324- (Release Delayed Due to Sensitive Content) From India to Silicon Valley: Butchi Pinnamaraju’s Journey in Global IT Leadership

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🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Butchi Pinnamaraju Butchi Pinnamaraju serves as the Director of IT Supply Chain at BridgeBio, an early-stage pharmaceutical company. With a background in mechanical engineering and industrial engineering, Butchi has held leadership roles at major organizations including Google, the United Nations, and SAP. His global experience spans India, Europe, and the United States, giving him a unique perspective on cross-cultural leadership in the tech industry. From India to Silicon Valley: Butchi Pinnamaraju’s Journey in Global IT Leadership How can IT leaders effectively navigate diverse cultural environments while driving innovation? In this episode, Bucci Pinamaraju, Director of IT Supply Chain at BridgeBio, shares his journey from a small town in India to leadership roles in global tech companies. Butchi offers insights on empathetic leadership, the importance of technical expertise, and how cultural differences shape project management across Europe and the United States.

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0:00.0	Welcome back, everyone, to dissecting popular IT nerds.
0:04.7	I'm your host, Doug Kameen, and today I'm talking with Butchie Puna Marajou,
0:09.0	director of IT supply chain at Bridge Bio.
0:11.7	Welcome to the show, Bucci.
0:12.7	Thank you for having me here.
0:14.7	So it's great to have you and get you to be on the show and talk with us about, uh, about your leadership journey. You, you, you, you have a, a long history of,
0:24.4	of, of working in a variety of different fields. Uh, and, and you, you, you're, you're,
0:30.2	you're, you're, you've come to us. You come here. You're here in the United States today,
0:34.8	but you have a great history, great history overseas as well. Can you
0:38.3	kind of walk us through, walk our listeners through a little bit of where you came from and how you
0:42.3	how you got to today? Yeah, sure. I was born and brought up in India. I came from a small southern
0:50.8	town right on the coast on the eastern part of India, a place called
0:55.1	Wisha Kapitnam.
0:56.1	It's a small town.
0:57.5	It's not very small, but a small town, not in metro like Mumbai or Bangalore that many people
1:03.4	here about.
1:04.6	So my father used to work in a public sector company there.
1:10.0	They have their own school, so my father used to work in a school
1:13.5	office there. So I lived there all my life in a small township, pretty much exposed to just that city.
1:22.5	Never used to travel beyond because both my grandparents on my father's side, on my mother's side,
1:28.6	I used to live very close by probably like 30 kilometers, 30 miles away. And that's my world until I'm like
1:35.3	14 years old, probably like 16 years old when I went off to a college, which is probably
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