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Rakesh Kumar Gupta

Managing Director


Rakesh was appointed Chief Operating Officer of ACIS in 2003 to launch the first captive offshore unit of Allianz Insurance UK. He set up the IT division in 2003 and established the BPO unit in 2005. Prior to joining ACIS; he managed key positions in L&T, Tata Unisys, GE (U.S) and BT. He joined ACIS with a diverse corporate experience spanning 25 years. He is a B. Tech in Mechanical Eng. and Management post-graduate from IIM, Ahmedabad

 

Jison John
Head, Systems Development

Jison heads the Systems Development Division of ACIS with overall responsibility for the Application Development and Maintenance services to Allianz Insurance Plc, UK. Jison has over 14 years' of experience in the IT industry. He studied B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at College of Engineering Trivandrum, and was a gold medallist from Kerala University. Additionally, he has earned a Diploma in Business Management and completed a specialisation course in Software Project Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode(IIMK). Prior to joining ACIS, Jison was with a German-based IT consulting firm, managing their offshore service delivery operations.
 

Deviprasad Thrivikraman
Head, IT Transformation

Deviprasad Thrivikraman is the Head of IT Transformation with ACIS in India. Initially, he was involved in building the Systems Development organization at Trivandrum. In his current role, Devi is responsible for the ACIS SD Shared Service Centre that focuses on building and running AD&M delivery teams for other Allianz Group companies. He comes with over 13 years' experience in diverse Systems Development activities offshore with Accenture, Wipro Technologies, Satyam Computer Services, HCL Technologies and Cognizant Technology Solutions. He is a B.Tech from the College of Engineering, Trivandrum.
 

Amit Passi
Head, Business Process

Amit heads the 500 FTE Business Processes at ACIS which service simple to complex processes across Allianz Insurance UK business and some initial pilots for AGC&S. Amit has diverse 17 years' experience in running hotels, marketing FMCG beverages and has led various offshoring & outsourcing initiatives for UK based conglomerates. Before heading ACIS, he served as a Vice President for Credit Card Operations with HSBC at their captive unit based in India. Previous to that, he spent some years working with The Macallan Single Malt Whisky in London and Imperial Suites Hotel at Dubai. Amit is a graduate in Hotel Management from India’s best known university and has special interest in Ornithology & photography whilst enjoying equity analysis during his free time.
 
 

Rob Bisset
Head, Computer Services - Facility Management

Rob Bisset serves as our Head of Computer Services and Facility Management Divisions. He is based in Trivandrum and is responsible for managing the performance of the company’s IT and Facility Infrastructure. Previously, Rob served four years as the General Manager of RAC India Private Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of RAC UK. He has held key positions in other multi-nationals based in Hong Kong, UK, US and Australia. He has received an MBA from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
 

Krishna Ramachandran
Chief Financial Officer

Krishna is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Management Accountant and a Company Secretary. He joined ACIS in June 2010, has over 15 years of experience in consulting, controllership, tax and finance. Prior to joining ACIS, he has worked in Ernst & Young, Vodafone, KPMG, EDS and Yum International.
 

Sowmya Murthy
Head, Business Change Division

Sowmya heads the Business Change division at ACIS which consists of a team of Project Managers and Transition Analysts that work to transition and set up the offshored processes in ACIS. Sowmya has over 16 years experience in the insurance industry and has led several new product launches and offshoring initiatives. Before joining ACIS, she served as a Programme Manager for AXA Insurance where she managed large change programme of work based in the UK. Sowmya is an MBA from Lancaster University in UK.
 

Saji Zacharia
Head, Human Resources

Saji Zacharia heads the Human Resources team of ACIS having over 21 years of experience in HR and holds an MBA from XLRI School of Business and Human Resources (Jamshedpur). He joined ACIS on May 23, 2011 from Credit Agricole Bank where he was the head of HR (Gulf Countries). He had previously worked with AXA, Citibank, Standard Chartered Bank and Procter & Gamble.
   
 
 

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