Embarked on a new and exciting journey to provide leadership for Global End user services team @Bangalore, Manila and Australia. The idea of role is to provide thought leadership for transforming a high performance team for delivering best in class customer centric technological experience where combining automation & delivering innovation is the key.

Head of Technology Vendor Management for India. Leading the change and transform work force strategy for ANZ India GCC while leveraging partner capabilities and managing third party risk therein.

Hired to lead and setup a brand new IT capability in India for ANZ Wealth Technology at Bangalore. The most challenging aspect was to identify and onboard top class talent for delivering best in class business solutions by transforming legacy systems.

I was entrusted with a primary responsibility of leading India (Gurgaon & Chennai) team while forging a close alliance with UK teams for global IT solutions in and around Bank’s Retail Banking systems. My main responsibility was to provide leadership for development & delivery of global business solutions through a varying size diverse technical team distributed across geographies thru an internal application design and development capability.

I headed the IT function for one of the leading Investment Banks in Bahrain. I was providing leadership to Bank’s IT divisions across its subsidiaries and group companies. The major markets Banks used to operate through its offices in the USA, UK, Turkey, Kazakhstan, India, Qatar and UAE. In this role my primary responsibilities comprised of:• Development of new innovative solutions for Ultra high net worth customers• Development & implementation of world class online brokerage… Show more I headed the IT function for one of the leading Investment Banks in Bahrain. I was providing leadership to Bank’s IT divisions across its subsidiaries and group companies. The major markets Banks used to operate through its offices in the USA, UK, Turkey, Kazakhstan, India, Qatar and UAE. In this role my primary responsibilities comprised of:• Development of new innovative solutions for Ultra high net worth customers• Development & implementation of world class online brokerage (trading) platform• Development in and around Core Banking system • BASEL II and Asset Liability Management System• Leading the way for IT initiatives Show less

I was entrusted with primary responsibility of being the Deputy Head of IT for development of innovative banking solutions for Bank and lead in-house Development team for developing solutions around: • Core banking system• ATM network & Switch, Smart ATMs• Contact Centre (AVAYA based IVR, CTI) coupled with SMS Banking Solution• Card Production system (EMV compliant VISA Electron debit cards) • Credit Card Management system• Anti Money Laundering & KYC software… Show more I was entrusted with primary responsibility of being the Deputy Head of IT for development of innovative banking solutions for Bank and lead in-house Development team for developing solutions around: • Core banking system• ATM network & Switch, Smart ATMs• Contact Centre (AVAYA based IVR, CTI) coupled with SMS Banking Solution• Card Production system (EMV compliant VISA Electron debit cards) • Credit Card Management system• Anti Money Laundering & KYC software solution Show less

• Leading a team of technical resources to conceptualize, define and develop an OLTP banking system on SCO UNIX platform using COBOL & C, which was implemented as a path breaking IT solution for the first time in 1994 in Indian banking industry.• Thereafter I was hand picked to lead a team of pool of SBI technical resources from India to be trained in Dublin for online banking software BankMaster from Kindle (Misys) Systems. There was lot of development around the Core Banking system for… Show more • Leading a team of technical resources to conceptualize, define and develop an OLTP banking system on SCO UNIX platform using COBOL & C, which was implemented as a path breaking IT solution for the first time in 1994 in Indian banking industry.• Thereafter I was hand picked to lead a team of pool of SBI technical resources from India to be trained in Dublin for online banking software BankMaster from Kindle (Misys) Systems. There was lot of development around the Core Banking system for allied systems and their deployment. My team was ~600 strong banking and IT resources working across a little over one hundred branches of bank.• Prior to above, I led a strong team for implementation of back-office banking solution.• Before moving into technology, as a banker I handled investments for Bank & its HN clients.• I also handled new Equity offerings for Institutional, Corporate & retail customers wherein my responsibilities included engaging Stock Exchanges for basis of allotments, finalization of issuance of equity shares, debentures and other market instruments. • In the very beginning phase of my career with the Bank, I had worked in almost all areas of Bank (Retail Loans & Advances, Trade Finance, FOREX, Treasury, Commercial & Institutional Lending, Dealer desk, Front office retail banking etc. etc.) Show less