Nitin Arora

Nitin is a Senior Executive Advisor with Strategy& based in the Dubai office. In his role, he engages with senior management teams at some of the leading telecom, media, and technology companies in the Middle East region, helping them address their growth and operational challenges.

Throughout his career, Nitin has led multiple large-scale transformation and strategy engagements for telecom, media, tech, and financial services companies around the world (including in the United States, the Asia-Pacific region, and the Middle East and Africa). He has built and mentored numerous teams, worked in entrepreneurial settings, developed businesses, and forged and managed relationships with senior internal and external stakeholders around the world.

His areas of expertise include digital strategy and transformation, operating model design and transformation, supply chain management, growth strategy (inorganic and organic), business and commercial due diligence, product strategy, development and management, engineering research and development, cloud computing, data centres and cybersecurity.

A well-respected thought leader, Nitin is the co-author of numerous articles and reports, including:

• The business case for cloud adoption: Gartner CIO summits (2013)
• A management system for distributed knowledge and content objects
• Web engineering: The discipline of systematic development of web applications (Wiley & Co.; Co-author of Chapter 14)
• India’s enterprise connectivity market

Other examples of Nitin’s key achievements include:

• Building and growing the PwC Strategy& India practice from 2015 to 2019; rated amongst the top performers for the last 4 years of his tenure
• Participating in the future leader development program in the PwC Strategy& network
• Working as an in-house entrepreneur with Canopy (venture funded by Atos and EMC in the area of Cloud Computing) in London, UK, and with Google to set up a new product development group in Hyderabad, India
• Winning the “Most innovative internal product for Q1 2007,” a companywide award at Google

Prior to returning to Strategy&, Nitin worked as the global head of IT and software segment at Arthur D. Little in Vienna, Austria and in product management and development at Google.

Nitin has an MBA from IESE and London Business School as well as a five-year integrated master’s of technology in mathematics and computing from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.