Advisory Board
- Venkat RaghavanDirector, Enterprise Analytics & Group Reporting Practices at Tesco Business SolutionsAboutVenkat is part of the Tesco India executive leadership team and the Tesco Business Solution global leadership team.
Venkat has transformed this team into a unit that plays a central role in Tesco's group strategy. This includes setting up of Analytics Centre of Excellence (CoE) partnering with the CXOs and delivering commercial impact and cultural transformation by solving a combination of day-to-day decision challenges as well as step-change transformations such as Customer personalisation, Category management science, Large-scale demand forecasting, and Cost base optimisation, and experimentation science across group businesses.
Over the last few years, his team emerged as a thought leader and impact creator for the Tesco group - covering all business functions, all operating countries, and all possibilities across the analytics spectrum ranging from reporting to ML/science transformations at scale. From a 70-member reporting team, this function has now grown into a global team of 250 applied data scientists - Sudheendra RaghavendraMaster Data Governance & Strategy Lead at PhilipsAboutSudhee, a Bachelor of Commerce graduate from Bangalore University, embarked on a distinguished professional journey as an Accountant for taxation at D Nagaraja & Co. Progressing through roles, he assumed the position of Macro Process Lead at Accenture, overseeing diverse sectors such as Oil & Gas, Hospitality, Defense, Utility Energy, and Alcobev.
His career trajectory continued with Senior Leadership Roles at Diageo and Philips, where he recognized the imperative to fortify his skills amidst technological evolution. With over eighteen years in Operations & Governance Management, he brings a comprehensive organizational perspective. He complements this with an Executive Program in Operations Management certificate (EPOM) from IIM Calcutta and holds a Black Belt certification from the Benchmark Six Sigma institute, augmenting his strategic and process improvement capabilities.
In the domains of business strategy, operations, and governance, he emphasizes the pivotal role of master data transformation in enhancing productivity, quality, cost-effectiveness, and delivery times. This strategic approach significantly contributes to value creation across diverse Master Data Domains. - Rodrigo CalVice President, Global Financial Shared Services at StrykerAboutRodrigo is a seasoned leader in Global Business Services, specializing in multi-functional shared services and business process outsourcing. With experience in managing captive and outsourcing teams, he has developed a proven methodology that effectively balances people engagement and performance, driving process improvement and cost reduction. Rodrigo's passion for transformation is evident in his expertise in site selection, labor arbitrage, knowledge transfer, and process stabilization. Having worked with Fortune 500 companies like Stryker, IBM, Bridgestone, and Teleperformance, he uniquely combines cultural understanding with a commitment to corporate mission and values.
His operational approach focuses on six critical aspects of business process management: controls and compliance, talent selection and development, process management and improvement, cost optimization, technology management, and fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion. Rodrigo's extensive experience includes managing processes in finance and accounting, inventory, HR, procurement, CRM, and contract management, showcasing a track record of delivering impactful results across various business functions. - Vijay SamuelVP/Head of Operations at Annalect IndiaAboutVijay is a seasoned GBS professional with extensive experience across diverse industries leading large multi-geographic; and cultural teams in a matrix environment. He has a proven track record in setting & scaling up numerous GCC, and GICs with Site operations and service delivery ownership. He PG's in Psychology & International Business, a Sr. Exec Management credential from IIM - Calcutta, PGDGM from the Emeritus Institute of Management (in collaboration with MIT, Columbia Business School & Tuck at Dartmouth), and Business Analytics from NUS Business school. Also a Certified RPA Functional Architect, LSSBB and a Professional GBS® Master from Inixia in partnership with SSON.
In his current role at Annalect India/OGD positioned as a GCC of OMG Inc, he leads their India Operations Org focused on enhancing key business outcomes and delivering quantifiable benefits helping elevate the company as a commercially savvy business entity; identifying missed opportunities, combating value leakage and driving better alignment of delivery channels while identifying/developing new service offerings and realizing the benefits of alternate service delivery models. - Damian GranowskiSenior Director, Global Finance CoE Data Analytics at Warner Bros. DiscoveryAboutDamian Granowski serves as the Senior Director of Data Analytics, FP&A and the Data Analytics Center of Excellence at Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), a leading media and entertainment company operating in more than 220 countries and territories around the world. He is a finance executive with international experience in building operational strategies and leading large-scale digital transformation and automation initiatives. In his current role with WBD, Damian manages a global team responsible for supporting financial management reporting across the enterprise as well as for developing self-service BI platforms leveraged by business teams and functional groups throughout the company.
Prior to joining WBD, Damian worked in senior management roles at Nationale-Nederlanden, GE Capital (Bank BPH), and Deutsche Bank focused on creating high-performing analytics, BI, and reporting teams. Damian earned his MBA from the Warsaw University of Technology Business School and his undergraduate and Master’s degree in Banking & Finance from the Warsaw School of Economics. - Christian MoensGBS Strategy & Innovation at BATAboutChristian serves as the GBS Strategy & Innovation Lead at BAT in Warsaw, Poland, joining in May 2022. Over a decade of experience as an ex-management consultant in Global Business Services shapes his commitment to spearheading transformative change at BAT. With 2,500 employees across 6 Hubs, Christian's GBS organization delivers Finance, HR, Procurement, and Marketing services to BAT's markets and corporate center. His expertise shines through initiatives like the Global Retailer Finance Transformation program, where he meticulously determined the total cost of Finance for UK businesses, led benchmarking assessments, evaluated process maturity, surveyed 2,000 Finance professionals, and identified optimization opportunities. Christian's strategic prowess extends to developing future-ready organizational structures and guiding the transition to a 3rd-party Business Process Outsourcing provider, showcasing his dedication to driving efficiency and innovation within BAT's GBS landscape.
