Neel has had three decades of experience in the areas of Finance, Corporate Governance, Internal Audit and Business Process Outsourcing while he was with Ford Motor Company in Europe and Asia Pacific.
Neel is a pioneer in business outsourcing, has proven competence in migration over several diverse processes, transforming businesses, improving quality and deriving significant cost savings through process optimization, process re-engineering and best practices. He was responsible for formulating world-class infrastructure set up for both BPO and IT operations at Ford and Pfizer.
Neel launched and managed shared service centers for the Ford companies in Nordic and Central European regions and was the Head of Internal Audit for Ford of Europe. He was instrumental in setting up the Ford Global Shared Service Center that grew from 17 to 700 employees during his time as its Managing Director.
Under his leadership, the Ford Global Shared Service Center received the Golden Peacock National awards for Quality & Innovation in implementing ISO, Six Sigma, Sarbanes & Oxley and 5S quality standards. It won the Ford President's Customer Driven Quality award for distinguished achievements towards customer satisfaction. It also received the Ford Chairman's accolade for its outstanding volunteer work in the local community.Neel is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, U.K. (FCMA).