Gopakumar Gopalakrishnan

Head, Data & Technology Services

About Gopakumar

As a senior director and head of Data & Technology Services (DTS), Gopakumar is responsible for managing and growing this newly re-defined business unit.

He will focus on growing Acuity’s business and strengthening the brand in the custom technology space, formulating strategic decisions, driving P&L growth and leading pre-sales and delivery governance for digital engineering, data and AI, and enterprise platform practices. Gopakumar would also be responsible for developing bespoke technology solutions and incubating technology Centre of Excellence powered by Gen AI-led solutions for clients.

Gopakumar’s over 26 years of experience in the IT services industry encompass stints with LTIMindtree, Cognizant, EDS and HCL Technologies, where he successfully incubated and led digital engineering practices, as well as delivered cloud-native modernisation and product engineering programmes for global insurance, hi-tech and media clients.

Gopakumar was also instrumental in driving hyper scaler partnerships and alliances, talent transformation and building high-performance teams. His expertise includes the management and growth of large P&L (over USD100 million) accounts, digital engineering consulting, CXO relationships, go-to-market strategies and engineering execution.

As a certified solution architect on AWS , Gopa is also specialized in delivering cloud services across AWS, Azure and GCP. In his spare time, Gopakumar enjoys reading, as well as playing badminton and swimming to keep himself fit.

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