Vijay A. Raju
Turning Complexity into Clarity, Innovation into Impact
Where:
At international organizations (World Economic Forum), innovation consulting & venture building firms (Innosight Ventures), Creative agencies (Crest Animation Studios), with clients such as Medtronic, 3M, HP, TCS, J&J, The Adecco Group and as an Entrepreneur
With:
CEOs & Senior Executives in Business, PMs, Presidents, Innovation Leaders, Entrepreneurs and non profit leaders
As:
Head of Strategy at the World Economic Forum, Venture Director at Innosight Ventures, Entrepreneur in Residence at The Adecco Group, Technical Director at Crest Animation Studios
Launching:
First of its kind initiatives including India’s first 3D Computer Animation Series, Corporate Ventures, Global Communities, Business Model Innovations, Venture Studios, Innovation Labs
Impacting:
Youth, Mature Workers, Women back to work, CXOs, Heads of State, Low Income Patients, Barbers, Washermen, Kids to name a few
Through:
- Enabling CEOs and Government leaders to accelerate the adoption of AI & new technologies as well as sustainability transformation.
- Award-winning innovations such as Healthy Heart for All to help low income patients access expensive cardiac therapies in India and East Asia.
- Driving digital transformation and leading India’s first Disney-style animation series for Cartoon Network that won a Daytime Emmy nomination.
- Building social ventures in Mexico and Brazil to help young mothers, and in the UK enabling mature job seekers expanding access and opportunity.
- Launching the Global Shapers Community in 450+ cities giving young leaders a seat at the table and a community to launch city level social innovations.
- Spreading ideas to global audiences through TEDx, Cannes Lions, WEF Davos, Huffpost, WEF Agenda, and Forbes.
Across: India, Japan, Switzerland, United States, Singapore, Mexico, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and 450+ cities in 181 countries
Education
Masters in Global Leadership
Jointly offered by INSEAD, Wharton School at UPenn, Columbia University, London Business School, CEIBS China along with the World Economic Forum; WEF Global Leadership Fellow
MBA
International University of Japan
Monbukagakusho Scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Govt of Japan; JASSO Scholar; Sojitsu Foundation Scholar
Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering
Madurai Kamaraj University, India
Testimonials
"I consider myself extremely lucky. One primary reason is that I have had the privilege of learning from so many smart people. From 2007 to 2009, a small group of people at Innosight, under the leadership of Brad Gambill, dedicated their lives to the hard work of incubating new businesses. Brad, Hari Nair, George Tattersfield, Alasdair Trotter, Kuen Loon Ho, Dheeraj Batra, Elnor Rozenrot, Dan Gay, and Vijay Raju in particular taught me an inordinate amount about what life is really like in innovation's first mile."
"Vijay is as creative and innovative thinker as I have come across in my career. What sets him apart is ability to quickly get in the market and test out key assumptions and gather market insights around the consumer job to be done"
"Vijay is higly strategic with a passion for developing new business model for healthcare industry. Vijay believes more in human values and relationships. He is very humble and friendly in nature."
"Vijay changed the way we approach innovation in the organization. We benefited from how he blended the entrepreneurial approaches with traditional consulting ones with a great emphasis on people and not just process"