Dr. Sukanta Kumar Jena- CEO, Innovantage (a man who believes in innovation and perseverance)

Dr. Sukanta Kumar Jena (Ph.D. in GIS – IIT Bombay & Masters in Business Administration from McIntire School of Commerce, USA) is currently working as CEO at Inovaantage, a multinational IT system integrator. An achiever, he has received various prestigious international awards in his working tenure, like Champion of Change from Telangana in 2021, United Nations special achievement award in Dubai in 2022, Global Asian of the year 2020 and the list goes on .

Innovantage is a multinational Software Services company with major focus on Utility and Telecommunications with offices in Adelaide, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hyderabad, London and Denver. Innovantage delivers end to end projects and programs where multiple technology (like Maximo, SAP, Power BI, Datalake, Big Data, Content & Document Management, Project and Portfolio Management, Workforce Management, Cloud Migration, MDMS, ADMS & GIS, Customer engagement platforms/ customer portal, Telecom OSS, BSS, GIS, Tower Management and various IOS/Android apps.

He believes in innovation, which has been the key to continuous improvement and success for Innovantage. His mantra for doing his job is ‘Always strive for automation at customer organisations to make customer organisations stay digitally ahead of their competitions’. 

With such automation of projects and programs he has optimised millions of dollars in each initiative and programs for his customers.

He is committed to develop IT talents across the needy people and has invested his resources and time to contribute for enhancing IT talents. He is also engaged with various charity programs for elderly peoples adaptation to new and safe technologies and spent significantly to train elderly to use modern tools and techniques . He currently lives in the UK.