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As founder and CEO at Sutherland, Dilip Vellodi leads a team of international professionals across five continents, embodying one of the most experienced groups of technology professionals, business engineers, process designers and operational excellence leaders in the world. Mr. Vellodi has piloted Sutherland on its own digital transformation journey for three decades. Under his guidance and visionary leadership, he drove Sutherland from a consulting research firm to one of the largest privately held transformational partner companies in the world, creating measurable outcomes at scale for clients, employees, communities and countries.
Mr. Vellodi sets a prevailing business cadence for Sutherland, empowering his teams to become prominent global players in a number of major industry verticals, such as finance & accounting, healthcare, retail, and more. Under his strategic direction, Sutherland has achieved an average annual growth rate of almost 20 percent over the last decade, with Fortune 500 companies representing over 55 percent of its client roster.
Sutherland partners with the world’s biggest brands to improve their business processes and performance through the combination of technology, strategic business processes and human resources. The company’s unique 360-degree view of the customer journey enables a re-envisioning of complex business processes to deliver fully integrated solutions that improve customer experiences. As a company that has embraced its own transformation, Sutherland is uniquely positioned to help their clients re-write their own future.
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Kannan has over 28 years of experience at multinational corporations in various leadership positions spanning across finance, strategic planning, secretarial, legal, operations, mergers and acquisitions, and general management prior to his process transformation and operations experience. Previously, Kannan was the managing director and lead for Accenture Operations, leading a global team of over 100,000 professionals, transforming global operations of hundreds of clients in the areas of finance, human resources, procurement, life science, healthcare, supply chain, customer relationship management, pharmaceuticals, banking & financial services, digital marketing, and more. Kannan spearheaded digital transformation in operations through robotic process automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning enabled through analytics. Prior to Accenture, Kannan held several leadership positions in Tata group, PepsiCo, American Express, JP Morgan Chase, and Hewlett Packard.
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Phani is a successful silicon-valley entrepreneur and a visionary executive with 20+ years of global leadership experience in the Technology industry. In 2016 Sutherland acquired Nuevora, one of the top 10 Big Data Analytics/AI companies founded and run by Phani as its CEO.
At Sutherland, Phani is the Chief Analytics Officer and is instrumental in positioning Sutherland as a leading-edge cognitive transformation partner for a number of Fortune 500 companies while enabling its non-linear growth strategy.
Phani’s diverse expertise extends across entrepreneurship, business strategy, sales & marketing, and product management. A proven innovator and product visionary, Phani has successfully launched market-leading software products and led companies through accelerated turnarounds, industry accolades, and significant top-line growth. At each venture, Phani has demonstrated committed, people-centric leadership and achieved exceptional results.
Phani is an author on Forbes and is actively interviewed/published across popular media including C-Suite Network, Global Finance Magazine, Chief Executive Magazine, CFO.com, CEO.com, CMO.com and others.
Phani has an M.B.A. from Harvard University and is the President Elect for the HBS Association of Northern California.
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Darin brings 28 years of global process transformation experience to Sutherland, where he is responsible for driving the Innovation and Experience practices. Prior to joining Sutherland in 2014, Darin was senior vice president of client managing directors at Xerox Business Services, where he led an elite team of executives assigned to strategically engage and impact Xerox’s top-tier global clients.
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Anju joined Sutherland in 2015 as the leader of global organizational excellence, responsible for standardization, optimization, and transformation for all functions, as well as core service delivery across our delivery centers. Anju was also accountable for operational training, quality, transitions, and workforce management as operational support, with the goal of driving automation and digitization to deliver efficiencies. She transitioned to the chief people officer role in 2017. During this time, she focused on continuing the transformational work tied to talent acquisition and the development of employees, and established the overall ‘people supply chain’ process. In her current role of chief solutions officer, Anju is responsible for supporting pre-sales and proposal development, developing solutions that meet client needs and positioning Sutherland to win more in the market in the face of stiff competition at the right price. Prior to Sutherland, Anju held senior leadership positions at American Express, Genpact, and The Skills Academy.
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Srinivas Rao is the global head for Technology Services at Sutherland. Reporting to the Group COO, he is responsible for the strategy, growth, operations and the management of the unit, aligned to Sutherland’s vision of being a true digital transformation player. Srini brings in more than 22 years of digital transformation, IT services, and business process services experience. Prior to joining Sutherland, Srini was the general manager at Conduent, managing the portfolio of strategic accounts across industry vertical and service lines in Europe. He was also the member of board for WDS Ltd. He was responsible for managing client relationships spanning varied industries and providing digital transformation services in the areas of human resources, finance and accounting, legal services, transaction processing, and customer experience. In his earlier career, Srini was the CEO for Capgemini in Switzerland and was instrumental in integrating the services under a single P&L and driving profitable growth for the organization. Srini also held various leadership positions with Infosys, in a career that spanned more than 16 years with the firm. Srini holds a civil engineering degree. In his spare time he enjoys golf, skiing, is an avid traveler, and is a keen landscape photographer.
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Doug joined Sutherland in 2016 and is responsible for global technology operations and product development, as well as our innovation roadmap and expanding intellectual property footprint. Doug has extensive experience leading product development, mergers and acquisitions integrations, ERP implementations, and technology transformations. Prior to Sutherland, Doug served for eight years as the chief information officer for ABM and has held senior-level positions at Sony Research Labs, Verifone, and Panasonic.
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K.S. has over 28 years of executive leadership experience. At Sutherland, he is responsible for the Global Initiatives Group, which oversees planning and developing new service centers as the company expands its global footprint. Prior to joining Sutherland, he served as president of Rathi Alloys & Steel Ltd.
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Erika joined Sutherland in 2018 to drive growth, high performance, and retention for the global employee base. She brings over 25 years of experience in human resources, organization development and change, merger integration, performance management, and compensation in professional services companies. Prior to joining Sutherland, Erika was the senior vice president of human resources for Avanade, a technology services joint venture between Microsoft and Accenture. Erika began her career at Deloitte as a human capital consultant in healthcare, insurance, and consumer products, and later served as the human resources leader.
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Jim has more than 25 years of experience in business management and is responsible for the company’s corporate controllership, treasury, tax, financial reporting and analysis, strategic planning and analysis, and accounting matters. Prior to joining Sutherland, he served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of ABM.
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With more than 31 years of business development and operations management experience, Ashok has a strong track record of building high-growth technology-led global sales, delivery, and transformation businesses. Before joining Sutherland, he was the executive vice president and on many boards of HCL Technologies’ companies, where he grew their global operations as part of the leadership team that took the company public. Prior to his role as Sutherland’s vice chairman, Ashok served as chief operating officer for 15 years.
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