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Dilipkumar Khandelwal

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A distinguished business executive with 21 years of trackrecord in establishing and running large technology driven organizations,Khandelwal is now applying his vision and expertise to banking as Managing Director of Deutsche Bank. He is the Global CIO - Corporate Functions Technology and Leading the development of the bank's technology centres globally. Prior to Deutsche Bank.He was President of the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud business at SAP. Leading a team across 40 countries,he helped customers accelerate business transformation to the cloud.He transformed the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud into a significant accelerator for SAP, making it a critical to the company's journey.He also led the development as the Managing Director for SAP in India and under his leadership, SAP was rated as #1 in best place to work in India by the Great Place to Work Institute. He also established SAP Startup Studio, SAP's first in-house startup accelerator in the company.Khandelwal's core strength is driving an open innovation culture with an entrepreneurial mindset. He closely monitors the key technology trends and mentors many of marquee Indian B2B startups. He is an angel investor in startups. He has invested close to 15 companies such as Whatfix, Yellow Messanger,Loadshare, Signzy, Moglix and Fablestreet, and is a limited partner to VC firms such as Fireside Ventures & Stellaris Venture Partners.Khandelwal has been conferred a series of awards including the coveted Economics times 40 under 40 and many leadership accolades.He is frequently named as the jury to many national awards such as The Economic Times Startup Awards,ET Innovation Awards etc. He has also been part of the leadership Councils of industry bodies such as NASSCOM.As a thought leader, he speaks frequently at national and international events on topics such as Open innovation, Cloud, Digital transformation and Inclusion. He is also an advisory board member at IIIT, Hyderabad.Khandelwal is the Engineering graduate from Mumbai University and Management from Indian School of Business.