Pinak Chaudhuri

Global Technology and Digital Transformation Leader with 20+ years of experience across Oil & Gas, FMCG and Manufacturing environments. Proven expertise in building GCCs, advancing enterprise digitalization, steering large-scale transformation programs and aligning technology strategy with business priorities. Recognized for governance, stakeholder partnership and operational excellence enabling resilient, scalable and future-ready organizations.

Engine Site Manager - CHEVRON GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY & SERVICES PVT. LTD. - Bangalore

(2025-04)

Accountable for advancing Chevron's India capability expansion by enabling competitive hub readiness, safeguarding enterprise continuity and supporting global delivery transition during early-stage market entry.

• Greenfield Hub Setup & Operational Readiness: Contribute within the pioneer setup of Chevron's India digital capability hub to enable sourcing, transition and delivery readiness for Chevron's India digital hub under competitive global timelines.
• Strategic Hiring & Capability Scale-Up: Designed and executed IT sourcing strategy recruiting 100+ specialised digital professionals within 9 months to secure delivery capacity and enterprise confidence.
• Confidential Transition & Knowledge Risk Control: Lead sensitive US-to-India role migration, preserving operational stability, preventing knowledge loss and ensuring compliant workforce transition within restrictive legal notification environments.
• Dual-Track Delivery & Knowledge Transfer: Maintain uninterrupted global delivery by aligning US execution continuity with structured knowledge transfer, enabling India teams to consistently meet defined enterprise performance expectations.
• Enterprise Value Capture & Performance Delivery: Attracted $100M+ opportunity through integrated sourcing transition and delivery execution thus contributing to the IT enterprise performance rating of 3.95/5 against targets.
• Leadership Span & Multi-Hub Governance: Operate as leader-of-leaders with 6 direct reports, reporting at CIO-3 level, steering coordination across 4 competing global capability hubs during critical expansion phase.

Global Data and Technology Manager - SHELL INDIA MARKETS PVT. LTD. - Bangalore

(2016-04 - 2025-03)

Established and matured India's first digital/IT HSE technology capability, progressing from regional to global managerial scope while governing investments vendor ecosystems and enterprise transformation delivery.

• Global HSE Digital Capability & Coverage: Established and matured India-led digital/IT HSE capability supporting worldwide assets across Africa, Europe, Australia, US & Canada spanning across value chain (upstream, midstream & downstream).
• Enterprise Transformation & Asset Performance: Strategized and directed $70M program across 413 assets generating 1,000+ monthly man-hour savings & optimizing $2.8B asset maintenance performance enhancing the safety and compliance operations.
• Digital Integration & Value Realization: Spearheaded ERP, AI, IoT and GenAI deployment within downstream and upstream ecosystems, delivering $40M projected benefits with enhanced monitoring and workforce efficiency.
• Vendor Strategy & Partner Ecosystem Leadership: Led vendor selection contracting and partner ecosystems across emerging technologies and global providers to strengthen innovation quality and commercial governance.
• Cost Optimization & Portfolio Rationalization: Reduced application landscape 40%, saving $750K; achieved 7% TCO reduction via vendor renegotiation & cloud migration and transitioned to product model saving $800K annually.
• Investment Governance & Value Delivery: Achieved $20M in labor cost savings via strategic IT investments, reducing manual interventions and improving workforce efficiency.
• Strategic Transformation & Innovation Roadmap: Initiated SAP S/4HANA roadmap and advanced AI-enabled emergency response innovation enhancing enterprise digital safety capability across global environments.
• Executive Leadership & Governance Representation: Served within digital transformation leadership council and GM Safety leadership forum strengthening strategic alignment, governance and decision making.

Senior Delivery Manager - METRICSTREAM - Bangalore

(2015-05 - 2016-03)

Accountable for leading North America–focused GRC professional services delivery at MetricStream, directing a ~50-member team and governing execution of a $1M portfolio while ensuring delivery quality, stakeholder alignment and operational stability during a short-term leadership assignment.

Integration Manager - Digital Transformation - BRISTLECONE (UNILEVER) - Bangalore

(2013-04 - 2015-03)

Project Manager - AEKA CONSULTANCY - Bangalore

(2012-05 - 2012-12)

Project Manager - NTT DATA (OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS) - Bangalore

(2010-02 - 2012-04)

Senior System Analyst - SONATA SOFTWARE - Bangalore

(2009-05 - 2010-02)

Senior Consultant and Project Manager - BIGTEC PRIVATE LIMITED - Bangalore

(2006-12 - 2009-04)

Officer - IM - BRITISH OXYGEN CORPORATION - Kolkata

(2006-04 - 2006-12)

Project Engineer - WIPRO - Kolkata

(2005 - 2006)

Executive Program - Digital Transformation - IIM Indore (2026)

Integrated MCA (2003)