SABCONS - Key Persons
Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce.com wished to bring the top tier of the company closer to the workforce. He realized that many of the people with critical customer knowledge were not even known to the management team. Using technology he made the whole workforce of 5000 employees virtually join the top management offsite!
Naveen Lakkur is a serial entrepreneur turned Innovation coach. He loves to inspire enterprises and entrepreneurs to innovate and guide them to grow in the right direction. In his professional career spanning 25+ years in the industry worldwide, he has been a catalyst for 250+ ideas to have become commercial realities. He is passionate about sharing his practical knowledge of nurturing ideas. He brings to the table his personal experience of a unique combination of ‘Systemic Innovation A Structured and Scalable Approach' and ‘Tactical Innovation A Frugal and Flexible Approach.' Currently he serves as Chief Innovation Coach at Institute of Inspiring Innovation.
He loves storytelling. 'Inseparable Twins', a book authored by him inspires innovation. His award-winning book 'FOUND' provides a framework for ideation. His latest book 'a Little Extra' is a book for self-inspiration.
Prabhakar, Jayaprakash JP is a performance-driven, highly experienced Agile coach, trainer and SAFe Program Consultant with the ability to help organizations deliver world-class quality software. He has over 20 years of experience in software development, testing, quality and Agile/SAFe coaching. He has worked with more than half a dozen leading software companies on Enterprise Agile Transformation journey and has consulted from start-ups to large corporations/Fortune 100 corporations, providing Agile training and consulting across India, China, USA and Europe. Currently he is coaching a European mid-size organization across India and Germany for their Agile transformation program. JP is a renowned speaker at Agile and Scrum meet-ups, STEP-IN, QAI and Agile India Conferences, and has published articles on various Agile communities.
Pushpa Menon has more than 20 years of experience in Learning & Development, specializing in design and customization of learning interventions (professional skills programs) for employees with focus on management development programs. Her last role in the corporate world was as India Head of Learning & Development in McAfee (Intel Security Services).
In 2014, Pushpa decided to step out of her full-time role in the corporate world and started consulting and facilitating more learning. She became adept at understanding business requirements and customizing Learning & Development initiatives for businesses through performance consulting, with a process-oriented and analytical approach.
Sudhir has over 22 years of experience in consulting, project implementation and operations roles. Previously, he was with Ernst & Young (EY), a Global Big 4 firm, for over 17 years, where he advised a wide range of clients in technology, media, financial services and government sectors on market entry strategy, business planning, outsourcing/offshoring, organization reviews and benchmarking. At EY, he successfully set up and grew a multimillion dollar offshore consulting practice to work with global clients on business program management. Sudhir drove several strategic initiatives relating to shared services, PMO, transition management, account management, contracting, forecasting, and capacity planning.
Sudhir completed his BE in Instrumentation Technology from SJCE, Mysore and is a certified PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner and Scrum Master. He has attended executive programs in IIM Bangalore and IIM Lucknow. He is also passionate about tennis and is an AITA-certified tennis instructor.
Job Titles:
- Chairman, MD and Chief Digital Consultant
V. Srinivasa Rao is popularly known as VSR. In a career spanning 21 years in the IT industry, he has held positions as Senior Vice President, Global Head - Digital Enterprise Solutions at Tech Mahindra, and Chairman at PMI Team India. VSR has also been an invited speaker and panel member/chair at NASSCOM, CII, PMI, HYSEA, and FICCI.