
Jitesh Goradia
The move
Career arc
- IT DirectorNov 2022 — Present
DarGlobal· Full-time - IT Strategy and Security Advisor / IT ConsultantJun 2020 — Jul 2023LLondon Business School / Khaleej Digital· Dubai, United Arab Emirates· Contract
- Head of IT Infrastructure, Operations and SecurityAug 2015 — May 2020
Oumolat Security Printing· Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates· Full-time
- Group Head of ITFeb 2013 — Jul 2015
Cyrus Group of Companies· United Arab Emirates· Full-time
- Group Head of IT and ProjectsApr 2012 — Jan 2013
BDC Holdings· Dubai, United Arab Emirates· Full-time
- Regional IT ManagerOct 2007 — Mar 2012
dmg :: events· Dubai, United Arab Emirates· Full-time
Education
- Indian Institute of Management AhmedabadExecutive Program · General Management Program2018 — 2018
- Glocal University - Saharanpur Uttar PradeshBachelor of Technology - BTech · Information TechnologyPresent
- VESP (Mumbai University)Engineering · Instrumentation1989 — 1994
Languages
- Hindi · Native or bilingual
- English · Full professional
Top skills
About
Positioning organizations for scale has been my single-minded focus over the past decade. A commercially astute enterprise architect, I have extensive experience aligning business and IT strategies by preparing Data, Applications and Technical architecture based on the business architecture/strategy. With over 14 years of UAE experience, I have worked for a wide variety of businesses and ownership models. Some of the business outcomes directly attributed to IT initiatives led by me: - Helping a British multinational B2B Trade Exhibitions firm scale up 15x manpower and 3x number of shows; which in turn helped the firm consolidate itself as a market leader in under five years - Substantially increasing topline through 13% higher customer retention for a UAE based Asian family-owned holdin