Priyesh Soundararajan
Advisor to the Board and Managing Partner
Experience
Advisor to the Board and Managing Partner
Singapore-based Family Office
- Project management of deals
- Deal making and structuring in Europe
- Go to market (Europe) advisory
Freelance Management Consultant
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS SE, now Allianz Commercial)
Deputy Product Owner for a workstream on a global program running on SaFe methodology
Management consultant to the Program Director Transformation
Management consultant to Global Head of Global Business Solutions
Business analyst transcribing the change of the legacy system into the cloud
Conducted feasibility study for new IT tools, including legal requirements of data residency and business requirements
Solutioned integration between legacy systems and new-age systems
Planned data migration for integrating legacy systems with new-age systems
Defined the division's operations strategy for 2023
Revised SLAs across the regions and Allianz entities
Capitalised the program
Wrote and refined epics and defined them for IT teams to write up user stories and develop the product
Medical Sabbatical
- Had an ischemic stroke and lost speech for four months
Entrepreneur, CEO/COO
Various Startups
- Founded startups in big data/artificial intelligence, consumer technology, behavioural analytics and outsourcing services
- Acted as business mentor/advisor and venture growth partner for startups and accelerators
- Served as product owner
- Developed go-to-market strategies
- Led pre-sales, business development and distribution
Business Operations Manager
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS SE, now Allianz Commercial)
Created global operating models through strategic consulting
Built a global CRM from scratch to centrally capture critical customer insurance data and manage planning to execution for all lines of business and regions
Provided IT solutioning and change management
Managed end-to-end project management from concept to delivery
Conducted business requirement analysis and business process improvement
Offshored and centralized operations, created and handled KPIs
Performed vendor due diligence and selection
Achieved 5 million euros per year savings by offshoring and centralizing operations
Set up and managed KPIs of operation teams for Allianz Services India
Automated business processes with IT solutioning and global processes
Managed global rollouts for business change and IT rollouts/upgrades across 30 countries
Built legal process for third-party contracting compliant with US, German, French, UK and Singapore laws, onboarding 400 contractors worldwide
Delivered 1 million euros a year savings in core business process efficiency gains
Delivered 500 000 euros a year savings in other global business processes
Built the innovation model for the division
Senior Manager Business Change & Transformation
Allianz Cornhill Information Services (ACIS)
- Led and delivered the operations workstream for a large IT project spanning America, Europe and Asia Pacific to transform multiple small entities into one large organisation by defining and setting up global processes, solutioning into application development and incorporating change, achieving estimated yearly savings of €10 million and potential value of hundreds of millions
- Provided strategic consulting and business/organizational transformation to ensure delivery of organisational strategy, target operating models and smooth transition of change
- Managed stakeholders across Allianz entities in Europe and the US, scoped out work and solutioned into projects for offshoring to BPO or IT ODCs
- Managed distributed IT vendor teams offshore to deliver tools for AGCS
- Managed end-to-end portfolio/project management
- Set up and managed PMO & PSO for the project management life cycle (PMLC)
- Handled outsourcing, offshoring and transitions
Manager Business Change and Migrations
AVIVA Global Shared Services (AGSS)
- Part of the team that sold the entire offshore business for £225 million
- Built operate transfer (BOT) model and strategic M&A of AGSS for structural and organizational change
- Managed the entire book of change spanning six locations and five vendor partners
- Managed client relationships with Aviva entities across Europe
- Managed customer relationships with internal BPO and IT vendors
- Led program and project management
- Managed process migration and end-to-end transitions for over 5000 seats to India
- Led large teams across centres worldwide
COACH
Profit Center Head
PBSC Spectacular Solution Limited
Regional Profit Head
Solution Centre Pvt. Ltd.
Business Manager
Chenasian Consumable Specialties Ltd.
Summary
A respected senior leader with deep expertise in change management, digital transformation, project/program management and outsourcing, having implemented multi-million-dollar projects worldwide. He has created divisions or greenfield centres from scratch and grown them to a 1000(s) plus seater. He is known for his problem-solving and business process abilities to drive organisational decisions and growth while enhancing the customer experience.
Excellent leadership abilities worked with C-level executives, reputation for high achievement and integrity, known to deliver at all times, and proven track record of strategy setting and execution concerning customer journeys, product development, and growth and transformation projects within agile environments.
He has been an entrepreneur in the past. His startups dealt with data-driven behavioural technologies, using the power of Big Data to fulfil their customers' business outcomes.
Skills
- Senior Leadership
- Entrepreneurship
- Business Led - It Transformation
- Organisational Change
- Program/project Management
- Business Solutions / Analysis
- Building & Managing Customer Experience Teams
- Outsourcing
- Mentoring & Coaching
- Business Processing
- Agile Methodologies
- Digital Solutions
- Outcome Oriented
Languages
Education
University of Madras
Bachelor of Commerce · Chennai, India
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Executive MBA · Bengaluru, India
Certifications & licenses
Prince 2
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