venkat setlur

Bio Summary

Having run businesses and been in the consulting industry for over 25+ years, I love the intersection between people, technology and business. Have been part of various teams enabling organizations to achieve operational and strategic goals using technology and People at Deloitte, SAP, Oracle and Startups.

While I have been part of multiple engagements, it broadly falls under 5 categories:

1. Technology & Cloud transformation consulting and delivery a. Have been part of technology enabled transformation engagements for multiple enterprise customers across the globe @ SAP, Deloitte, Oracle and Wipro b. Platforms and technology include: cloud platforms like OCI & AWS, Low code, Automations, Database, Datawarehouse, SAP, Oracle Fusion, Middleware and BI

2. Management consulting: Been a consultant internally and externally, focused on 3 major areas: a. Organization structures and rationalization b. Employee engagement and Enterprise performance c. M&A – Valuations and Integrations

3. Sales enablement: Anchored responsibilities covering - Solutioning, Positioning, Land and expand, customer engagement and Operations at SAP, Oracle and Deloitte.

4. Business head: Have set up and run services and global centers a. Established and operated shared services center covering Contract to Quote, Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Recruitment, HR, Sales operations and Accounting functions b. Built and run managed services centers that delivered efficient and reliable services to global customers delivering SLAs and Continuous improvement c. Have established and run consulting services business with revenue of USD 250M

5. Coach & Mentor: As ICF trained coach, have been actively involved in coaching next line managers and Startups. Have worked with more than 20 leaders so far, a very fulfilling journey

Employment History

Chief Integration Office

Brane Enterprise

April 2021 - February 2022

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Chief Integration officer – responsible for platform and services design and implementation. Platform beta version is released and multiple customer engagement conversations have been initiated, including with the ones like ...see more

Vice President Consulting Services

Oracle

March 2015 - April 2021

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Responsible for running technology services delivery & Sales enablement covering North America geography Products & Platforms: Oracle cloud infrastructure, Autonomous database, Database, Fusion, Middleware, BI and Workflow a ...see more

Vice President - CEO Office

Oracle

June 2009 - February 2015

Redwood City, CA, USA

Responsible for designing and implementation of Go to Market (GTM) strategy, Compensation structures, Sales organization structures, Services and Sales employee engagement to enable Oracle transition from on-premise license d ...see more

Vice President - Regional Controller And Shared Service Head

Oracle

July 2004 - June 2009

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• As SSC head: Responsible for setting up and execution of global shared service center covering Accounting, Sales operations, HR, Banking, Procurement, Contract management and Global audit • As Board of Director: Part o ...see more

Head Of Managed Services

Wipro

February 2003 - February 2004

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Set up the BI managed services practice for the enterprise services business. Designed offerings, GTM and delivery processes. We partnered and positioned the offering with Industry verticals to close total deal size of 25M in ...see more

Head Of Operations

Deloitte

September 2001 - January 2003

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Responsible for setting up the outsourcing center for DC Europe in India. Designed and implemented a technology driven collaborative outsourcing delivery mechanism for DC to deliver cost effective technology delivery processe ...see more

CEO

Start Up, Freelance Consulting

May 1999 - October 2001

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Co-founded a start up in the mobile applications space focusing on Insurance sector and CRM space with 20 people. The application was built on Palm OS and Windows OS. Eventually wound up due to factors such as burn rate, infl ...see more

Senior Consultant

SAP

June 1996 - May 1999

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

One of the first batch of employees at SAP India, played three key roles which are, SAP India version product management, Presales consulting and Implementation of SAP. Key metrics delivered include: • Product manageme ...see more

Consultant

A F Ferguson & Co

February 1993 - June 1996

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

As a consultant, executed various assignments for global and Indian companies in the areas of M&A, Organization structure, Business process re-engineering and Financial structuring.

Education

Bachelor's in Mathematics

Madras University

1989

Master's in Finance

Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

1992

Master's in Finance

Institute of cost and works accountants of India

1990

Language Skills

English

Country Experience

India United Arab Emirates United States Germany United Kingdom

Skills

Finance

Cost Management,

Cash Management,

Corporate Finance,

Financial Analysis,

Investment Strategy,

Revenue Growth

Business

Digital Strategy,

Digital Transformation,

Business Process Management,

Digitizing Operations,

Transformation Management Office,

Dashboard Development,

KPIs,

Performance Management System,

Monitoring & Evaluation,

Post Merger Integration

Human Resources

Leadership Development,

Capability Development

Information Technology

ERP,

IT Strategy,

IT Transformation

Analysis

Business Intelligence

Industry Experience

Principal Investors

Venture Capital