Finland is my second home and soon I will have lived here half of my life. I was brought up in the 70's in the east part of India - a small town in the state of Odisha, which today is a smart city. After receiving my university degree in electrical engineering, I moved to Bangalore to explore the Indian Silicon Valley. There, I had the opportunity to work in a joint venture between British Aerospace and an Indian premier aeronautics and aircraft manufacturing company, where I learnt a lot about its ERP system built in Unix and Oracle.
In the late 90's, my dream was to work in the USA or UK, and that dream came true when I received an exciting offer to work in Redwood City. However, due to a huge backlog of H1B visas for Y2K, my application got delayed and at the same time I was selected to work in Nokia as a consultant for its global logistics system. Thus, my journey took a different path. I decided not to wait for my US visa and instead relocated to Finland. In the summer of 99, I landed in Helsinki. I can still remember the smell of fresh buns and coffee in R-kioski on the first day I arrived 22 years ago.
After 6 months working with Nokia’s ERP and logistics system, my contract was extended for another year. During that time, I met my Finnish wife and had fallen in love with the country’s nature, summer and lovely people. This forged my decision to stay in Finland. In 2002, I joined Nokia’s data warehouse team where we used all cool tools and cutting-edge technology during Nokia's massive growth. The systems, tools and data also grew exponentially. After 5 years with Nokia, I moved to Accenture as a senior consultant. I had always looked forward to working with SAP ERP to better understand the complex source systems. Later I received an exciting opportunity to join the Nokia SAP team which I enthusiastically accepted. During 2010-11, a major SAP renewal program provided an exciting opportunity to lead a team of experts where we were looking into all 150+ applications and integrations of Nokia’s SAP backbone. After huge success, I was requested to join a similar ERP renewal program with Nokia Siemens Networks. This time it was for the finance stream, where I led an expert team of 40 finance consultants and an extensive network of 100+ global users. What an amazing journey! My teams did an outstanding job - all credit to the best people. I left Nokia in 2016 and got the chance to enhance my skills in all major public clouds like AWS and Azure. After this I did freelancing work in digital transformation. Most recently, before joining Midagon, I was with a growth hacking start-up where I was in charge of overseeing the end-to-end product development in a CTO role for several products in multiple domains such as health tech, clean tech and food tech.
I am a big time foodie. I love to explore different cuisines and cook with my lovely daughter – from Mediterranean to Mexican, pasta to wok, chicken tikka masala or palak paneer to salmon soup - we ensure delicious results! As a health and wellbeing enthusiast, I love to practice meditation and yoga, go jogging or walk with our dog in the nearby forests to breathe fresh air. Finland being the happiest country in the world, I would love to see more and more people become conscious and take better care of their health and wellness. Personally, I advocate for sustainability, environmental affairs and the health and wellbeing of children.
Midagon is experiencing exponential growth with seasoned professionals who are passionate about the job they are doing and creating value for Midagon’s clients. For me, Midagon's success story can be described using the following pillars: strong leadership, very good people processes, attracting and retaining the best talent with good incentives and employee benefit structure, excellent sales and marketing, and the high performing consultants. I learned about Midagon and its founder around 12 years ago when I was still with Accenture. Since that time, I have always valued the company as a great place to work. I am very happy to be a part of Midagon’s phenomenal success and way forward.
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