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ANIL JOSHI

ANIL JOSHI

AI and Digital Leader
Gurgaon

Summary

  • Built and led high-performing cross-functional teams comprising Gen AI Specialist , Data Engineers, Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Product Managers, DevOps engineers, Software Engineers, and Implementation Specialists.
  • Proven track record in setting up and managing Global Capability Centers (GCCs), establishing delivery excellence, talent strategy, and operational frameworks from the ground up.
  • Leading the Gen AI transformation of the organization, including strategy formulation, use case identification, and enterprise-wide capability development.
  • Hands-on experience in recruiting, hiring, and mentoring exceptional talent while fostering a culture of innovation, ownership, and continuous learning.
  • Successfully led global teams across India, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, ensuring seamless collaboration and high-impact delivery in distributed models.
  • Strong senior stakeholder engagement and client relationship management with a collaborative leadership style suited for complex matrixed organizations.
  • People-first leader with a servant leadership mindset, focused on building deep team connections, mentoring mid-level managers, and driving professional development and succession planning.
  • Extensive program management and governance expertise, including full P&L ownership, budgeting, resource planning, financial control, scope management, risk mitigation, and operational excellence.

Performance-driven Vice President with 25+ years of experience aligning systems with business requirements, policies, and regulatory requirements. Passionate about applying excellent organization and communication skills to manage and lead teams. Results-oriented individual well-versed in interfacing and consulting on business processes to drive results based on sound overall business judgment. Performance-driven Vice President with 25+ years of experience aligning systems with business requirements, policies, and regulatory requirements. Passionate about applying excellent organization and communication skills to manage and lead teams. Results-oriented individual well-versed in interfacing and consulting on business processes to drive results based on sound overall business judgment. Results-driven 25+ with forward-thinking approach centered on company success and competitive growth. Demonstrated record of success in building successful teams and managing profitable operations.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience
7
7
Certifications
2
2
Languages

Work History

Vice President

Absolutdata - An Infogain Company
Gurga
12.2021 - Current
  • Heading delivery of 1000 member Data and AI practice for organization
  • Responsible for delivering services to 40+ client with annual revenue of close to 50 million USD
  • Responsible for P&L of accounts being handled
  • Location leader for Infogain Gurgaon
  • Leading the initiative of Gen AI transformation

Data & Analytics Director

Boston Consulting Group
Gurgaon
12.2016 - 12.2021
  • Leading the analytics product innovation function within BCG.
  • Function innovates products, tools and services leveraging BCG IP (data and process).
  • As owner of function, my responsibility span includes Innovation leadership: Constantly engage with BCG partners to seek new ideas for digital products and services. Overseeing innovation lifecycle products, contributing heavily during ideation phase and leading the business approval phase.
  • Technology Leadership: Leading and mentoring product managers, architects, data scientist and data engineering experts for architecting new products and to continuously explore new best purpose fit technologies. The current stack of technology consists of AWS Cloud, AI/ML models, Microservices, CI/CD, Python, SQL, Tableau, PowerBI, D3JS, React JS, and Alteryx, SPSS, Angular and React JS.
  • Owner of function's P&L: Budget planning and tracking. Presenting quarterly business review to senior leadership.
  • People leadership: Provide line management and mentorship to senior team members. Working together with HR for recruitment, professional evaluation, L&D, and bonus/compensation of team members. Mentoring senior team members.
  • Impact Highlights: Built 100+ data and analytical tools and products in a span of 4 years.
  • Representative product examples: Analytical product for creating global supply curves of chemicals, Solution to predict shipping container movement. Underlying model was updated to include for Covid-19 situation, Big data solution for Network excellence & rollout strategy for telecom clients, ML based solution for building a spend cube for identifying potential savings opportunities and driving category strategy, A cloud-based solution that would offer capacity planning & scenario analysis capabilities to healthcare systems, to optimize healthcare resources from a long-term perspective.
  • Established a service for consumer survey analytics. Service is leveraged by BCG consultants to provide deep insights to clients. Representative analytics include Choice Modeling, Customer Segmentation (K-Means), Key Driver Analysis (Linear Regression, Decision Trees), Price Sensitivity.
  • Established new people model, compensation structure, and career tracks in collaboration with HR, and aligned to needs for the team.
  • Successfully implemented agile structure and ways of working.
  • Established a global analytics team and expand from 3 to 130+ in India, Poland and Costa Rica.
  • Revenue charge back of Data Factory grew from USD 0.1M to USD 5.1M in 3 years.
  • Nurtured BCS India offshore center from ground leading to fully functional delivery unit.

Global Manager

McKinsey & Company
Gurgaon
03.2011 - 12.2016
  • Established a global data analytics organization (Data Factory).
  • Data factory's charter was do client implementations of analytical solutions created by McKinsey Solutions. Core elements of Data factory service were Implementing client specific data pipelines, Custom ETL jobs, Product configuration and tweaking underlying algorithms to fit to customers unique situation, creating client specific custom reports using Tableau.
  • At its peak, Data Factory was 130+ members working from 6 locations. India (Gurgaon, Chennai), Poland, Costa Rica, Vendor locations (Chile and Romania).
  • Set up a multilingual 24x7 helpdesk for supporting clients.
  • Managed, negotiated, and monitored out-sourcing contracts with third-party vendors to provide flex capacity globally.
  • Served as member of central governing council of McKinsey Knowledge Center and managed various aspect of running a 700-member center.

Program Manager

BCS Infosoft
Gurgaon
07.2009 - 03.2011
  • Program managed establishing offshore delivery center.
  • Highlight of role and accomplishment: Set up legal entity and served as a signatory director, Established the physical office and office administrative, operational setup, From the ground up, built a team of engineers and work with other BCS entities globally to leverage the India team. At its peak, the offshore center had 70 members, Set up and operated HR processes, including HR ops, recruitment, retention, compensation, and annual evaluation process, Collaborated with the Pre-sales team and acquired five new clients to be served from the India center, Generated revenue from the India center increased from nil to USD 2.8 million in 18 months.

Senior Project Manager

HCL Technology
07.1999 - 04.2009
  • Started as a Software Engineer and with accelerated progression reached to senior manager level in 8 years.
  • Highlights of role and accomplishments: Lead the transformation of a custom ERP solution for a global publishing giant, Internationalized a NLU product to work on non-English data, Created web-based loan processing solution for an E-commerce client, Technology worked on: C, C++, Java, VBA, ASP .Net, Sybase, Oracle.

Education

MCA - Computer Science

Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi
05.1999

B.Sc.(Hons) Mathematics - Mathematics

Delhi University
New Delhi
07.1996

Execute MBA For COO - Operations

IIM
Lucknow
04.2001 -

Skills

  • Establishing and independently running GCC

  • Gen AI & Advance Analytics (AI/ML)

  • Data platforms

Team leadership

Strategic planning

Coaching and mentoring

Decision-making

Critical thinking

Process improvement

Certification

Harvard Business School Online Certification on Disruptive Innovation

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 09/22/75

Timeline

Vice President

Absolutdata - An Infogain Company
12.2021 - Current

Data & Analytics Director

Boston Consulting Group
12.2016 - 12.2021

Global Manager

McKinsey & Company
03.2011 - 12.2016

Program Manager

BCS Infosoft
07.2009 - 03.2011

Execute MBA For COO - Operations

IIM
04.2001 -

Senior Project Manager

HCL Technology
07.1999 - 04.2009

MCA - Computer Science

Jawaharlal Nehru University

B.Sc.(Hons) Mathematics - Mathematics

Delhi University
ANIL JOSHIAI and Digital Leader