Manish Gupta is the Group CIO of Aditya Birla Group, where he leads IT and Digital initiatives across all group companies. He has previously served as CIO for organizations such as Tata Motors, Schneider Electric, and Motherson Group, and has worked in India, France, and the US.. Manish is adept in managing Digital transformation in large, complex and global organizations. He brings in unique perspective of functional expertise as well as technology having worked in the areas of International Sales, Customer Relationship, Finance, IT and Digital. He is well adept in change management and managing large multi-cultural and global teams. He has managed some very large Global Transformation programs in Enterprise IT, Supply Chain , CRM and Data and Analytics. Manish believes that the technology field is just getting started and holds very exciting prospects for technology professionals in the future. He keeps a very keen watch on all new emerging technologies and their business implications.