Raj Mudaliar is a Senior Market Analyst for IDC's IT Services Research Group in Australia. His main focus is tracking the services market - technology trends, end-user demands & preferences, new emerging business models & practices and competitive analysis. Raj regularly presents research to multiple stakeholders of strategic IDC customers and is responsible for delivering consulting/custom projects both locally and regionally. He was awarded the "2012 IDC Asia Pacific Annual Award for Research & Consulting - Product Quality" and the "2012 IDC Asia Pacific Annual Award for Services Tracker Quality" in recognition for the consistent delivery of high quality outcomes to IDC customers.

Raj has 17 years of diverse professional experience in the industry, 9 of which have been in the ICT sector. He has authored and published more than 30 IDC research documents on a wide range of topics including professional services, IT outsourcing, cloud computing, datacenter services, managed network services, BPO etc.  In his previous role as the Country Head of HR for Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) operations in Australia and New Zealand he worked with the TCS Executive Leadership team in Sydney. Whilst at TCS, Raj also headed the NASSCOM Australia task force to formulate, develop and implement a Market Based Compensation Framework for the subclass 457 visa-processing of ICT professionals for the Department of Immigration & Citizenship (DIAC), Government of Australia. NASSCOM Australia is India’s National Association of Software and Service Companies, the premier trade body and chamber of commerce of the IT software and services industry in India.

Raj holds a MBA from the University of Pune and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Mumbai, India.