Siddarth Chennareddy
Hyderabad
Summary
With over 11 years of experience, I specialize in corporate strategy, global expansions, and public policy. I excel in negotiation, leadership, and problem-solving to achieve organizational objectives. Seasoned professional with a background in shaping and implementing comprehensive policy strategies. I have made a significant impact through the creation of robust policies across multiple geographies for promoting organizational growth and societal development by being a panel chair on several policy panels.
Currently serving as Sr. Vice President at CtrlS Datacentres. My role involves streamlining asset acquisition strategies, bridging cross-functional teams, and ensuring on-time delivery of new data center capacities across multiple geographies. By aligning forecasts with supply chain inputs, I support rational and efficient decision-making to enable large-scale growth. I contribute to shaping the company's global footprint while ensuring operational excellence. My expertise extends to evaluating demand forecasts, defining GTM, handling Corporate Affairs, and Public Policy for all the locations, and synchronizing internal functions for seamless execution.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr.VP- Corporate Strategy & Global Expansions
CtrlS Datacenters Ltd
Hyderabad
05.2025 - Current
- Collaborated with leadership and board to design and implement organizational strategies.
- Analyzed market trends to inform strategic planning and investment decisions.
- Conducted operational reviews, identifying improvement areas and proposing actionable solutions.
- Ensured compliance with laws, regulations, and policies across all operational locations.
- Developed new policies to enhance departmental efficiency.
- Identified risks and established contingency plans to mitigate potential impacts.
- Revitalized business plans to realign objectives, boosting overall profitability.
- Executed project management within budget, adhering to established road maps.
Vice President - Corporate strategy & Global Expansions
CtrlS Datacenters Ltd
08.2023 - 05.2025
- Responsible for all asset acquisition - both Organic and Inorganic.
- Responsible for Global expansions and Corporate Strategy, GTM across multiple geographies.
- Bridging internal customers, business functions (finance, procurement, legal etc.), and functional delivery teams (design, construction, controls, etc.) to enable on-time and right sized delivery of new data center capacity.
- Led cross-functional teams for the successful completion of major projects, resulting in increased efficiency and client satisfaction.
- On an ongoing basis, oversee and audit development of expansion plans and build schedules through evaluation of multiple factors such as rationality of demand forecasts, supply planning inputs like power utilization, real estate and/or colocation supply, equipment availability, and utility delivery such as power, water, and fiber.
- Collaborated with senior management to develop strategic initiatives and long term goals.
- Establish performance metrics and mechanisms, and drives continuous process improvement and automation that enable teams to meet their committed delivery schedules.
- Negotiated high-value contracts that maximized profitability while mitigating risks for the organization.
- Drive capacity optimization programs to ensure that existing capacity is usable.
- Ensured regulatory compliance at all times by implementing robust internal controls systems coupled with proactive monitoring mechanisms.
- Keep a tab on global knowledge of all in-flight projects, major risks, and in-depth knowledge of ongoing issues and remediation efforts.
- Increased company growth through collaboration with sales and marketing departments.
- Proactively identify and escalate risks, manage issues, define mitigation plans, and drive teams across the organization to deliver against their commitments.
- With multiple projects in flight at any given time, building mechanisms and metrics that trigger awareness and action.
- When existing plans fail to meet business needs, identify alternatives or improvement plans and communicates up, down, and across the organization to gain support and commitment for a new plan of record.
Vice President corporate Strategy & Expansions
Tier IV Datacenters LLP
05.2020 - 07.2023
- Oversaw strategic planning and execution of data center operations.
- Managed cross-functional teams to enhance service delivery standards.
- Fostered partnerships with key stakeholders to drive business growth initiatives.
- Guided budget development and resource allocation for various projects.
- Implemented risk management strategies to safeguard data center assets.
- Provided oversight of all departments in order to ensure smooth operation of daily activities.
- Negotiated contracts with vendors for services, products and supplies.
- Managed financial operations, overseeing budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis activities.
- Advised senior executives on approaches for resolving complex issues impacting operations.
- Worked on several special projects for revenue assurance and adding new revenues
- Analyzed market trends to identify opportunities for growth within existing markets or new ones.
- Directed business development initiatives, including acquisitions and joint venture agreements.
AVP- Corporate Strategy & Expansions
CtrlS Datacenters Ltd
Hyderabad
08.2019 - 05.2020
- Led strategic initiatives to enhance data center operations and service delivery.
- Developed and executed policies for efficient resource allocation and utilization.
- Oversaw budget planning and monitoring for operational expenditures in data centers.
- Led weekly status meetings with project teams in order to track progress against milestones.
- Assisted in developing business cases for proposed projects or initiatives.
- Coordinated cross-functional teams in order to deliver large scale projects within agreed upon timelines.
- Collaborated with senior management to identify cost-saving opportunities and develop strategies for achieving financial objectives.
- Managed relationships with external partners such as consultants, vendors, contractors.
- Monitored financials including budgets, forecasts, and actuals, ensuring accuracy of information provided by subordinates.
- Reviewed existing policies and procedures related to operations, finance, human resources.
- Conducted regular meetings with stakeholders to review performance against goals and objectives.
- Contributed towards long term planning efforts by providing insights into current market trends.
Program Manager - Corporate strategy
Cloud4c Services Pvt Ltd
10.2017 - 08.2019
- Key responsibility is to assist the Chairman and the Managing director in smooth functioning and increasing productivity across 38 business units.
- Understand Govt policy for various States and countries to Develop inclusive business strategy.
- Develop Research & Report validate business models and strategies.
- Vendor/Service Provider assessment for new set-ups.
- Ensure & assist in smooth functioning of existing businesses.
- Attend and track all review meetings to derive action plan.
- Draft and maintain Management presentations.
- Prepare new MIS templates to collate data and prepare a decision support document for the management on a weekly basis.
- Responsible for CMDB Accuracy to reduce revenue leakages. increase the data availability to maintain SLA and quick TAT.
- Responsible for all Revenue Assurance projects and P&L governance across infrastructure, Managed services, Power, Bandwidth, Contracts etc.
- Responsible for SOC Projects (decisions, incident Response & management, Protect high value Assets).
- Check for revenue leakages and do cost optimization.
- Drive Governance Risk and compliance projects. work with solutions & implementation teams on IRAAP, GDPR, GXP, PCI DSS compliances.
- Work with Sales, Presales, accounts team to do Sales review on a weekly basis, to identify leads, unique opportunities.Transformed Cyber Security vertical from cost centre to revenue generator.
- Established SAP account relationships while benchmarking milestones and managing the entire process.
- Automated billing system to enhance operational efficiency.
- Optimized ticketing system and synchronized with CMDB for improved resolution speed.
- Executed go-to-market strategies for new locations and accounts.
Associate Director
Aries Consultancy Services, Inc
11.2013 - 07.2017
- Was responsible for evolving fine process of IT Recruitment Cycle.
- Designed Master Process flow for Recruitment automation.
- Recruited and trained trainee recruiters.
- Successful in training fresh recruiters as effective and critical resources.
- Handled new clients with assurance of flawless recruitment delivery.
- Report activities and results on a monthly basis through the weekly sales report.
- Execute regular competition analysis regarding the target market.
- Account management regarding existing clients with the aim to extend business and create future partnership based on account plans.
- Responsible to achieve individual as well as team monthly targets.
- Conducted various market surveys to understand the needs and expectation of consumers.
- Responsible to generate revenue from IT Staffing.
- Responsible for pan India operation.
- Responsible for new client acquisition as well as retention of existing clients.
- Taking care of IT Staffing vertical (perm & contractual).
- Responsible for vendor management pan-India.
- Handling exclusively the Senior Level Contractual Placements for UAE mostly on uncommon skill sets with consistency in closures.
- Working on portals like Dice, Monster, Career Builder, Corp-Corp, LinkedIn, Yahoo Hot Jobs, Simply Hired, Indeed, and Naukri.
- Talking to the consultants and conducting the screening, briefing them about the Role and Responsibility, Introduction to the company profile, coordinating with the clients for scheduling the interview rounds and chase for the feedbacks.
- Brief understanding about Corp-to-Corp, W2, 1099.
- Have experience in recruiting US Citizens, Green card Holders, H1B Consultants, EAD, TN and OPT for Internal, Direct Client Requirements & Tier 1 Vendor Requirements.
- Recruitment Tools Used like Bullhorn.
Risk Management Intern
The International Foundation for Electoral Systems
07.2015 - 09.2015
- Worked on BASEL-III implementation strategies.
- Developed risk models, working on Bloomberg, Crystal ball and other software.
- Managing portfolio with effective risk management.
- Performed tasks including retrieving and entering financial information, financial analysis, risk assessment, and report preparation.
- Assisted Risk Analysts in the preparation of account reviews and recommendations to mitigate account risk using risk models and financial analytics.
- Validate information entered into risk models and monitor compliance with established risk guidelines and policies.
- Monitor compliance of Risk Management Program policies and procedures.
- Work with Regulatory Risk Lead in the Risk Management Department to maintain policies and procedures within the Risk Management Program.
- Work with Regulatory Risk Lead in the Risk Management Department to develop new regulatory compliance measures.
- Work closely with the front office to assess business needs and how to navigate regulatory framework to achieve revenue target and new business growth.
- Work with Risk Management Teammates to train them on regulatory issues.
- Monitor changes in the regulatory environment applicable to a US Swap Dealer.
- Develop, maintain and update risk related policies, procedures and other governance related documentation.
- Review, manage and develop policies to ensure appropriate Enterprise Risk controls are in place and that any changes/updates in policies are communicated in a timely manner.
- Work alongside internal groups such as Market, Credit, Liquidity and Operational Risk areas as well as Compliance, Legal, and Operations on matters related to risk controls, self-assessments, incidents and infrastructure projects.
- Oversee and manage projects related to control enhancement initiatives and other firm-level projects as they relate to the risk management governance structure.
- Produce reports or metrics on exceptions to Enterprise Risk.
Education
Some College (No Degree) - Scrum master certification
International Scrum Institute
United States Of America08-2016
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) - International Finance
University of New Haven
West HavenSkills
- Team leadership and decision-making
- Risk management
- Policy development
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Revenue generation
- Strategic leadership
- Growth planning
- Client engagement
- Transformative leadership
- Negotiation and strategic planning
- Business development
- Market research and GTM planning
Certification
ITIL Foundation
Six Sigma – Green Belt
Scrum master certification
Languages
Hindi, Telugu, English, Tamil (basic), Kannada (basic), Spanish ( Basic)
Timeline
Sr.VP- Corporate Strategy & Global Expansions
CtrlS Datacenters Ltd
05.2025 - Current
Vice President - Corporate strategy & Global Expansions
CtrlS Datacenters Ltd
08.2023 - 05.2025
Vice President corporate Strategy & Expansions
Tier IV Datacenters LLP
05.2020 - 07.2023
AVP- Corporate Strategy & Expansions
CtrlS Datacenters Ltd
08.2019 - 05.2020
Program Manager - Corporate strategy
Cloud4c Services Pvt Ltd
10.2017 - 08.2019
Risk Management Intern
The International Foundation for Electoral Systems
07.2015 - 09.2015
Associate Director
Aries Consultancy Services, Inc
11.2013 - 07.2017
Some College (No Degree) - Scrum master certification
International Scrum Institute
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) - International Finance
University of New Haven