As Managing Partner of Agile Capital Group LLC, I lead the strategic vision and execution of our investment and digital strategy initiatives, with a focus on leveraging cutting-edge technology, data analytics, and AI to identify high-growth opportunities in commercial real estate. I am dedicated to fostering strong investor relations, supporting asset management, and driving innovation, while maintaining a culture of unquestionable integrity, impact-oriented agility, proactive risk management (most of you know these 3 core principles are near and dear to me) and sustainability - ensuring exceptional value for our investors and clients.

>> Leadership of Cognizant's West Coast BFSI Sector: Orchestrated Cognizant's banking and financial services operations on the West Coast, ensuring alignment and collaboration across various service lines. Leveraged expertise in consulting, experience-led design thinking, data & advanced analytics, and digital engineering to enhance Cognizant's value proposition and drive outcome-centered transformation.>> Market Leadership and Innovation: Integrated Cognizant's data/digital offerings to pioneer a customer experience-focused strategy, driving data-led innovation, reducing innovation cycles, and optimizing cost, growth, and regulatory impact. This approach fueled regional growth and bolstered margins through recurring revenue and transformation-led initiatives.>> Development and Launch of New Market Offerings: Recognized and seized opportunities in key industry trends such as customer experience, data enablement, and regulatory acceleration. Delivered significant outcomes in wealth management, consumer banking, and commercial banking, as evidenced by improved Life Time Value, NPS/CSAT, Acquisition Cost, and Asset/Customer Retention & Growth metrics.>> Service Design for Growth: Spearheaded the development of Cognizant's viewpoints and tailored service design in areas including cloud migration, customer and product-centered data analytics, payments, treasury, and regulatory/finance transformation. This strategy amplified Cognizant's growth and identified opportunities to deepen client relationships.

>> Digital Transformation Leadership at EXL: Guided EXL's Digital Consulting organization with a focus on design-thinking-led digital transformation. Established a global delivery practice specializing in Customer Experience, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), and Data Insight-driven transformation catalyzed by Machine Learning.>> Creation of High-Impact Offerings: Conceptualized and executed strategies to evaluate end-to-end processes, leading to substantial multi-million dollar improvements in Customer Experience, Cost Efficiency, and digital transformation fueling Growth/Capacity. This initiative significantly benefited global sectors including Insurance, Banking/Financial Services, Healthcare, and the critical functions of Finance, Risk, Compliance, and Audit.>> Driving Client-Centered Innovation: Led the charge in fostering client-centered innovation through the development of new products and services within EXL's Digital Labs organization. This strategic role underscored the commitment to continue pushing the boundaries of what's possible and delivering solutions that meet the evolving needs of clients.

>> KPMG LLP Partner, Risk & Regulatory Compliance Solutions: Focused on operational and digital transformations within the risk and regulatory compliance landscape, utilizing Big Data, Analytics, and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to drive innovation &efficiency.>> Industry Expertise with Top-tier Financial Services Clients: Collaborated with global top 20 banks and super-regional firms to address industry issues, ranging from regulatory rule interpretation to the implementation of new target operating models. Utilized cutting-edge technologies such as RPA, AI/ML, Analytics, Cloud, and Blockchain to facilitate these transformative efforts.>> Driving Front-to-Back Office Transformation: Capitalized on regulatory agendas to drive comprehensive organizational transformations, leading to cost optimization and revenue growth/recapture. Achieved these outcomes by focusing on five key areas: 1. Data utilization to build strategic platforms, embracing "as a service" models. 2. Innovation in services and products. 3. Creation of value, both internally and externally. 4. Sharpening customer focus to create competitive advantages>> Deep Industry Domain Expertise & Technological Proficiency: Leverage deep understanding of industry domains and global delivery, complemented by a robust knowledge of systems and technologies such as RPA, AI/Cognitive, IoT, and Cloud. This expertise enabled the design and delivery of high-impact solutions.>> Consulting Practice Development: Responsible for the growth and development of the consulting practice, fostering thought leadership across regulatory, operational change, and emerging technology dimensions. Led the launch and execution of RPA-enabled regulatory services solutions, managing sales campaigns for these emerging technology consulting solutions.>> Leadership in Client Acquisition and Engagement Delivery: Led efforts in client acquisition and sales, ensuring the high quality in engagement delivery.

>> Partnered with SunGard Business Units, focusing on trading, risk, regulatory compliance by leveraging new disruptive technologies and solution approaches (e.g. Big Data, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing & Analytics).>> Built a next-generation consulting solution using predictive analytics, #supervised & #unsupervised #AI learning techniques to analyze structured trade data and unstructured communication, relationship, news & location data to improve detection capabilities for insider trading, fraud and market manipulation. Led cloud infrastructure and migration solutions for broker/dealer clients.>> Worked with large global financial services clients to address industry issues from regulatory rule interpretation to implementing new target operating models. Ahson's in-depth industry expertise is complimented by his technical understanding of complex systems engineering to deliver high-impact technology solutions.>> Responsible for consulting practice development, thought leadership across regulatory, operational change & emerging technology dimensions, and new service development. Led several launches, execution, and management of sales campaigns for new emerging technology consulting solutions. Led guide/mentor tree to improve employee engagement, retention and quality service delivery to clients.>> Drove new client acquisition and sales. Led overall delivery oversight and quality assurance.

>> Regulatory Compliance and Operational Leadership: Pioneered the development and sales of Dodd Frank Act (DFA) technology solutions designed to address complex regulatory and operational challenges while capitalizing on emerging technologies. Sold DFA technology and operational solutions to a diverse client base, including global European, foreign, and US-based investment banks, engaging with Legal/Compliance & Trading/Operations executives.>> Thought Leadership & Regulatory Response: Led industry response to the Dodd Frank Title VII OTCD regulatory agenda, across legal and compliance interpretation, trading/reporting, and operational impact in the following solution spaces: >> Rules to Implementation Framework: Translated SEC/CFTC proposed rules to finalized rules, determining their impact on work streams and future state operating models. >> Legal Entity Identifier (LEI/CICI) Implementation: Remediated reference data issues. >> Swap Data Repository (SDR) Reporting: Designed target operating models for US/global regulations (CFTC/SEC, MiFID, and EMIR). >> Business Conduct & Compliance: Identified key impacts and remediation for internal and external business conduct. >> Trading Documentation & Workflow: Directed the re-papering of CSA/ISDA counterparty documentation and workflow redesign. >> Collateral Management: Developed solution approach to guide CCPs in margin reconciliation, collateral eligibility, dispute resolution cycle times reduction, CSA integration, intraday margin.>> Sales Leadership: Led numerous engagements resulting in sales of follow-on project work, in areas such as reporting/record keeping, clearing, trading documentation, Swap Dealer registration, and Dodd Frank Title VII rules.>> Practice Development and Industry Influence: Drove practice development and thought leadership, leading and participating in CMC, SIFMA, CFTC, and several E&Y client-facing industry panels on regulatory impact on operations and technology.

>> Opportunity Identification & Closing: Played a pivotal role in identifying and securing new opportunities through strategic partnerships with SunGard Global Account Management, various SunGard business units, personal networks, and marketing channels. Focused on trading, regulatory compliance, and full-spectrum brokerage operations across multiple asset classes.>> Digital Transformation Leadership for NYSE: Spearheaded the Digital Transformation initiative at NYSE, aiming to automate the role of the specialist and offer self-service digital and news/stock analytics capabilities to NYSE's top 5000 clients and executives. This effort resulted in a global benchmark reference for SunGard and a multimillion-dollar revenue relationship.>> Emerging Technology Compliance Transformation Solution: Championed the development of an innovative compliance transformation solution for SunGard's Listed Equities regulatory reporting. The solution, now serving tens of broker-dealers, contributes to several million in recurring revenue.>> Thought Leadership & Sales Campaigns: Drove thought leadership and sales campaigns for emerging technology and regulatory transformation solutions, overseeing the process from ideation/inception, through marketing and contracting, to the delivery of solutions.

>> Consulting technology and software development in various industries: retail, financial services & telecommunications.

>> Custom software development consulting engagements on near real time online Gas Measurement Systems and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Systems for major Oil & Gas companies, in C/C++ and Visual Basic.