Ravikumar Buddha, Director - Transformation
Currently based out of London, is a tech professional, Cost Accountant with a Commerce graduation, and an entrepreneur.
Ravikumar has an experience of 35 years in Banking, Finance, Accounting, Information Technology, Management and Strategy. He has worked in several sectors including Banking, Manufacturing, FMCG, Retail, Media, Electronics, Construction, Contracting and Information Technology. In all these sectors he has served as either Senior Management or Board Member or Strategy at Corporate Group Level.
Amongst Ravikumar’s many strengths, one of his key strengths is to be hands-on in Finance and Information Technology. He is passionate about databases with in-depth knowledge in Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL and varied BI Tools. During his career, he has extensively worked in Financial/Data Analysis, Systems Processes & Procedures leading to Business Process Re-engineering, Design, Development and Administration, ERP Implementations, M&A and Business Intelligence.
Having travelled to over 35 countries, he has worked for organisations in India, Kuwait, Dubai, Canada, Sweden and the United Kingdom, thus learning from various practices and cultures.
He has been an entrepreneur for over 11 years and has run multiple companies in FMCG, IT and Trading sectors. He has managed teams with the size of a small start-up to a team of 350 employees globally. In addition to Finance, Accounts and IT, he has also overseen various other departments such as Production, Logistics and Sales & Marketing, towards operations and process re-engineering.
Some of his key achievements are:
- ✦ Influential in sale of Rubicon brand -a popular fruit juice drinks manufacturing and distribution business in the UK, to AGBarr plc -a Scottish brand in 2009. He was instrumental in a multi-fold increase in revenue within a short period of 4 years.
- ✦ Founded Twiss Drinks in the UK, a carbonated fruit juice drinks from scratch to sale in multiple countries globally
- ✦ Founded a tech start-up in the UK with its subsidiaries in India, USA and Sweden and grew to a 350-employee strength and handed over to the investor.
Ravikumar, currently, is a founder Director of Infitech Solutions Ltd., a tech start-up in the UK, specialising in latest technologies in the field of Internet of Things and Immersive Technology. Infitech Solutions also specialised in UAE, serving ministerial organisations like Dubai Police, Etisalat, Dubai Airport. He has also partnered with NEC, Saudi and EMAAR Group, one of the biggest conglomerates in Dubai. Additionally, he also runs a FMCG Trading business –Transland Trading in the UK.
His variety of skills and experience brings great value to the businesses he is involved with.
Sridhar Subramanian, Director - Strategy
Currently based out London, United Kingdom is a Member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and also a Member of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India. He also earned his Advanced Diploma from Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in United Kingdom.
Sridhar has gained his in depth understanding & experience in Finance, Strategy, Business, Operations & Accounts from various roles in India and United Kingdom. His senior management role spans across range of industries including Banking & Insurance, Information Technology, Asset Management, Hospitality, Education, Media and Business Process Consulting. This experience across various industries provided diverse knowledge in the areas of Strategy, Modelling & Structuring, Business Turnaround technics, Leveraging Technologies for optimisation and development, Compliance, process optimisation, cost and growth opportunities, product development and disruptive growth modelling.
In his 24 years of professional journey, Sridhar has gained the connection and opportunity to meet and work with various financial institutions, Technocrats, Professionals and various institutions including the Big 4 in connection with various leadership roles both in India, USA and Europe. Sridhar trained himself as a launcher and leader of profitable businesses proven in the entire organisation lifecycle who has generated multimillion funding for projects and cost savings for organisations.
Some of his key achievements are:
- ✦ Sridhar served at board level in various Indian and European entities throughout his career. He has also served as Non-Executive positions in the UK advising the board members to maximise value and strategies for change and growth.
- ✦ Sridhar is a seasoned leader who has travelled to more than 15 countries and guided leadership team & board members through the change journey to achieve the required performance, growth and profit.
- ✦ Sridhar is currently the Director of Strategy, Finance & Operations for Petrichor Capital SDN BHD.
His previous roles at Senior and board level included Polaris Software Lab Limited, Intellect Design Arena Limited, Sun TV UK Limited, Karur Vysya Bank Limited & M S Jagannathan & Visvanathan.
Nagaraj Konda, Director - Products
Based in Birmingham, United Kingdom is a Business Strategy, Product and Digital Transformation professional with over 30 years of experience in IT & Telecom technologies and strong knowledge on vertical sector business processes for successful implementation of business transformation programmes and projects.
In his professional roles he has faced the challenges posed by the 3 main laws (Moore’s Law, Butter’s Law and Kryder’s Law) that govern the futuristic and disruptive technology developments influencing business transformation and growth for every industry/sector. With a very strong understanding of the emerging technology areas such as AI, Data Science, Deep Learning, IoT, Cloud Services, AR/VR/MR, DLT, etc. he has gained hands on experience in applying the emerging technologies to the businesses he has been a part of his career. This includes his decade of entrepreneurial experience forming and leading a successful Payment Services Business.
From the foundation of a 20-year senior level career in Telecom, IT & Fintech sectors including Technology Strategy role with BPL Mobile (now part of Vodafone India), and programme management roles with European Commission & Birmingham City University, latterly as founding Board Member at Cyberplat, he has, for the last 10 years been involved in forming & delivering customer centric fintech business enabling digital change in the payment sector, covering technology such as mobile payments, mobile wallets, digital identity, encryption, mobile apps, in micropayments and secure payments.
Currently a Director at Purple Trans4m Limited working in the emerging technology areas managing projects using IoT Technologies, M2M Communications, 5G-Public & Private Networks. Having worked in large corporates and in start-ups, I understand the challenges of making things happen in a wide range of cultures. I have been a mentor to small and medium companies through Digital Catapult, UK.
Some of his key achievements are:
- ✦ As a founding Board Member and CEO started the Indian operations of CyberPlat in 2009 and grew it to a leading position in the B2B2C payment aggregation market with access to 50 plus billers, over 250 company partnerships for retail distribution, a reach in excess of 200,000 retail touch points and processing in excess of 20 Mil transactions/month.
- ✦ As Head of Technology Strategy at BPL Mobile (now part of Vodafone India), I led the roll-out of GSM mobile networks with an investment in excess of USD 300 Mil, responsible for building Enterprise services, VAS portfolio such as pay-as-you-go using Intelligent Networks and data services. VAS portfolio and Enterprise services led the company achieve market leadership with >55% market share.
- ✦ Delivered transformational large-scale European Commission projects to cost, quality and time and co-authored a chapter in “Digital Business Ecosystems” published by European Commission.
- ✦ Key sales contributor for region to win Best Region award for 3 consecutive years at Tata Lucent.