An accomplished business leader with global experience spanning ~28 years, Lalitha’s professional career has centered on strategic delivery of Consulting, Advisory, IT services, Digital Transformations and Global Capability Centers, having worked at companies like IBM and SAP. Her industry credentials are firmly reflected in her more recent roles of Head of Global Business Operations for Ingka Group across US, China, Poland, Sweden, Netherlands & India; and MD Country Leader for Cargill Business Services (CBS) India.
In her current role, Lalitha is responsible for steering the JLR TBSI Strategic Vision, Business Enablement & Transformation. Also build niche capabilities and solutions across Enterprise Chapters including Product Engineering, Industrial Operations, Finance, Digital, People & Org, etc. to deliver value-based outcomes & cross functional synergies for business and people.
Lalitha is a graduate in management accounting has a post-graduate management degree from Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata and certification from e-Cornell University.
Outside of her day job, Lalitha is an active member of the wider business community, industry bodies, being an ex-member of the NASSCOM GCC Council, and Ex-Chairperson of NASSCOM’s Regional Council for Karnataka. Lalitha has consistently served on corporate boards for over a decade.
No matter the forum, Lalitha is a proud, vocal and action-oriented ally of diversity, equity and inclusion. Her home-base is Bangalore with her husband and four kids: two humans, one canine and one feline.