Amit Deshmukh
IT Business Leader, Technology & Business transformations
Years of Experience:
Clients / Startups Supported:
26
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Professional Summary
• Amit is a business leader with 26 years’ track record of strategic leadership and execution excellence. He has led service delivery & P&L for large business units in tier-1 IT organizations for global clients (~1500 team size; 70 MUSD revenue, serving 35 clients).
• Amit had been able to double revenue for his portfolio in last 4 years through perfect blend of long range planning, partnerships with hyper scalars, ensuring delivery excellence through a robust ‘Delivery Health & Governance’ framework & nurturing relationship with CXOs & business heads.
• Amit has built global teams across the USA, UK, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, India, Costa Rica & Philippines
• He has experience working with start-ups, NBFCs in India as well as large organizations. In his career, he has been part of organizations which scaled 6000 employees to 350,000. As a part of this journey, he has been instrumental in driving growth and transformation in people, processes, culture, structure of the organization. He has witnessed how best in class organizations exploit the present and explore the future simultaneously thereby building long term sustainable business.
• Amit has done 1-year residential executive MBA from Harvard Business School, USA.
• Amit is a certified independent director & career coach.
Key Achievements
• Has envisioned and executed ‘long range planning’ for his portfolio through productization of offering, partnerships, account mining, building leadership team and strong delivery governance.
• Doubled portfolio in Salesforce unit in Persistent from 35M to 70 M in 4 years (20211-2025)
• Achieved 8X growth (from 3 to 25 MUSD) in 4 years (2012-16) for Barclays Bank portfolio (through Infosys) spread across UK, USA, Ireland, South Africa & India.
• For last 11 years, have been managing independent units/large accounts (1500 people/70MUSD+) in an operationally efficient manner delivering profitable growth.
• Achieved 35% efficiency gains by driving testing transformation for Barclays Bank bet/n 2013-18 through Life-cycle automation, Agile & DevOps transformation, Metrics based management.
• Opened multiple new logos for persistent, Infosys and Virtusa across USA, Australia, UK, Ireland, South Africa.
• Turned around failed, critical risk programs by improving software quality, project management discipline & work culture (for Citibank bet/n 2018-21 & for Salesforce portfolio in Persistent bet/n 2021-2023)
Areas of Specialization
Leading & scaling organizations, Driving revenue growth, Leadership development
Education & Qualifications
Exec MBA (Harvard Business School); B.E. (Pune University), Certified independent director (Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs), Certified Career Coach (International Coaching Federation)
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