Saurabh Verma heads the ICT and Digital Transformation for the MEA region. In his role, he is

spearheading the ICT team and is responsible for managing the syndicated research and consulting

engagements for the ICT practice. Saurabh comes with 14+ years of research, consulting, and IT

sourcing advisory experience.

He has got significant experience in the ICT industry, especially in strategy consulting and market

research. Saurabh’s expertise lies in opportunity assessment, competitive intelligence and

benchmarking, go to market and new market entry, diversification strategies, business model analysis

and evaluation, end consumer analysis of technologies, portfolio development and pricing, location

assessment, and vendor evaluation for IT sourcing.

Over the past decade, Saurabh has been a regular at various ICT conferences across the region. He has

been a speaker and panel moderator at several conferences in the MEA region. Additionally, he has

closely worked with both IT and Telecommunication companies on their business strategies and

various other strategic and tactical engagements.

In this previous roles, he has held project delivery, consultant, and business development roles at

GlobalData, IDC, IBM, Tholons Consulting, and other firms in the UAE and India.

Saurabh holds an MBA in Finance from the ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad, and a Bachelors in

Commerce from Christ Church College.