Rajesh Chopra

Mentor and Business Head - Hospitality Business @ Ingram Micro

About

Hospitality Technology Professional with 40+ years experience, in-depth knowledge of business, IT processes in global companies in manufacturing, hospitality and services industry domain. Started with a Global IT Major, Indian Business Houses, World Leader in Consumer Electronic and lead next generation digital transformation with world's best hospitality chain.Presently mentoring the world's largest IT distribution company, INGRAM MICRO India to set up Hospitality business unit for India and SAARC region.Worked with The Oberoi Group for more than a decade heading Technology business for The Oberoi & Trident Hotel Chains and associated business lines globally. Implemented digital transformation through The Oberoi Center of Excellence (TOCE) for back-end business processes consolidation and advisory services to all Oberoi group entitiesDuring last assignment with Samsung Electronics for more than 17 years, apart from managing IT for all Samsung Group companies, I was responsible for setting-up shared services IT/ITES Delivery entity "Samsung SDS India" for Samsung Group's Southwest Asia IT OperationsHave passion for mentoring startup eco-systems for their product innovation and go-to-market modelling.

Country

India

City

Greater Delhi Area

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

Procurement, IT Services, SAP Business One, SAP Implementation, IT Security Operations, Business Process, IT Operations, IT Strategy, IT Outsourcing, Mentoring, Executive Management, Infrastructure, Contract Negotiation, Financial Analysis, Quality Management, Strategic Alliances, Call Center, Vendor Management, Business Development, ERP

Experience

Mentor and Business Head - Hospitality Business

Ingram Micro

2023-4 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

New Delhi

Mentoring Ingram Micro India to set-up Hospitality Business Vertical to sell niche technology solutions curated specifically for the hospitality industry. Instrumental in setting up a large eco-system of hospitality channel partners, OEMs, system integrators and indirect influencers. Positioned Ingram Micro as aggregated technology solutions provider with indigenous financing and ITAD (e-waste disposal) options

Chief Strategy Officer and board member

Anjdeb Consulting Ltd UK

2021-10 - 2023-4 · 1 yr 7 mos

United Kingdom

Mentoring an UK based IT company on product innovation and go to market modeling in user personalization and BOTs deployment space in the global markets

Group Chief Technology Officer

Techjockey.com

2022-1 - 2023-3 · 1 yr 3 mos

New Delhi

Worked with founding directors to enhance capacity and capability of the organisation - Realigned business processes and tech-stack with organisational objectives - Played vital role in CMMI Level5 appraisal for the company - Created Services Business unit to provide IT/ITES services portfolio - Created industry verticals in e-marketplace www.techjockey.com for hospitality, education, healthcare and BFSI sector

Senior Vice President - Information Technology

Oberoi Hotels & Resorts

2011-6 - 2021-9 · 10 yrs 4 mos

Responsible for IT delivery for group's operations. Have implemented guest facing technologies using state of art infrastructure, virtulization projects, ERP Implementation across business units apart from setting internal competencies for business systems support. Extensive experiene of deployment of state of art technologies such as AI, ML, RPA etc. Played vital role in setting up Center of Excellence (COE) for all back-end operations of the company

Vice President

Samsung Electronics

2009-4 - 2011-6 · 2 yrs 3 mos

New start-up venture of Samsung Group in India. Responsible for providing IT & ITES Services to all Samsung Group companies in South West Asia. Head of IT Outsourcing & System Integration Vertical.of the company. Also responsible for HR & Other Support Functions of the company.