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Sudip RoyMBCS

Advisory & researchBFSIPrivate equityAI adoption & governanceProcess intelligence

Twenty-five years on both sides of transformation, from India’s telecom revolution to AI governance under UK regulation. Sudip founded Lanthra, the evidence-led platform that separates what an organisation cannot change from what it can.

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StructuralControllable317 councils
Sudip Roy
LondonChennaiDelhi NCR
Years in transformation
25+
Global systems integrators
3 SIs
Fellowships
2×
Councils benchmarked by Lanthra
317
Controllable opportunity found, per year
£147m

01About

Both sides of the table.

“The distinctive part of my profile is that I understand both how transformation is sold and how transformation is bought. I operate comfortably between C-suite strategy and technical execution, translating ambiguous business problems into scalable solutions that meet governance, compliance and commercial expectations.”

How transformation is sold

For consulting firms & systems integrators

  • Commercial maturity, from demand creation to the closed deal
  • Board-level client engagement
  • Proposition development and land-and-expand strategy
  • Delivery credibility, at outsourced-operations scale

TCSInfosysWiproHexaware3i Infotech

How transformation is bought

For end-client organisations

  • Buy-side advisory realism, without the vendor gloss
  • Regulated, complex, stakeholder-heavy environments
  • Guardrails that make AI safe to scale
  • Measurable value, not a slide of benefits

HSBCNHSAxaNESONationwide

Recent work

AI policy & guardrails

Shaping AI change policy and guardrails within UK regulation.

AI products in finance

Leading AI-enabled product initiatives in financial services.

NHS & utilities

Embedding AI and automation capabilities across NHS and utilities environments.

AI centres of excellence

Board-level advisory and AI CoE build-out inside regulated enterprises.

02Lanthra

The truth is already in your systems.

Sudip’s platform. Lanthra runs one analytical engine across two surfaces, private operational data and public performance records, and separates what is structural from what is controllable.

lanthra

Evidence-led transformation platform

Try the method

The league table lies. Model the circumstances.

Forty-eight councils, ranked on cost per resident. Switch on what each one cannot change, and the ranking reshuffles around what it can.

Ranked by raw costHighest → lowest

Actual costExpected, given circumstancesControllable gap

Synthetic councils with seeded circumstances, an illustration of the method rather than Lanthra or council data.

Structural versus controllable

StructuralControllable

  • Reserves resilience

    19% / 81%

  • Corporate-core overhead

    15% / 85%

  • Early-stage cancer diagnosis

    23% / 77%

  • Under-75 cancer mortality

    63% / 37%

Councils benchmarked
317
Carry a controllable residual
107 of 151
Confirmed opportunity, per year
£147.2m

Every test ends in one of four verdicts

  • 1Confirmed leverThe one finding strong enough to act on.
  • 12+Well-powered nullsReported, not hidden.
  • 3Confounding trapsCorrelations that would have misled.
  • 4+Boundary findingsWhere the evidence runs out.
Lanthra Process Evidence Studio: a process graph of nine variants across 501 cases

PESProcess Evidence Studio

The gap between the designed process and what actually happens.

Upload an event log and PES detects field roles on its own, then maps every process path by frequency, inside a closed environment.

“Algorithms calculate. Consultant interprets.”

Under 2 min to analysis5,000 events501 cases9 variants

Lanthra Parallax: 317 English councils plotted against what their circumstances predict

ParallaxPublic-sector benchmarking

Public data exists. Joined-up analysis does not.

Local government finance across 151 upper-tier councils, twelve NHS analytical domains, and supplier intelligence from open data.

PulseFree AI readiness

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Eighteen questions across strategy, data, technology, governance, operating model and talent, benchmarked against your sector.

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  1. 01

    Expected versus actual

    Model what context predicts, then analyse the residual.

  2. 02

    Structural versus controllable

    Separate what an organisation cannot change from what it can.

  3. 03

    Honest about limits

    Report nulls, and say when the evidence is not enough.

  4. 04

    Compounds on outcomes

    Track recommendations against results and feed them back in.

Visit lanthra.co.uk Explore Parallax

03Clients

Trusted in regulated rooms.

Centres of excellence inside regulated enterprises, AI-enabled operating models, and process intelligence that finds the right candidates for automation.

Financial institutionsBFSI

  • HSBC
  • Barclays
  • Citi
  • Axa
  • Nationwide Building Society
  • Just Group

Centres of excellence established inside regulated enterprises.

Public sectorUK

  • NHS
  • Ofgem
  • NESO
  • Welsh Ambulance
  • Local government
  • Higher education

AI and automation embedded across NHS and utilities environments.

Global brandsConsumer

  • Jaguar Land Rover
  • Nestlé
  • Philip Morris
  • Herbalife
  • Harman Kardon
  • Alcatel

Entry strategies for Fortune 500 clients, proven through pilots.

HSBCNHSBarclaysAxaJaguar Land RoverNestléOfgemCiti

04Career

Twenty-five years, sold and delivered.

From a telecom revolution in one of the world’s largest markets, through the global systems integrators, to founding and advising.

  1. 2026–PresentLondon

    HFS ResearchLive

    Practice Leader

    • Leads advisory and research in the managed services space in BFSI.
  2. FounderLondon

    LanthraLive

    Founder, evidence-led transformation

    • One engine that separates structural from controllable, across operational and public data.
    • Pulse, Process Evidence Studio and Parallax, live across local government, NHS and supplier intelligence.
  3. 2025–2026London

    Collinson Grant

    Management Consultant, AI Advisory

    • AI advisory on organisation, process, people and cost, for clients improving efficiency and profitability.
  4. 2017–2026London

    Divitae

    Founder & Managing Consultant, led a successful acqui-hire

    • Built a boutique advisory practice in emerging technology, analytics, ERP, supply chain, automation and generative AI.
    • Designed AI-enabled target operating models and governance for scalable deployment.
    • Delivered AI projects for HSBC, the NHS, NESO, Axa and private equity clients.
  5. 2022–2024London

    3i Infotech

    Entrepreneur in Residence & Non-Executive Director

    • Scaled domain-based consulting globally; active in M&A, strategic deals and co-innovation with the NHS, higher education and local government.
  6. 2013–2017UK & Europe

    Wipro · Infosys · Hexaware

    Client services & outsourcing leadership

    • Wipro: entry strategies for Fortune 500 consumer and retail clients, from first conversation to delivery.
    • Infosys: built a technology and digital services business across UK and Europe in regulated industries.
    • Hexaware: Director, building an outsourcing business in Europe.
  7. 2004–2013London & Chennai

    Tata Consultancy Services

    Multi-discipline leadership

    • Insurance, banking and financial services transformation deals with significant board-level impact.
    • Led the entire service delivery of Barclays’ outsourced UK retail banking operations.
  8. 2000–2004India & Manchester

    Citi · Reliance Communications

    Project Manager · Sector Lead

    • Citi: transitioned retail banking front-office operations.
    • Reliance: part of the largest telecom revolution in one of the world’s largest consumer markets.

05Credentials

Fellow, author, practitioner.

F01Fellowships

2×

Fellow, twice over

Essex Business School · Avasant

An Executive Fellow of the University of Essex Business School, and an Avasant Distinguished Fellow.

F02MBCS

British Computer Society

Member

A professional member of the Chartered Institute for IT.

F032024

MSc, Supply Chain

University of Lincoln

Logistics, materials and supply chain management.

F04Oxford

Artificial Intelligence & Design Thinking

University of Oxford

A certificate in AI, and a Design Thinking Practitioner.

F052008

UK Sales Award

Recognised for sales

Awarded in the UK in 2008.

F06Certified

Prince2 · APMP · Miller Heiman

Delivery & selling

Practitioner-level programme delivery, proposal management and strategic selling.

F07Writing

Published on retail technology

Small retailers

Smart solutions for the small retailer, and the market-altering technologies they need.

F08Blog

Mindblown

AI & philosophy

A blog on artificial intelligence and philosophy.

Hands-on with

  • Microsoft Copilot
  • GPT Enterprise
  • OpenAI API
  • Azure Foundry
  • AWS Bedrock
  • Claude
  • Sierra AI
  • n8n
  • Celonis
  • ARIS
  • Signavio
  • Workday
  • SAP S/4
  • Dynamics 365