Mr. Sachdev Ramakrishna has a rich and variegated professional experience, spanning two decades across a spectrum of industry sectors. His first stint straight out of college was with the engineering major, Larsen & Toubro Limited, Bombay, wherein, as a commissioning engineer, he started up cement factories, totalling to about 8 million tonnes of annualised capacity in collaboration with FL Smidth A/S of Denmark.
He moved to A. F. Ferguson & Co. (now Deloitte), India’s largest management consulting firm, where he progressed to being an Engagement partner, advising several MNCs and Indian business houses in the areas of business and marketing strategy.
He then joined Piramal Enterprises, where as VP-Strategy, he led the
Ajay Piramal-owned group into sunrise sectors such as Retailing, being part of a start-up team to build then India’s largest shoppertainment complex, Crossroads in Mumbai.
He also served as Dr. Reddy’s first Chief Information Officer, focusing
on the leverage of information technology for enabling India’s second largest drugmaker aspire to be market agile. Among his several contributions was the introduction of a collaborative platform to expedite the filing of abbreviated new drug applications to the US FDA.
Swayed by the promise of India’s IT outsourcing industry, he next joined MphasiS as its global Head of Strategic Marketing, serving the company through its acquisition by EDS. His primary responsibilities were to position the company strategically in the minds of decision-makers from many of the biggest firms in the world, including from Wall Street.
Today at Steria India, Sachdev drives the overall marketing strategy, and stands instrumental in building both the Steria brand as well as business leveraging India capabilities. Headquartered in Paris,Steria is a European IT Services provider serving a large number of prestigious clients both in the public and private sectors for well over 40 years.
Under Sachdev’s leadership, Steria embarked on a strategic marketing
approach that focused on building Steria's brand using public relations and through establishing key relationships with influencers and analyst firms. Steria today has key relationships with premium trade bodies such as Nasscom, FICCI and CII, Sachdev was also
instrumental in getting Steria accepted at the World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland. He has also strategically established the Steria Retail Centre of Excellence, an innovation centre focused on creating solutions for the Retail industy.
He holds two degrees in Chemical Engineering including a Masters from
the IIT, Madras and an MBA from the Asian Institute Of Management, Manila, Philippines where he was an Asian Development Bank scholar.
Sachdev has been a key note speaker at industry forums such as NASSCOM
and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). In his personal time, he loves to ead voraciously and time and wallet permitting, to travel to exotic places. His other affiliations have included memberships to heritage and cultural institutions such as The Metropolitan Museum Of Art in New York City, The British Museum in London and the Museum of the Native American Indian at The Smithsonian in Washington DC.
