In current assignment Manish is heading Global Operations for Wockhardt’s technology initiatives and handling large portfolio of Digital health including setting up of centre of excellence for IT operations, SAP, Analytics, Start-up Innovation, GxP & Manufacturing Excellence. He provides leadership to the Global technology team across verticals of infrastructure, cyber security, enterprise applications, data centre, GxP IT quality & compliance.

During his earlier assignments Manish headed Health IT, Digital Health & Training for Andhra Pradesh MedTech Zone and Kalam Institute of Health Technology. Spearheaded intelligent automation of the zone including ERP implementation, democratizing technology through mobile technology, introduction of emerging technologies like IoT, Automation, ecommerce enablement for sales, Training and creating a pool of engineers. He has been spearheading IT innovative applications across various verticals for more than 25 years with a cross cultural experience in Business IT, IT infrastructure Services, Intelligent Automation, Cloud Build & migration, Product / Project and Program Management, Transition and Transformation, Service Delivery and Audits.  He is winner of more than 20 National and International awards and regularly as well as voluntarily contributes to several healthcare informatics programs.  He was Technical Advisor Committee Member for PRSG – MietY and contributing in NITI Aayog digital social projects. Parallelly headed IBSC (Indian Biomedical Skill Council) and enormously enriched skill development training program during the pandemic to address urgent upskilling needs of industry ecosystem spanning from technicians to biomedical engineer across India.

Further he played a pivotal role in democratising health technologies to the last mile as India passed suffered devastating pandemic. AMTZ’s rental oxygen concentrators with collaboration with Uber India, was indeed a medical and mental assurance to populations of 48 cities / 17 states. He also translated strategic and scientific Aatma Nirbhar vision which seeks to connect all scientific institutions and R&D labs of India with MedTech Start-ups and Innovators. This IT enabled Lab-Innovator Interface app based “Techola” is indeed going to change the face of MedTech Innovation.

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Manish

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The overall experience of 20 years in companies of diverse sizes from micro to large MNCs in diverse sectors of Banking, Financial service and Insurance (BFSI), FMGC, Business Process Outsourcing, E-Commerce and Business & Technology Consulting. Expertise in architecture enterprise security and operations with a key focus on Business KPI and Business enabler through Information Technology and Enterprise Application Software by ensuring optimal utilization of resources. An effective communicator & team leader with strong analytical, problem solving & organizational abilities.
Solution-oriented specialist with notable success directing a broad range of cost-saving initiatives while participating in planning, analysis and implementing tools and metrics for improving customer satisfaction level. Experience in handling Business GAP analysis, Business Process Analysis, Process Design/Re-Design, Risk Analysis, Change Management, and Domain & Technology expertise with strong integration Skills.
Targeted Security Technology Solutions: Design and deliver solutions that remedy core business issues and position the organization to reach the next level of profitability through technological introduction. Security Team Leadership: Assemble and lead a team of “A” players, building mutual
trust and setting a clear expectation to offer members the freedom to innovate.

Result oriented, focused & enterprising professional with a documented record of success in managing teams spread over multiple locations, to work in sync with set parameters to achieve business goals.

Technical Expertise

• Understanding of network, web, thick client and mobile application vulnerabilities and ability to perform static and dynamic security assessments
• Use the identified vulnerabilities to perform Penetration Testing (Application, Network and Server level attacks) to discover the possibilities and the impact of the breach
• Expertise on exploitation techniques and frameworks such as Metasploit, Kit-sploit, web-sploit, etc. for exploitation and post exploitation
• Sound Knowledge of CVSS (2.0 and 3.0) to be able to provide each observation with relative severity and the business impact.
• Proficient in Shell Scripting (Bash) and Python Scripting
• Understanding of Regulatory compliance’s such as, ISO 27001: 2013, NIST SP 800-53, PCI DSS v3.2, COBIT, HIPAA and SOX
• Understanding of Statutory compliance’s such as, Indian IT Act 2000, RBI’s Cyber Security
• Framework for BFSI / NBFC, IRDA’s Cyber Security Framework, GDPR Framework

Visionary and Progressive leader focused on building resilient organisation with deep expertise in IT and People Development.

Has over 35 years of experience in corporate world, spanning diverse roles ranging from IT, Logistics, Learning & Development, HR, Safety and CSR.

At Maruti Suzuki, he created the IT ecosystem that drives the enterprise and powers its people. He spearheaded Business and Technology partnership to drive transformation by Business process re-engineering and implementing cutting edge digital solutions to add value to business, enhance customer experience and as well create new opportunities.

He is focused to build an organization ready for future, challenges traditional mindset of “we have always done it this way” to galvanize change in organization and create a high performance culture.

He envisioned and pioneered Maruti Suzuki Training Academy providing holistic development of people across value chain, and leveraging technology in the form of Virtual Classrooms (Web Studio), Experiential learning through simulation, and self-learning through Learning Management System.

Actively mentors and promote start-ups, and seeks to create an ecosystem making Innovation a way of thinking and bringing very best to Indian roads.

Is part of multiple Industry and National level forums, guiding Digital, HR and Education based communities.

On personal front, he is an avid reader and gadget geek with other interests of fitness, food, travel.

1. Founder of Vir2lize, building a healthcare solution utilizing IoT and Cloud.
2. Management Consultant at Information Security Systems International involved in Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud) Partner consulting, audits, and advisory.
3. Advisor to TrainingWorld360.com for co-creation of L&D Maps for a large MNC on MultiCloud involving AWS, Google, Docker, and Kubernetes.
4. Mentor for Fintech, AI, and IoT startups in sales and business development. He has helped startups with their investor and sales pitches.
5. Speaker and Moderator at several industry forums and events with Cisco, Economic Times, Nasscom COE, FICCI, IBM, Microsoft, LTE Asia, APRICOT, SANOG, Barclays RISE, and others. Judge at the Fintech Finals 2017 for selection of India finalist representation at Hong Kong.
6. Advisor to some top financial & Telco customers on their Cloud, Datacenter, and 5G strategy.

Before, he was the CTO and Head of Presales for the Global Service Provider (GSP) segment, India and SAARC region at Cisco. Yogesh’s 12-year career at Cisco was rooted in evangelization and strategic consulting for telecommunications networks. He was responsible for developing and
managing the India and SAARC Service Provider segment vision and strategy. He has worked closely with the CxOs in the top telecom operators in India, ASEAN, and the US to define the next wave of solutions to add value to their offerings, reduce operational expenses and drive agility in deploying new services.
He is an industry veteran with a career of 30 years span working with Multi-Cloud, DevOps, Telecommunications and Service Provider (SP), Enterprise (Banking and Financial Services, Manufacturing, Logistics, and Oil & Gas segments), Government, Defence, and Sports building large
scale networks.
He led large-scale Smart City builds & the Digital India program with the SPs. He has been widely associated with the education sector working with them to evolve their programs for the upcoming generations aligning them to real-world developments.