Rajasekhar Mantrabuddi

Senior Director
25+ years of media and entertainment industry experience leading business transformation, technology enabled solutions and business development
Pioneered COE for media and entertainment solutions
Specializes in strategy and solutions for OTT, IOT, video, streaming, connected living, 5G, BSS, network, operations and technology transformations
New York
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Rajasekhar Mantrabuddi is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Corporate Performance Improvement in New York. His main areas of concentration include devising and leading corporate, technology and business strategies for the cable, satellite, telecommunications, media and advertisement industries.

Mr. Mantrabuddi specializes in strategy and solutions for OTT, IOT, video, streaming, connected living, 5G, BSS, network, operations and technology transformations, creating customer experience strategies, platform modernization, business transformation, data analytics and back-office systems. He has a proven track record of securing complex customer relationships via value creation, automation and innovation ideas for growth and optimization.

With more than 25 years of industry experience, Mr. Mantrabuddi has led key account development activities, business strategy, sales, profitability and global delivery. He brings expertise in business transformation, running large sourcing and consolidation initiatives for cost optimization, right structuring of the organization, complex program management, new product innovation and product launch, development and QA. Mr. Mantrabuddi also pioneered establishing a center of excellence for media and entertainment industry solutions.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Mantrabuddi served as Global Media & Entertainment Industry leader and Lead Account Partner at IBM. Before that, he served as Telecommunications, Media and Entertainment Industry senior client partner at Infosys, focusing on strategic consulting, practice management and media and entertainment industry leadership across clients globally.

Mr. Mantrabuddi’s notable assignments include a $60 million cost savings by organization transformation; $80 million cost take out by vendor consolidation process; advisement on portfolio rationalization and captive build out; and business strategy and roadmap development and management for video and voice business growth. He has also been involved in BSS transformation, end to end 5G network buildout solution, strategy for OTT streaming, ad monetization, VoIP product launch management, video back office modernization, SDN and cloud based products.

Mr. Mantrabuddi earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Kakatiya University and a master’s degree in engineering (concentration in engineering design) from Government College of Technology.

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