R Srinivas Rao

R Srinivas Rao (RSR) is Vice President– Service Transformation Solutions in the Manufacturing & HiTech Business Unit for Wipro Technologies. He is responsible for building large platform solutions for the business unit across industry verticals and process areas and is part of the BU Leadership team. His main focus area currently is helping manufacturers transform their After Market Services capabilities and improving Service Management for field assets using remote connectivity technologies and advanced analytics. RSR has 25 of years’ experience in the IT services industry out of which close to 17 years was spent in Wipro. Over the years, he played various roles in the IT industry in areas such as Customer Support, Systems Analysis, Design and Development, Program / Delivery Management and Account Management. He was the Global Delivery Head for strategic accounts for many years before moving into a business leader role responsible for vertical P&L. Over a six-year period, RSR had managed two leading industry verticals – Automotive and Pharmaceuticals. He has significant experience working with global clients in regions such as US, Western Europe, Japan, Asia Pacific and India. He is also the head of Wipro’s Hyderabad Development Centre and member of the Managing Committee of HYSEA, the association of IT and ITeS companies in Hyderabad, Convenor of ICT Panel, CII AP Council. RSR is a regular speaker at industry and academic conferences. His passions include leadership building and domain capability building in the teams that he directly or indirectly manages. RSR created Centers of Excellence within Wipro that have published several white papers and points of view on industry topics across Discrete Manufacturing and Life Sciences industries. One of them went on to win a US patent. RSR holds a Master of Computer Applications (MCA) degree from University of Delhi and a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from Bangalore University.