{"id":1089,"date":"2024-03-18T13:02:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T13:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/gcc\/?post_type=team&#038;p=1089"},"modified":"2024-03-18T13:03:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T13:03:08","slug":"gaurav-chawla","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/gcc.et-edge.com\/2023\/team\/gaurav-chawla\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaurav Chawla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Gaurav is a seasoned IT leader with over 25 years of experience having played pivotal roles at IBM, ITC Infotech, TCS &amp; Polaris. He has been associated with GCCs since 2005. At Anlage he <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">is charting the course to drive exponential growth to take it into a new orbit &#8211; both by scaling engagements with existing GCCs, and Incubating new GCC setups with innovative new constructs. He leads all aspects of business including P&amp;L, Strategy Formulation &amp; Implementation, Customer Acquisition &amp; Sales, Delivery, Marketing, and Operations.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">In his previous role Gaurav was SVP &amp; Head of GIC India &amp; APAC at ITC Infotech where he led large teams, prior to that he was a key member of IBM\u2019s GCC practice, and previously he headed India GCC Sales for Polaris. <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">A trusted C-suite Advisor with truly global experience \u2013 he has lived across 3 Continents with<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\"> stints in the US, Canada, Europe &amp; Japan that add a unique perspective to his understanding of Offshoring, Outsourcing, Insourcing &amp; Product Development.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">He keenly follows the AI space as an evangelist \u2013\u00a0 being associated with AI since 2015. While he has worked across industries &#8211; having worked on Wall Street he understands the BFSI domain closely, and is an MBA &amp; a Mechanical Engineer by education.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1090,"menu_order":0,"template":"","team_designation":[],"team_department":[8],"class_list":["post-1089","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","team_department-speakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcc.et-edge.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcc.et-edge.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcc.et-edge.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcc.et-edge.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcc.et-edge.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcc.et-edge.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"team_designation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcc.et-edge.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_designation?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"team_department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcc.et-edge.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_department?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}