Renu Abraham

A qualified engineer and MBA, Renu's latest stint in the corporate world was with Citigroup where she managed their European compliance activities for consumer-banking business, based in London. Pivotal to their standing with regulators and auditors - internal and external - this role leveraged Renu's extensive experience leading QA, SEPG and Compliance activities, and managing large, diverse teams of people, lending impactful process-discipline to the whole workflow.

Prior to this, Renu headed the Software Engineering Process Group at Information Technology Solutions, a niche solution-provider to high-profile institutions across industry segments. Renu brought the structure, sophistication and efficiencies of slick engineering processes, as practised by large software houses, scaled to fit the size and stature of this niche player, without affecting their agility to change tack as competitively needed.

Her stint with Tata Consultancy Services saw Renu serving as their then youngest ever head of training, successfully leading and managing one of three major centres for experienced, senior staff. The role not only required budgeting, planning and executing timely, tailored business and technology programs, but also personally delivering business-etiquette and personal-grooming lessons, when called for. Renu also served on their resource-allocation committee, headed quality assurance teams for major client-programs and was a key member of engineering process group.

Renu spent a year with First National Bank, evangelising a major program that involved disruptive system, personnel and process changes, enabling their senior management team leverage its benefits and achieve above-par returns. A popular member of the team, Renu was instrumental in designing and instituting standard operating procedures and optimised processes that were significant in making this transformational program a success. She also had a brief stint with Infosys.

Renu has been on a three-year maternity break with her younger daughter, freelancing as a CMM/ISO/QA consultant, pretending not to be much interested in the corporate goings-on around her. While the only significant distractions she has been tempted by yet remain those from her favourite choral groups, that resolve could soon be severely tested.