STRATEGY, TRANSFORMATION, CONSULTING
Our Leaders
Our Technology Advisory & Transformation Practice Helps to Realize Exceptional Business Value from Technology Investments.
The leadership team at CIOAdvisory.ai Group boasts a collective experience of over 200 years in various domains, including Digital Technologies, End-to-End Transformation, Customer Experience (CX), Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Intelligent Automation Strategy, Advisory services, and Business Process Transformations. Their expertise has been instrumental in assisting Fortune 500 clients, global CXOs, and corporate innovators in shaping technology roadmaps and fostering corporate innovation
Our Leaders
Jayanta Lahiri
Global Chief Advisor and Consulting Partner
Jayanta has over 30 years of global experience in tech, outsourcing, and consulting, excelling in driving large-scale digital transformations, technology strategies, and roadmaps. He's held key CXO/CIO/CTO roles at Accenture, Wipro, Infosys, AXA-Technologies, Firstsource, and Startek.
Jayanta has led multiple advisory, transformation and consulting roles in diverse technology areas such as multi-cloud migration, global contact centers, application modernization, AI, analytics, automation, and cybersecurity to empower business growth, innovation, and resilience for global fortune 500 clients and consulting partners.
Vid Byanna
Chief Advisor - Americas (USA, Canada and Latam)
Vid is a change agent to help organizations drive technology transformation with measurable benefits. With a proven record successfully delivering technology consulting projects and as the former CTO of Accenture’s IT organization, he brings a broad perspective in all facets of the IT lifecycle - business case development, architecture, implementation, deployment and operations.
After 27 years at Accenture, Vid has spent the past six years conducting over 250 IT due diligence projects for private equity firms and performing IT strategy and transformation planning for companies in various industries.
Tim Montgomery
Global Advisor - Technology & Transformation
Tim has experience leading IT organizations on the customer side and managing global P&Ls on the vendor side. Tim's experience includes Executive Management positions at GE, Stanley, Cigna, Satyam, Virtusa, and CIBER.
As CIO of GE’s Equipment Division Tim managed IT for a globally diverse set of businesses. Under contract as MD, he led the startup Directlink Technologies Outsourcing & Hosting Services in Reading, PA. Tim also established and operationalized Cigna's Global Outsourcing Program with Indian IT Services partners. At Satyam, Tim drove double-digit year-over-year growth in the global Insurance and Healthcare outsourcing business. At Virtusa he established a Global Managed Services Business, and at CIBER Tim led the transformation of a 6,800-person staffing organization into a global outsourcing and projects business.
Tim has a BS in IT from Union College in Schenectady, NY, and an Executive MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.
Rajnish Virmani
Global Chief Advisor - Organization Tranformation
Rajnish Virmani has been in CEO, COO and CIO roles for over 12 years. Now a Management Consultant, Rajnish is a truly Global Leader having about 40 years of international experience in large multinational organizations. He has led European, American and British teams of over 1,000 staff, and Indian teams of over 10,000 staff.
Rajnish currently takes on consulting assignments on strategic planning, leadership development, establishing greenfield operations, Change Management, Operational excellence, Right Sizing organizations, Linking company vision to leadership OKR, etc.
Subin Menon
Global Advisor - Digital Contact Center / N-Gen CCaaS
Subin is a contact centre and IT Services industry expert with over 25 years of global experience with 15 years in a leadership role. He has worked across BFSI and Telcom domain with rich experience in working with multicultural resources and managing large set up in terms of team size & across geographies.
He has multi-functional experience in areas of contact centre solutioning, IT Service Management, Customer lifecycle Management, Offshore NOC projects and Stakeholder Management
Bhupendra Gupta
Global Chief Advisor - Customer Experience, Intelligent Automation and Transformation
Bhupendra is a seasoned business transformation leader with 30+years of experience. He Has established Intelligent Process Automation, Interaction Analytics & Digital Practices. A proven record of enhancing customer experience and reduce unit cost to serve through process transformation across multiple organizations through varied digital solutions.
Also a certified Black Belt Trainer and has expertise in instituting Innovation & Continuous Improvement Culture.
Atul Deshpande
Global Advisor
Atul Deshpande brings in over 25 years of expertise in cutting edge technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Generative AI, Big Data, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence and Cloud.
Atul is a seasoned leader with expertise in leading large multi-cultured international teams in India, US and Nordic region.
He has designed and developed some of the most complex data centric applications for various global customers in the Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing, Contact Center, Ecommerce, Retail, Telecom and Healthcare domain.
Atul has a hands-on expertise in designing and implementing complex Industrial IoT solutions for the manufacturing industry (Process & Discrete manufacturing)
He also works as a technical advisor to Industry leaders to formulate enterprise data strategy, digital transformation roadmap, business use cases and ROI.
Vijay Raman
Global Advisor - COEs & Capability Centers
Vijay Raman is a dynamic Global Advisor known for his exceptional expertise in technology transformation and product engineering. With a distinguished career in driving global businesses to success, Vijay excels in establishing and pioneering global innovation centers. His visionary approach effectively combines deep technical knowledge with strategic acumen, significantly contributing to the development of global capabilities and centers of excellence. Vijay's leadership and insight have been instrumental in positioning organizations at the forefront of transformative solutions, demonstrating his commitment to driving excellence across international landscapes. His role as a Global Advisor is marked by an impressive ability to navigate and lead complex, cross-border initiatives, showcasing a unique blend of technical proficiency and global strategic leadership.
Joji John
Global Advisor - Infrastructure & IT Operations
Joji is a dynamic leader with over 30 years of experience in the IT industry, specialising in IT Infrastructure and Operations. Served as a BFSI (Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance) System Integration practice head, overseeing the design and deployment of innovative banking solutions.
As Practice Head - Enterprise Managed Services at HCL for over a decade, I drove operational excellence and automation for global Service Transformation. In the last six years as Director - Service Delivery at SymphonyAI, I led the design and deployment of AI-enabled enterprise service management solutions, encompassing ITSM, ITAM, ITOM, and Orchestration for major clients in India, the Middle East, and South East Asia.