I know Rishi since our first job where we worked together. Even since I have known him, Rishi has always been a go-getter and gets the job done. He has an amazing energy and has a determination to succeed, whatever the odds. He is a natural leader with great people skills. He is also adept at using process and technology to ensure challenges become opportunity for him. Over these years, I have seen him be a coach and a mentor to several of his team members. Additionally, his expertise in stakeholder management is always appreciated. It is always a pleasure talking to and working with Rishi and he is a great fit for executive leadership positions in any IT organization.
Sachin JainCorporate IT-Head Business Applications at Indus Towers Limited
Rishi has a great blend of strategic thought leadership and the sense of urgency necessary to drive superior results. He is a well-rounded executive with a proven track record of delivering transformation initiatives, with a focus on innovative ways of delivering business values. Rishi is one of the most honest, hard-working, and likable person, I've ever worked with. While working for a healthcare client, I was highly impressed with his knowledge and expertise around people, process and technologies. He is also an excellent relationship builder and networker. He is a God-gifted talent and always make efforts to sharpen his skills to bring value to the organization.
Tapan GuptaDirector Consulting Services at CGI Inc.
I have worked with Rishi in the past while he was a Director in Virtusa Digital where I was helping him by fulling his recruitment needs. He is well-known for his expertise in industry knowledge, hard work and dedication. He has always been the key player in all big engagements and I admire his teamwork and his ability to guide, supervise, manage and motivate his co-workers which highlights his capability of being a natural leader. Rishi is cooperative and he exhibits a passion for team building and development. Rishi played a valuable contribution in the major ramp ups in Digital hiring and has earned the admiration and respect of both subordinates and superiors alike. The way he handles stressful situations in a calm and methodical manner is amazing and he knows instinctively when a member of her team needs a little extra encouragement. Rishi is and will be an asset to every organization."
Debaruna GhoshTalent Acquisition and Capability Building at Cognizant Technology Solutions
Rishi is highly capable, self driven IT leader that has great people management skills along with strong goal oriented approach of management. He was instrumental in creating good partnership with the client CVS and has shown good program management skills bringing key projects to success.With his good stakeholders management, analytical and negotiation abilities ,he ensures success of complex projects. He brings in exclusive blend of business domain insights with excellent relationship skills that is an asset to any organization.I highly recommend Rishi as an IT leader.
Vineet ShuklaApplication Architect at Tata Consultancy Services
I know Rishi while working for Walmart Client with Cognizant. Rishi was leading a large complex program which has dependencies with multiple domains. Its a great pleasure working with Rishi, his ability of resolution from different perspective is appreciable. He is a true leader and always ready to lead from front. He bubbles with positive energy and makes teams comfortable and optimistic. He is known for his customer relationship and appreciations. Over and above I commend his helping nature and high dependability, its great to know you Rishi !
Prasad RanePrincipal Consultant at Infosys Technologies
Rishi is very energetic and dedicated professional with whom I worked at Cognizant/FPL account. He has great people management skill thru which he builds the strong professional relationships in short time. He has handled very challenging and critical position of an Agile Coach skillfully. He has great knowledge on agile transformation and he is always ready to guide teams with positive attitude. I highly recommend Rishi as an Agile Coach.
Parag ChanneProject Manager | Automation Deployment Manager | Agile Project Management, PMI-ACP®, CSM®, ITIL, ServiceNow Admin
Rishi has been a detail oriented and energetic person. I worked him during my onshore assignment at Boots Plc, Nottingham. He was well appreciated by the customer and got several awards for his exemplary work. I wish him best in next assignments.
Pankaj JainCSM, PMP, ITIL Expert Senior Manager at Fiserv
Rishi is a high energy, results oriented Project Manager. He is very dedicated to his clients and his team. I have seen him handling tough client very easy way. As a manager, he was able to effectively manage a mixture of various skill-sets, maturity & background while consistently delivering on time and with quality. I really admire his strong hold on functional end. An excellent communicator and person able to build strong relationship with direct team, cross functional teams, upper management and business.
I highly recommend Rishi and hope to work again with him again someday.
Ravi Kiran ChSenior Solutions Specialist at Deloitte
Rishi Kumar worked as an Agile Coach in my organisation. He helped form, train, launch and coach an Agile program while at FPL. This program completely transitioned from waterfall to Agile. He helped to achieve a full embrace of the Agile mindset and methods. The Agile Teams and Product Owners are very excited about working together as an Agile organisation. He facilitated a close bond between the business and IT and quickly helped the teams achieve self-sufficiency. He also implemented a lightweight SAFe framework to help the teams plan and integrated together. He has a very hands-on and practical style to helping teams learn and embrace Agile. This was a major and noteworthy accomplishment. In addition to his achievements, Rishi was a great team player on my Coaching team. I highly recommend Rishi as an Agile Coach.
Andres BorqueEnterprise Agile Coach at TracFone Wireless
Rishi is a technically immaculate team player, I interacted with him during an Executive MBA and discovered him an engaged, enthusiastic, multitalented proficient. He is in every case brimming with high administration & leadership aptitude.
SHARVAN SANGALHead Quality Management, Market Development and Business Excellence at PT MASTER STEEL Mfc INDONESIA
Digital Transformation abilities, building global teams and empowering individuals to convey more dependent on business needs are the key traits of Rishi. Abilities of Organizational arrangement, building extraordinary culture, getting the hang of sharing and development makes him the perfect choice for CXO position.
A person with great aspiration and striving relentlessly towards achieving organization and personal goals.
Rishi is an astounding character who always keeps himself on his toes to get more out of the possible. As a project manager he is very focused on improving the business and ensuring service deliver is not compromised in any manner.
His eye for detail and motivational skills which he possesses are really encouraging to others around him. He ensures that all the subordinates in his team are engaged in creating value for the business and not doing a mundane job. He also thrives to create a lively ambiance in work and tries to bring down the stress level of people around. Amongst all his views on financials are very moral and proactively executing backup plans in case of failure is amazing.
Ramkumar KannanSenior Consultant - Strategy & Transformation
Rishi is an excellent Program Management guy, with depth
Rahul Raj (MBA, PMP, SFC™)PMP Certified Project Manager with 11 years' experience in the IT Industry working in a large IT project.
experience in different domains. He has always led from the front
and infused the spirit of team spirit and bonding within the group.
He is pragmatic leader, extremely creative and knowledgeable. He
has good hold on the domain and always keeps on updating
himself for future battles of knowledge. Keeping very good
environment with in the team, very flexible and reliable resource.
Rishi is a process oriented person and has been instrumental in
grooming others on process and PMP concepts. He has a very
good understanding of Digital and Agile processes as well. He is a
true professional and good friend.
Rishi is a very intelligent and dependable person . Although I have not worked with him directly but his work has got him lot of appreciations. He is a very focussed person and knows how to achieve his targets for which he keeps on exploring new things and is very keen on increasing his knowledge.
Disha GuptaExperienced HR Professional
Rishi is innovative, confident and cheerful guy who works with great enthusiasm and supports other team mates as well.
Gurudatt KumarSharePoint/O365/Azure Consultant & SME
Rishi was my Junior at the time of B.Tech. He is a very hard working and sincere professional and tries to give his best at any point of time.
Dip MajumderCEO, Neural Trend
Rishi was very sincere during studies, he have very good leadership skills as well. He used to volunteer the different activities in college.
Shahvez AlamSr. Specialist Developer at BNY Mellon
Rishi is a diligent and smart worker, a nice friend to know and be with.
You will always find the results beyond expectation. Every time he brings innovation in the work. He clearly stands out of the crowd and makes his presence known. Whenever there is an unknown area for exploration, Rishi is the 'go-to' guy, always ready to go the extra mile for getting things done.Rishi is team player knows exactly what collaborative success means. I always admire him for his people management skills. I wish him all success in his life.
Mayank AgarwalDelivery Lead at Fuji Xerox Document Management Solutions
“Rishi is one of the most professionally determined person I've ever met. His high spirit, open minded approach together with the ability to keep optimum relationship makes him a man to trust. He is energetic, very dependable and fun to be with. "Wish you a very Good Luck Rishi”
Ritika SapraResource Manager, aspiring author and possibly your new colleague 🙂
Rishi is an excellent resouce for an organization as an asset, professional and definetly as a good human being all together. He worked in quite a systametic way and planned things in good manner. His caliber and hard work impressed me. Thanks for being part of my professional group.
Rajat ChaudharyTechnical Manager | Banking | Oracle | DRM | Anaplan | Azure Fundamentalist
I have worked with Rishi very closely for a considerable duration. He has a vast knowledge on varied subjects spanning from culture to technology to mythology to geography and more.He is a very able leader and working under him is always a great fun who demands best from his team but at the same time protects the interest of the team and each individual.
Essentially he creates an environment for everyone to give their best.I have always found him to be thoroughly professional, knowledgeable and able to grasp business as well as technical detail. He is a great mix of techno functional knowledge.
He is always prepared to go the extra mile to ensure he delivers and very highly recommended.
In short he is the best combo of Functional & Management skills and can be proved an asset to the organization.
Best of luck !!
Pawan TyagiProject Manager at Tata Consultancy Services
Rishi is a well connected professional that always takes the time to support anyone is his network. He has a very impressive background and profile .I recommend Rishi as a Technology expert to connect with and consider for anything appropriate.
Altamash Vakil CRPHead Total Rewards (India and APAC) at Birlasoft
Rishi is a highly versatile & energetic manager who can be entrusted with driving a wide range of strategic programs. He has a strong blend of technical and people management skills which makes him an effective techno manager. He is self driven, optimistic and keeps himself abreast with the macro economics and business themes. He is Manager who was hands on and practical approach and stood for the Organizations success. He is very strong on his basics and knows the implications on the overall organization.
Akhilesh KumarDelivery Manager at Tata Consultancy Services
Rishi and I worked for Boots Plc. in the UK. He was part of the "Stores, Marketing and Logistics" team for Boots, managing the IT systems there. His exceptional performance in managing the project was much appreciated by the client and he got a "pat-on-the-back" award for his work. Rishi has been very active in CSR initiatives taking great personal interest in ensuring good results. He has been a great colleague and it was a pleasure working with him.
Alind ChoudhryKindle | Fire TV | Alexa
Rishi is a very thorough in his capabilities as a Professional, a Manager and a person. An extremely talented manager with the ability to comprehend a wide range of functional disciplines. As a manager Rishi always put his team ahead of himself, giving credit for accomplishments to individuals rather than to himself. This inspired the best from his teams and added significantly to their feeling vested in the project and the organization.
It has been a pleasure working with him. One thing I also noticed about Rishi is his amazing relationship with customer and other cross functional teams.
If I get opportunity I definitely love to work under him again in future.
Romil WadhwaData solution architect at American Family Insurance
Rishi was a sincere and enthusiastic student. He has a quest for learning and growth, works well in team assignments and is willing to take responsibility and initiative. He will be an asset to any team and organization. I wish him all the best Tanuja
Tanuja AgarwalaProfessor at Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi
Rishi is one project manager who works very closely with the development team, who can roll up his sleeves and get into action any time. He managed time bound critical projects, without losing sight of the strategic objectives, turning them into very successful undertakings. A technically oriented Project Manager who is extremely people friendly. Someone who is a great motivator and with amazing leadership skills.
Pranshu SinghCloud Architect | Enterprise Architecture @ TCS
Rishi is an extremely valuable person to have in your network. His responses are timely, value-added, and he’s open to working with new people. I highly recommend him!
Akhilesh GuptaPatent Engineering Professional
While Rishi and I didn't work together on technical assignments, we did a lot together for the society. I have known him very closely and am happy to write this, that I will always be happy to be a reference. I regard his professionalism and wish him all the best!
Daman SoodADVISOR at Continuity & Resilience
Rishi has been one of the best colleagues to work with.Someone who knows his work and has an appetite for attention to detail and delivers on time.I wish him all the best.
Mohd AfaqueRegional Delivery Manager [Practice Salesforce Manager (SFA Certified)]
Working alongside Rishi was a pleasure as well a great learning experience. He leads from front & is always supportive to the associates needs. He has excellent people maagement skills & always thrive for perfection. What unique about Rishi is his easy going nature clubbed with single minded aim for goals accomplishment. I admire him for the work we did together & the bonding he created in the team which made the project a success.
Arun PandeyBusiness Development Manager - Digital Solutions at Tata Consultancy Services
Rishi is a great pleasure to work with. Rishi has a mix of technical and managerial skills. He is energetic and keeps the team motivating with his excellent presentation skills. He has performed roles of senior developer, functional analyst, business analyst, team lead & Project Manager in over four years that I've worked with him and he excelled in all of them. He can be relied upon to deliver on time any project assigned to him. He’s consistent, persistent, reliable and an excellent problem solver. I would not hesitate to recommend him for any IT Management position and I would jump at the chance to work with him in the future.
Vinit JainAssociate Consultant at Tata Consultancy Services
Rishi was a manager of our Data Discovery team at Walmart on their CKP (Customer Knowledge Platform) project. He is very knowledgeable on big data, and was very effective at helping our team to meet its goals.
Michael ClareData Scientist - SAS, R and Python Developer
Rishi is a very detailed oriented and methodical person. I can rely on him anytime for any work. He is really good at people management as well as customer satisfaction. A good mix of Project management and Business Analysis skills.
Chetan Wadher - CSM,ITIL V3Agile Coach at Tata Consultancy Services
I know Rishi for the last 2 years. Rishi has got all the qualities to be a successful corporate leader. During the Executive MBA program, I observed his exceptional business knowledge and especially his deep understanding of modern digital strategies. He has lead large portfolios at his past organizations. He has a deep knowledge of the entire digital suite, I see him as a Digital transformation leader who has got all the skills to provide strategic leadership for building digital solutions for any modern organization. A true believer and promoter of learning mindset, collaboration, enabling people and promoting innovation. Looking forward to learning more from him in the future.
Ashish SulekarAnalytics | Data Science | Consultant at Tata Consultancy Services
Rishi is a very strategic business leader with intelligence, integrity, and the drive to succeed. He has a deep knowledge of business and a passion for doing the right thing for the customer. Rishi is a very well-respected and trusted Technology executive. I have worked with Rishi when he was Service Delivery Manager for Sears through TCS in 2012 and since then I am following him. I admire the way he transformed his career. He brings very strong digital experience and technology leadership to its clients. Truly, a great leader with extraordinary foresight. He enables everyone and considers them like family. Focused on building a strong collaborative culture. He is a person with strong ownership and driving for results all the time. It was a privilege working with him and love to work again under his leadership. I will highly recommend Rishi for executive-level positions.
Sahil GoenkaAssistant Consultant at Tata Consultancy Services
I know Rishi since our first job where we worked together. Even since I have known him, Rishi has always been a go-getter and gets the job done. He has an amazing energy and has a determination to succeed, whatever the odds. He is a natural leader with great people skills. He is also adept at using process and technology to ensure challenges become opportunity for him. Over these years, I have seen him be a coach and a mentor to several of his team members. Additionally, his expertise in stakeholder management is always appreciated. It is always a pleasure talking to and working with Rishi and he is a great fit for executive leadership positions in any IT organization.
Sachin JainCorporate IT-Head Business Applications (Deputy General Manager) at Indus Towers Limited