Mythily Ramesh

Ms Mythily Ramesh has more than 25 years of experience in her career. She completed her BE Computer Science from College of Engineering, Guindy and MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. In her 20-year successful stint in Wipro, she grew from a Customer Support Executive to a Senior Vice President. Her career spans product management, marketing, business head and quality. As a certified Black Belt, she drove the Six Sigma initiative in Wipro and was successful in moving the organization from 1.7 Sigma to 4.7 Sigma and reducing the order to collection cycle from 365 days to 120 days.

Ms Ramesh was also the CEO of a startup in Wipro called 01markets and built a successful business around e-procurement and was a pioneer in Reverse Auctions in India. She is a certified CPM and CPIM specialist. She then moved to the Corporate office to handle Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Development and Innovation. As part of Innovation, she seeded multiple new service areas which have grown into 100+ million-dollar business for Wipro.

In her last stint in Wipro as Senior VP for Wipro BPO, Ms Ramesh was responsible for pre-sales and solutions, product management, transition, platform BPO, BPO consulting and procurement, and BPO operations. Her target was to build the business revenue - increase the back-office business from 5% to 35 % which she did in two years’ timeframe and also brought in 300 million dollars of business for the division.

In 2006 and 2007, Ms Ramesh was adjudged one of the 25 most Powerful women in India by India Today and Dataquest. She has been profiled many times in Business Today and Business World as a successful woman IT professional.

In 2010 she and a few ex-Wipro colleagues started a social entrepreneurship firm NextWealth focusing on IT/BPO services from small towns in a unique distributed delivery model. Their mission is to create 10,000 jobs in small towns. She is currently the Co-Founder and CEO of NextWealth.

Ms Ramesh is actively involved in the industry and has given many talks on Entrepreneurship in Nasscom, IIT Kanpur Alumni Chapter, IIM Bangalore MDP program, Dayanand Sagar Centre for Entrepreneurship to name a few. She serves on the board of Karnataka Bank, WEP solutions Ltd and WEP Digital as an independent Director and is a Steering committee member of IIMPACT, an NGO started by IIMA Alumni focusing on educating the underprivileged girl children in India.