Dilip Kastala
CIO
HIL Limited
Dilip Kastala is a technology leader and has joined CK Birla group as CIO for their flagship company HIL and will be responsible to lead HIL’s global Digital Growth Strategy. Prior to joining CK Birla Group, Dilip was with Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories as ‘VP & Head of Digital, IT & Process Excellence’ for their Biopharma business. He comes with more than 18 years of multinational and multi-cultural experience across Technology Consulting, Pharmaceuticals, Automotive, Textile, Power, Infra, Agri (Seeds, Sugar), Chemicals and Technology, working with $1 Bil to $6 Bil public & private companies across North America, Europe, APAC and India. His experience spans across defining Digital Transformation Strategies and building Digital & Analytics programs leveraging digital enterprise landscape comprising of AI and ML Ops, Cloud based Data Lakes, RPA, NLP, Computer Vision, Industry 4.0 (Digital Twins, Site Historians, Operations Technologies & Automation, MES platforms, Operations Excellence platforms), Manufacturing & Quality automation (MES, LIMS), R&D, Clinical and Regulatory Digital transformation, along with Core Digitization initiatives like SAP S/4 HANA, Data Analytics and Business Intelligence.