Rajesh Nayak is a Strategy and General Management expert with an MBA from INSEAD, France. As a hands-on Business-Technology leader and Sales strategist with 23 years of global work experience in the IT industry spanning across Enterprise Software Solution Sales, Business Development, Pre-Sales, Product Marketing, Tech Platform Development, R&D, and IT Services consulting, he has served in various Senior Management positions at HP Software, CAST Software SA, Oracle Financial Services among others. He graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Mysore as a University rank holder and has held various industry certifications including PMI-PMP, ITIL, QA/QC, Microsoft, Java and others.

With a rare combination of deep technology and business expertise, Rajesh helps large organizations and startups effectively align their business goals and priorities with their technology organization. His UpwardMobiliti methodology blends an hypothesis driven analytical approach, fact based structured decision making, impact/outcome based actions, measurement and objectivity to pick the right battles and deliver optimal business-technology results.

With Optimization as his mantra, Rajesh specializes in asking deep uncomfortable questions, keeping his ego aside, and focusing on defining and addressing the issue on hand.