By Syed Shazil Hussain
New Delhi: After his 15-year stint at Mahindra, Amol Deshpande has joined RPG Group as Group Chief Digital Officer and Head of Innovation. In his role at Mahindra he was the Head of Digital – Farm & Agri Sector, before that he was leading the IT services.
Deshpande has a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Amravati University and a PGDM from Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies. Later, he went to University of Utah for MS in Mechanical Engineering.
At RPG his focus areas will be: Strategizing and implementing an enterprise-wide transformation leading towards a digital, agile organisation, identifying opportunities to leverage emerging technology impacting key business functions and promotion of digital and data first thinking across enterprise functions, and drive change management.
RPG Group, established in 1979 and headquartered in Mumbai, is one of India’s fastest growing business groups with a turnover in excess of USD 4.4 billion. The Group has a presence in infrastructure, automotive tyres (CEAT), information technology (Zensar), pharmaceuticals (RPG Life Sciences), energy (Raychem) and plantations (HML). The Group also has investments in emerging innovation led technology businesses. It has an employee strength exceeding 30,000.
On joining RPG Group, Amol Deshpande on his social media profile wrote: “Last 15 years with Mahindra were full of excitement, learning opportunities and most importantly demonstrating ‘can do’ DNA. Driving Technology / Digital transformation of businesses (startups to large enterprises) delivering world class ‘Phygital’ experiences for customers, vendor partners, employees, setting up Centre of Excellences from scratch, delivering cost optimizations, Building Capabilities and ‘Super Performing Teams’ across geographies were some of the high points of the journey.”
“This journey is a significant part of my professional life delivering several industry-first programs working with business functions across the globe such as Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, Product Development, Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing and Operations, Finance and Human Capital Management. As I move on to next chapter, I want to take this opportunity to express my heartfelt gratitude towards my mentors, partners, colleagues across the globe and the amazing team members whom I had the privilege to work with and learn from. I am grateful for their unstinted support which helped me effectively manage incredible opportunities to lead a globally spread org while building an inclusive and diverse team. Mahindra is and will always remain very special in my heart and in my career,” he added.
