Pranav DesaiChief Information Officer · Essays & perspective
Applications retired
62%
Simplified estate in three years
Core platform availability
99.98%
Through a full modernisation
Run-cost released
₹740 Cr
Reinvested in digital products
Countries on one ERP
14
From nine legacy systems

Beyond the page

The record behind the perspective.

In the boardroom

  • Westmoor Housing FinanceIndependent Director · 2022 — Present
  • The Digital Public Goods CouncilAdvisory Board Member · 2020 — Present

Recognition

  • CIO 100The Technology Leaders Review · 2024
  • Digital Transformation of the YearThe Enterprise Technology Awards · 2022

In conversation

  • “Retiring 600 applications without breaking the business”The Technology Leaders Review · 2025
  • “What boards should ask about cyber resilience”The Boardroom Review · 2024
  • “Episode 98 — Technology debt is a strategy decision”The Leadership Ledger podcast · 2023
Made technology a boardroom conversation about outcomes, not acronyms.
Priya RamanChair, Risk Committee, Westmoor Housing Finance
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