Narayana Murthy Mallavarapu

Mr. Narayana serves as GVP, Operations, responsible for driving global programs and exploring opportunities to take local programs to the global level. He plays a key role in strategic initiatives and organization-wide decision making in support of India GCC’s Goals & Strategies. He collaborates with delivery heads to ensure the highest standards of operational excellence and upholds financial discipline while adhering to compliance. One of his critical success measures is staying up on emerging technologies and trends in both global operations and financial management. To uphold strong internal communications, he believes in maintaining an environment of transparency and trust.

Mr. Narayana is a skilled executive leader with 32 of years of experience in helping organizations across various sectors and geographies innovate. He has expertise in ERP, digital transformation, AI/ML, business consulting and product engineering. In addition to delivering transformational programs, Mr. Narayana has set up offshore delivery centers for GCCs in India and incubated new practices and geographies like Middle East and APAC in his previous organizations.

Prior to joining Rimini Street, Mr. Narayana was Country General Manager at Centific, a global digital and technology services company, where he was instrumental in setting up and growing its GCC in India from zero to 1200 people.

Previously, Mr. Narayana was Vice President of Enterprise Solutions at Sunera Technologies. Prior to that, he was Vice President India Operations at IT Convergence.

Mr. Narayana holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Chemical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Warangal, with a post-grad diploma in Business Administration from Indian Institute of Management, Trichy, and a post-grad diploma in Data Science and Business Analytics from National Stock Exchange Academy.