
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WORK HISTORY
Member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council @Harvard Business Review
London, GB
EDUCATION
Ponteland High School
Business Computing
University of Sunderland
Business Computing
ABOUT SURAJ BITHAL
Impartial.Expertly.High Impact.Particularly interested in high energy companies looking to accelerate tech and business change, create value, optimise costs and enhance operational efficiencies. Specialist in exit strategy and execution Helping boards battle Transformation, I am a enterprise wide commercially astute technology leader with a background of driving through transformation whilst maintaining service, delivering £m+ cost reduction, software consolidation and vendor optimisation. Regularly asked by execs to deliver rapid change, turnaround, migrations and carve outs dealing with the legacy tech, people and processes - all of this whilst maintaining a stable service to the business.Inspiring change and growth within the organizations and people around me.With over 20+ years of interim, consulting and permanent experience and having managed IT divisions across multiple continents, I have led teams working all over the globe with people from a variety of cultures. I develop, push, engage with my teams regularly to ensure the culture required embeds itself into the energies they deliver.I’ve led the charge in industry sectors ranging from banking to technology, finance to payments. Capability to bridge the gap between the Business, Group Functions and IT – identify opportunities and gaps in IT functions, providing a roadmap for technologies, people, data and processes. Produce technology strategies covering tech, people and process – to help organisations maximise effectiveness and efficiency and support technology organisational and business change. Technology Leadership though change – I can lead the IT function through change, and prepare, mentor, and coach IT leaders to become strategic business and commercial partners as well maintaining a run environment Specialities :Change and Transformation programme design and executionCost OptimisationOperational transformationService & Product-Based IT Operating Model TransitionService Operations managementHybrid Cloud Migration programmes - AWS, AzureInfrastructure ManagementManaged Services and OutsourcingPeople Leadership and mentorshipData StrategyITSM / SIAMFinancial ManagementStrategic Partnership ExpertiseValue CreationProduct DevelopmentCloud OptimisationArchitecture and strategyDatacentre migrationsProcess AutomationRegulatory and Compliance ManagementRFP governanceCarve OutsExit Strategy and execution Suraj BithalMob :+44••••••••10
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