Hemant brings over 30 years of experience in IT and Management Consulting Services. He has a keen understanding of global technology services and supplier delivery operations arising from his extensive experience in the US, Canada, India, Australia, parts of Europe and South America. Over the last 12+ years, he has led Neo Group engagements with several clients across diverse industries, involving strategic transformation projects such as sourcing portfolio assessment, partner selection, contract negotiation, sourcing/ governance organization design, governance tool implementation and support services oversight, health-checks and readiness assessments.
Prior to Neo, Hemant worked at the Vice President/ Director level for various Deloitte entities. He started as Head of Operations and Infrastructure for Deloitte US operations in India, where he was responsible for planning, building-out and staffing a captive center serving US clients in India. Hemant later served as the CIO for Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Pvt. Ltd. and was responsible for the entire IT management organization supporting the Indian operations of the firm serving Indian clients.
Other organizations where Hemant has worked include:
– The RPG Group (a large diversified Indian business group), where he was CTO for group companies in the Entertainment Sector (including the Indian arm of music company HMV)
– Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC), where he was Principal Consultant in their Strategic Change Practice, serving clients in telecom, financial services and other industry sectors
– Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), where he was Program Manager and Chief Architect of the BSE On-Line Trading (BOLT) system
– Cadbury (India), where he started his career as an application software engineer
He is the author of several whitepapers, has hosted many webinars and has been a speaker at various conferences.