Sandeep Vengsarkar as a Chief Executive officer sets and evolves the strategic direction of the company and its portfolio of offerings while nurturing a strong leadership team to deliver the results. He is an IT expert with more than 3 decades experience, a true leader, speaker, and problem solver by heart. Sandeep has global experience in the IT services industry with a strong track record of driving digital transformation for enterprises, executing business turnarounds, and managing successful acquisitions.
Sandeep started his professional journey in early 90’s after completion of his post-graduation when India’s IT industry was turning from local to Global.
Sandeep started his professional journey from AF Ferguson Mumbai branch as a consultant. After working on and delivering multiple successful projects over a period of 6 years with one of India’s premier management consulting firm A F Ferguson and Com, he moved to Middle east’s new evolving power center Dubai. In Dubai he entered as a consultant but soon due to his skills and leadership quality he was asked to join one of the largest private group of UAE, AL Futtaim which has its presence in MENA, EU and SEA region.
Here he started as an ERP (SAP) consultant and retired as Director of IT for Data and Analytics.
As a professional, Sandeep set the strategic direction for the technology and its portfolio of offerings, while nurturing a strong leadership team to drive its execution.
In his tenure with the Al Futtaim Group he has collaboratively worked with SAP, Microsoft, IBM, Salesforce, TCS, Cognizant, Checkpoint, Oracle, Adobe etc. to negotiate the deals. He also setup strong governance processes for the IT function in the group and was responsible for the setup of a very strong Program Management Office.
He holds Master of Management studies degrees in Operation management from SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai, and bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from K G Somaiya College of Engineering, Mumbai.