Independent Director | Board Advisor | Audit · Risk · Technology & ESG Committee–Ready
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Future-ready Independent Director with 25+ years of cross-border governance and executive-leadership experience spanning AI and technology governance, corporate governance, enterprise risk, cybersecurity, ESG, and financial oversight. Brings board-level judgement grounded in five Global Capability Centres (GCCs) built across India, the US, Mexico, and Ukraine; SOC 2 and ISO 27001 governance frameworks designed and operated at enterprise scale; and M&A diligence, capital allocation, and exit-readiness decisions taken at Executive Board level. Acts as a constructive "critical friend" to management, probing strategy, scrutinising risk, and converting transformation ambition into measurable, accountable outcomes.
IICA certified and authored the CoreAI Framework for enterprise AI maturity, TITAN Transformation Leadership of the Year Gold Winner, and featured in CIO Review (Sept 2025). Particularly relevant to foreign subsidiaries entering India, GCC-led enterprises, PE-backed technology companies, and listed Technology, BFSI, and Healthcare boards.
Board Member & CEO, India - Goomka LLC & Goomka India - Dallas, TX & Hyderabad
(2023-02)
Governance lens — Board-level AI governance; bi-continental HQ oversight; CXO accountability frameworks. Advise boards and CXOs on AI governance, technology modernisation and operating-model transformation across SaaS, AgriTech and enterprise-services portfolios. Established a bi-continental (Hyderabad ↔ Dallas) governance bridge for HQ stakeholder reviews, board engagement and CXO-bench formation.
Authored the CoreAI Framework, an enterprise AI-maturity platform; featured in CIO Review (Sept 2025) as a Top Digital Transformation Service.
Founder & Chief Strategy & Product Officer - Oryza World - Hyderabad
(2023-02)
Governance lens — Founder-stage governance; investor-readiness; product accountability and responsible-AI frameworks. Founded an AI-powered AgriTech platform; defined product strategy, monetisation model and go-to-market architecture toward investor readiness, embedding sustainable-agriculture and responsible-AI principles.
Chief Strategy & Product Officer | Board Member - iSportz (an Integrass Company) - Lake Mary, FL & Hyderabad
(2022-01 - 2023-01)
Governance lens — Board-level product strategy oversight; SaaS platform governance; AI product accountability. Board member through high-growth SaaS scaling: platform grew from 5,000 to 2M+ users; drove $50M+ in transactions and a 10x valuation uplift in under twelve months. Governed AI product strategy — personalisation engine, recommendation surface and the data architecture underpinning scale.
Executive Board Member | CTO | SVP, Global Delivery - Integrass - Lake Mary, FL & Hyderabad
(2018-01 - 2023-01)
Governance lens — SOC 2 & ISO 27001 design and operation; Executive Board strategy, capital allocation and exit-readiness. Designed and operated SOC 2 and ISO 27001 governance frameworks across a 1,000+ FTE multi-country estate (India, US, Mexico, Ukraine). Served on the Executive Board as a constructive challenger, contributing to strategy formation, capital allocation, capability investment and exit-readiness.
Owned $15M+ profit-engine P&L and a $10M+ ACV portfolio; delivered $8M+ in enterprise cost optimisation.
Vice President – Projects | Chairperson - Anblicks - Dallas, TX & Hyderabad
(2012-01 - 2018-01)
Governance lens — Governance dashboards; KPI frameworks; GCC architecture foundation. Led US enterprise-portfolio delivery across Aviation, Healthcare, Food Distribution, Media, Banking, Education and Government; established governance dashboards, KPI frameworks and operational controls that improved delivery predictability. Laid the GCC-architecture foundation powering five subsequent GCC builds across four countries.
Certified Independent Director - IICA (2026)
Certificate - Organisational Leadership - Harvard Business School
Certificate - Digital Transformation & AI for Leaders - IIM Indore
Certificate - Digital Transformation; Product Management - ISB
Executive MBA - Strategic Management & E-Commerce - NIBM Global
M.Com - Commerce & Finance
B.Com - Commerce & Finance