Across the technology integration landscape, organizations continue to grapple with complex challenges ranging from cybersecurity vulnerabilities and fragmented enterprise systems to delayed cash cycles and rising pressure for digital modernization. System integrators, in particular, face the dual responsibility of maintaining operational resilience while delivering advanced, end-to-end solutions that meet evolving customer expectations. Many businesses struggle to balance technological agility with financial discipline, often lacking the cross-functional clarity and governance needed to scale effectively in a fast-changing market.
A transformative response to these challenges has been shaped under the leadership of Somshekar Yaligar, Chief Financial Officer of Progility Technologies Pvt. Ltd. His methodical approach, rooted in transparent governance, crisis-tested resilience, business sustainability and data-driven decision-making, has enabled the company to strengthen controls, improve working capital, modernize systems, and expand OEM partnerships with strategic precision.
A 15-Year Financial Journey of Transformation
With career over fifteen years in consultancy and corporate finance, Somshekar Yaligar began his career as a Chartered Accountant, spending eight years leading audits and compliance at top firms. His role at Ernst & Young deepened his expertise in providing complex accounting advisory to corporates in IFRS , INDAS , USGAAP & GSTimplementation, and IPO readiness, inspiring him to shift from advisory to leadership role.
Transitioning into the corporate sector, Somshekar moved from evaluating to shaping businesses, holding key financial leadership roles, including CFO at NCDEX e-Markets, where he enhanced financial strategy and driving end-to-end finance operations including FP&A, budgeting, ERP implementations, investor relations, due diligence,Investor pitch deck for fund raising and fostering stakeholder relationshipsHe joined Progility Technologies as CFO, drawn by its Siemens heritage, visionary tech-driven model, and alignment with his leadership goals. With a solid foundation, he aims to drive innovation and guide the company’s digital growth.
Tested, Proven, Prepared
Somshekar Yaligar’s leadership has been shaped by navigating complex financial and operational challenges. Early advisory experience strengthened his precision, while his move into corporate finance required him to balance accuracy with long-term strategy.
A major turning point came when the organisation faced a severe ransomware attack. Somshekar played a key role in stabilising financial operations, safeguarding data, and restoring continuity. The incident reinforced his belief that financial leadership must also ensure organisational resilience.
He later confronted significant delays in receivables and led a targeted transformation of working capital processes. By establishing stronger controls and building the right team, he reduced the Daily Sales Outstanding from 183 days to less than 100 days, delivering measurable improvement in financial discipline. Further he led transformation on building high performing finance team and fostering positive working culture.
These experiences continue to influence his leadership approach as he steps forward at Progility Technologies with a mindset shaped by crisis management, operational excellence, and performance-driven execution.
Strategic Clarity, Real-World Lessons
Somshekar Yaligar’s decision-making approach is grounded in a core learning that emerged consistently throughout his financial journey: sustainable progress depends on preparedness, transparency, and disciplined execution. His early advisory roles taught him that precision creates credibility, while his corporate experience revealed the equal importance of agility in addressing evolving business realities. The crisis created by the ransomware incident reinforced his belief that leadership must anticipate vulnerabilities, respond decisively, and protect organisational continuity.
This blend of foresight and operational discipline continues to influence how he evaluates risks, structures financial governance, and guides teams. For him, effective leadership is not merely about resolving challenges but about building systems that strengthen resilience and support long-term growth. This philosophy shapes every strategic choice he makes as he leads Progility Technologies into its next phase of transformation.
Differentiation through Cross-Functional Finance
Under Somshekar Yaligar’s financial leadership, Progility Technologies stands apart through a deep domain expertise and a strong technological foundation shaped by its Siemens legacy. The company is recognised as a leading voice solutions provider and remains among the top players in unified communication. Its capabilities extend into audio-visual collaboration, data networks, and cybersecurity, reflecting a diversified and future-ready portfolio. Progility’s differentiation also lies in its ability to understand customer needs and deliver end-to-end solutions from design to implementation, ensuring a seamless experience that allows CIOs to operate without operational concerns.
Somshekar strengthens this differentiation by integrating financial strategy with business strategy across all verticals. He collaborates closely with sales, service, and operational leaders to ensure that financial decisions support real-world requirements and long-term goals. His approach combines financial clarity with a deep understanding of business dynamics, enabling accurate budgeting, informed planning, and strategic alignment that enhances Progility’s performance and reliability. Through this cross-functional focus, he ensures that finance acts as an enabler of innovation and a driver of organisational advantage.
Key Recognitions, Awards & Certifications
Somshekar’s journey is marked by notable achievements, industry recognitions, and a strong commitment to certification-driven excellence. These milestones highlight both individual credibility and the organization’s growth as a trusted system integrator.
- Employees: 200-300
- Turnover: 133.96 crores
- PAT: 4.40 crores
- Net worth: 80.40 crores
1. Individual Recognition
- CA – AIR In intermediate and Final
- Awarded the CFO Rising Star Award in the current financial year. Recognized for outstanding credibility and emerging leadership in finance by Inventicon Business Intelligence Private Limited)
- AI In WIRC – ICAI ( co-opted member in FY 24-25)
2. Organizational Awards (Past 2–3 Years)
- Mitel Star Partner of the Year – 2024
- SME Channel Award – 2023 under the System Integrator category
- Multiple project-based recognitions for excellence in unified communication and collaboration solutions.
3. Commitment to Certification Excellence
- Holds extensive certifications across multiple OEMs, essential for system integrators.
- Certifications enable qualification for high-value leads.
- Strong focus on continuous training, skill enhancement, and service delivery excellence.
Structured Partnerships and Purposeful Market Expansion
Progility Technologies has strengthened its strategic position by expanding OEM partnerships across multiple technology verticals. Recognizing that system integration relies on strong OEM alliances, he introduced a structured approach to deepen engagement and broaden collaboration. By segmenting the business into voice, audio-visual, data, and network solutions, cybersecurity, AI, and related services, he ensures each vertical has a wider OEM network.
This shift reduces single-OEM dependency; for example, the voice segment’s OEM partners grew from one to two. This broader ecosystem enhances flexibility, customer choice, and delivery capability.
Somshekar is also shaping Progility’s acquisition strategy with a forward-looking focus, evaluating opportunities aligned with the promoter group in high-growth markets like India and the Middle East. His disciplined approach prioritizes financial rigor, strategic fit, and long-term value to accelerate scale and reinforce leadership in these regions.
A Vigilant and Structured Approach to Organisational Risk
At Progility Technologies, Somshekar Yaligar has fostered a risk culture where preparedness is a discipline and compliance guides every financial decision. His leadership aligns systems, controls, and people toward stability, resilience, and integrity.
He takes a broad approach to risk, covering financial, service delivery, business continuity, liquidity, credit, currency, and geopolitical factors. In response to growing external uncertainties, he has strengthened risk mitigation with a focus on technological resilience.
A key initiative was enhancing enterprise systems during ERP transformation by involving cybersecurity experts for vulnerability assessments and penetration tests. Over two years, Progility has closed gaps and now operates a real-time, 24/7 risk-monitoring system that protects critical assets and anticipates threats before disruptions occur.
This proactive, disciplined approach reflects Somshekar’s belief that strong leadership combines governance, preparedness, and ethical responsibility to safeguard the organization.
Strategic Capital, Smarter Growth
As a financial leader, Somshekar recognizes that modern finance is the custodian of a diverse and expanding data ecosystem. Beyond the ERP, multiple platforms such as CRM systems and service-oriented software generate both financial and non-financial information. Under his guidance, the finance team interprets this multilayered data to deliver meaningful insights that support informed, data-driven decision-making across the organization. He also have implemented many automation projects in AR and AP followed by AI driven tools for better efficiency. These insights enable business and sales teams to identify high-potential growth areas and determine where strategic investments can create the greatest value.
He also evaluates the skills and capabilities required to support future expansion, ensuring that capital is deployed with precision and purpose. By balancing innovation, financial discipline, and long-term growth priorities, he ensures that every decision strengthens both the business vision and its financial foundation. Through this approach, he consistently aligns financial strategy with organizational ambition while safeguarding stability on both fronts.
Client Success Powered by Scalable Technological Innovation
With more than 1500 clients under his leadership, Somshekar has established an impressive benchmark in client success and delivery excellence. His strategic direction has enabled the company to consistently execute complex, mission-critical projects with precision, reliability, and measurable impact.
One of the most notable milestones under his leadership is the modernization of the digital infrastructure at Cochin International Airport. Over the past nine months, the company spearheaded a comprehensive transformation that included deploying an end-to-end audio-visual and CCTV solution integrated with real-time flight operations. This project strengthened the airport’s technological capabilities and stands today as a widely recognized success story, frequently referenced as a model of effective digital modernization.
Across various sectors, his leadership has enabled the timely delivery of advanced solutions to several reputed clients. The accolades received at both the company and team levels reflect his commitment to excellence, accountability, and innovation. His ability to inspire teams and maintain a high standard of execution continues to reinforce trust among clients and elevate the organization’s reputation as a technology partner of choice.
Customer Insight: A Strategic Move for Growth
Somshekar Yaligar places customer feedback at the centre of organisational intelligence, ensuring that every completed project concludes with a structured response from clients. Whether through periodic forms or direct communication, this disciplined approach has contributed to the organisation consistently maintaining a Net Promoter Score above 95 percent. For him, such a score reflects not only satisfaction but a clear endorsement of the value the company brings to its customers.
He views feedback as a gateway to new ideas, especially when clients compare offerings across competitors and recommend additional services that align with the organisation’s capabilities. These insights serve as strategic signals, guiding him toward areas with strong growth potential. As a finance leader, he leverages this information to allocate capital to promising service lines identified directly by customers, reinforcing the company’s commitment to innovation grounded in real market need.
By championing a customer-first philosophy, he ensures that financial decisions remain aligned with evolving expectations, acknowledging that no system integrator can sustain long-term success without nurturing its relationship with the customer.
Backbone of Long-Term Success
Over the past two years, Somshekar Yaligar has played a pivotal role in driving a cultural transformation at Progility Technologies, shifting the organisation from a legacy culture to a high-performing, future-ready environment. Under his leadership, the company has embraced a culture where performance targets are clearly defined, achievements are recognised, and even the smallest wins are celebrated. This approach has strengthened motivation across teams and fostered a spirit of collaboration and accountability.
Despite being a 30-year-old organisation, Progility Technologies is now witnessing strong, positive feedback from its own employees. The cultural shift towards openness, transparency, and integrity has encouraged staff to contribute ideas freely and engage in constructive dialogue. Somshekar has institutionalised regular feedback sessions where teams can share insights on business priorities, leadership expectations, and further cultural improvements, ensuring that the transformation remains a continuous journey.
As CFO, he actively champions core values such as openness, transparency, and continuous improvement. By embedding these principles into everyday interactions, he is shaping a culture that strengthens performance, accelerates growth, and prepares Progility Technologies for long-term success.
Future-Ready Finance in Intelligent Systems
Somshekar Yaligar notes a strong technological shift in India, driven by rapid innovation and the government’s push to strengthen domestic IT infrastructure. Initiatives such as the advisory encouraging government offices to adopt platforms like Zoho reflect rising confidence in Indian OEMs, creating significant growth opportunities for local manufacturers and SMEs.
As a system integrator working closely with Indian technology providers, he sees major trends shaping the future: greater adoption of Indian products, accelerated innovation in AI, swift cloud migration, and heightened focus on cybersecurity. He cites his experience leading a two-week ERP transition from on-premise to cloud as an example of the increasing need for agile, secure, cloud-based systems.
With AI and cybersecurity becoming central to industry operations, Leadership team is already partnering with key players to build capabilities and establish dedicated AI & cloud offering verticals. As a CFO, he views these areas as critical investment priorities for the years ahead.
An open letter to emerging finance leaders
Dear Finance Leaders,
Today, the role of young leaders and finance leaders has transformed. It is not just about managing numbers anymore; it is about people, strategy, process, and technology. Theadvice I want to share with all leaders and those stepping into finance leadership:
- Keep learning and stay adaptable to change.
- Be honest and transparent to build trust.
- Understand how finance supports overall business goals.
- Use technology to make smarter decisions.
- Communicate clearly and work well with others.
- Lead with empathy and integrity to inspire teams.
Warm regards,
Somshekar Yaligar,
Chief Financial Officer
Progility Technologies Pvt Ltd
Steering Progility Technologies Into a Future of Intelligent, Resilient, and High-Performance Finance
- A Career Built on Precision and Transformation
- Leadership Forged Through Crisis and Recovery
- Cross-Functional Finance as a Strategic Differentiator
- Structured Growth Through OEM Expansion and Market Foresight
- Culture, Clients, and Technology at the Core of His Vision
