About Sreedhar Suragouni

Sreedhar has 25+ years of global experience in the BFSI domain, performing key management roles across Asia, North America, UK, EU & Middle East specialising in Life & Pensions, General, Health Insurance and Investment sectors. Proven track record of leading multiple Digital & Business transformations for large insurers in UK, EU & Middle East from vision through execution, resulting in winning prestigious global / industry awards for successful execution. Currently as a CIO for UAE’s largest composite insurer, responsible for defining future-ready IT strategy and enhancing customer experience by implementing Digital-First mandate across all the business lines of Oman Insurance. In his previous role as a Segment Head for BFSI vertical at TCS, he has successfully managed P&L of a large portfolio of USD 150+ Mn and 2500+ talented associates, delivering the best-in-class value to large global insurers, by transforming their estates to Digital-First from multiple delivery locations across India, UK, Ireland, France, Poland & Italy. Significant track record in winning, retaining & executing large multi million Global IT contracts and M&A’s for TCS and its subsidiary Diligenta - with complete solution & cost ownership. Successfully delivered a variety of complex programmes which demanded: - Building multi culture / multi skilled global teams (0 to 2500+) - Setting up private cloud on own custom-built Data centres - State-of-the-art Service Desk, Service, Change, Release and Security management frameworks, Contact centers, Business continuity and DR facilities - Scalable HR & Payroll on SAP cloud (25000+ employees) and Integrated Oracle Financials suite for multiple GL’ s post M&A - Implementing scalable Life & Pensions platform (TCS BaNCS) adhering to UK regulation and migrating 5+ Mn policies from 15 different L&P platforms - today it administers 25+ million policies and counting... - Modernisation / Integration of IT estates with robust security controls (legacy n-5 versions to n) to achieve target operating model designed in M&A strategies - Nurturing strategic partnerships, growing from $100 Mn to $1+ Bn profitable service contracts Won multiple awards - IDC#CIO50, CELENT Model Insurer, Cloud Transformation Champion of the year, MIIA - Digital Initiative of the year, Agile transformation of the year ($ 1 BN change spend - transforming 100% waterfall to Scaled / Distributed Agile) for a Global Insurer & Service Innovation Award (implemented multiple software engineering tools, resulting in deploying CI/CD framework and Release on the Go)!