Ashwin Krishnan Email & Phone Number

Horgen, ZH, CH

Zurich, Switzerland

Leveraging business disruptions for our customers by - incubating bleeding-edge technologies- emerging operating models- cultural change - providing full cycle from advisory to first implementation to catalyse their digital transformations and shaping the future of digital innovation for business outcomes

Zurich, Switzerland

• Lead all consulting engagements and initiatives in Switzerland across all industries
• Drive more consultative selling to customers
• Develop a Go to Market Strategy for consulting and innovation
• Combine capabilities across Orange and it's affiliates into a cohesive customer value proposition
• Build capabilities and offering in upcoming trends in collaboration with partners
• Listen to customers pain points/ challenges / ambitions and imperatives, advise them on approach to solve them

Zürich Area, Switzerland

• Lead Pre-sales solutioning for multiple large complex deals. (TCV > 10m CHF)
• Define technical solutions, business-operating models and commercial constructs
• Researched market and industry trends and translated them into pro-active offerings.
• Conduct workshops on digital strategy / innovation / multi-channel optimization
• Key stakeholders being banks leaders (CIO, MDR, Department head etc.)Indicative offerings I lead:⇨ Bank in a Box Construct: For the APAC arm of a Swiss Universal Bank - Defining the Business Capability Model required.

Madrid Area, Spain And Baar, Switzerland

• Lead a team of > 35 globally distributed members across multiple scrum teams
• Define the target technical operating model for wealth components on AWS
• Participate in Reg. and Mrkt. practice workshops by E&Y for wealth. Geos covered: Spain, Argentina, Peru & Mexico
• Translate Reg. and Mrkt. guidance to detail key requirements for Temenos WealthSuite. e.g. Fund Traspaso, Robo-Advisory, MiFID II, Pension Plans etc.
• Advised bank on simplifying existing / desired major business processes e.g. Robo-Advisory, Goal Based Investing, Monte Carlo simulations etc.
• Advise bank on the optimal portfolio structure for portfolio performance & analytics

Geneva Area, Switzerland

• Identifying the Business Process in Back Office, Middle Office and QA which are best suited to do a PoC on in order to build the business case for RPA
• Worked with the Product specialists to understand the product capabilities and evaluated the right product fitment / selection
• Advised the Steering committee on the key approach for establishing an RPA strategy and competency
• Studied capabilities of various RPA tools like UIPath, Automation Anywhere, BluePrism from a commercial, technical and operational perspective
• Established local connect with RPA product vendor teams in Switzerland to develop in-country / in-region capabilities as well as collaborate on joint go to market.

Zürich Area, Switzerland

• wealthQUAY™ is a Swiss Wealth Management Platform tailor-made for Independent Financial Advisors and Family Offices. Helping wealth managers do less, make more, grow fast, and win back quality client-facing time.This.
• Build-up and manage the entire venture team (team size 15 associates)
• Budgeting and Cost Management including funding requests to Innovation Board
• Define business case, product roadmap, operating model, pricing strategy
• Solution Architecture for the cloud installation of TAP and associated components
• Negotiate with product and service vendors (both internal and external)

Zürich Area, Switzerland

• Manage Cognizant’s flagship engagement in CRM, Channels and Customer domains for our Cognizant's Financial services client
• Manage an overall team of over 160 associates & BoW of up to 20mCHF annually
• Manage Cognizant’s relationship with the department heads (CIO, MDR and direct reports).
• Translate key client imperatives to internal teams and create proactive innovative offerings/ proposals
• Ensure Customer Satisfaction / Delight with our engagement. Highest Customer Satisfaction score in the region
• Manage existing, return and new business to meet prescribed revenue and P/L targets ( mainly CtB budget)

Zürich Area, Switzerland

• Oversee Solution Engineering, Technical Reviews, Estimation review, reduction oftechnical debt (teams spanning Bank internals, Cognizant and other vendors)
• Requirement elicitation & definition: Interact with business owners and users to understandnew functional and NFR, discuss on alternatives to reduce overall complexity
• Design solution architecture for multiple complex programs
• Present and defend design decisions to the bank’s architecture boardIndicative Projects⇨ RfP for technical evaluations on behalf of the bank for secure code scanning tools⇨ Internationalization of CRM and Advisory.

Zürich Area, Switzerland

• The Bank's Online Banking Platform (OBP) for customer facing application has a releasegrid of 4 times a year with multiple projects delivered by Cognizant(4 to 6 projects per release)
• People Management: Managed the team of up to 48 associates across projects
• Program Management: Track inter project dependencies, product testing, resourcingetc. to ensure successful product releaseIndicative Projects ⇨ EAM Link (a separate online application for External Asset Managers)⇨ ADS.

Zürich Area, Switzerland And Pune, India

• Build the first engagement of Cognizant with Credit Suisse. Established first offshoring projectsOne of the first Cognizant Switzerland employees in 2004, helped in establishing Swiss operationsManage 2 to 20 technical.
• Technical design & implementation of key modules
• Run PoC's, Evaluate suitability to new technologies, frameworks
• Estimation, Requirement Analysis
• Deployment and Testing supportKey projects ⇨ Online banking – Accounts & Trading module: The project involved developing the Accounts and the Trading modules of the Online Banking Solution to interact with newer.

Pune Area, India

Be, Computers

Bachelor of Computer Engineering

Education record