Atul Sashittal has over 30 years of experience in the field of Information Technology. He has worked with companies like DHL Worldwide Express, Birla Sunlife, CLSA and Angel Broking in different roles leading large teams spread across different geographies through vision, strategy, innovation and execution excellence. As a strong technology leader, excelled across the technology ecosystem – IT strategy, multi-year road map, product development, product management, quality engineering, infrastructure and tech operations, analytics, consulting, Application / Platform / Data / Operations Architecture, enterprise solutions and escalation management.He has contributed in building and managing big data centres, disaster recovery sites with global load balancing and is well versed in latest trends in IT infrastructure. He specializes in managing low latency, high frequency, consumer facing transnational systems.Atul has innovated, architected, productized and delivered successful products in the areas of Enterprise Applications, BI, Cloud, eCommerce, Middleware, Mobility and Networking. Atul has built some of the world’s most scalable, performing and reliable platforms and systems. He has keen interest in information security, IS audit and process improvement.Atul was also a co-founder and CTO of a fast growing FinTech which raised USD 35M in 5 years from marquee investors like Sequoia, Unitus and Michael and Susan Dell foundation.He is a Bachelor of Technology in Aeronautics and has passed several professional exams such as CISA, CISM, CCSA, CCNA, CFS, CISS, SCSA and ITIL.Currently he is on the technology and cybersecurity committee of six companies operating in the area of Insurance, Mutual fund, Stock Broking, Home Finance and Wealth Management. He is passionate about cultivating entrepreneurship in youngsters and contributes in various capacities to the start-up ecosystem. He helps two Mumbai based universities in their start-up incubator activities. He is a part of three angel investor groups and is also mentoring a few early stage and growth stage start-ups.