• Rethish Varghese, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer,  OSPYN Technologies

    Rethish Varghese , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, OSPYN Technologies

  • The position of the Chief Strategy Officer or CSO is a comparatively new concept within the industry. It has become quite ubiquitous in the C-suite within the past decade as digital advancements and growth strategies have continued to thrive in complexity. As top C-level executives, CSOs are often equipped with framing, facilitating, and communicating an organization's tactical inventiveness and future goals. Working closely with the senior leadership teams for navigating the business to greater heights, CSOs play a prominent role in deciding the organization's longterm and short term strategic initiatives and guiding the organization accordingly. Conveying strategies to people throughout the organization and helping them see how their work can prosper in accordance with it, CSOs are prolifically engaged in crafting change initiatives and decisions that align with strategic objectives at all levels.

  • Rethish Varghese: A Prolific Strategist & Innovation Officer Equipped With An Entrepreneurial Mindset

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Top 10 Chief Strategy Officers - 2022

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  • Top 10 Chief Strategy Officers - 2022

    A Chief Strategic Officer (CSO) is a C-level executive who helps to formulate, facilitate and communicate an organisation's strategic initiative and future goals. A CSO reports to CEO and CFO. The increasing complexity of running a business in today's fast paced world in a disruption laden digital economy that is agile, forward thinking, global and subject to regulatory compliance has raised new need of a new C-suite role. This has turned out to be necessary, with the ever increasing pressure on Executive officers and senior leadership team, to make the business more competitive.

    Most of the big fishes in the business invest on the CSO position today. They have to often come-up with creative business ideas and have to review data to monitor progress across their business initiatives. The main duties and responsibilities of CSO includes analyzing market shares for change & production, finding important projects, ventures, potential targets and other partnership opportunities, Ensuring any applicable metrics and performance pointers are in place in order to measure all progress and identifying strategic risks and help to reduce these risks. Using their expertise, they work in business development and industry related positions to help in improving business operations and help the company to adapt to new workplace procedures.

    Skills like public speaking, decision making and taking appropriate actions for executing plans are necessary to be a successful CSO. In addition to these, time management skills, problem solving skills, quality control analysis skills to conduct testing of products & services and finance management skills are necessary for handling the role.

    In this issue of CEO Insights, we bring you a list of 'Top 10 Chief Strategy Officers - 2022' who have leveraged their extensive industry expertise and experience for the growth and profit of the respective organizations in which they have served. The following list has been prepared after being closely scrutinized by a distinguished panel of judges including CXOs, analysts and our editorial board.

Top 10 Chief Strategy Officers - 2022

Company Logo Company Management Company Name Company Description
APL Apollo Anubhav Gupta,Chief Strategy Officer APL Apollo Striving to bring in positive changes to the company in order to drive its growth
Ecom Expres Ashish Sikka,Chief Strategy Officer Ecom Expres With a strong background as an accomplished transformation leader and strategist, he is a valuable asset to the company
Pactera EDGE Dinesh Chandrasekar,Chief Strategy Officer Pactera EDGE An entrepreneurial minded solution leader who believes in innovation and has strong experience with global technology leaders focusing on consulting, presales, delivery, innovation & strategy
BizGaze Hiteshi Dutta,Chief Strategy Officer BizGaze An efficient leader with a proven trajectory of leading organizations with accurate sales & marketing strategies and successfully driving overall HR run across organizations
iMoney Pay Rahul Pratap ,Chief Business Officer & Strategy, iMoney Pay Having a deep understanding of the fintech revolution happening in India & the world, helping organizations add value to their businesses through exemplary fintech and business solutions
SP Software Rajiv Srinivas,Chief Strategy Officer SP Software Result-oriented professional having extensive experience in Technology talent and have specialized in Captives/Global In House Centers right from setting up to rapid ramp-up
Dentsu Aegis Network Rajni Menon,Chief Strategy Officer Dentsu Aegis Network A leader of untiring energy, vast experience, and intuitive grasp of what moves business
Ospyn Technologies Rethish Varghese,Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer Ospyn Technologies As a part of the core team of Ospyn Technologies, he is predominantly engaged in guiding the organization to shape overall growth strategy(organic & inorganic), product innovation, and customer value
OnePlus India Navnit Nakra,Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer OnePlus India Has previously worked as Head of Affordability for Apple India for over three years
Havas Group India Neeraj Bassi,Chief Strategy Officer Havas Group India Driving the next phase of growth of Havas through lead strategy and business sense

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