Pradeep Sekar Email & Phone Number

Mumbai Area, India

Part of the Resource and Location Strategy team, responsible for ensuring that Citi's resources are managed in an optimal manner.

Responsible for the Payments, Receivables, Commercial Cards and Pre-Paid Cards Products for GTS India, and the P&L.

Head the Information Security Function for 3 Countries and hold full responsibility for all aspects of Information Security, including coverage of Business Teams, Operations Processes, Technology and Partners/Vendors.Lead strong team spread geographically across the sub-continent. Work with Global and Regional Information Security teams to help define and.

Responsible for branch systems across 54 countries in the EMEA region covering CRM, Imaging & Workflow, and a multilingual IVR. Worked effectively in a diverse multicultural environment. Delivered several multicountry projects on time to realise the full business value and potential of each initiative. Built innovative solutions that took advantage of.

Responsible for annual revenue of USD 3.2MM from Japan. The run rate stood at USD 7.2MM when I moved out a few months later. The challenge was to align the delivery teams to the business and more importantly, the cultural requirement of the client. After spending a month studying the environment, partnering with the on-site and offshore delivery teams.

Responsible for New Initiatives in a financial services startup focussed on investment and educational products in Equity, MF and Fixed Income Instruments. Managed a budget of USD 2MM, and a team of 59 members across 11 vendors. Some of the critical initiatives that were implemented at true internet speed include:* Established a centralised contact center.

Responsible for identifying customer needs in Global Transaction Processing and Operations Domain, Conceptualizing Solutions, Obtaining Budget Approvals, and Implementing the Solution. * Conceptualised and implemented Citibank's and India's first browser based corporate e-Banking solution - SpeedCollect 2000. Resulted in the bank's rating improving.

Managed revenues of USD 3.6MM across 60 customers, including all the top 10 customers. * 100% strike rate for repeat deals. * Developed new product features and structured customized solutions as part of the product management team.* Structured and implemented the 3 largest deals in Capital market Services for the company in the years '97 and '98. *.

Mba, Finance, Marketing

Activities and Societies: • Key member of Sigma, the Society responsible for Computing Facilities • Designed and built the first official.

M Tech / B Tech, Bio-Chemical Engineering And Bio-Technology

• Placed First in the National Software Design Competition in the annual academic meet at IIT, Delhi, ‘94 • Won the Director’s Innovation.

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