Technology Executive · Advisor · Writer

Governing complexity.
Driving value at scale.

30+ years leading technology transformation across IBM, Kyndryl and HP. Writing on AI governance, the EU AI Act, agentic AI in production, and what it actually takes to run enterprise technology at scale.

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AI Governance

What the EU AI Act Actually Requires of Your CIO — and What Most Boards Are Getting Wrong

The EU AI Act Annex III enforcement deadline is August 2, 2026. Most organisations are not ready — not because they have ignored it, but because they have treated it as a legal problem rather than an architecture one.

June 2025 · Updated June 20268 min read

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CIO Leadership

Navigating the AI Chaos: What a CIO Actually Does With This

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The AI Briefing Your Vendor Won't Give You

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AIOps

From GenAI Experimentation to Agentic AI in Production: The Governance Gap Nobody Talks About

October 20257 min read

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What I write about

AI Governance & EU AI Act

What the regulation actually requires operationally. Readiness assessments, architecture decisions, and what boards are getting wrong.

Agentic AI in Production

The gap between GenAI pilots and production-grade agentic systems. Governance frameworks, real cost economics, and what good looks like in regulated industries.

CIO Leadership

How technology decisions move the P&L. Navigating vendor noise, briefing boards accurately, and building the credibility that gets CIOs a seat at the table.

About

Practitioner perspective, not analyst commentary

I write from 30+ years of actually doing this — closing a $1.7B deal across EU-regulated markets, eliminating $250M+ in cost gaps, scaling IBM's India delivery footprint to 25,000+ professionals, and currently leading Agentic-AI and EU AI Act governance implementation at Arth Group. The perspective here is operational, not theoretical.

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