R. RAGHUTTAMA RAO
CEO, GDC
R. Raghuttama Rao, fondly called Raghu, is the Chief Executive Officer of GDC. Former Chief Mentor of ICRA, a credit rating and analytical firm in South Asia and a subsidiary of Moody’s, his last executive role was as MD & CEO of IMaCS. IMaCS is a management consulting business founded by him as a subsidiary of ICRA, which has an operating footprint in over 20 countries.
He was a member of ICRA’s start-up team in 1991 and has helped developed many areas of ICRA, including credit rating, management consulting, analytics, IT and research. Raghu has wide consulting experience in areas of public policy, risk, strategy and capacity building. Prior to ICRA, Raghu has also worked with Larsen & Toubro Limited and Maruti Suzuki Limited.
Raghu has a post graduate diploma in management from IIM Ahmedabad and is a Bachelor of Technology in M.E from IIT Madras. He is a qualified management accountant and was a Fulbright scholar at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.
