B Padmankumar

BIO

Padmakumar is a Senior Management Executive with 28+years of experience. He has held a variety of senior management positions in the IT and Engineering industries with leading organizations such as Wipro, HCL, and BEML. Prior to Neotys, he setup in 2009 the Business Management group for the testing services practice with HCL. In 1996, he joined Wipro where he held senior positions in Development, Implementation, Support and Maintenance of Application systems, ERP Implementation & Consulting, Process Consulting, Large Global Program Management, Customer Engagement, Solution & Services Sales, Service Delivery, and Offshoring in the IT and Engineering Industries. He has extensive expertise in establishing, staffing, and managing specialized consulting practices / large development centers, and delivering multiple IT projects to global clients using the Global Delivery Model. At Wipro, he headed the IT Testing Consulting Practice with direct responsibility for competency, customer acquisition, sales, revenue, P&L, and service delivery. In 1985, he joined BEML and gained extensive experience in setting up the Corporate IT department and interacting with Senior Management to meet the business needs through IT. Padmakumar graduated with a B.Tech from the College of Engineering, Trivandrum (India) and with an MBA (PGSEM) from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (India).