Currently he is engaged as a CTO & CMO @ Deshpande Foundation, one of the top NGO & focused on technology driven Social innovation with an aspiration to impact gross-root, base pyramid 1.1 billion people in the impact areas of Agriculture - Data Driven Agriculture Initiative to improve the efficiency in farming practices; Skilling: Technology Driven industry specific skilling programs for employability; Navodyami (micro-entrepreneurship) :Technology driven Navodyami (micro-entrepreneurship) incubation services. Adopting Corporate best practices of blended business & Technology to enhance the productivity of the field staff & digitally touching the beneficiary with 3S (Speed, Scale & Sustainability) and ultimately give the institution/business a competitive advantage.

1. Subbarao Hegde (+91 7019374621)– a Thumbnail Sketch
Hegde Subbarao ranks in India’s Best CIOs, spanning a career in IT with over 30 years’ experience, in leading large organizations, aligned
Business Strategies, People Management, Customer and Stakeholder Management in Information Technology, FMCG and
Infrastructure businesses Viz. Dairy Manufacturing & Marketing, Retail, Logistics, e-commerce, Education, ITeS – BPO, Strategic
outsourcing & Governance, Security Services & Infrastructure (Energy, Highways / Urban Infrastructure, EPC, SEZ/SIR, Airports,
Aviation) and Emerging Business (Smart, Secure, Safe, Sustainable City projects, Startup, IOT Projects) including Social Sector NGO.
His capabilities includes a strategic mindset, customer focus, innovator, Team player, Mentor, digital game changer, agile project
execution within time & budget. Successful in technology driven Business strategies, integration strategy, Omni channel strategy &
solution for customer centricity, digital transformation and oversees startup e-commerce, digital wallet ecosystem projects &
implemented Processes to facilitate the services made easy & fast. His technology-enablement goals are along 5 strategic themes viz.
Transform Process-driven Organization, Create a Learning Organization, Develop People as Assets, Enhance Strategic Control and
Enhance Collaboration. He has consistently improved delivery times, business value enhancement and service levels while reducing
costs, curtailing revenue leakages and building high-performance teams. He has transformed few business models & implemented
technology-enabled innovation / technology-driven business strategies and also introduced ITBPM (IT-Business Performance
Management) & IPDM (Integrated Project Delivery Model) Solutions, SAP / Oracle ERP, CRM, real time ePOS retail business solutions,
business process automation, smart sourcing, e-procurement & vendor management, IT governance, asset management, IT security
ISO 27001 & cyber Security deployment, Business Excellence, Knowledge management, innovative-idea factory and continuous
improvement programs.
Hegde played a key role in taking IT to the masses – Automation of rural supply-chain management process with six sigma accuracy
(patented open sourced based Automatic Milk Collection Systems (AMCS)) while at GCMMF (Amul – the Taste of India) Anand, and
demonstrated how IT can run as a business and benefit all the way from grass-root farmers with Cattles to end-consumers (C2C) viz.
enable customer collaboration, increase customer satisfaction & operational efficiency, drive revenue growth and reduce cost & risks.
This involved deploying state-of-the-art ERP & ecommerce, end2end supply chain system integrating all the AMUL dairy co-operatives,
Member union’s manufacturing plants and FMCG distributors /Amul Parlours across the country, which garnered the coveted global
‘CIO Award’ in 2003, received from International Data Group, CIO magazine USA.
At GMR Group, he initiated and successfully completed multi-pronged projects worth crores of rupees starting from IT-Strategy
alignment with all business sectors across the group, followed by building a world-class enterprise-wide ‘converge communication
collaborative network Infrastructure’ (CCCNI), including a state-of-the-art tier 3 data center, DR with virtualization, mobility and private
cloud architecture, deployed SAP ERP NetWeaver tie in with the GRC,HCM,BW/BI tools, GMR virtual university integrated LMS SAP &
24x7 Learning, IT security, Virtual data Room, Microsoft O365 messaging, SharePoint portal, Knowledge management & Idea factory,
Smart sourcing with SLA monitoring, Process workflow automation, integrated project delivery, SAP integrated Business specific best
of breed software solution Viz. EPC – RIB itwo for pre-bid estimation & post-contract budgeting, Revit (BIM),eDMS, highway toll plaza
TMS/HTMS, SAP-PI OSIsoft integrated power generation and distribution systems, interactive business dashboards, airport IT-
networking and revenue generation areas, while curtailing revenue leakage in airport ePOS & highway toll plazas, Predictive modeling,
Video analytics, tracking and movement of coal, contract & document management. In doing so, his team achieved year-on-year cost
savings exceeding ₹ 50 crores, reducing financial closing-cycle time to just 3 days, and garnering the coveted Winner of the ‘Silver EDGE’
award 2010 as well as the Winner of India’s Best CIOs Awards – 2011, 2013, 2014 & 2015. Also recognized in "Stars of the Industry"
Award 2015 & India’s CIO200 Change Agents Award 2017 & 2018.
Currently he is engaged as a CTO & CMO @ Deshpande Foundation, one of the top NGO & Focused on technology driven Social
innovation with an aspiration to impact gross-root, base pyramid 1.1 billion people in the impact areas of Agriculture - Data Driven
Agriculture Initiative to improve the efficiency in farming practices; Skilling: Technology Driven industry specific skilling programs for
employability; Navodyami (micro-entrepreneurship) :Technology driven Navodyami (micro-entrepreneurship) incubation services.
Adopting Corporate best practices of blended business & Technology to enhance the productivity of the field staff & digitally touching
the beneficiary with 3S (Speed, Scale & Sustainability), & ultimately give the institution/business a competitive advantage;
Hegde holds a B.E. in Electronics and Communication from SJ College of Engineering, Mysore with MIE certification. He has successfully
completed General Management Program (LDP) from IIM - Bangalore, as well as Quality Management program for India (IDQM) at
AOTS, Yokohama, Japan. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE, USA) & CxO Club-Bangalore
Chapter.. He loves to read, practice yoga, teach, inspiration & technology Speech, write blogs/LinkedIn & travel.
He aspires to achieve higher levels of tech-oriented business process orchestration and to identify & nurture innovative Tech solutions
that will have a tangible impact on businesses. It’s his belief that SMAC (Social, Mobility / IOT / M2M, Analytics, and Cloud) and new
disruptive technologies like AI, VR-AR, Block Chain areas and rising consumer Digital demands with a Customer centricity focus are
pivotal to designing & deploying AI first and cloud-based platforms for Prescriptive Analytics; an insight which organizations can’t
afford to ignore in this digital era. Further, digital transformation is essential in an organization as a strategic advantage over
competition.