Puneet Uppal

Head of Global Business Operations Diageo

Puneet heads up Diageo’s Global Business Operations, a deeply integrated group of 2500+ professionals providing design and delivery of commercial, supplier, employee, finance and master data capabilities to the organization. Based out of Diageo’s HQ in London, he is also sponsors the Global Process and Data Councils for the corporation. Prior to Diageo, Puneet spent 8 years at Mondelez and 15 years at GE Capital/Genpact. He has worked across several industry groups including Financial Services, Insurance and Health Care, Logistics and Media & Entertainment, with majority of his career in the Consumer Products space. He started his career with a 5-year stint in corporate finance and consulting with TCS and Coopers & Lybrand.

Conference Day 2: Wednesday 16th October

8:30 AM KEYNOTE PANEL: AN EXPERIENCE-LED OUTSIDE-IN TRANSFORMATION APPROACH TO ENTERPRISE TRANSFORMATION: THE ROLE OF GBS

As global enterprises - especially those operating within matrix organisations - continue to scale their transformation efforts, they encounter complexity and clutter. Traditional hierarchical structures and functional silos often impede progress. This panel brings together the most experienced leaders from the industry to explore new approaches to enterprise transformation and the fundamental change of the GBS role.

·       Elaborating on the underlying organisational challenges towards agility and simplicity

·       Will customers care if we are the front office or the back office? An outside-in organisational design to drive a more effective end-to-end global organisation

·       What would the new architecture look like for global services?

·       Why aren’t more companies succeeding in this approach. Sharing key success factors. 

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Puneet.

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