FOUNDER, GAIA SMART CITIES| AUTHOR |ARTIST | ENDURANCE SPORTSMAN |CAREER COACH
Sumit Chowdary an Indian writer, entrepreneur, business executive and an author is a person blessed with multi-faceted brilliance. He has served in senior business and technology leadership roles in consulting companies across US, Australia and India. He has been a chief information officer in telecom and digital services companies. For him, every interest, every aspect of life is a journey towards excellence. He shares lessons from his varied journeys through his motivational talks.
Sumit has been a key speaker in various forums on innovation, leadership and whole-brain thinking. Across a career spanning management, technology and telecom roles, Sumit has held various leadership positions in large, hyper-growth companies including the Reliance Group, BearingPoint, KPMG Consulting and Philips India. He is currently setting up Gaia Smart Cities, the next generation M2M Telecom Service Provider.
Sumit has been an intrapreneur and has constantly innovated new ways to do things, for which he has been awarded at various platforms, voted as one of the top CIOs in India, top 10 CIOs in Asia-Pacific, and top 50 CIOs in the world by US Information Week.
Sumit runs a business as a ‘brand ambassador for ideas’, leading to their successful delivery. He has, as an artist, held international exhibitions of his paintings; as a musician, performed on various platforms; and as an endurance sportsman, run virtually every marathon or long-distance cyclothon. Recently, he has published his first book, Rules of the Game, which talks about how to have an enjoyable career journey without trudging through life fearing changes, failures, politics and uncertainty.