Parag Saigaonkar

Parag is a Partner with Deloitte’s Technology and Transformation in Canada and has worked with Deloitte for over 30 years. He brings with him a global exposure having worked across the Asia-Pacific region based in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Mumbai. In Canada, he is focused on growing Deloitte’s technology footprint at the Government of Ontario.

In the past year, he has helped ministries and agencies in establishing their IT Strategies, developing digital/technology roadmaps and defining key technology ‘signature’ projects for modernizing legacy technology environments. He also been asked to review large scale project portfolios to identify key risk and validate project timelines.

Prior to moving back to Canada, he led the growth of Deloitte’s off-shore IT consulting services organization from a few hundred to approximately 10K professionals from 2005 to 2014. His focus on leadership development, service delivery quality, global operating models and overall industrialization of digital delivery services has laid the foundation for Deloitte’s Indian based centers to becoming the de-facto delivery engine for Deloitte globally.

The industrialization of the off-shore development capability involved developing and executing plans for establishing these centres as the first CMMi L5 certified delivery centres globally within Deloitte. This required stringent focus on project development methodologies, estimation frameworks and data-focused approach to reviewing and refining project timeline estimates.