Deepraj is an advisor who empathizes not only with the current state of his clients, but also helps to bring market best practices by country in the Asia region. Given the thought-leadership of the ISG Asia team for key initiatives, Deepraj is able to assist various leaders in optimizing not only their organisation’s overall transformation journey, but also better preparedness for an unpredictable market in a post pandemic world today.

 

Deepraj Emmanuel is the Director for Asia at ISG, and leads ISG’s business in Asia. This entails working closely with a number of enterprises in Asia towards a holistic improvement of their overall posture through key transformation initiatives underpinned by proactive risk mitigation using leading edge solutions towards incremental agility, driving innovation and collaboration together with key solution partners and managed services providers. Having managed senior leadership roles in the region with global technology providers like IBM, HP and Sun Microsystems, Deepraj has extensive experience in successfully driving differentiated strategy and execution for some of the largest initiatives in Asia, focused on helping organizations strategically plan and undertake a risk averse approach to large, complex technology enabled business transformations.

 

Deepraj is responsible for driving ISG methodology in Asia to orchestrate comparative insight-based analysis, advisory and execution for key transformation initiatives in large enterprises He also is responsible for aligning the ISG value proposition to critical deals by country to drive incremental managed services revenue by industry vertical with key partners providing automation and governance services value propositions into key accounts. A key focus area for Deepraj is the establishment of thought leadership with providers in the region towards optimizing their messaging and differentiation to the Asia market by country of focus, in order that the overall visibility of their value proposition is elevated within key accounts in the region.

 

Prior to working with ISG, Deepraj was responsible for the sales and delivery of large infrastructure transformation and security solution deals at IBM and for the Cloud and Security businesses of HP in Asia Pacific. He was responsible in delivering some of the largest outsourced contracts in the region covering multiple service lines and a regional coverage spanning several countries in Asia. During his tenure with IBM and HP, Deepraj was responsible to set up the Centres of Excellence in Asia to be able to ensure scalability for both architecting and delivering large transformation agendas from within the region, creating competitive differentiation and long-term sustainability towards incremental revenue and profitability.

 

Deepraj holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Science and is a Graduate in Systems Management. He also holds a Masters of Business Administration and is a certified ISG digital expert.