As the Leader of BlackRock Innovation Labs, I am responsible for developing the organization's innovation capabilities, identifying emerging trends, and driving the implementation of new technologies and processes to improve efficiency and maintain a competitive edge. • Create a physical and logical environment conducive to ideation, decision-making, and rapid prototyping to drive business solutions. • As Product owner of the Innovation Platform, oversee the ideation pipeline and manage various innovation initiatives across the firm. • Lead innovation strategy by collaborating with business functions to understand their challenges and how Gen AI, Process Automation, Data modeling & Analytics can be employed to solve those challenges. • Establish strategic external partnerships to accelerate innovation and enhance market reach. • Identify and progress ideas with the highest business impact and those that have the potential to be commercial opportunities. • Promote a culture of innovation, inspire transformative change across all levels of the organization.

As the PMO Lead for Technology Platforms, I orchestrate a substantial portfolio of projects valued at approximately $30-50 million. Leading a team of seasoned Project Managers, Scrum Masters, and Business Analysts to deliver on the firm’s highest priorities while effectively managing senior business stakeholders.• Partnered with senior leadership to develop long-term strategy and annual plans for the PMO, aligning with business objectives.• Development and maintenance of robust project management processes, methodologies, and the introduction of industry best practices and tools• Managed diverse firm-wide Cloud initiatives, orchestrating the migration of public websites, investment platforms, and client portals from on-premises to scalable, resilient, and future-ready cloud solutions.• Established Cloud governance councils to manage our multi-cloud strategy, optimize cloud spend and evaluate new migrations and commercial opportunities. • Collaborated with Enterprise Cloud and API Platform Distribution teams to build their Product strategy and roadmap.• To expedite our digital transformation journey, I initiated and led a Specialized Tools team, responsible for introducing innovative productivity and collaboration tools. This encompasses overseeing product strategy, roadmaps, support models, training, and adoption.• My proficiency extends to driving the delivery of M&A initiatives, covering Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures. I bring extensive experience in technology integration, employee onboarding, contract management, corporate asset management, and navigating regulatory requirements.• Furthermore, I played a pivotal role in leading the Agile transformation journey for multiple software and infrastructure teams. This involved guiding teams in adopting Scrum or Kanban methodologies to efficiently manage operations and projects in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Program Management Office:· As Regional head of PMO, responsible for managing the APAC project portfolio for Technology, Corporate Real Estate and Client Businesses.· Develop strategic roadmaps, execution plans and partner with senior leadership to drive the firm’s priorities and objectives. · Leading project teams, managing vendors relationships, negotiating contracts, keeping Senior Leadership updated through the course of the projects.· Assess costs and benefits; identify and mitigate risks; manage escalations; anticipate and make tradeoffs; balance business needs with technical constraints. Corporate Real Estate · Regional lead for Corporate Real Estate portfolio. This involved developing Corporate Office strategy based on market conditions and business growth.· Property searches, lease negotiations, expansion or refurbishment, new office build-out projects.· Accountable for space planning, design and construction initiatives, while ensuring adherence to the firm’s global standards and local regulations.Business Management:· Financial & business management for Asia including budgeting, expense tracking, head count projection etc. · Provide leadership for delivering and implementing initiatives that improve cost effectiveness, service quality and business developments in a constantly changing marketplace.

As a member of the Project Management Office for Tech & Ops, I was responsible for management and implementation of large scale, complex business initiatives which had underlying dependencies on Technology and Corporate Functions like HR, Finance and Legal. These include Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Office Build out, Data Center consolidation, HR System Integration, End User Technology upgrades, Monitoring & Metrics tool deployments to name a few.I was responsible for successfully completing high impact, large-scale projects independently, identifying and managing risk, tracking project performance, and proactively communicating project progress to all stakeholders.

As an Infrastructure Services Team Lead, I managed Virtual Application Delivery, Desktop Support & Integration, Active Directory Services, Thin Client Integration, File Service Management Teams spread across 4 different geographical location. • Responsible for client engagement, resourcing, onsite-offshore co-ordination, work flow management, process adherence, billing and invoicing, status reporting, re-engineering ideas, improving client relationship, cost effective operating model.• Project Management for Infrastructure Services projects dealing with Windows Architecture, Server virtualization, Application Integration, Thin Client deployments, Application Packaging, Network Administration, Domain and data migration.• Lend technical expertise to Business Consulting Group on various bids/proposals for IS projects. Develop technical solutions and time/effort estimation on various IT infrastructure projects for potential clients.

Responsible for build & administration of Virtualization Platform for a US Banking client. Managed the offshore team of engineers that supported the infrastructure and application hosting environment.

Software testing and deployment of a range of middle-tier products to ensure they are defect-free and beta tested before their release into the market.

Network and Windows administration, Operational support for applications hosted on Win/ Unix platforms for a UK based Telecom services provider.