Ravinder Pal Singh (Ravi): Leader Who Visualizes Future Of Digital Continents, Builds Robots, Designs Satellites And Flies Aircrafts

Ravinder Pal Singh (Ravi) is a Harvard alumnus, Award Winning Technologist, Rescue Pilot, Angel Investor and Global speaker with over 100+ global recognition and 17 Patents. His body of work, mostly 1st in the world is making a difference within acute constraints of culture and cash via commodity technology. He has been acknowledged as world's top 25 CIO, top 10 Robotics Designer in 2019 and No.1 AI Leader in Asia. Being a global speaker, Ravi has been visiting countries across the globe sharing his wisdom. He has delivered over 100+ lectures and papers in Asia, Europe, USA and Africa. Ravi is advisor to a board of 9 enterprises where incubation and differentiation is a core necessity and challenge. Also, he sits on the advisory council of 3 global research firms where he contributes in predicting practical future automation use cases and respective technologies.

CIO Of The Year - 2020

The designation that beholds CIO can be traced back to 1950s when computers started barging in to the office rooms of businesses. It is cited that throughout the rest of the years till the second half of the twentieth century, the position of CIO is considered more for a technical personage. Even today, the job entitled for a CIO is to assist to set and lead the technology strategy for an organization. As a position that requires fierce attention towards technological trends in the respective domains and over the IT operations, a CIO is bound to responsibilities that shape the IT strategy for the business. Being a C-level executive, the role of CIO in an organization has broadened over the years, transcending to maintain an effective and motivated team of technocrats. Since the changes in technology landscape also contributed to key transformations in business strategies and operations, the strategic responsibilities of the CIO also increased. They started to supervise day-to-day IT operations and staff, and much depended on specialists to guide storage and security areas in the IT field. In the beginning of 21st century, technology became a guiding factor in deciding how organizations function and carry out key business strategies. This trend had its major influence in the way end customers associated with those businesses started expecting easy-to-use and engaging experiences. Grant Thornton, an advisory firm, and the Technology Business Management Council in its 2019 CIO survey declared that the role of CIO has become more critical as the technology became significantly important in almost every aspect of business and consumer lives. It further reads that a CIO who can become a successful trusted business partner will acquire the seat to drive innovation and business growth across digital disruption. As aforementioned, earlier CIOs have to be skilled technicians in their field, however, in this era it is not the same. Now, CIOs are not only expected to possess technical skills but demands to have exceptional business acumen, understand their organization's industry and have great degree of knowledge over various business functions. CIO Insider pays hats off to the hard work and efforts of the extraordinary people who have battle-hardened in order to raise organizations' IT departments to newer heights. This issue of CIO Insider is devoted to such stewards who have contrived processes to win the technology side for businesses. Meet the aficionados who have created benchmarks as a CIO while you flip through the pages ahead.