With over 16 years of experience Tejas Mehta has a rich techno-commercial
experience — a good grasp of technology and commercials backed by vendor management skills. He has diverse experience, encompassing technology, commercial, financials, leadership, general management and project management.
His mentor Sankarson Banerjee, CIO, IIFL says Mehta is a focused and quality- and cost-conscious professional with proven business acumen. Banerjee observes and notes his “excellent” grasp of technology, complemented by “superior”execution abilities, “skillful” decision making, techno-commercial sense, meticulous planning and knowledge of project legalities.
“Tejas is very detail oriented and has shown the ability to take decisions under deadline pressure. He is able to visualize solutions to broader problems and keep things running. And he has the ability to go into the tiniest details, and tie it into a broad picture,” says Banerjee.
As Head of Infrastructure at IIFL, Mehta looks after operations, projects & financials for Technology Infrastructure. Ever since he joined IIFL, he initiated several projects within the company, bringing stabilization to the infrastructure and introducing new ways to reduce IT costs.
The infrastructure at IIFL had a rapid unplanned and organic growth. So the biggest challenge for Mehta was to deliver consistently to business expectations, while handling and improving this complex heterogeneous setup at a minimal cost.
PROJECTS
At IIFL, Mehta played an instrumental role in formulizing the Outsourcing Agreement that IIFL recently signed with IBM for managing its Technology Operations. He has been managing the transition of employees, processes and infrastructure from IIFL to IBM. This is expected to lead to long-term savings in excess of Rs 50 crore in 10 years.
Mehta is currently engaged in bringing several transformations to the way Technology Operations at IIFL work and expects to bring a major change in the near future. He has been involved with re-negotiating connectivity contracts with an expected saving of Rs 30 lakh this year.
Before IIFL, Mehta worked with Barclays Bank as Head – Operations and also at Reliance Industries as General Manager. Mehta played several roles at Barclays Bank, right from leading execution of key infrastructure projects, heading operations to heading the sourcing function. He played an instrumental role in setting up Barclay’s production data center in Mumbai and migration of DR to a new facility. Apart from these, he executed several cost savings initiatives & virtualization projects.
Mehta spent more than a decade at Reliance Industries contributing in diversified roles right from Project Manager in 1997 to General Manager before moving to Barclays in the technology and non-technology domains. In this span, he headed a team of up to 40 plus professionals and led large to mega-size projects.
Apart from managing and directing projects, he played a crucial role in decision making, product selection and procurement for the group. He is an engineering graduate and is currently pursuing his part time MBA at NMIMS.