Sudhir Agarwal
Founder and CEO
Ever a believer in the power of technology and its disruptive yet beneficial capabilities, Sudhir Agarwal brings more than two decades of corporate leadership and management experience to his role as Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Everise. With a proven record of helping enterprises achieve long-term growth and years of overseeing corporate mergers and acquisitions, migrations, business development, outsourcing, and vendor and client management, he has spearheaded multiple expansions for multiple companies in the customer experience (CX) industry.
Today, Sudhir is at the helm of Everise leading and expanding the business operations, with a vision to become the world’s leading customer experience solutions and technology business. To realize his vision, Sudhir first partnered with Everstone Group to build Everise into a next-generation industry leader, then was instrumental in the acquisition of Everise by its latest partner, Brookfield Asset Management.
“When disruption is the norm, the businesses who put their customers first, are the ones who rise above it.”
Sudhir began his journey with Genpact in 1999, a global professional services firm where he held multiple leadership roles spanning across operations and transition management and spearheaded the company’s successful foray into Hungary and China. Following Genpact, Sudhir was a founding member of Aegis, one of the largest BPO companies in India. Growing the company from a mere five-employee operation, he scaled the operation from its humble beginnings into India, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Australia, Argentine, the US and Asia. Succeeding Aegis, Sudhir founded Sunrise BPO with a vision to create a unique customer experience company that is digitally enabled.
Coming from a family of entrepreneurs, Sudhir earned his bachelor’s degree in Commerce from Delhi University and his Master of Business Administration in Strategy and International Business from Manchester Business School, UK.
As an impactful orator and thought leader in the industry, Sudhir has been regularly invited to speak at various prestigious forums across the world, including the Wharton India Economic Forum at Philadelphia, the Aspect BPO CXO Xchange roundtable in Hong Kong, Silicon India Leadership Summit in New Delhi and CX Asia in Singapore.
Sudhir has also won numerous prestigious awards including two consecutive year wins for Executive of the Year by Singapore Business Review’s Management Excellence Awards (2019, 2020), and Outstanding Leader in Asia from the Asia Corporate Excellence & Sustainability Awards (ACES) and was named one of the 100 People Transforming Business in 2020 from Business Insider.
