About Ravikishor (Ravi) Mundada
Former CEO, Cybersecurity CoE at IISc, Govt of Karnataka and Head of
Digital CoE at LTFS and Director of Innovation at BMC Software.
Ravikishor has over 23 years of rich ‘Digital and IT Service’ experience
– managing complex IT programs and strategic digital initiatives. He has
worked with corporate like Accenture, IBM, BMC Software as well as in
the open innovation ecosystem of NASSCOM, working with deep-tech,
AI & IoT startups. He has a broad-spectrum expertise is in IT Technology
Consulting, Tech driven Innovation, Solution Engineering, Digital
Transformation, software development, IT operations & service
management.
Ravi has architected and led some of the strategic technology initiatives for the organizations,
managing the change for digital transformation in the telecom and BFSI sector. Building the Data
Driven culture and evangelizing the IT Technology based Autonomous Digital Enterprise. Besides cofounding a social- tech-start-up for Agriculture sector in India.
Recipient of CIO awards such as Next100 CIO by IT Next and Best CIO award by CSI, Mumbai. Ravi has
managed the Digital operations and strategized digital transformation for organization for long term
impact.
As thought leader Ravi has developed methodologies, and created IP that has helped organization to
save huge $ in operational costs and also bringing in additional revenue. He was awarded ‘Thought
Leader’ by Accenture.
Ravi has masters in project engineering from BITS Pilani and MBA from Pune University. He has been
an invited speaker at many international forums on Technology topics – such as Innovation, IoT for
Agriculture, Cybersecurity and Digital.
CREDENTIALS, AWARDS, RECOGNITION & THOUGHT LEADERSHIP IMPACT
- Operationalized Digital at LTFS to become fintech@scale. 2022
- Presented on ‘Accelerating Innovation with BMC’ at BMC’s Global Partner Exchange - 2021
- Hosted a Fireside Tech Chat with CEO of NASSCOM IoT CoE for BMC’s Global Partner Exchange -2020
- FICCI, Homeland Security, Presented the Approach on CyberSecurity for Indian Industry to the Executive
Board - 2019.
- Winner of Next 100 CIO of India by 9.9 Media CIO Next Awards -2019
- Global EPIC,NL, Evangelized CyberSecurity as Member of these forums (2018-20)
- Member of Cloud Security Alliance, Singapore. Security framework for Digital & Mobile (2019)
- CEO & Member of key Gov. Committee for Cyber Security CoI, Gov. of KA (2017-19)
- Best CIO of the year by CSI (Computer Society of India), Mumbai – 2018
- Invited Speaker by Radware at the Cyber Security Executive Leadership program at Israel - 2017
- NIC (National Informatics Centre), Gov. of India – Author of Chapter for Policy for IoT in Agriculture in
India - 2016
- Member, Task Group on Cyber Security for Karnataka Vision 2025 & Reviewer, Cyber Security Policy.
- Keynote speaker for Technology IoT, Cyber Security, AgriTech at many forums ( 2016-19)