SMMARUN was founded by Preeti and Puneet Mohan, two practitioners with sixty years of regulated-enterprise experience between them. The practice is governed by a counsel chosen for conviction, not affiliation, and delivered through an AI Governance Advisory team that carries the work into every engagement.
Thirty years across IT/ITES, telecommunications, and intelligent automation. Senior leadership at Tata Group, Avaya, Nestlé, Tech Mahindra, and Firstsource. Currently Advisory Principal at EvoluteIQ. The practice's commercial and strategic anchor: the one carrying the conversation with boards, regulators, and investors.
Thirty years in global enterprise: Accenture, WNS, Genpact, Headstrong. BIT alumnus. AI Governance and Responsible AI transformation leader. The practice's customer and capability anchor: the one who keeps the engagement honest after the SOW is signed and the work begins.
Co-founder of HCL Technologies, pioneer of the Indian IT industry. IIT Kharagpur alumnus. Chairman of Magic Software. Recipient of the Albert Einstein Technology Medal. Sixty years in technology leadership.
IIT Kharagpur 1975 Electrical Engineering. Forty years in technology leadership across telecom, IT, and manufacturing. VP at Avaya GlobalConnect and Lucent Technologies. CEO at Enkay Technologies. Visiting Faculty at leading business schools.
Founder & Managing Partner, Ivy Captech Advisors. Bridges how work happens and what the enterprise knows to make AI work at scale. Led enterprise AI enablement at DTCC, embedding AI into engineering, client services, and risk. Oxford MBA. WEF and IIF contributor. Duke and NYU advisor.
Chairman & MD, Nestlé India & South Asia. Previously Country Manager, Amazon India. Senior leadership at HUL India and Unilever Middle East. Thirty years across the largest consumer institutions operating in India.
Dr. Carlton leads SMMARUN's AI governance practice. Forty years of governance work across regulated sectors, four published books on enterprise governance, and the principal author of the curriculum behind every SMMARUN operator certification.
A standing bench of 150+ years of cross-sector experience. They run discovery, frame the assessment, hold the regulator-readiness review, and stay close to the customer through implement and embed.
Twenty-five years driving operational excellence across global BPOs and Banking & Financial Services. P&L management, change management, and AI innovation under robust governance. Scaling secure operations, digital transformations, and ethical frameworks.
Engineering management professional with 35+ years across cloud engineering and enterprise software product development at Oracle and TCS. Architects and implements AI-assisted software solutions for complex regulated business problems.
Chartered Accountant with 24+ years in finance transformation, FP&A, automation, and strategic leadership across global organisations. Specialises in framing finance strategy and Gen-AI and AI change management. Accenture, Vodafone, HSBC, Oracle.
Thirty years (twenty-seven in the United States) in digital innovation, consulting, deep-technology expertise, offering management, AI, data lifecycle management, CX, SI, ERP, and benefits realisation. AI mentor to multiple Bay Area startups. DMR, Accenture, Genpact, WNS.
Each engagement begins the same way: a one-hour conversation, no deck, about what your institution is trying to hold on to while it moves forward.
