KEVIN REDDY Reddy.AI adg8qd@r.postjobfree.com

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

A seasoned Digital Strategy, Transformation, and Innovation Executive with over 20+ years of proven track record in architecting, scaling, and leading Digital and Emerging Technologies practices and offerings to deliver large-scale agile digital transformation programs as trusted advisor to C-suite while as a senior executive at top-tier consulting firms - Accenture, Booz & Co, and PwC delivering strategic growth agenda aligned outcomes and enhancing stakeholder value. Kevin brings deep expertise in Financial Services and FinTech/InsurTech (Banking, Insurance, Wealth) as primary focus coupled with Retail, FMCG, TMT verticals, operating out of US (home base), UK, Europe, and Oceania, leveraging vetted emerging technologies - AI/ML, IoT, Blockchain, IA/RPA, Big Data, Digital Twins, Cognitive Automation, and Predictive Analytics deployed across Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud-native, On-Prem, Mobile, Edge, and SaaS/IaaS/PaaS compute and data platforms with transformational digitization journeys towards scalable Cognitive Autonomous Enterprises, Adaptive Connected Planning ERP models, and Intelligent Self-Orchestrating Supply Chains.

• Value driven digital transformation leadership including innovation, strategy, execution, and CxO advisory coupled with market relevant offering development and large-scale agile program oversight

• Enterprise technology strategy, delivery, and operations, effectiveness, governance, risk, compliance, and transformation enabled by emerging technologies and innovative delivery models

• Enterprise architecture design and execution for innovative business and operating models - ideation, product-market fit, GTM strategy, incubation, and commercialization capabilities

• Next generation enterprise product/solution innovation, design, development, deployment, automation in cloud native environments with virtual machines/networks/container services

• Emerging Digital Technologies and Cloud competency and team development, large-scale agile global program sales and delivery, innovation offering and thought capital development

• Distributed Multi-tenant application environment architecture, development, and deployment in CI/CD value-chain with micro services and big data enabled data streams Currently Kevin serves as Managing Director at Reddy & Co providing emerging technology enabled digital strategy, innovation, and transformation services. Most recently Kevin was a global leader for cross-sector digital strategy and transformation practice as Principal at Booz & Co. Previously he was a senior executive in Accenture’s global FS technology consulting leadership team with focus on technology enabled business transformation projects. Prior to Accenture, Kevin was founder and CEO of sec zone, a silicon valley based enterprise security and GRC software startup, Consulting Director in Global Professional Services group at CA Technologies (now a Broadcom company), and Manager in Management Consulting Services group at PriceWaterhouse LLP (PwC). Kevin graduated with Masters in Computer Science from New Jersey Institute of Technology and Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University. PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Developed and delivered technology enabled business strategy and digital transformation engagements encompassing 4-week strategy and assessment engagements to 18- month large-scale global transformation programs with up to $300M in consulting fees, $500MM in managed revenues, and 60-70% program profitability. Led multi-cultural cross- border matrixed teams, formulated actionable strategies through consensus, and delivered desired outcomes resulting new digital thinking enabled business model transformations.

• Delivered $500K strategy engagements to $300M multi-phased global transformation programs aligned with boardroom directives, CxO agenda, delivering quantifiable business value and distinctive innovative capabilities, enabling significant and sustainable cost reduction; conceptualizing and deploying value added services through innovation; implementing world- class scalable and elastic delivery models; and transforming IT organizations from legacy operational cost centers to strategic growth enablers resulting in enhanced stakeholder value. Representative accomplishments include:

o Global Insurance Firm – Led a Cost Rationalization, Risk Remediation, and Performance Improvement initiative with multiple target scenarios that unlocked value of $35M from rationalization, consolidation, virtualization of previously silo IT assets and centralization of IT value and investment management function for their portfolio organizations with an enabling strategy for shared cloud services and alternative multi-channel sourcing options leveraging SaaS models through multi-vendor global delivery network. o Global Banking Client – For the CEO office, Led and managed a strategic Post-Merger Integration and Consolidation program for re-alignment and convergence of internal IT and business application systems from 38 banks acquired through M&A into a central rationalized global IT center with satellite IT operations across the globe with a IT Shared Services and Governance model involving complex platform architectures, highly available IT infrastructure for a consolidated and streamlined IT organization with business continuity and disaster recovery readiness. Delivered this $40M program under budget and enabled CFO office to meet their fiscal and business objectives with a fully integrated and business aligned IT organization.

o Global Retail Bank - As Transformation Program Leader and Chief Blockchain Architect at a leading retail bank, led a cross-border loyalty transformation program from concept to implementation with a team of 65 to create a Blockchain-based loyalty wallet program using Blockchain protocols to offer universal exchangeability through an alternative form of currency, enabling consumers to earn, redeem, and share their reward points like liquid cash. Their traditional loyalty and customer engagement programs faced major challenges, from high fragmentation and operational inefficiencies to concerns with centralization and data ownership. Our Blockchain-based loyalty program reduced 60% of overall infrastructure costs for the bank and made the whole business process far more instantaneous, which is something consumers valued tremendously resulting in increase in customer loyalty and satisfaction. Further, by implementing a Blockchain-based loyalty points program, we validated successfully the reliability, security, and performance of this technology in favor of a large-scale deployment when compared to existing system. With tokenization of the points system we were able to bridge the gap between this customer loyalty system and the cryptocurrency industry through a decentralized loyalty platform and partner developer interface on which every loyalty application can be tokenized. By integrating Blockchain technology, our program benefited from increased data security, lower management costs and the elimination of liabilities associated with unredeemed points. Also delivered increased overall value efficiencies through - low transaction fees, consensus controlled for trusted verifications, zero counterfeiting due to decentralization, no chargebacks, no central point-of-failure due to DLT model, instant transactions, solving traditional challenges like loyalty program fragmentation, account inactivity and consumer concerns over data management and privacy. o Leading PE Group – Led Portfolio Cost Optimization and Capital Efficiency program and Transformation Readiness program managed multi-stream initiatives comprising of Process Optimization, Application Portfolio Rationalization and Virtualization, Network, and Storage, and Data Center Consolidation (DCC) strategies accounting for over $75M of savings over 18 months.

o Global F&B Client – Sold and Led a Sell-Side Divestiture Transaction for a global F&B giant for their Asian subsidiary through key phases across Divestiture Planning, Preparation, Day One readiness to Transition and Optimization, assisting executive management in gaining an accurate view of normalized earnings and working capital both in IT and Operations dimensions, and helped prepare the company for buyer diligence by identifying areas of value leakage. Established overall Divestiture Management Office and helped achieve Reddy.AI adg8qd@r.postjobfree.com

operational separation goals, including transition service agreements and tactical IT and people separation with strategic Day One separation plans, and transition teams to execute separation activities.

o Large Food Manufacturer – Led all phases of $100M large-scale transformational change program and new operating strategies around Customer Management, Supply Chain, and Go-To-Market processes for one of the largest global food manufacturers. Assessment phase included benchmarking, current state of business-IT alignment and business value of IT, and a supporting business case for boardroom to transform the IT organization into a growth enabler and value focused organization. This effort resulted in 33% reduction in OpEx and enabled 23% bottom line growth with new revenue streams. o Leading Global CPG Client – Led the strategy and execution of technology enabled Business Transformation program which enabled client’s strategic ‘One Company’ initiative by delivering simplification through the clustering of Multi-Country Organizations (MCOs) and streamlining of regional structures with fewer interfaces between categories and operations fostering faster innovation roll-out. This global program involved business landscapes of Manufacturing, Sales and Channel Management, Supplier and Vendor Management, Distribution Logistics, Inventory Management, HR and Payroll, Financial and Regulatory Compliance, and Corporate IT resulting in a $100M cost reduction with a simplified MCO to categories matrix.

o Global Energy Group – Led a technology enabled transformation program and enterprise architecture strategy for Customer, Supplier, and Product Management, Supply Chain Management Platforms, starting with a Readiness Assessment and Cost Benefit Analysis, followed by Transformation Strategy, To-Be Organizational Design, and execution of Multi-Platform Transformation including consolidation of 28 regional datacenters to 6 supporting significant growth agenda. This global multi- regional program was executed over 12 month delivery cycle resulting in 42% cost reduction in OpEx and 23% cost reduction in CapEx (primarily de-duplication, licensing, and hardware costs) for year-1 with better business-IT alignment and governance.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

(2009 – Present) Managing Director Agile Digital Transformation & Emerging Technologies @ Reddy & Co o Providing Senior Executive Advisory Services in the areas of Emerging Technologies enabled Digital Strategy, Innovation, and Transformation, Strategic Imperative Innovation, and Business Model Transformations with Digital Mindset in the areas of AI/ML, IoT, FinTech, Blockchain/DLT, RPA, Digital Asset Product Strategy, Innovation, and Transformation, Strategic Imperative Execution, and Business Model Transformations.

(2008 – 2009) Principal Digital & Emerging Technologies Global Practice Leader @ Booz & Co. (now part of PwC) o Responsible for all aspects of global practice leadership for Digital and Technology Strategy, Transformation, and Cloud I nfrastructure practice in the areas of Business Growth and Innovation Management, Digital and Emerging Technologies, Cloud, SaaS/IaaS/PaaS Solutions assessment and selection for FS (primary focus) and cross-sector clients globally. o Delivered large agile technology enabled business transformation programs leveraging emerging technologies and Cloud Native (AWS/Azure) offerings with P&L responsibility. o Responsible for Emerging Digital Technologies and Cloud competency and team development, agile global program sales and delivery, innovation offering and thought leadership. o Developed and delivered Cognitive Real-time Enterprise Solutions with highly scalable secure and responsive Distributed Systems in Public, Private, Hybrid Cloud models and in distributed Multi-tenant application environment architecture, development, and deployment in CI/CD value-chain with Micro Services and Big Data enabled data streams.

(2004 – 2008) Domain Practice Leader FS IT Strategy Consulting @ Accenture o Led Financial Services digital and cloud strategy and transformation consulting and sourcing advisory practice for north east client group, covering strategic IT effectiveness and transformation, and infrastructure and service management consulting capability areas with P&L management responsibilities at select global foundation clients. o Led Next Generation Data Center and Cloud Native infrastructure strategy, governance, and operations management practice with primary focus on FS and Healthcare verticals covering business aligned IT infrastructure and operations strategy, governance, effectiveness, transformation, enterprise architecture, and program advisory services offerings, along with priority account relationship management, go-to market strategies, business & market development, practice team development, revenue & utilization growth strategy formulation and execution, and key advisory offerings management responsibilities. o Led large, multi-disciplined, multi-national teams delivering large-scale complex transformation programs and served as the Global Lead for developing Next Generation VM and Cloud Computing Offerings with a suite of innovative market relevant cloud product and services portfolio required to meet client’s specific business needs. o Identified target clients and developed, closed, and delivered infrastructure consulting and IT transformation services $300 million/yr. in sales, $550 million/yr. in managed revenues and enabled outsourcing revenues up to $2.6 billion multi-tower multi-year deals. Generated new and add-on sales into targeted Greenfield and existing accounts and maintained sr. executive relationships.

o Developed sales strategy and account planning for targeted accounts, including lead tracking, proposal and presentation development and delivery, and deal closing. Managed the infrastructure services business at targeted accounts, including overall accountability for project delivery and quality, staffing, client satisfaction, and project financial forecasting. o Managed large programs and complex highly matrixed and multi-sourced environments in senior program management roles with responsibilities including managing revenue targets, staffing strategies, and project financials. Leveraged subject matter expertise to manage the development of business requirements, re-engineering of IT business and operational processes, streamlining of operations and facilitation of the evaluation, selection, and implementation of supporting systems o Led services engagements and responsible for the identification, development, and marketing of highly complex information technology solutions to senior client executive communities, which include the C-level executives or evaluation and steering committees, with in- depth understanding of the client's business, industry, and goals. o Managed multiple opportunities concurrently and have managed revenue, expense and customer satisfaction targets at key large clients. o Served on the steering committees for next generation offering development and uptake efforts programs.

(2000 – 2004) Founder & CEO @ sec zone

o Led the company vision, corporate development, product strategy & marketing, strategic alliances, brand development, mar-comm, sales & business development, and operations providing enterprise security management product which proactively protects critical cloud and on-prem based data grids from malicious ‘trusted’ users at core, edge, and end-point layers, preventing corporate IP theft, addressing risk and regulatory compliance needs with core technology based on real-time anomalous behavior profiling, dynamic threat matrix generation, and pre-event recon behavior analysis among other innovative technologies involving data mining, machine learning, and neural networks.

(1998 – 2000) Consulting Director Global Professional Services @ CA Technologies

(Representative Clients: Exodus, PeopleSoft, Amazon, Infospace, Sun, Microsoft, Quantum, Micron, Acer, Xilinx, Siemens Osram/SBS/VDO, PSE&G, SCANA) o Built and Managed professional services and sales support engineering teams delivering end-to-end Enterprise Infrastructure and Systems Management in complex heterogeneous global environments with multi-vendor solutions and scalable hyper-tiered managed service architectures. o Responsible for P&L for the region and team’s resource performance and utilization goals including self-billable targets. Established and maintained channel and vendor partnerships enabling increased revenues and customer satisfaction.

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o Developed new accounts and exceeded sales targets with high-profile global deployments of CA’s enterprise management solutions involving systems and network management, storage and security infrastructure design and delivery.

o Managed multiple engagement teams that assist clients in procuring business aligned information systems, resources, and controls to maximize efficiencies and minimize risk and costs. o Managed deployments of intrusion and virus detection solutions by implementing and utilizing techniques and tools to reduce and mitigate the risk of intrusion at all possible entry points, and planning, implementing, and managing a plan of action for incident response. o Executed creation and comprehensive review of a policy management program that includes people and technology based roles and responsibilities, compliance, across the organization. o Delivered an integrated solution to manage and monitor vulnerabilities and associated exploits across an organization. Also executed the implementation and integration of comprehensive asset management solutions to manage help desk, detailed asset repositories, change management processes, and self-service functions. o Managed integration of enterprise management solutions involving systems and network management, web infrastructure management, application management, IT resource management, automated operations management, data management, software distribution, asset management, event management, and help desk management. o Guided the team and the client to create plans for accomplishing engagement objectives and a strategy that complies with professional and compliance standards and addresses the risks inherent in the engagement. Briefed the audit teams on the client's IT environment and industry IT trends. Maintained relationships with client management to manage expectations of service, including timing, and the value to be delivered.

(1993 – 1998) Manager Financial Services Consulting Practice @ PriceWaterhouse LLP (now part of IBM GBS)

(Representative Clients: Merrill Lynch, NYSE, UBS, S o l o mon S mith B a r ney, DE S haw, P e r s h i n g DLJ, Paine Webber, Republic National Bank, Prudential Securities/PruDirect, ABN AMRO, ING, Interpolis, Lloyds of London)

o Responsible for leading and managing north east regional systems management practice and providing IT strategy and integration services, IT readiness assessments, business continuity & disaster recovery audit, planning, risk assessment, business impact analysis, enterprise application and control services, policy compliance management. o Responsible for managing large-scale, full-lifecycle IT infrastructure projects within a management consulting environment, managing concurrent multiple client engagements and related activities, while collaborating with clients to analyze, evaluate, assess, and enhance overall value of information systems facilitating the internal control process. o Performed advisory roles and hands-on management on high profile enterprise systems, security, data consolidation and management, and application infrastructure management projects involving project management, architecture development, and global deployments. o Managed convergence and consolidation projects involving FI, Munis, and Equities trading floors with complex, high performance client and server application, system, network, data infrastructure with multiple financial (IB, Trading, Banking, GL) apps. ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS

o M.S., Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ o B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University OTHER

o US Citizen (with OCI), tri-lingual, and multi-cultural skills coupled with multi-national matrixed program management and leadership. o Global multi-regional oversight and team management experience while based out of US, UK, Continental Europe, and Australia. o References available at: www.linkedin.com/in/kreddy

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