Surya KohLeadership review 2026

Areas of practice · 2026

Where I bring digital transformation to bear.

The domains in which I have carried accountability, and the judgement I bring to each.

  1. 01Digital transformation
  2. 02Cyber resilience
  3. 03Enterprise architecture
  4. 04Data governance

How I lead

Enterprise technology must support change while keeping essential work dependable. I begin with business capabilities, make dependencies visible and agree ownership of the transition with operating leaders. Resilience and adoption belong in the investment case from the start.

At scale

The responsibility, in figures

62%

Applications retired

Simplified estate in three years

99.98%

Core platform availability

Through a full modernisation

₹740 Cr

Run-cost released

Reinvested in digital products

14

Countries on one ERP

From nine legacy systems

In practice

Decisions and their consequences

Case 01

Enterprise modernisation

A fragmented application estate was making business change harder to coordinate. I established an enterprise roadmap grounded in business capabilities, mapped critical dependencies and agreed a staged transition with the operating teams. The work gave sponsors a clear view of what each phase enabled and prevented local projects from creating new enterprise constraints.

Case 02

Resilience programme

Resilience had been discussed as a technical topic detached from business continuity. We mapped critical services to their technology dependencies, clarified recovery responsibilities and rehearsed decision-making across teams. The programme made ownership visible and turned resilience into an operating conversation involving the people who would make decisions during disruption.

Case 03

Data transformation

Different business units used the same terms for different measures. I convened business owners and technology leaders to establish shared definitions, ownership and practical controls around important data. We began with specific decisions that needed better information, allowing the value of governance to be demonstrated through everyday use.