Nish Anjaria

Nish is currently the CIO and CTO at Innovapost and is an award winning, hands-on Transformational Executive.  Nish has 25 years of progressive technology and business experience and is well known for his entrepreneurial style leadership that can manage effective outcomes in situations where resources are limited and can drive huge returns from expensive IT capabilities. 

Nish is currently leading the Digital Transformation of business by strategically leveraging Cloud technologies, Data Analytics and several SaaS technologies through a well-planned architecture roadmap supporting IT investment of $350M annually and $300M multi-year IT Transformation programs.

Nish has successfully led cloud transformation program, established enterprise agile practices, matured I&O practices, and transformed IT as a business enabler through KPI driven IT investments. 

Nish thrives at  evangelizing technology adoption/maturity and  building a culture of innovation. As a leader, Nish believes in diversity, empowerment, empathy, and  accountability.

I will be interested in a challenging C-Suite opportunity, preferably as a CIO or CTO, to drive a Digital Transformation in support of business transformation. 

I would also consider providing advisory services as a board member. 

career highlights

Cloud Transformation Program Nish has led $150M+ Cloud Transformation program migrating 500+ on-premises applications to a multi-cloud IaaS/PaaS platform to modernize Infrastructure needed to transform business for the future relevance and sustainability while reducing the I&O costs by 30% and driving the system availability to three 9s. Nish also led establishment of enterprise cloud platform(s) and drove the skills transformation required to sustain the cloud journey. 

Cloud COE & Strategy | Accelerated ROI| Develop Skills of the Future  | Increased Availability| Reduce I&O Costs

KPI driven IT organization Nish has evangelized IT & Business partnership and established a business KPI driven IT organization through a comprehensive IT strategy supported by an enterprise architecture roadmap. Established IT Playbook focused on People, Technology, Delivery and maximizing Business Value supporting an IT annual spend of $500M.

Business Case Driven IT Organization| Enterprise Architecture Roadmap | IT Playbook

Agile & DevOps Transformation Nish has experience establishing enterprise Agile practice (14 product scrum teams) to transform a $50M Digital portfolio that helped reduce the Time-to-Market by 70%. Nish also matured the DevOps practice and transformed the organization to “Automate First” mentality. Nish drove the skill transformation to support this journey.

Reduced Time To Market  (18 to 4 months) | DevOps and CI/CD Adoption | Skills Upgrade| Increased Business Engagement

Infra & Operations Maturity Enhancement Nish has successfully demonstrated turning around the I&O domain from a high instability of critical systems to an availability of three 9s within a short span of 1.5 years. Nish drove significant reduction in critical outages and reduction in overall I&O cost through strategic partnership with vendors and leveraging Observability and self-serve automation platforms. 

I&O cost reduction | ITSM Maturity | Three 9s Availability| ServiceNow | AppDynamics| Vendor Management & Integration

• Master of Business Administration (1997)
• Bachelor of Engineering (1994)
• Green Belt BPI (Six Sigma) (2007)
• Prosci Certified Change Management Professional (2008)
• Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (2010)
• PMI Certified Project Management Professional (2011)