Amitabh Apte
Amitabh is a people-centric digital, data and technology leader with over 25 years of experience in delivering technology-led business transformations for some of the largest global organisations. Amitabh has successful track record of architecting, delivering and operating business-centric solutions across a range of industries; FMCG, Retail, Finance, Travel-Transport and Logistics. He has successfully built, developed, and coached high-performance collaborative teams across multiple geographies, North America, Europe, Russia, Asia, and ANZ.
Amitabh is currently the Chief Digital and Business Technology Officer at Barilla where he is leading the AI, Digital, Data and Technology teams worldwide. At Barilla he is leading the Digital Transformation across key Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain and Finance function. He also leads the Infrastructure, Cyber Security, Data Analytics practises.
Prior to Barilla, Amitabh was the Global Chief Information Officer at the Pet Nutrition Division of Mars Inc.
Prior to Mars Inc., Amitabh has played several data, digital and technology leadership roles in large, global organisations such as, Chief Technology Officer roles at Reckitt Benckiser, Fujitsu; Chief Architect roles at Lufthansa-Star Alliance, Deutsche Bank, Argos, SITA (Airlines); and Software Development Lead at Adidas.
Amitabh holds an Executive MBA from the Warwick Business School, MS in Computer Science and has completed the Board Directors Program from the Henley Business School. He is also a TOGAF and Zachman certified Enterprise Architect.
Outside technology interests, Amitabh is a Yoga practitioner & instructor leveraging the ancient but proven Yogic philosophy, processes, and practices to help organisations manage the challenges of workplace stress while also championing inclusion and diversity efforts at workplace and in local communities.