Ravichander R.

“I’m delighted to share my very warm recommendation for Ravi Rajendran. Ravi is a highly talented Enterprise Information Architecture Associate Director at AstraZeneca. It’s with great pleasure that I compliment his outstanding technical, architectural, people management, and team leadership skills in the enterprise information architecture space. Ravi worked for me, leading my largest team, the GITC team, in Chennai, India, during my time as a director and global Head of Enterprise Information Architecture (EIA) with AstraZeneca (AZ). He consistently demonstrated significant technical insights in and dedication to the data and information domain, to our internal programme and project customers, to our company, and very significantly to championing, supporting and enabling his people. In all these things, I found that he significantly surpassed my expectations. Ravi is a skilled Information Architect and a really valued team player. His extensive knowledge of data lifecycles, of information technology, methodology, and techniques, is impressive. During my time at AZ, Ravi actively led a mixed team of 23 Information Architects, Data Analysts and Data Modellers in a people-focused manner, whilst managing sustained consultative delivery. I was particularly impressed by his ability to develop exemplary esprit de corps, a very supportive, cohesive, positive, and welcoming team and a really great working environment. His people and leaders in his team clearly, consistently, evidenced feeling supported in their roles and their work across all levels. Ravi’s management skills are a very significant credit to his deep insights into people, their personal motivations, their day to day working, and the many complexities they face in corporate life in a very successful international enterprise. Ravi works with kindness, humanity, empathy. Ravi is completely comfortable in engaging with, contributing to, and working with Directors, Senior Directors, and senior leadership colleagues. He sought always to align with both AZ IT and our EIA divisional vision, mission and goals, and with his own personal targets in parallel, achieving a significant number of (well-earned and outstanding) personal corporate awards and recognition for his work. Ravi exemplifies commitment and dynamism with his leadership skills. On a personal note, working with Ravi was a real pleasure. His enthusiasm, passion, and dedication were contagious, making him an invaluable asset to my leadership team. In conclusion, I very warmly recommend Ravi as a leader and people manager. His multiple abilities make him an outstanding practitioner in his field. Congratulations, Ravi, on your exceptional achievements and the positive impact you have had on our team. Thank you for your unwavering commitment to helping us build a world-class enterprise information architecture team at AstraZeneca! Hugely looking forward to our next opportunity to work together.”

“Ravi has passion towards data and possess good knowledge on data modelling. He has appetite to learn new skills and I see him as an emerging leader in data and analytics. He works hard in his area of work around data management, extended his support in building the data capabilities and articulates his view in a comprehensive manner. I am sure he will be an asset to any organization he works for.”