Marketing Consulting & Digital Transformation Leader
ASSOCIATE PARTNER - EXPERIENCE TRANSFORMATION & INNOVATION
INFOSYS CONSULTING
ASSOCIATE PARTNER - EXPERIENCE TRANSFORMATION & INNOVATION
INFOSYS CONSULTING
Ayan Chakraborty
Accomplished leader with over 20 years of experience in propelling business growth by driving innovation, game-changing marketing & digital strategies and customer experience transformations for leading global, national and regional organizations.
I have built my career at the intersection of customer experience, marketing & technology and am techno-functionally skilled in designing effective marketing & brand strategies, optimizing marketing operations & processes, designing & orchestrating insight-driven customer experiences, while integrating cutting-edge marketing technology solutions to bring innovation at speed to enterprise clients.
With an unique background in IT & Management Consulting, catalyzed by extensive Marketing/Brand Strategy, MarTech & Digital Transformation expertise, I have proven experience in strategic selling, delivering and closing $MM large-scale business transformation projects for several Fortune-100 companies across Banking & Financial Services, Insurance, Retail, Hi-Tech, Media and Telecom industries.
Highly skilled in:
→ Multi-channel Marketing & Digital Strategy, Marketing Transformation & Enablement
→ Integrated Omni-Channel Customer Experience Strategy, Customer Experience Orchestration
→ MarTech Integrations, Marketing Automation & Operations, Target Operating Models
→ Roadmapping, Assessments, Process Optimization & Process Mining
→ Customer Insights, Customer & Marketing Analytics
→ Agile Transformation, Agile Service Delivery, Large-Scale Program Management
→ Practice & Business Development: Hunting & Farming Pursuits, Partner/Alliance Management
Curiosity, passion, and creative problem-solving skills allow me to push the boundaries of success for my clients, my teams, and my personal growth.
Apr 2023 - Present
Responsible for XTI's global consulting practice development, go-to-market strategy, alliances & partnership management, account leadership and client solutions leveraging digital transformation accelerators, experience management & CRM platforms, and product & service design to unlock new growth and profit realization for Infosys Consulting.
Feb 2019 - Apr 2023
Key foundational member for standing-up KPMG Advisory's Marketing Consulting practice, primarily around shaping our vision & strategy, defining new growth platforms & key offerings, onboarding new partners, shaping our alliances and driving multi-fold pipeline growth.
Engaged with my clients to strategize and transform their digital products & platforms to provide the best customer experiences with scale, platform effectiveness, efficiency and tech agility, while working with their marketing organizations to effectively engage customers by capitalizing on key market trends, leveraging innovative technology, harnessing the proliferation of data sources, optimizing marketing processes, and achieving excellence in marketing execution.
Feb 2008 - Feb 2019
Digital Transformation Leader with strengths that lie at the intersection of Business & Technology in digital capabilities, directly responsible for sales & delivery pipeline for Marketing Transformation practice. Contributed to various roles of increasing responsibilities across multiple industries & technology verticals, primarily across 3 main areas - Digital/IT Strategy, Marketing Technology & Transformation including Customer Experience Orchestration & Personalization, Growth/Practice Management & Agile Delivery, played multiple roles in strategy & advisory as well as delivery.
Advocated, evangelized and expanded the firm’s digital footprint at banking & financial services, retail & telecom clients in the North-East region. Drove digital platform adoptions, created & implemented high-impact marketing strategies & marketing tech-stack implementations, to drive value, compliance & highest ROI for clients.
Jun 2007 - Feb 2008
Designed and implemented company’s enterprise business intelligence framework and spearheaded stewardship & adoption of an Enterprise Data Warehouse for establishing standards & industry best practices for management of FIL client and product data in EDW, while achieving stellar improvements in master data management, data integrity & data migration timelines and revolutionized enterprise-wise operational reporting.
May 2003 - May 2007
Career spanning multiple roles and growing area of techno-functional responsibilities, oversaw multiple technology and delivery teams throughout the financial services business unit to drive top-tier consulting revenue.
Thought Leadership & marketing consulting/MarTech offering development (like Customer Journey Orchestration, Real-Time Decisioning, Customer Insights, DXP), defining Go-To-Market strategy, POVs, market/vendor/product qualifications, standing-up alliances & partnerships (like Pega, HCL, IBM alliances), alliance & partner management, pipeline management, inventive revenue models and deal-shaping.
Key driver for practice growth & business development through innovative ideas, translated into scalable solutions, brought to market by building the right teams. Leading well-defined sales-plays with a crisp depiction of value. Demonstrated over sufficient cycles business development - both 'to farm and 'to hunt': proposal & business-case development, pitches & POVs/orals, negotiation and ‘C’ suite relationship management.
Recognized People Developer & Cross-Functional Leader, skilled in global Agile Program Management (Certified SAFe 4.5 Agilist), vendor management, inventive delivery models (nearshore/offshore) & deal economics, capacity management, resource management & recruiting, cost-optimization, warranty & operations, governance/ stewardship and QA/steering committee audits.
Specialize in digital & marketing strategy, product/brand strategy, corporate strategy, business transformation, strategic planning & execution, operating model design, capability & maturity/gap assessments, business strategy roadmaps leading to large-scale global digital transformations at top-tier clients.
Platform implementations & E2E integrations of marketing ecosystem & MarTech stack (on-premise & cloud-based) with industry-leading digital marketing programs to drive improved customer experiences and help marketers maximize their return on marketing spend, drive operational efficiencies, competitive advantage & enterprise profitability.
At the intersection of customer experience, marketing and technology, specialize in the integration of multi-channel customer experience into omni-channel journeys which includes cross-channel customer experience design, real-time decisioning & personalization, marketing automation, digital/social-media optimization, and journey orchestration platform integrations.
As a proponent for a 'Connected Enterprise', highly-skilled in E2E campaign management life-cycle & marketing service operations like custom audience segmentation, multi-channel campaign design, creative workflows, marketing resource management & marketing operations across the marketing ecosystem.
Innovations & strategies in utilizing CX Economics, Voice of Customer, marketing analytics to ensure products & services are well positioned for success in highly competitive complex market environments. Utilize BI, data mining & advanced analytics for customer profiling, advanced segmentation, customer & marketing effectiveness & insights and customer & pre/post-campaign marketing analytics.
As an evangelist for 'change towards the better', specialize in change planning & management, communications management, customer experience roll-outs scheduling, deployment & release management for digital/business transformations.
LICENSE 313358411 (2003)
ZED-AXIS TECHNOLOGIES, New Delhi, India (OCT 2003 TO DEC 2003)
As a freelance SME for Lotus SmartSuite 9.5, effectively developed e-Learning course content modules for Lotus suite of products, which was sold to North India's corporate houses for internal employee training.
AIG GROUP, Chennai, India (2008)
Successfully delivered external corporate training as a Freelance Trainer for Docucorp BI suite of products to 20+ employees for AIG group.
Major/Honors: COMPUTER SCIENCE - NETWORK ENGINEERING
UTKAL UNIVERSITY, ODISHA - INDIA
GRADE: 4.2 GPA
Graduated in Information Technology with Computer Science Network Engineering & Management majors. Recognized as an exceptional under-grad student for scoring 4+ GPA across all major subjects in freshman & sophomore years.
Born & raised in Delhi, India, I did my schooling from the prestigious Delhi Public School Noida and Bachelors in IT-Management from Utkal University, Odisha, India. I started my career in IT Consulting after college & transitioned to Management Consulting in US in 2009. I travelled all across US on several consulting gigs across industries and finally settled in Dallas, Texas.
Behind the technocrat in me, I enjoy cooking, watching movies, DIY home improvement & automation projects, hone my handyman skills, indulge in my passion for photography, and practice digital design/art. I will soon be launching my own storefront for showcasing my digital art and designs at eArtPrints.com.
I love traveling & adventure and am a big-time foodie, trying out new unexplored cuisines and binge-watching movies. I love spending quality time with my family, specially my dad- daughter time! Even though I have lived in many cities in US and Dallas is home now, I wouldn't miss any opportunity to visit India.
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