Navigating Change with Expertise
At First Water Partners, we specialize in guiding businesses through transformative transitions, ensuring they thrive amidst technological advancements, market shifts, and internal restructuring challenges.
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Guiding businesses through significant change with expert support
Deepak Mishra
Deepak is a global business and transformation leader with nearly three decades of experience driving enterprise modernization, operational reinvention, and technology-led growth across Fortune 50 and multinational environments. An AT&T veteran and Indian School of Business alumnus, he brings deep leadership experience across global managed services, digital infrastructure, AI-enabled transformation, cloud and network modernization, GCC strategy, and complex multi-country operating models across North America, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.
Over the course of his career, Deepak has guided organizations through critical phases of strategic transition helping businesses realign operations, modernize delivery ecosystems, optimize global capabilities, and build scalable models for sustainable growth. He brings a rare blend of boardroom perspective and execution depth, enabling enterprises to translate transformation ambition into measurable business outcomes.
As Founder & CEO of First Water Partners, Deepak leads the firm’s vision of embedded transformation ownership, partnering with leadership teams to navigate complexity, accelerate modernization, and build resilient operating models for the future. His approach combines strategic insight, operational discipline, and emerging technologies including AI, automation, and advanced analytics to unlock long-term enterprise value.
Deepak’s leadership philosophy is anchored in the belief that meaningful transformation is not achieved through isolated advisory recommendations, but through decisive execution, organizational alignment, and the ability to lead businesses confidently through change.
Vineet Bansal
Senior Technology & Infrastructure Consultant
Vineet is a proven technology and operations leader with over two decades of diverse experience in enterprise IT, business transformation, and global service delivery serving as Director on the board of BEE BEE DigiTech. Vineet has a proven expertise in leading large-scale digital transformation initiatives, global infrastructure operations, network and voice technologies, unified communications, and ITIL-aligned processes. Has held strategic roles in Fortune 200 organizations, successfully overseeing delivery, operations, and cross-functional teams across geographies. Adept at managing complex projects, driving cost optimization, improving service quality, and enhancing stakeholder satisfaction.
Key competencies include Global Delivery & Operations, Network & Infrastructure Leadership with deep hands-on and strategic experience in LAN/WAN design, SD-WAN implementations, NetOps, Project & Change Management, Strategic Transformation involving process redesign, budget control, procurement, and talent development.
Holds multiple certifications from Cisco, Juniper, Cloud, SD-WAN and other professional development credentials in large program management.
Legal Services & Operations Strategy Consultant
Legal operations leader with more than 20+ years of global experience driving transformation in legal service delivery, compliance, and operational strategy. Known for building and scaling high-performing legal services organizations from the ground up, integrating advanced legal technology, analytics, and streamlined workflows to support complex litigation, investigations, and contract lifecycle management.
Accredited with combining deep legal knowledge with a sharp operational mindset, to consistently deliver measurable impact across industries including financial services and life sciences. With a strong focus on innovation, quality, and client service, this consultant brings a proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, drive process excellence, and align legal operations with broader business objectives
Subesh Tripathi, CPIM, is Practice Lead – Procurement & Supply Chain Transformation at First Water Partners, where he advises clients on building stronger, more resilient, and performance-driven operations. With over 25 years of experience across automotive, heavy engineering, industrial manufacturing, and rail-sector ecosystems, he has built a distinguished track record in strategic sourcing, procurement transformation, supply continuity, inventory optimization, supplier development, and operational improvement. His experience spans both large multinational enterprises and dynamic growth environments, enabling him to bring practical judgment, commercial rigor, and execution depth to complex transformation mandates.
At First Water Partners, Subesh partners with leadership teams to unlock value across procurement, supply chain, and manufacturing operations. He supports clients in addressing cost pressure, improving supplier performance, optimizing working capital, localizing supply bases, and creating operational readiness for scale and transformation. His approach is grounded in delivering tangible business outcomes, helping clients move procurement and supply chain functions from transactional support roles to strategic enablers of competitiveness and growth.
Subesh Tripathi
Practice Lead – Procurement & Supply Chain Transformation
Dr. Shaktidhar Sharma Shastri
Strategic Advisor – Vedic Intelligence & Vastu
Dr. Shaktidhar Sharma Shastri brings deep expertise in Vedic Astrology, Jyotish Shastra, Vastu Shastra, Ayurveda Shastra and Indic knowledge systems to First Water Partners. As Strategic Advisor – Vedic Intelligence & Vastu, he supports the firm’s differentiated service offering, AI Consulting Powered by Vedic Astrology, by helping clients reflect on timing, alignment, investment readiness, leadership patterns, business direction and transformation decisions.
He provides individual, corporate and business guidance through Vedic Astrology, including whether a particular phase is suitable for investment, expansion or caution. He has also correlated astrological principles with health awareness and medical science, helping individuals become more conscious of possible health-related vulnerabilities and stress patterns, while recognizing that such insight is complementary and not a substitute for medical advice.
Dr. Sharma served the Indian Army as a Religious Teacher - Dharmacharya, where he counseled soldiers and officers through difficult situations. After his Army service, he worked as Head of Department in Astrology and Vastu at Sanskrit University, Haridwar, Uttarakhand. This rare combination of spiritual guidance, counseling experience, academic depth and practical advisory capability allows him to bring meaningful value to leaders, entrepreneurs, investors and organizations navigating critical decisions.
At First Water Partners, his expertise strengthens our ability to combine AI enabled analysis, business consulting and Vedic Intelligence into a more holistic advisory model, one that helps clients align strategy, timing, leadership readiness, personal clarity and business direction before making high-impact decisions.
Amit Choudhary is a seasoned HR transformation leader with over 15 years of experience driving large-scale HR modernization, Global Capability Center (GCC) operations, and digital people transformation across multinational organizations. As Strategic Advisor – AI Enabled HR Transformation & GCC Operations at First Water Partners, Amit brings a powerful combination of strategic advisory expertise, operational execution, and technology-led workforce transformation capabilities.
Throughout his career, Amit has successfully led enterprise-wide HR transformation initiatives across India, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia enabling organizations to transition from fragmented, manual HR environments into intelligent, data-driven people operations ecosystems. His experience spans HR digital transformation, global HR shared services, workforce governance, HR automation, payroll and compliance modernization, and scalable GCC people frameworks.
Amit has played a pivotal role in designing and implementing modern HR operating models, including end to end HRIS migrations, workflow automation, SLA/KPI governance structures, and real-time workforce analytics platforms. His transformation programs have consistently improved operational efficiency, accelerated decision-making, strengthened compliance readiness, and significantly enhanced employee experience outcomes across geographically distributed organizations.
With deep expertise in building and scaling GCC HR hubs and shared services organizations, Amit advises leadership teams on creating future-ready people functions capable of supporting rapid enterprise growth. He has partnered closely with C-suite executives, business leaders, and operational heads across technology, legal, professional services, and global delivery environments aligning workforce strategy with business transformation objectives in highly matrixed, multi jurisdictional settings.
His advisory capabilities extend across the full HR transformation value chain, including talent acquisition strategy, global mobility, compensation governance, workforce compliance, payroll transformation, ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 readiness, organizational design, and AI enabled HR operations. Amit also brings strong expertise in emerging generative AI applications within HR, helping organizations integrate intelligent automation into people processes while preserving governance, agility, and human centric leadership.
At First Water Partners, Amit works with boards, GCC operators, CHROs, and enterprise leadership teams to build resilient, technology enabled HR ecosystems that move organizations beyond transactional HR administration toward predictive, intelligence-led people operations and sustainable workforce transformation.
Amit Choudhary
Strategic Advisor – AI Enabled HR Transformation & GCC Operations
